Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-28
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
MINISTER PHELPS was presented to the
Queen by ex-Mnister Lowell on the 18TH.
FRENCH and Chinese diplomates are
making rapid progress with the treaty OF
peace.
OWING to the illness of the German EN-
peror, the King of Belgium has postponed
his visit.
THE St. Petersburg polio, recently ar
rested eleven Anarchists and seized many
Nihilist documents.
SPAIN has called on France for an expla-
nation of the hosting of the French nag
on Spanish territory in Africa
EFFORTS are being made in England to
divert emigration to the British COLONIES
instead of to the United States.
JOHN A. LOGAN received 103 votes, and
was reelected United States Senator by
the Illinois Legislature on the 18th.
scurxr is on foot among the railroad
companies to make up fund to reopen the
New Orleans Exposition next year.
THE Secretary of the Treasury on the
18th received conscience contribution of
500 in an envelope postmarked Chi cago'
A PROPOSITION is before the Dominion
oil To ho foroilia1 nf
volunteers killed OF wounded in the North
west.
SEVENTEEN people lost their lives at
fire at Cincinnati, O., on the 21st Several
of them were killed by jumping from up
per windows.
IT Is semi.officially announced at Paris
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
and England.
R. E. ODLUM, swimming teacher,
Jumped from Brooklyn bridge into East
River on the 10th, and was killed. His OBJ
ject was notoriety.
Ell MAHp1 is retiring his troops every
where. He himself is retiring toward
Job ell Etiri, leaving his steamers at Sabat,
on the White Nile.
In accordance with notice recently Civ
en- by the English Government, troops in
the Soudau are being "concentr ated for
possible service elsewhere.
THE President does not seem to be In
any haste about filling the Italian mis-
sion. There are several applicants, as the
italian court is rather a desirable one.
CHIEF GERONIMO and fifty Chricahua
bucks have left the San Carlos reserva-
ton and gone on the war-path. Soldiers
are in pursuit, and bloodshed is expected.
COMMISSIONERS OF PENSIONS BLACK has
quit Wizards and gone to housekeeping
with a view of sticking close to business
all summer, as the work in his departm emit
L. heavy.
On men from Oil City, Pa, have leased
over 900 acres Of territory near Green
boro, Greene County, bordering on the old
Dunkard oil fields, and will put down a
test well at once
SEVERAL prominent church people held
q religious meeting recently on Boston
Common, and have been arrested there
for. It is said there will be more m lettings
and more arrests.
THE subscription to the Pennsylv ania
Railroad Company's issue Of 81 900 900 in
four and half per cent. gold bonds have
already exceeded in London six times the
amount of the loan.
THE Mackin- gallagher election fraud
case of Chicago will have to go to the
United States Supreme Court, on account
of disagreement on one point by Judges
Harlan and Gresham.
GLADSTONE says nothing has been set
tied regarding arbitration of the Russo
English trouble. Political circles in En-
gland are agitated over reports of new
discussions in the Cabinet.
SOCIALISTS and Anarchists will not be
allowed to participate in the annual pa
rade of the Chicago Trades Assembly. All
banners except the National colors and
regular Union banners are to be excluded.
PAUL BoYToN's little joke is considered
Of as much Importance to the British navy
as the Afghan quarrel. The sentry on
duty on the Garnet at the time has been
to forty five days confinement.
MGR GRANDIN, Bishop of the North |
west, has written letter giving de- |
scription of the deplorable condition of |
the French half br eeds in the country. |
Starvation and misery stare the m in the |
face.
BARON WEMYRs made bitter attack on |
the governments policy in the Soudan in |
the British House of Lords on the 18th. |
He said England's only memorials there |
were "an abandoned railway and bleach |
ing skeletons"
In Italian Government circles it is de- |
,ied that Italy has any intention of evac-
lating the Soudan because of the preva-
ence of typhus fever among the Italian
roops at Massowah. 1t is also denied that
italy intends to relinquish her colonial
policy.
THE police census-takers of Washing
on, D. c., have about completed their
work, and the result shows that there are
04, 453 people in Washington and &c orge-
own combined. This is a very rapid in
rease of the total population. There are
It least 10000 negroes.
THE Treasury Department on the Goth
purchased COG 600 ounces of silver bullion
or delivery at the New Orleans mint for
oinage into silver dollars. The price paid
ras one and q quarter cents per ounce
over than the lowest price fixed by bid.
ers the previous week.
A CIRCULAR letter has been prepared at
be Treasury Departments which says that
,hiIe it Is not considered the business Of |