Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-14

organize his Oklahoma boom at Caldwell
Kas.
RETURNS indicate the election of Weaver,
Republican, to succeed Shaw in the IL
linois Legislature.
B. K BRUCE, Register of the Treasury,
has placed his resigna ton in the hands OF
Secretary Manning.
COLONEL Offers battle with the In
dams in the Northwest created intense ex-
element at Ottawa.
O'DoNovAN Rosa says the acquittal OF
Dick Short is triumph of justice ana
vindication of true Americanlsm.
DISPATCHES from Shanghai state that
the dispute between China and Russia re-
parding the frontier of Manchooria has
become acute.
1-;s ss,;.of4icially announced at Paris
that BISMARCK offered to arbitrate for the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
and England.
THE London Times insists that the Gov
eminent should persuade the Ameer of
Afghanistan to permit an English garri-
son to occupy Herat-
SECRETARY WHITNEY and John Roach
were in consultation at Washington on the
9th, relative to the acceptance of the DOL
phin by the Government.
THE trans Atlantic steamship COM
panies are endeavoring to restore the
rates of passage, which have been badly
cut by sharp competition.
III Prit Oh,
at New York The corvette Canada
dropped anchor in the harbor on the Sth.
The Strelok remains there too.
HARVEY M. MUNSELL, one of the jurors
in the Short trial in New York, has been
arrested for contempt of court and per-
jury in connection with the case.
EARL GRANVILLE stated in the British
House of Lords on the 4th that England
and Russia had agreed to renew negotia-
tions in reference to the Afghan frontier.
THE London Times says the Afghan
affair has been mismanaged, but the oppo-
sition should rely on the coming election
to square accounts with the Administra
ton.
Gross frauds are said to have been dis
covered in the Thirty fourth Representa-
tive District in Illinois, which will be
looked into before Mr.. Shaw's successor is
seated.
PoRrAzAE and Cocobalo, Lieu tenants OF
the Colombian rebel, Preston, and who
were the leaders in the burning of Colon,
have been executed after trial by court
martial.
VETERANS of the Army of the Potomac
took a trip on Chesapeake Bay on the 7th
during q tremendous rainstorm, and
wound up with a grand banquet in the
evening.
PRINCESS BEATRICE is to be married
soon to Prince II nry of Battenberg. The
British House OF Commons has been in
formed that she expects the usual mar
riage dowry.
Ice from a quarter to three quarters of
an inch thick was reported in Wisconsin
and Iowa the night of the It'll, and snow
In Minnesota. Much damage to small
fruits is feared.
The British Government has advised a
cessation of the chartering of ships OF
small pattern for transport service. This
is believed to foreshadow q stoppage of all
war preparations.
A New York physician just returned
from the West expires sed surprise at the
great number of drug stores" in Kansas.
He also found doctors as thick as black :
berries Oh hillside.
THE man charged with the murder OF
the Italian shipped to Pittsburgh, Pa, in
a trunk has told so many conflicting sto-
ries that it is believed the officers have Sc
cured the right man.
GENERAL GRANT treated his family and
household to another surprise on the 9th
by the marked change in his condition from
the previous day. DIR. Douglas said: ut
is simply wonderful"
IT begins to look as if the late affair
between Colonel o ter and Mr.. Pound
maker in the Northwest was a bad one for
the Canadian soldiers. Reinforcements
are urgently called for.
REPORTS received from the Cameroons
country show that peace has been restored
there. The murderers OF Herr Pantsa-
neus. the agent of several Hamburg firms,
have been tried, convicted and shot.
THE London Morning Post asserts that
Earl Duff erin has resigned as Viceroy of
India n consequence of the disastrous eff
feet upon British prestige in India of Mr..
Gladstone's weak and timorous policy.
THOMAS SEXTON, Ho ne Rule member of
the British Parliament from County Sligo
Ireland, has placed on the notice paper of
the House of Commons question as to
whether the English Cover nment has in
terfered with the appoi ntment of Mr..
Kelley, Uni ed States Minister to Austria.
UNITED STATES TREASURER JoRDoN
says the treasury count is practically over,
and everything found most satisfactory.
Three silver dollars which escaped from a
broken package in the silver vault have
been found, SO the only discrepancy is
cents, missin from a 80 package of PEN
mics in the cash room.
A DISPATCH received by the Chief of Po-
lice at st. Lou s. Mo-, early on the morning
of the 6oh from Auckland, New Zealand,
ann uuced the capture, on the steamer City
OF Sidney, Walter Lennox Maxwell,
the a!ie. ell murd rer of G. Arthur Prel-
Ter, whose body was found packed in a
trunk owned 10y Maxwell and l fit in the
room occupied Ivy him at the Southern
Hotel, ST. Louis. Immediate steps will
be taken for MaxwelPs extradition.
In overhaulin he Treasury vaults a
heavy, square box, wrapped in red tape
and securely bound, was found in an out
of .way nook of the vault and the kew m g