Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-13

gro,l Gonntg Registet
BY ELI d. AXE.
1RoNTON, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE thirty annual session of the
American Medical Association began at
st. Louis on the 4th.
THE report that New York publisher
has been in treaty with the Vatican for
the publication of the memoirs of Pope Leo
XIII. is denied.
THE United States Brewers convention
which was to have been held in San Fran
cisco on the 10Th and Goth, has been post.
poned for the present on account of the
labor troubles.
THE Ohio Legislature met and adjourned
over on the 9Th on account of the absence
of the Democratic members, who absented
themselves to delay action on the Hamil-
ton County contests.
IT is believed that Chamberlain and his
adherents will vote for the second reading
nf }ho p,1a off oh will
be temporarily withdrawn and the ques-
ton postponed for a year.
THE United States steamer Quinnebaug
is under orders to be at Lisbon, Portugal,
in time to participate in the ceremonies
attendant on the approaching marriage OF
the Crown Prince of Portugal.
RUMoRs are in circulation that Glad
stone will dissolve Parliament immedi-
ately after the division in the House on
the second reading of the Home-Rule bill,
whatever the result of the VOTE
THE Third avenue street car strike in
New York is practically over, the cars be-
ing run on regular time and with only
nominal police protection. and matters are
gradually assuming their normal conii-
ton.
THE business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days end
ed the 7th number: For the United States,
167: and for Canada, %; or total of 1872,
as compared with a total of POT the pre-
vious week.
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE, of Arkansas, intro
duced resolution in the House on the Sd
to give silver certificates full legal-tender
character, and providing for the issue of
certificates of the denomination of one,
two and five dollars.
THE Powers have instructed their minis
tiers at Athens to remain at their posts. 1t
is believed that the Powers will accept a
guarantee from France that she will Sc
cure the disarmament of Greece, and that
they will not fix an actual date for its ac-
complishment.
SENATOR HoAR, from the committee on
privileges and elections, reported favor
ably on the Sd a bill creating a commits
sion to be appointed by the President to
select an accurate ballot box and counting
device which shall be used in all congress
sional elections.
MRS. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS returned
home at Indianapolis on the Sd from a
six-weeks' visit to California. She has
regained her full health and speaks very
gratefully of the kindness extended her
by the friends of Mr.. Hendricks whom she
met in California.
THE Ministers Association of Daven-
port, Ia, held meeting on the Sd, at
which they vigorously denounced the
Sunday papers. Gilmore's band will give
a concert next Sunday, and in passin e
resolutions against the concert they took
the opportunity to score the Sunday pa
pers.
THE physicians attending the National
Medical convention at st. Louis were en-
tertained at grand reception and bali at
the Merchants Exchange on the night of
the 5th. The elite of the city were in at
tendance and the affair was one of the
''Future Great"
THE existing labor trouble was a topic
of discussion at the Cabinet meeting on
the 9Th, in the course of which the riots in
Chicago and Milwaukee and elsewhere
were referred to with a view to taking
such precautionary measures for the pro-
lection of Government property may
be found necessary.
AT a meeting of representative citi :
ZeIs of New York on the night of the
9th committee was named to prepare
suggestions for cleansing the city govern
ment of the pothouse politicians and dis
creditable wire-pullers who manipulate
politics. A crusade is to be inaugurated,
as against Tweed in 1872.
THE st. James Gazette (London) lauds
the promptness of the Americans in dis
cussing practical Socialism at the point of
the bayonet and with volleys of musketry,
thus ignoring the aphorism that "Foree is
no remedy" The paper adds the express
sion of trust that the American Republic
will now restrict free trade in murderous
explosives.
A NUMBER of outsiders have been cutting
wood on the Crow Indian reservation in
Montana all winter and selling it. White
men married to squaws are the principal
offenders. The Crow Indian Agent, Gen
eral Williamson. has been looking into the
matter, and besides confiscating lot of
this wood, has arrested one Phelps, guilty
of the charge. Other arrests are ex-
pected.
A SUIT has been filed in the United States
Court in Cincinnati by the attorneys of
Martha Taylor, a colored woman, who
seeks To recover $40 oOO from tho Cincpna