Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

A Summary Of Important Events.
THE town of Highmore, Oak. has been
completely wiped out by acyclone.
The English Government will do its
best to obtain an early issue of the $45, .
ooO, 900 Egyptian loan.
THE tenth death from lock jaw occurred
in Chicago on the 14th as result of firing
of toy pistols on the Fourth of July.
LOUIS j. JENNINGS, formerly editor OF
the New York Times, will stand for Par
lament for Stockport, Cheshire, England.
SPA1N.is agitated by threatened Re-
publican uprising. Several arrests have
been made, and a quantity OF arms
seized.
THE receipts of the Patent Office for the
months of March, April, May and June
were 1920, 720; for the same perioo In
1854, S406, s6S.
SECRETARY BAYARD returned to WASH
ington on the 14th, and was at the State
Department, Mrs. Bayard's condition
having improved. g
LIB. HARRISON, President of the First
National Bank of Cincinnati, has been
appointed Government Director of the
Union Pacific Railroad.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL stated in
the Commons on the 14th that England
had made certain pledges of assistance to
the Ameer of Afghanistan in case he asks
for it. ~ --...t. -
Tho
18th, the Home Secretary announced that
in the investigation Of the recent ex-
posures.
THERE were reported throughout Spain
on the 14th 1892 new cases Of cholera,
and 473 deaths from the disease. The re-
turns from Valencia, however, were in
complete. .:t... .-
THE British soldiers stationed at Suakim
are suffering from the intense heat, and the
mortality among them is described as
frightful enteric diseases being very
prevalent.
A COMMITTEE, consisting of the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop OF Lon
don, Cardinal Manning and Hon. Samuel
Morley, will investigate the Pail Mall Ga
zette's charges.
THE French Senate has ratified the T1en
Tsin treaty. The Chamber of Deputies
has adopted all the clauses of the budget
except two, which are res served for fur
ther discussion.
THERE were /, 1876 new cases of cholera
and 664 deaths from the disease In Spain
on the 18th. 1t is now admitted that
oh 9lera exists also in the provinces OF
Albacite and Navarro. t-..-
EXPRESS AUGUSTA of Germany offers
a prize of $1,000 for the best portable
hospital tent for war or epidemic uses.
Competitors are to exhibit the tents at
the Antwerp exhibition.
A NEwsBoY was arrested in Chicago
for hawking a reprint OF the PdH Mali
Gazette disclosures He was fined 500 for
Observation-Disclosures literature, and the
Judge suspended the fine.
TEE Secretary of the Interior is still in
receipt of kilograms from cattlemen in
the Indian Territory, complaining that
the cattle trails through the Cherokee
strip remain INSTRUCTED, andi asking for
relief.
THE American Gymnastic Society en-
tered the city of Dresden, Saxony, on the
18th, and was accorded a popular ovation.
The procession which escorted the society
into the city bore at its head an Ameri-
can flag.
A. T. SMITH, the expert accountant en-
ployed to examine the accounts of Treas
urer Anderson of Hoboken, N. j., has
found q deficiency of $26,675. Anderson
is requested to explain at the next Coun-
Gil meeting. s,s.s. I'D
Mr.. CYRUS w. FIELD will give a ban
quet at the Star and Garter Hotel, Rich
mond, Eng, on the evening Of Wednes-
day, August 9TH, to celebrate the ami
versary Of the completion of the first At
lantic cable. ~.t
THE War Department is in receipt of
dispatches from the Indian Territory
which say that the disaffected Indians
are becoming quiet, and there Is q favor
able outlook for the settlement Of the In
dian troubles. ~ ~ 0
THERE were 1929 new cases Of cholera
and 672 deaths from the disease reported
from all points in Spain on the 18th. 1t is
stated that every one of forty-seven nuns
who were inoculated by DR.. Ferran has
since died Of cholera
THE Secretary of the Navy has issued
an order granting employees OF the Navy
Department thirty days leave of absence
with pay during the year when their SER
vices can be spared without interference
with the pu bile business. ..s
THE Toronto Globe charges the Directors
and shareholders of the Cana dian Pacific
with taking $21, SOC, 900 out of the COM
pany's funds, leaving invested in all their
works only about SIS, 600, 900 of the price
they paid for all the capital +-
= WADE HAMPTON has come out with COR
rections of errors in recently published
stories by Generals johnson and Imboden
on the first battle of Manassas, in which
he claims the honor of having made the
Confederate victory possible.
THE Washington Post building was
burned out on the 10th, involving in the
general destruction the National RepubH-
can, the Eueninq Critic and the Sunday
Gaze te, all of whose plants Of machinery
and material were destroyed. ...s
THE French Government has tele-
graphed to General De Courcy, at Hue,
directing him to severely punish the
Anamite officials who took part in the re =
cent ambuscade, but to confine his action
to the limits of his prosectorate.
THE people of Winnipeg celebr ated the
return Of the troops by q grand torch .
light procession and q display of fire =
works on the night of the 18th. Manv
thousands including the milit.rx toot,