Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-20

grn11 County gegiste,
BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
The British Parliament was proroguet
on the 14th.
A FEARFUL state of anarchy prevails II
Kordofan. There is a famine also at the
place.
THERE were 160 failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven day.
ended the 14th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM arrived at Potsdau
on the 18th in good health. He was en-
Enthusiastically received.
THE exports of merchandise from tn,
port of New York for the week ending the
t1th were valued at s.. AS, asi.
THE total amount received for the CIR ami
Monument Fund in New York up to the
svening of the 18th was $3S $40.
THE Coroner of Dubuque, Ia, is hunt
ing for the body of stranger who sale
he was going to commit suicide.
kaka -hoi
are called grass spies to see how much
land is unlawfully inclosed.
CARDINAL MANNING will issue a pas.
toral letter on the new criminal bill ds
says it will bono blank cartridge.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas left
Washington on the 18th for the West te
take vacation of three or four weeks
A VOTE of thanks for the services of the
army and navy in Egypt was adopted by
the British Lords and Commons on the
18th.
A HOSTILE demonstration by the Ger
man feet caused Zanzibar to weaken, and
the German claims are now acknowl'
edged.
GENERAL EDGERroN, formerly OF St
I,ouis. is one of a committee of three ap-
pointed to inspect the New York Post
Office.
THE Oklahoma boomers who have been
in camp at Caldwell, Kas., for some
months, are disbanding by order OF Cap :
tain Couch.
COMMODORE OSCAR c. BADGER, recent
" relieved from the command OF the
Boston Navy Yard, has been placed on
the retired list
THE National Society OF American
Florists met in Cincinnati on the 18th 1t
was their first convention, and was qul tie
largely attended.
DIR. SIGMUNDY, the noted Alpine trav-
eler and author, was killed recently by
falling over precipice while attempting
an impossible feat
The appointments of foremen OF tn
Brooklyn Navy Yard We're made public
stalled and three Republicans were reap
pointed.
A JUDGMENT was entered in the Su-
preme Court of New York on the eth
against the insolvent firm Of Grant &
Ward for $31, 1888 in favor Of Elmer E
Whitaker.
DIVINE to a death at Gibraltar from
supposed cholera, Spain has instituted a
land Gordon barring Gibr altar from com.
munication with the contiguous Spanish
territory.
Ex-GovERNoR MOSES of Sou tn Caro-
lima is again in trouble at Boston, this
time for obtaining money under false
pretenses from Samuel C. Cobb, Fred. l..
Ames and others.
TIE English Wabash bondholders will
institute foreclosure proceedings. The
scheme contemplates the purchase of the
property and to pay the debenture- hold
ers with new bonds
A SMART lawyer at Longview, Tex, got
up a petition and lad it extensively signed
to have q prominent citizen hanged. His
idea was to throw ridicule on petitions in
general, and he succeeded.
IT is rumored that the Emperor and
Empress of Russia, after the meeting at
Kremsier, will go to Yminden to visit the
Duke Of Cumberland, and it Is likely they
will meet the Princess Of Wales there.
a CLOUD. BURST at dOH mans Ferry,
near Amsterdam, N. Y, on the 18th
washed out 500 yards of the New York
Central Railways tracks, and played
havoc with the fences and telegraph
lines.
INFORMATION received from Montana
Territory shows that grasshoppers of
both the migratory and non-migratory
species are swarming in that section, and
that they are about moving east in large
swarms.
DURING the week ended the Sth $780,
900 hogs were handled by Western pack
ers as against 10000 a year ago. The to-
tai since March 1st is $3.50. 900 compared
with 2,730, 900 for a corresponding peri cd
last year.
In the twenty-four hours ended the
morning of the 18th, G, 1874 new cases of
cholera and 100 deaths were reported
from $40 towns in thirty six provinces in
Spain. This is the highest number of
victims yet repor ted.
CHOLERA statistics from Spain con tinue
to be appalling. On the 10th 1910 new
cases were reported and ,343 deaths from
the disease, but these figures by no means
cover the full extent of the ravages of the
scourge, as they are incomplete.
UNITED STATES CONSUL MASON, at Mar
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