Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-01

Sroll Go,tutg &egister
BY ELI ID. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
L Summary 4 Important EEsats.
IT is reported in Constantinople tina
Turkey intends to fight for the restora
ton of the statu quo in Roumelia.
HoP-PIcKERs on the estate of the Duk
OF Edinburgh, County of Kent, England
struck on the 25th and carried their point
ALARMING reports were received a
Paris on the 21st to the effect that Chin
is massing large force of troops on tn
Tonquin frontier.
The New England Veterans, 900 Il
number. en- route from Winchester, W
Va, called upon President Cleveland a
the White House on the 22d.
IT is stated emphatically at st. Peters
burg that Russia will sustain Bulgaria il
the union with Roumela, even to the ex
tent of going to war with Turkey.
THE Governor and Supreme Court o
Ohio have both refused to interfere witt
the sentence of Patrick Hartnett, to b
hanged on the 30th for wife murder.
TROUBLE appears to be brewing in Ind i,
over the Franco Burmese treaty, and tn
various chambers of commerce are pro
testing against it, alleging thai it Sc.
riously affects British interests.
IT is understood that the President ha.
decided not to make a change in the offics
of Surgeon General of the Marine Hos.
pital service, and accordingly will not &C.
cept DIR. Hamilton's resignation.
s. s. MANN, chemist for the STANDARD
Oil Company, was found dead in his bee
at Cleveland, O., on the morning of thu
22d. His family lives at Jersey City.
Death was caused by heart disease.
CAPTAIN LEE, the agent of the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe Indian Reservation
has teIegraphed Commissioner Atkins
that only %, 900 head of cattle remain or
the reservation, and that these will be
removed by the end of the month.
THE Captain of the DauntIess does not
take his defeat with as much equanimity
as the commander of the Genesta, but ex-
cuses his defeat and boasts that he can
beat anything afoat, the Genesta pre-
ferred, on trip across the Atlantic for
ducats.
A ST. JOHN, N. F., dispatch of the 25th
says: An unusual portent appeared in
the sky in the northwest region last
night A huge red meteoric body rose
over Conception Bay and within seven
minutes traversed an area of between
thirty and forty degrees.
LIEUTENANT GEO. M. STOREY, COM
manding the expedition to Alaska, re-
ports to the Secretary Of the Navy. under
date of July 18th, his arrival at Hotham
Inlet on July 18th. He was to start on
the day of writing with the larger part of
his stores for the head waters of Putnam
River.
A CRANK signing himself "Henry N.
Kerp, President-elect of the u. s. Phil.
Dr., M. D., Professor of Military Juris-
prudence, National Military Home, Vir-
ginia," has written letter to the Presi-
dent calling upon him to resign October
Sd, as his functions will no longer be re-
quired.
SECRETARY LAMAR, who has been con-
fined to his house for several days with a
severe attack of influenza, was reported
on the 21st as being somewhat better.
His physicians, while entertaining no
apprehensions Of serious results, urged
the Secretary not to leave his house for
several days.
THE Secretary of the Treasury on the
21st received a request from the Governor
of Massachusetts for the appointment of
medical inspectors on the Canadi an
border east of Lake Ontario, to inspect
passengers arriving by rail through
Northern Vermont, and the matter was
taken under consideration.
THE full ticket nominatedl by the New
York Democratic State Convention is as
follows: Governor, David B. Hill; Lieu
Roswell P. Flower;
Secretary of State, Frederick ICook; At
torney General, Dennis O'Brien; Treas
urer, Lawrence j. Fitzgerald; Engineer
and Surveyor, Nathan Sweet.
The Postmaster General has ordered
that the exchange of mails between the
Post-ofhces of Benson, Ariz., and Noga les
Mexico, be discontinued, and that all
Mexican mails heretofore forwarded via
Benson, Ariz., be sent via Nog ales, Ariz.,
to be included in the exchange between
that Office and Nogales, Mexico.
The Secretary of the Treasury has d.
rected the suspension Of Mr.. Geo. II.
Sterling, recently appointed weigher at
the New York Custom -house in place of
Captain George B. Bacon, pending an in
vestigation to be made by the collector
of customs of all the circums tances at
tending the change in the office
THE Office of Chief of the Post-office In
spector has been rendered by the POST
master General to VIM. A. West, of Mis-
sissippi. Mr.. West is prosperous farm
er living near Oxford, Miss, and has en-
gagged successfully in mercantile pursuits
in St Louis and New Orl cans, and has
been President OF bank in Oxford.
WASHINGTON, D. c., is suffering a water
famine. A break of seven or eight square
feet in size has occurred iuI the principal
main in Georgetown, and the materials
not being at hand with which to make inn