Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-25

arou County &egister
BY ELI d. AXE.
rRoNToN. MISSOURI.
CURRENT TOPICS.
The News i'm Brief.
THERE were sos new cases OF cholera re-
ported in Spain ON the 18th and 249
deaths.
NEGOTIATIONS are progressing between
the Dominion and the United States on
the fisheries question.
PROF. A. R. McFARLIN, of Edinburgh,
Scotland, has been elected to the chair of
physics Of the University of Texas.
NORMAN j. GOTHAM has been elected
President of the American Association of
Nurserymen, Florists and Seedsmen.
A SPIRIT Of economy has resulted in
the retirement Of many clerks on the Wa
bash Railroad, and it is said more will
follow.
IT is said the Queen will insist on Glad
stone accepting a peerage. If he again
refuses she will confer a title on Mrs.
Gladstone.
THE authorities at Washington are ne
gotiating with the Mexican postal officers
to facilitate the transfer of mails across
the border.
IT Is semi officially announced at Paris
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement of tho dispute between Russia
end England.
A NORWEGIAN bark arrived at the Della
ware breakwater on the 10th from Glen
fuegos, with the Captain i'll with sup
posed yellow fever.
A DETERMINED effort is being made to
suppress pool-selling in New York oih-
GERS attend the races to get evidence of
the laws violation.
GENERAL GRANT arrived at Mt. McGre-
gor in the Adirondacks on the 10th. The
journey fatigued him somewhat, but moth
ing serious occurred.
TRADEsMEN in Madrid have held meet
ing and expressed Indignation at the
course of the Government in declaring
that cholera had appeared there.
THE British bark Western Belle, from
Sydney, N. s. W., for Wilmington, CAL,
has been abandoned In a sinking condI-
ton. The Captain and crew were taken to
London.
RoRERr LANG, a Canadian official, has
practiced extensive land frauds on the
people of the Northwest and has left for
the United States. Others are supposed
to be implicated.
IT is now said that the President has
made up his mind to appoint Colonel Nor
ton Postmaster at Augusta, Me-, no mat
ter if Senators Frye and Hale threaten
opposition in the Senate.
WILFRED DE FoNvILLE has published at
Paris thrilling account of the Greedy ex-
petition under the title "Les Affairs du
Pole Nord." Mr.. Fonville was acquainted
with DR.. Pavy of the expedition.
c. A. BUDDENsEEIK, whose row of tene-
ment houses on Sixty second street, New
York, fell some time ago killing one of his
employees, was found guilty of manslaugh-
ter in the second degree by jury.
THE Queen has sent Sir Stafford North
cote an autograph letter thanking him for
his high services and Offering him an earl
dom. He will assume the title of Earl of
Iddelsleigh and Viscount st. Cyres.
In contracting for supplies for the
Freedman's Hospital for the next fiscal
year the Secretary of the Interior has
made a saving of ST.. 500 from the prices
paid for supplies during the present year.
THE charges of population, gross favor
itism, etc., made against the managers of
the Cover nment Insane Asylum at Wash
ington, D. c., have been examined by the
Board of Inspectors and pronounced I'M
founded.
COLONEL W. F. SwIrzLER, of Missouri,
chief of the Bureau of Statistics, has is
sued his first official report in the shape of
an advance. statement of the exports of
the principal articles of provisions for the
month of May.
REMARKABLY contradictory reports
concerning the cholera come from Spain.
Some of the newspapers assert the panic
is senseless, as there is no cholera; while
others give figures showing the ravages of
the disease.
GENERAL Won MANrEUFFEL will be
buried without military honors, in accord
ance with his own wish. Emperor
William has thanked Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria for the honor shown
the Generals remains.
THE vice-consui at Copenhagen has in
formed the State Department that he has
just received from Greenland a locked
mail pouch and several loose letters for
the Greedy relief expedition. He will for
ward them to Washington.
IT is understood that ex- Congressman |
George II. jerks, of Pennsylvania, who |
was rendered the Assistant Secretarship |
of the Interior Department., and has had |
the matter under consideration for several |
days, has decided to accept.
ISAAC N. HIBBs, ex-Postmaster at Lew |
1ston, Idaho, who issued money orders to |
himself for over $4,000, was arrested on |
the 10th at Harriston River, British Co |
lumbia- Ten thousand five hundred dol |
lars was found on his person.
Mr. GLADSTONE will withhold his as