Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.

4 Summary Of Important Events.
SYMPATHY for Louis Riel at Quebec ha
taken the shape of defense fund.
CHOLERA has crossed the Spanish from
tier into the French department of tn
Auge.
LORD SALISBURY declares himself OF
posed to the disestablishment of tn
Scottish Church.
IT is understood that the Attorney
General has decided that the Government
is bound to accept the Dolphin.
THE Mexican Consul at San Francisc
denies that there is any scheme to Sc
Mexican territory to the United States.
SECRETARY MANNING has decided tina
the employment of convict labor is not
valid objection to a Government con
tractor.
JAMES G.. WINrERsMIrH, door-keeper o
the House of Representative is dying
He has been i'll since the adjournment g
Congress.
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GENERAL DECoURcEY informs the Gov
eminent at Paris that the Anamite troop
at Hue have disbauded and surrendefe
their arms to him.
DURING the storm in Madison. Wis, tn
night of the Sth the spire was blown fror
the Presbyterian Church, and Colone
Villas residence was unroofed.
THE State Department has made eighty
seven appointments of Ministers, Consuls
commercial agents and secretaries of 1ega
tion and has dispensed with two clerks.
BISMARCK is preparing a law to exclude
foreign born heirs from the right OF sue
cession to German thrones. The Duchy
of Brunswick contest has alarmed him
THE total number of new cases of chol
era reported from all points in Spain o.
the 9th was 1,45O, and deaths, 6Sl. III
disease is rapidly decreasing at Aran
juez.
VIcE.PREsIDENr HENDRICKS left Wash
ineton for home on the 9th, and expect:
to start early in August for trip to tn
Pacific coast, where he will stay SOM
weeks.
Nor to be outdone by London, severa
cities of the United States are striving t.
come to the front with exhibitions o
wickedness similar to that exposed by tn
Pail Mall Gazette.
AYoUB KHAN is still confined in the cit.
adel at Teheran- He receives many Wis
its from the Persian Ministers. He think:
war between England and Russia newt
able within five years.
UNITED STATES CONSUL MASON at Mar
settles has informed the Department o.
State that cholera has again appeared IL
that city and in Touion. A general exc
dus from Marseilles had begun.
ELEVEN thousand nine hundred and
twenty-seven pieces of registered matter
were handled on the It'll in the Washing
ton I'd. CO. Post-office, the heaviest days
business in the history OF the office.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has tender cd
the Liberian mission to Rev. DR.. G. W.
Bryant, pastor Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church Of Nashville, Tenn. Bryant has
not vet made up his mind to accept.
JUDGE CHENowITH, on behalf of a mum
Der of Texas ex-Confederate soldiers on
the Sth presented General Rosecrans with
q pistol captured by the Texans in a raid
on his baggage train in the summer OF
1854
THE Secretary of the Navy has appoint
ed a board to examine the present force
Of navy-yard shops and applicants fol-
such position, with a view to determining
the efficiency of the incumbents and max
ing changes where it Is necessary.
IT is understood that the resignations OF
the Deputy Comptroller of the Treasury
and all the off Gals of that bureau above
the civil service grades have been tender
ed to Secretary Manning, by request, but
are not likely to be acted upon for some
time.
THE Pail Mall Gazette's publications on
the subject of "The Traffic in Young
Girls" has attracted the attention of the
British House of Commons, and a move is
TO be made to criminally prosecute the
authors and publishers of the sensational
articles.
THERE were ITO failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
10th, as compared with 1872 the preceding
week, and with 194, 40 and 124, respect
lively, in the corresponding weeks of 1884,
1888 and 1882. Canada had "a, an in
crease of B.
LEGAL proceedings for the determine
ton of the mental condition of John Nc
Cullough have been taken by his wife.
Judge Allison, of Philadelphia, has ap-
pointed Geo. w. Arundel Commissioner to
take testimony under the writ de lun atico
inquirendo.
The number Of new cases Of cholera re-
ported in Spain on the 7th, exclusive OF
those in Murcia and Castellon de la Plana,
was I, 100, and the umber of deaths 62S.
In the town of Aranjuez the number of
cases reported during the same period was
sixty and the deaths thirty.
To friend who called on him at the
Treasury the other day, Secretary Man
have been in this building now for four
nifty to visit more than three rooms. The
office.seekers won't let me-"
Mr.. HrBBs, expos tmaster of Lewiston,
idaho, who stole $4,000 aud came near
securing 1000. has written a letter to
Attorney General Bryant Of the Postal
Department complaining that q registered
letter he sent to q friend containing 5000
never reached its destin alton.
LIEUTENANT W. 81. SCHurzE Of the
United States navy, started on his trip to
Siberia on the Sth, on the steamer Fulda,
bearing presents from the United States
Government to the Russians who aided in