Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-18

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BY ELI d. AXE.
1RoNTON MISSOURI
NEWS. AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
FLORIDA editors announce positively tina
the orange crop has not been ruined by tn
cold.
STEPHEN A. WALKER has been appoint
ed United States District Attorney for tn
Southern district of New York to success
Mr.. Dorsheimer.
NEWS has been received at Kingston
Ont, of the killing of six of the mounted
police near Regina, N. W. T., and that I
rebellion is likely to occur in the spring.
Z In the French Chamber of Deputies o.
the 18th, NJ. Basley, the workingman depu
ty, made a violent speech in defense of tn
striking miners who trampled NJ. Watrail
to death.
A cABLEGRAM received at New York BY
Archbishop Corrigan on the 10th announc
ed that Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore
will be created cardinal at the coming
consistory.
THE Marquis of Lorne has accepted thu
position of honorary commissioner fol
Canada at the coming colonial exhibition
and also the presidency of the Canadian
commission.
COLONEL HARBINGER has been exoner'
ated by the French military court from al
blame in connection with the disaster te
the French troops at Lang Son during the
Tonquin war.
IT is announced at Cannes that Ear
Cairns, formerly Lord Garmoyle, and the
defendant in the Fortesque breach OF
promise case, is engaged to Miss Grant
an American lady.
THERE were 275 failures in the United
States and Canada reported during the
seven days ended the 18th, as compared
with $50 for the week before and 2S7 for the
week previous to the last.
THE number of hogs handled by Western
packers during the week ended the 9th was
265,OOo, against 235, 900 for the same period
last year. The total to date since Novem-
Der 1 is 5,795 900, against $3.50, 900 last year
THE United States Treasurer has pre-
pared statement showing that the
July 81, last, was $39, 2S4 ,433; December
81, $50, al, 571; February 10, 1886, Sol, 751,-
%.
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MICHAEL DAvITT, in a speech in Wales
on the 18th, said that unless home rule
was granted for Ireland, Parnell would
retaliate by presenting in Parliament thir-
ty bills dealing solely with England, Wales
and Scotland.
THE matter of the charges against Jud ge
White, ex-member of Congress from the
Twenty fifth Pennsylvania district, came
up before Judge William of Tioga County,
on the 18th, and Judge White was honor
ably acquitted.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has par
doned Joseph Bosk, ex-city treasurer of
Buffalo, who embezzled over 500, 900, on
the ground that his testimony in the case
against Lyon, entities him to clemency, he
having already served considerable por-
ton of his term.
THE President gave q state dinner the
night of the 18th in honor of the Supreme
Court of the United States and the mem
bers of the Senate and House judiciary
committees. The executive mansion was
handsomely Illuminated and artistically
arranged for the occasion.
AFTER quite long illness, General w.
r cd fho I, OF tho
of his daughter in Chicago. General Row
ley became widely known on account of
his position as secretary to General Grant
with the rank of Brigadier-Generald during
the last years of the war.
A MAN giving his name as John Coke
ley, formerly an employee at Roach's ship
yard, and apparently perfectly sane, went
to the county prison at Allentown, Pa, on
the 18th, and confessed that he murdered
John Sharpless. the Quaker farmer, near
Chester, November % last.
: SAMUEL j. TILDEN was seventy two
years old on the 9th. His birthday ound
him in excellent health. He spent the day
much as he spends almost every day. 1t
is his custom to pass the morning hours in
his library reading newspapers and after
ward to turn to his books.
UNDER the pretext of searching. Greek
vessels in the harbor of Constantinople
for munitions of war, the Turks have
insulted the Greek flag. 1t is feared tn at
the act may be accepted in Athens as
Intentional and that it will aggravate tn Q
seriousness of the situation.
THE President desired to attend the fu-
neral of General Hancock, but found that
it would be impossible for him to do so. It
was arranged for the Cabinet to be repre-
sented by Secretary Bayard, Secretary
Endicott and possibly one or two others,
together with detail of naval officers.
THE Tammany general committee on the
18th elected John Kelly chairman of the
finance committee. Resolutions were
adopted regretting the death of General
Hancock and recognizing the illustrious
services which he had rendered the coun-
try. A committee was appointed to attend
the funeral.
THE climax in the winter carnival season
at st. Paul was reached on the night of
the 10Th in the final storming of the ice
castle by the Grand Army. Over 5000
uniformed men were in line bearing
torches. They paraded and illuminated
the street and finally invested and stormed
the castle. The display of pyrotechnics
was very grand.
1T rained heavily at New York and
along the Atlantic coast all day on the
11th. Advices from various points indi-
Gated danger of floods. Some of the
lower streets in Baltimore were under
water. At Port Deposit, Nd, the ice gorge