Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-01

gro,l County Register
By ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary q Important Events.
WASHINGTON CITY is hard at work try
ing to get the National exhibition of 1892
heated there.
THERE is trouble at Washington over the
Memphis Bridge bill, different corpora
lions contending for the franchise.
S
1t is stated that Senator Jones, of Flori =
da, will not seek reelection to the United
home.
THE French Senate, by a vote of al to
107, on the 22d, passed the bill for the ex-
pulsion of the princes, as it came from the
Chamber of Deputies.
A GROUP of Partisan financiers have ad-
vanced 5000, 900 francs to the Panama
Canal Company as security for the hy-
pothecation of the recent call.
a SEVERE storm struck the Austrian
capital and vicinity on the 21st, destroy
ing bridges, roads, railways and uproot-
ing hundreds of trees in Ringstrask park.
NUMEROUS persons were summarily
convicted at Sligo, Ireland, on the 23d, of
participating in the recent riots there.
Others were committed for trial at the AS
sizes.
THE President has approved the bill re-
imbursing Edwin Stevens, United States
Consul at Ningpo, China, for extraordi-
nary expenses incurred during the Fran
co-Chinese war.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES on the
25th received from the University Of Edin-
burgh the degree of LII. D. The title
was conferred in the presence of a most
distinguished company.
DESPITE the papal precepts the Moniteur
and other organs of the Vatican vigor-
ously support Mr.. Gladstone's scheme for
granting autonomy to Ireland, and eulo-
gize the British Premier.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR is said to show
IF tn
London. Conn. He is quite cheerful and
looks forward with much pleasure to pro-
fected fishing excursions.
IT is reasonable to suppose that the end
of this session of Congress is slowly but
surely approaching, but Senator Evarts'
promised grafton on the Silver question
has not yet been delivered.
THE President sent to Congress on the
21st fifteen veto messages. Thirteen OF
the vetoed measures are private pension
bills; the others provide for public build
ngs at Sioux City. Ia, and GAINESVILLE, 0.
ALBERT 81. SCoTT, chief of the accounts
and salaries division of the Post Office
Department, has completed the third an
nual adjustment of the salaries of the
presidential postmasters, to take effect on
the 1st prox.
A MEETING of thousand people was
held at Zurich, Switzerland, on the Dist
to protest against the Governments ac-
tion against strikers. A red flag was un-
furled at the meeting, but the police pre-
served order.
Mrs. ROSE MARK1HoFFER, of Brooklyn
N. Y, on the 23d, gave birth to baby boy
which had whiskers half an inch long or
each side of its face. 1t died three hours
after being born. Its death was due to
natural causes.
THE collections of internal revenue dur
ing the first eleven months of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1886, amount to $101,.
104 ,4S5, being an increase of S3 ,402 1893 oyeI
tie receipts for the corresponding period
of the previous year.
EIGHT companies of the Ninth Infantry
have been for several years stationed al
Fort Russell, Wy. T. They are now
ordered to Arizona, where General Mile:
is concentrating a force to crush the
Indians. Fort Russell will be garrisoned
by the Seventeenth infantry, from Dakota
CAPTAIN DOUGHTY of the Portland fish.
ing schooner Ella NJ. Doughty, which was
seized at Englishtown, Cape Breton, last
month, arrived in Halifax on the 22d from
the United States. He was on his way
back to Cape Breton to again take charge
of his vessel, bonds having been given by
her owners.
IT is said that Colonel Lamont intends
shortly to erect a residence near the Pres.
ident's country seat. Colonel Lamont
when asked about the matter, said: THAT
is rather premature. When 1 decide tt
build out there I'll let you know" That's
just like him.
THE dissatisfied car-drivers and car
conductors of New York and Brookly I
have been directed by General Master
Workman Powderly to formulate theil
grievances in writing for consideration by
the general executive board. Meantime 6
tie-up is not probable.
REV. CHARLES REILLY, D. D., treasurer
of the Irish National League of America
on the oath RENTED $50, 900 to Messrs S
Justin Mccarthy and Joseph G. Biggar
treasurers of the parliamentary fund
This makes in all some 5000 pounds, OIL
S225 600, sent by DIR. Reilly since the Bos
ton convention.
THE Sultan of Turkey has chosen tn,
choicest productions of Turkish industry
as wedding presents for President Cleve
land. and has dispatched them on spe