Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-06
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

PRINCE BISMARCK and Count Kalnoky
will attend the meeting of the Emperors
at Gastein.
COLONEL FRED GRANT has issued . spe-
cial invitation to members of his fathers
Cabinet to attend the funeral.
THE Provost of Glasgow, Scotland
says that system of corruption of minor
females. similar to that in London, exists
In Glasgow.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has sent SUBJ
scription of $3.50 to the fund for rebuild
ing Music Hall at Buffalo, n. Y, which
was destroyed by fire in March last
r.THE bark Hancock, from Cienfugos,
July 18th, is detained at quarantine al
Philadelphia on account of yellow fever,
but ne trouble is anticipated from infec-
tion.
ADMIRAL JoUErT, who has been in COM
mand Of the forces on and about the
Isthmus of Panama, returned to WASH
ington on the 9th. He reports every :
thing quiet on the Isthmus.
THE only coinage executed at the Unit
ed States mint in Philadelphia during
Ju!y. the first m onth of the administra-
ton Of the new Superintendent, Daniel
N. Fox, 1,sOO, 900 silver dollars.
IT is reported that the alleged looting
by the volunteers in the Northwest will
be brought to the notice of the British
Government unless the Dominion author
tiles take some steps in the matter.
AS a mark of respect for the late Gen.
eral Grant, military bands throughou out
England refrained from playing the usual
Sunday selections on the 26th playing
,dirges and funeral march 90 instead.
THE Suet, the Russian military organ,
SAYS that the Afghan force on the Russo
Afghan frontier is 10000 men, and that
the Russian force consists of thirty COM
panies stationed between Penjdeh and
Zulficar.
THERE were 1874 failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
81st as compared with 215 the preceding
week, and with 1919, 155 and 1O5 respect
lively in the corresponding weeks of 1884,
1888 and 1882.
A DIARY containing an admission of
murder and incendiarism in the United
States, found among the effects of a man
arrested in London on a criminal charge
is an unpleasant addition to his already
bad predicam emit.
THE rate of postage on letters sent from
the United States to Australia and New
Zealand via England, Brindisi and the
Suez Canal, has been reduced from fifteen
to twelve cents, making it uniform with
the rate via San Francisco.
In the British House of Commons on the
f,al
providing for the fogging of prisoners
convicted of outraging children was re-
5ected, 122 to 81. An amendment raising
the age of pr election of girls to sixteen
was carried by vote of 179 to II.
GENERAL HAzEN has brought charges
againt Sergeant Michael Meg arren, of the
Signal Corps at Pensacola, Fla, and
asked that he be tried by court-martial
for refusing to receive Private Green (col.
,ored), who was sent to assist him.
THEfVenezuelan Minister at Washington
has received a cablegram from Caracas,
announcing that the revolutionary move
men on the eastern coast of Venezuela has
been suppressed, and that quiet has been
restored throughout the whole country.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has is
sued an invitation to the members of the
State Legislature to assemble Informally
at the, Capitol, August 4th, to take such
action as may suitably express the senti-
.ments of the State in regard to the death
of General Grant.
CHOLERA has broken out on the Frenc h
frontier. 'One-fourth of the people of
Monterguado in Soria, died of cholera
during the ten days ended the Goth. The
survivors fled, with the exception of one
.gendarme, who remained to bury the
bodies of the victims.
The belief is gaining ground that
British and Indian troops will be sent to
Candahar despite all the protestations
made by both English officials and the
Ameer that no cantonment by the British
has ever been intended at that p oint or
elsewhere in Afghanistan.
Mrs. GRANT desired that in case Union
officers like Generals Sherman and Sheri-
dan were selected as pail bearers, a lead
ing Confederate officer like General john
ston or General Buckner be also included
in the list. The President has appointed
bath the gentlemen named.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has refused to
modify his order for the removal of cat
tie from leased Indian lands. Protests
against the enforcement of the order, and
petitions for extension of time have been
sent to " ashington from st. Louis, Kan
sas City and other localities.
TEE President has appointed Robert |
Murray, Surgeon General United States |
Army, Francis NJ. Gunnell, Surgeon |
General United States Navy, and Rev. |
Byron Sunderland, pastor Of the First |
Presbyterian Chur CHI, to be visitor to the |
Government Hospital for the Insane.
DR.. JOHN O'KANE MURRAY, OF PhiIa-
delphia, Pa, died at the Leland Hotel,
Chicago, on the 30th, of consumption. DR..
Murray was en- route to Colorado Springs
for his health. He was a Catholic writer
of some note, being known chiefly through |
his "History of the Catholic Church in the
United States" and 'fHistory of English
Literature"
The Secretary of State on the 31st. re-
ceived from the French Government IS,
$50 francs, being the amount award ed by
the Franco American Claims Commission
to American claimants against tae |
French Government Nineteen cl aims
were presented ard all but two were
either disallowed or dismissed for want Of
jurisdiction.
DURING the absence of the President, 1
while taking his summer rest, the White
House will be fixed up considerably. The |
walls and ceiling of the main sestibule
will De refrescosd in O style similar to |