Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

46ON lON. MlOCO'-hA
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
IT Is thought in official circles at Berlin
that Russia intends in any event to go to
war with England.
SECRETARY MANNING was rendered a re-.
ception by the bankers of Albany, but he
declined with thanks.
A DELEGATION called on the President
on the 7th in reference to settlers rights
on the Winnebago Reservation.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN RoBr. B. VANCE, of
North Carolina, has been appointed As
sistant Commissioner of Patents.
FRANCE, through her prime minister,
tells Europe and the world that she means
to be one of the first powers of the uni
verse.
TIE National Soldiers Home for dis
abled volunteer soldiers has sued Benz. F.
Butler for SIS 900, alleged to be due the
Home
GENERAL GRAHAM has issued a procla-
nation urging the rebels in the Soudan to
submit to the British or take the Iconse-
quences.i
THE Treasury Department on the 9th
purchased 400, 600 ounces of silver for de-
livery at the New Orleans and Philadel =
phia mints.
Snow was nearly five feet deep in some
of the streets of Montreal on the Sth, and
q hard rain was adding to the uncomforta-
BILE situation.
IT is mi-officially announced at Paris
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
and England.
THE returns for April to the Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate redu ction
of over ten per cent. of last years ar ca of
winter wheat.
PATRICK ]. HOWE, the New York dy-
namiter, says it is absurd to talk of a Fee
MAN invasion of Canada, as that would
not help Ireland.
CANADIAN troops in the Northw estern
Territory are suffering from the cold. The
mercury AcAi Oh ehO Jun Ia VIII w oSN'N w
20 deg. below zero.
A MORMON Bishop and an Elder pleaded
guilty to the C arge of polygamy at Phoe-
nix, Ariz., on the Sth, and were sentenced
to ninety days in jail.
GENERAL FITzHUGH LEE, Of Virginia, is
now prominently spoken of in connection
with the United States Marshalship of the
District of Columbia
THE Director of the Mint has computed
hevalue of the Shanghai tael for Gu stom-
house purposes at SLIT $40. The value of
the coin was formerly fixed at $1.2l Go
MOST of the owners of collieries in En-
gland and Wales have Cancelled all orders
for coal to be shipped to Russia, at the
risk of being sued for breach of contract.
THE Chicago men, who took the contract
to build the new State-house for Texas,
will forfeit the amount named in the bond
rather than go ahead with the works at
loss.
IT is claimed at St. Petersburg that the
battle in Afghanistan was an accidental
conflict brought on by the Afghans, and
that the Russians have retired to their
own lines.
COLORADO having quarantined against
Missouri cattle, Governor Marmaduke has
telegraphed Hon. Norman j. Colman,
Commissioner of Agriculture, in reference
to the matter.
DELEGATES to the Western Waterways
Convention at New Orleans went on an
excursion to the jetties on the 10th, and
were much gratified at the evident sue
cess of Captain Eads' great work
THE Supreme Court of Michi gan has de-
cided the law providing for antemortem
wills to be imperative and unconsttu-
tional. This law allowed the will to be
probated before the death Of testator.
THE President has removed tho Post
master at Rome, N. Y, and appointed a
new man. The old incumbent has been
grossly violating the rules of the depart
ment, and for that reason he has been sus-
pended.
THE New York Tribune of the 18th pub
lished an extract from letter Of Mrs.
Garfield to her brother in law, in which
she denies in delicate and womanly man
ner the report that she was to wed a Penn
syivania preacher.
The river coal miners strike in Pennsyl-
vania ended in favor of the strikers, and
6,00O resumed work at the advance. Two
third of the mines started up on the 9Th,
and the balance expected to be working
within a few days.
THE Supreme Court decided that the
Chesapeake s. Ohio Railroad must pay
taxes in West Virginia, the company
claiming rights not to do so under an act
which Incorporated road absorbed by
the Chesapeake & Ohio.
COLONEL CHAs. MARSHALL, of Balti-
more, Nd, who was General Lees chief of
staff, tells of the surrender of the Confed-
crate commander to General Grant, and
of the kindness which the latter exhibited
to the hungry confederates.
THE April crop reports of the Ohio State
Board of Agriculture, issued on the eth,
estimates: Wheat, average full crop, A.
COS, 24s bushels; condition 7o; probable
bushels for 1885, 2S.662, 73S, or 20 per cent.
of the average. Rye area, SO; condition,
IS.
N. HENRI BRIsSoN, the new Prime Min
lister of France, stated on the 7th that
France would insist on China recognizing
a French protsctorate over both Tonquin
and AMMAN. He also demanded vote OF
credit for 159, 00o, 0J0 francs to enable the
Government to carry out its policy in re-
lation to China, and he got it.
The Salt Lake tribune is authority for
the assertion that leading Mormon Bish-