Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-19

groll County gegister
BY ELI D. AXE.
1RoNToN. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
DR.. LAvELL, of the Riel Medical Lom-
sion, SAYS if the Government hangs Riel
they viii hang a lunatic.
LORD DUFFERIN has ordered the Burmah
expeditionary force to proceed with all
haste to capture Mandalay.
THE eleventh week of the strike of 5000
miners in the Monongahela Valley closed
on the 14th with no signs of settlement.
THE Burmese envoy to Paris has gone to
Berlin to ask Bismarck to arrange with
England for the settlement of the Burmese
dispute.
PRINCE ALEXANDER is seeking advice as
to how he shall arrange matters with the
Porte in the event of the conference of the
powers proving abortive.
1t is stated King Theebaw has subsidized
1900 dacoits, or robbers, to cross the
frontier at the first sign of war and begin
plundering and numbering.
The American Humane Association has
issued circulars saying it will hold its ninth
annual session at st. Louis, Mo-, COM
mencing November 18th and lasting three
days.
ALL four of the defendants in the Stead
Armstrong trial at London were found
guilty, and Stead, editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette, was sentenced to three months
imprisonment.
PRINCE FRANCIS JOSEPH OF BATTENBERG
has resigned his commission as an officer
in the Prussian Foot Guards. His reason
is that he wishes to support his brother,
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria.
THE steamer Algoma, of the Canadian
Pacific line, struck reef during fog of
Isle Royale, Lake Superior, on the morning
of the 9th, and vent down with all OF
board, some thirty-seven persons.
ALL the bureau and department chief:
at Washington are at work on their re-
reports, and the President has shut hi:
doors on ice-seekers and their friends.
Old residents say they never saw Wash
ington SO dull.
BARON DE LoRME, who recently arrived
at New York from China, says the En-
peror wants railroads, is favorably dis
posed toward the American system, ant
will grant Liberal concessions to Ameri'
can capitalists.
THE agreement providing for the recip'
rocal crossing Of the international boun
Diary line by the troops of the United
States and the Republic of Mexico in the
pursuit of hostile Indians has been extend
ed until November, 1886.
LOUIS RIEL, who was to have beer
hanged at Regina, N. W. T., on the 10th
was again respited until the 18th inst
Preparations are being made for his exc
cution on the date mentioned, although
the warrant had not arrived.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week ending Novem
Der eth was ST86,047; during the CORE
spending week last year, 1856. Tn
shipment of fractional silver coin durin
the week ended November eth was S153,
800.
IT is understood that the Secretaries o
War and of the Navy will recommend il
their annual reports that provision
made at the coming session of Congress
for assistant Secretaries of War and of tn
NAVY. These are the only two Cabinet of
ficers who are not already provided wit
assistants.
UNITED STATES MARSHALL j. w
GEORGE arrested Mayor Weisbach, Doip
Hanna, Probate Judge Wickersham an
twenty-five others at Tacoma, W. T., o
the 9th, charged with being implicated l
the recent expulsion of the Chinese fror
that CITY. The prisoners were taken
Vancouver.
SECRETARY BAYARD has requested Sec
rotary Whitney to send man-of-war {
the Samoan Tor NavigatorsD Islands fC
the purpose of opening communicable
with that government. The inhabitani
are Christians and mostly Presbyterian
The Government is Tnider the protection {
the United States
CAPTAIN BEARDsLEE, commanding til
Powhattan, has telegraphed the Secretai
of the Navy from Colon that his vessel n;
been Considerably, not seriously, dan
aged" in gale. He will probably be o
dered to take her to Key West for repair
as he suggests, since repairing can not
done at Colon without great expense al
difficulty.
THE Japanese Postal Commission, accor
panied by the japanese Minister, called
the Post-office Department on the 12t
General Villas being absel
the distinguished visitors were received
First Assistant Postmaster General Stew
son, who explained the American syst
and escorted them through the varit
bureaus of the department.