Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-11

Sro'l Goantg Register
BY ELL d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
CURRENT TOPICS.
The News in Brief.
NJ. r. b. WITTER, of st. Louis, Mo-, was
reelected President Of the international
typographical Union.
An English cutter has been seized BY
the German dispatch boat Pommerania for
fishing in prohibited waters.
THE failure of the Shackamaxon Bank
at Philadelphia, Pa, proves to have been
a bad one. Liabilities about half q mil
lion
IT Is semf-oficially announced at Paris
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement Of the dispute between Russia
'and England.
THE Tories are jubilant and the Liberals
disconnected by the statement from Earl
Granville that the Afghan boundary mat
ter is not'yet settled.
COLONEL STEPHENSON, chief of the mid
die division of the Pension Office, has been
requested to resign. The grounds hawe
not been made public.
THE Baron Roger, on the occasion 'of
Hugo's funeral at Paris, tried to protect
his grounds by putting cut glass on the
walls, but the populace would not allow it.
THE total exports of mineral oils durin g
the ten months ended April Soth, 1885,
were 1853. 766, 14S gallons; during the cor
responding period last year, A6;6F4,4 o5
sgallons.
PRUSSIA has presented scheme in the
ABundesrath for a canal from the North Sea
to the Baltic, to cost 156, 90e, 900 marks,
Prussia to pay 80, 0Oo, 900 and Germany
1O6, 600, 900.
MAYOR HARRISON of Chicago has issued
an order that all gambling-houses not
closed on OF aIteF Inc otH aksre. WILL NO
raided by the police, and their occupants
arrested and their apparatus destroyed.
In the Canadian House of Commons on
the 9Th, Mr.. Lisler will inquire of the Gov
eminent what steps have been taken for
the trial of Riel and whether an effort
will be made to have Gabriel Dumont ex-
tradited.
LIBERTY HALL, the old home of Alex. II.
Stephens, at Charlottesville, Ga, has
been decided to the Stephens Memorial
Association. Mr.. Stephens remains will
be removed on the 10th inst, from Atlanta
to Liberty Hall.
JUNK dealers at Baltimore, Nd, are
charged with dealing in bed ticking bought
from steamships and used by emigrants
It is thought to be a very dangerous prac-
tice and liable to be the means of commu-
nicating disease.
THERE were 1872 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
seven days ended the 9Th, against ISL in
the preceding week, and 49,, 146 and 40 in
the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1888 and
1885,, respectively.
AT a meeting of citizens of New Orleans
on the I'd to consider the question of con-
tinuing the Worlds Fair, it was unani-
mously resolved to reopen the exhibition
next fall, whether the Government exhib-
it remains or not.
The jury in the case of John A. Drew,
who has been on trial in Washington, D.
c., for presenting false vouchers against
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of
the Navy DEPARTING brought in a YER
dict of acquittal.
A CITIZEN of Montreal, Can, named
Quillette has brought suit for SIC, 900 dam
ages against DR.. Berry, City Vaccin ator,
for causing the death of two of his chill
dren with impure lymph. The doctor says
the children died from measles.
RAYMOND ScHoRocH, the alleged dishon-
est POST office clerk, who fed from Hams
pooh, Bohemia, with moneys belonging to
the Austrian Government, has been held
for extradition by United States Com
missioner Shields at New York.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the Land Of
fce, has made the following order: Final
action of this office on all pre- emption and
homestead entries in the San Francisco
and Humboldt (Cal.) districts, will be
suspended until the same have been ex-
amined by special ag ents.
VICTOR HUGo's fu neral on the list was
the greatest demonstration of the kind
Paris has ever witnessed. The solemnity
of the occasion and the words of the
orators seemed to awe even the Commun-
lists into decency, and there was no riot
ing or exhibition of disorderly conduct
j. NJ REYNOLDS met horrible fate at
theiSouthern Hotel, st. Louis, Mo-, on the
morning of the Cd. He fell or threw him
self from the third story to the ground
floor in the rotunda, and was instantly
killed. He was sixty years old, and for
merly First Auditor of the United States
Treasury.
THE Supreme Council of the Royal Ar
canum convened in general session at Buff
falo, n. Y, on the Sd. The financial re-
port shows g., $40 full and 12,06s half-rate
members as reported on January LIST to
the Insurance Commissioners, and that
insurance amounting to SIS, 954, 900 is at
present carried by the members.
The chief of the Post office inspectors
has been informed that Postmaster I. N.
Hibbs of Lewiston, Idaho, issued money
orders to the amount of SIS, 600 or $50. o)0,
payable to himself, ordered banks in diff
ferent cities to collect them and 5rward
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