Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-30

grun County gegister
BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
GENERAL GRANT died at the cottage at
Mt. HcGregor, at SOS a M, on the 2sd.
IT is said that the Shah of Persia is
going to Mesheda, hoping to stop the Rus
sian invasion.
IT is rumored that the French Govern
ment is withholding unfavorable news
from Anam ana Tonquin.
DELEGATES from Pittsburgh, Pa, to the
structed to favor the eight-hoar law.
ADDITIONAL police have been static ned
around the law courts in London to pre-
vent a threatened dynamite explosion.
THE Government holds that the So
called Indian leases in the Indian Terri
tory are only licenses and may be abro-
gated at any time.
The Chairman of the Ohio Republican
State Committee declines a debate be-
tween Judge Foraker and DR.. Leonard on
the prohibition issue.
Mr. LEE has charge of the American
legation at Vienna while the question OF
minister is being settled. Meanwhile Mr..
Kelly draws the salary.
The State convention of miners at Pitts
burgh, Pa, decided to refer the question
of affiliation with the knights of Labor
to the National convention.
A SYNDICATE of financiers has negoti-
ated a loan of f5OO, 900 through a London
firm, on securities offered recently by the
Munster Bank to the Bank of Ireland.
THE enrolment of Indians began at Fort
Reno on the DIST as appointed. The Arap-
the Cheyennes will not show over o,ooo
people.
THE immense cereal depot Of Kalasch-
nikow in St Petersburg was burned on
the ed. A large quantity of grain was
DESTROYED. The loss will reach an enor.
nous sum.
THE Mexican editors, while in Wash
fngton, D. c., on the 23d, sent condolences
to the family of General Grant and re-
ouested the postponement of banquet
rendered them.
THE President has designated Captain
Jesse NJ. Lee, Ninth Infantry, to act as
Indian Agent at the Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe Agency, Indian Territory, in place
of ex-Agent Dyer.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided that
the eight-hour law shall hereafter be en-
forced in the different navy yards; that
is, employees shall receive full pay for
eight hours labor.
A FIGHT of ten minutes duration took
place in London between Lord Lonsdale
and Sir George Chetwynd on the 22d, in
Consequence of the attentions each was
paying Mrs. Langtry.
THE Marine Hospital Bureau is informed
that yellow fever exists as an epidemic at
Bahia, Brazil, and that cholera has made
its appearance near Cadiz, Spain, at the
port of entry into Real.
TIE Director of thsaSf flint has Ssnthor-
lied the employ ment Of supernumaries to
relieve the ladies in the adjuster's offic es
of the Philadelphia mint, eighty -four in
number from overwork.
PRINCESS BEATRICE Of England was
married to Prince Henry of Battenberg
ON the 23d. The Princess was dressed in
ivory satin with honiton lace and a
wreath of orange blossoms.
DR.. WALSH, Archbishop designate of
Dublin, had private interview with the
Pope ON the 22d, at which the Pope adj
vised him to observe prudence in the pres
emit difficult Irish political situation.
THE King of Dahomey recently raided
villages under French protection in At
RIGA, with the usual accessories of butch
cry by Wholesale, and captured 1000 ma
tives, who were to be sacrificed at canni-
balistic feasts.
THE icials of the War Department are
of the opinion that the trouble arising
from the passage OF cattle from Texas
through the Indian Territory is not set
tied, notwithstanding the recent order
from the War and Interior Departments.
AFTER Cabinet consultation and in
accordance with the advice Of General
Sheridan, the Secretary of the Interior
has decided to turn over to the War De-
partment the complete control of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation in
the Indian Territory.
THE gross earnings of the Central Pa
cific Railway for the year 1884 were $23,-
251 200, being nearly two and a half mil
lion less than for 1888. The expenditures:
81, 23S 600, over 81, Ooo, 900 greater than the
previous year. Deficit including nnearned
dividends paid 81 ,s9o, 900.
GENERAL PRICE and a delegation of
veterans of the Seventh New Jersey Regi-
ment were in Washington on the Goth to
endeavor to secure the return of some
Confederate battle-fags now in the Gus
tody of the War Department, which were
captured by that regiment.
THE Postmaster-General has just COM
pleted the adjustment of the salaries
of the Ohio Postmasters in compliance
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