Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-09

sro'l Gonuty gegister
BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONToN, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
The President withdrew the nomina
Russia.
THE Attorney General decides that tn
Crow reservation in Dakota is not open t.
settlement.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand colliers in York
shire, England, are out on a strike against
a ten per cent. reduction.
IT is now said that Riel, the rebel, ha
1900 armed men in the Northwest Terri
tory, including 700 Indians.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan is much in
censed at Sir Peter Lumsden over his de-
cision on the frontier question.
THE coinage at the United States Mint
at Philadelphia for March was S2,2oo,4 49,
including !, 300, 200 silver dollars
IT is stated that by the burning OF
steamer at the Aspinwan conhagr atloI
heavy mails of the United States were de-
stroyed.
IT Is semi-officially announced at Par1s
that bismarck offered to arbitrate Tor the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
and England.
THE Treasury Department decided that
a Chinaman who has embraced the
Christian religion can not bring his wife
over from China.
THE rival of Ell Mahdi is named Ell
Makki, and the latter's adherents are in
creasing. Ell Mahdps followers are be-
coming greatly alarmed.
A DISPATCH received at Washington on
the 1st, stated that Aspinwail was IN
ashes, the insurgents having burned it to
escape capture by the Government.
TERRIFIC explosion of fire-damp oc-
curred ON the Sd in a coal mine near
CharIeroix, Belgium. Eighteen miners
were killed outright and many more
wounded.
THE Oklahoma s'boomers" held meet
ing at Arkansas City, Kan, on the ISL,
and adopted resolutions. There was talk
of starting for the promised land" wltnln
q few days.
pprsroN. the rebel leader at Panama,
ia reported to have seized ship and sew
erol Americans with it. The American
feet has been ordered to get ready TO go
to the scene.
THE entire train service of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad is to be reorganlzed anu
faster trains are to be put on. Inc tlme
between st. Louis and New York will be
twenty hit hours.
JOSEPH PALMER was again convicted OF
of murder in the first degree at Clncinna1l
on the I'd. He was the accomplish OF Ber-
ner in the Kirk murder, out OF which gre"
the Cincinnati riot of 1851
THE French attacked and secured &C.
cupation of Pheng Hoo situated In the
channel between Formosa and the CHINA
main land. Chinese loss, 800; French,
three killed and twelve wounded.
REPORTS to the Liue Stock Indicator at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the condition OF the
winter wheat crop in Kansas, western
Missouri and Southern Nebraska are any
thing but encouraging as to prospects.
TIE friends of Mrs. Garfield deny the
published reports that she is to marry
Rev. Mr.. Taylor, of Pennsylvania. She Is
living quietly in Cleveland, and is educae-
ing her children for careers OF usefulness.
- THE New Zealand Government is act
lively placing the colony in a proper state
of defense. Heavy guns are being
mounted and topedoes laid at Mosquito,
and a fleet of torpedo boats is being or
gained.
GENERAL GRANT was resting easier the
night of the I'd, but he was very weak,
and his doctors thought the end near. He
has great difficulty in breathing, and the
cancer is extending down the throat and
behind the nose.
SECRETARY MANNING has instructed the
Superintendent of the United States Mint,
at carson C.by, NoN., w SoSP0hN NoNoSo0
operations until the beginning of the next
fiscal year, July 1st, and to reduce the
force accordingly.
THE President has designated Assistant
Secretary Fairchild to act as Secretary of
the Treasury in the absence of Secretary
and Assistant Secretary Coon to
act as Secretary In the absence of Secre-
tary Manning and Assistant Secretary
Fairchild.
THE Mexican Congress convened on the
lst The Presidents message warmly OPP
poses the attempt of Barrios at a forcible
unification of the Central American re-
publics. Strong sympathy for Salvador
and Nicaragua was manifested among the
members
THE force of the Bureau of Engraving |
and Printing has been reduced by ninety |
two men because Congress failed to m AXE |
the necessary appropriation to increase |
the quantity of United States notes fur
nished the Treasury of the United States |
Cor redemptions and exchanges |
JUDGE SAWYER of the United States |
Circuit Court in San Francisco, decided on |
The 3Qth that Chinese merchant, q resi- |
lent in this country, could depart from it |
and enter it again without being subjected |
70 the conditions imposed by section of |
The Chinese amended restriction act.