Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

A Summary Of Important Events.
CAPTAIN Couch is endeavoring to re-
organize his Oklahoma boom at Caldwell,
Kas.
WHEN the British troops withdraw from
the Soudan, 1900 Egyptian soldiers will
take their places.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREAS
URY COOK is confined to his bed with an
attack of rheumatism.
THE New York Legislature adjourned
on the 18th, but was Immediately recon-
vened in extra session.
MEDALS will be given by the Australian
Government to its contingent to commem-
crate their services in the Soudan.
A CALL has been made for grand mill
tia encampment and reunion at Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, from June 18th
to July 26th.
IT Is semi officially announced at Paris
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
and England
GENERAL KoMARoFF has made another
statement, reiterating and emphasizing
his previous assertions concerning the
Penjdeh affair.
THE remains of Major Lyford, Ordnance
corps, q. s. A, were cremated at Lancas-
ter, Pa. Ex-Secretary Lincoln attended
the ceremonies.
LATEST dispatches from the Northwest
Indicate that General Middleton has won a
decisive victory over the rebels, driving
them from Batouche
ACCORDING to Prof. C. V. Riley two
great broods of locusts--the seventeen
wear and the thirteen ear-are about to
sweep down upon the country.
A LATE dispatch from Winnipeg an
noun ces the capture of Riel, leader of the
Northwest rebellion, and his delivery to
General Middleton's headquarters.
THE Russian press, in a somewhat
boastful tone, says Russia's resolute atti-
tude fore ed England to acknowledge her
mistakes and hasten to rectify them.
SIR EVELYN Barring, British Consul
General at Cairo, is not in accord with the
Government ON the withdrawal of troops
from the Soudan, and will probably be re-
called.
A DELEGATION of Mormons visited the
White House on the 18th, and were as
sured by the President that the Edmunds
law would be strictly and impartially en-
forced.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
May 9th was 1854, 900. The issue during
the corresponding week of last year was
$345, 99Z.
sixty plate printers and their assistants
and eight engravers of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing have been fur
Laughed on account of insufficient appro-
priations.
PRIVATE advices received at Washing
ton indicate that Red Cloud g support is
leaving h inn, and he will soon take his
place among the minority as a relic of
barbarism.
THE Egyptian Governments considers 1t
absolutely necessary to hold the Province
of Dongola- The public lat Cairo are in
over the declared intention of En-
LIEUTENANT ARNOLD, Of the Washing
ton city police, called at the Interior De-
partment on the 18th with warrant for
the arrest of Commissioner Sparks, charg-
ing assault and battery on Colonel De'Ab-
ma on the 9th inst
The committee appointed to count the
cash in the treasury and the finished notes
in ha Py1pa of
completed the work on the 18th. The fin
ished and unfinished notes correspond
with the treasury books.
SLATIN BEY, who, it has been generally
believed, was killed with Gordon in Khar-
toum, is, according to statements con-
tanned in letters received by some of his
relations in Vienna, still alive and at
present a prisoner in Ell Mahd's camp.
THE superintendents of the United States
mints at San Francisco, New Orleans and
have been auth orized to pur-
chase mutilated and uncurrent United
States silver coin of standard fineness at
the rate of ninety EIGHT cents per ounce,
troy weight, when presented in sums of s.
and upward.
GEORGE v. N. -LoTHRoP, the new Minis
ter to Russia, arrived in Washington on
the 18th, and called on Secretary Bayard
at the State Departments, and afterward,
by Mr.. Bayard, went to the
White House and called upon the Presi-
dent. Mr.. Lothrop will sail for st. Peters,
burg about June 18TH
AFTER receiving the votes of all the
Democrats in the Illinois Legislature on
the 14th, Colonel VIM. R Morrison with
drew from the contest for the United
States Senatorship The Dem ocrats then
concentrated on Judge Lambert Tree, of
Chicago. At caucus the Democrats Sc
iected eleven names, for whom it was
resolved to cast the full vote, giving each
man thr ee trials.
The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor
in session at St. Louis, Mo-. elected the
following officers: Supreme Dictator. Gem
eral Frank D. SlOat; Vice. Dictator, Major
L. A Gratz; Assistant Vice Dictator.
John L Mulburn; Reporter, B. F. Nelson:
Treasurer, Joseph w. Branch; CHAPLAIN.
Rev. Geo. w. Holland; Guide, E. ]. Day-
export; Guardian, p. c. Carlton; Senti-
mel, Lewis Wilson; Trustees, Hon. Obey
johnson. George S. Woodman, Frank j.
Mott.
WHILE the President was receiving Ia
cadet corps from a school in a neighbor-
ing State ON the 18th, a freckls-faced
woman who managed to get into the
White House with the crowd, walked nm
and shook hands with Mr.. Cleveland. She
looked him in the eye and said: s.Mr.
Cleveland, do you ever expect to get mar.
ried?' The President blushed and smiled.
and the visitors who heard the remark had
. good laugh.