Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-02

THE Bell Telephone Company at Boston
declared an extra dividend of two pei
cent. on the 25th. This Is in addition to the
regular dividend Of three per cent
GENERAL GRANT is growing weaker
and losing flesh. His difficulty in breath
| ing increases, and he gets no sleep except
| by the use of morphine
WALKER BLAINE, son OF Hon. James g.
Blaine, is to be married this summer to
Miss Elite, daughter of Ex-Governor D.
D. T. Farnsworth, of Buckannon, w. Va.
A COURT MARTIAL has been detailed by
the Secretary of the Navy to try Pay
MASTER General Smith on charges OF
scandalous conduct and inef1iciency.
Hon. s. H. BUCK, the Director g ener al
of the North, Central and South Amer
lean Exposition, has established at Wash :
ington a bureau of information for the
press, the publ ic and foreign legations, in
regard to the plans, purposes and progress
of the New Worlds Fair, to be opened al
New Orleans in the fall.
THE Controller of the Currency has ex.
tended the corporate existence of the fol
lowing named banks for a period of twen-
ty years: The First National Bank OF
Portland, Ore. the National Branch Bank
of Madison, Ind; the Harrison National
Bank of Cadiz, O.; the Peoples National
Bank of jackson, Mich.
THERE is serious talk of revolution in
Spain.
No ex-Confederates will be appointed
| on any of the pension examining boards.
FRANCE has raised the Chinese blockade
and trade is now free
SECRETARY WHITNEY has asked fol-
plans and specifications for four new
naval vessels.
GENERAL GRANT pronounced the Goth
the best day he had experienced since
leaving New York.
DONATIONS to the Pusey fund at OK
ford, Eng, amount to 100000.
E. T. JOHNSON was acquitted at Green
vile, Tenn, of murder in the killing OF
Major Henry.
THE Pacific mail steamer City of Toxic,
ashore near Yokohama, Japan, will be a
total loss.
UNDER an invitation from Secretary
Whitney, Admiral Porter is planning q
new steel crui ser.
AN explosion of boiler az Bairds town,
KY, on the Goth, killed three negroes and
seriously injured another.
The Marquis of Salisbury gave an Off
cial reception on the Goth to diplomates
accredited to the British court.
A BARK from Cienfuegos brought two
cases of yellow fever to Lewes, DEL,
where one patient died.
JAMES ARCINE and VIM. Parchmeal,
full -blooded Cherokee Indians, were hang
ed at Fort Smith, Ark, on the Goth, for
murder.
AN audience was granted the B shop OF
San Francisco by the Pope at Rome on
the 26th.
JNo. MCKEENER, a colored murderer,
was hanged in Memphis, Tenn, and Jor-
dan Taylor at Hopkinsvilie, KY.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND says he knows
of no "agreement" to let the offensive
partisans in st. Louis hold the offices.
TALMADGE, the Milwaukee statistician,
in his crop report, estimates the shortage
in winter wheat of the country at 16J, 900
bushels.
FRENCH Canadians at Quebec have
banded together and subscribed funds to
defend the breeds in the coming
trials.
The persons arrested during the recent
cholera riots in Madrid have been re-
leased in Difference to the popular feeling.
The Spanish Minister of Marine has
decided to permit the inocul ton of the
officers and men of the Spanish navy on
DR.. Ferran's system.
LIEUTENANT SCHUETzE will sail, July
9Th, for the Lena DELTA, to carry the re-
wards of the Government to the natives
who aided the survivors of the Jeanette
expedition.
WILLIAM HAYES, sixteen years old, was
found hanged with his hands and feet
tied, on the Goth, in Harrison County,
Iowa, supposedly the work of tramps. He
was harmless lad and left home on the
odd to go to church.
A JURY has been obtained to try the five
Italians, charged with the murder of Ca.
russo, fellow countryman, in Chicago.
MILO JUMP, porter at the Whitmore
House, at Northu berland, Pa, was shot
on the Goth by John Cox, proprietor of the
Palmer House. Jump lived but few
minutes.
THE building occupied by the Dickinson
Grass and Field Seeds Company at Chi
cago, was partially burned on the Goth.
Loss, $25. 900; fully insured.