Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-24

Srn,l County gegister
By ELI d. AXE.
1RoNTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
CoNGRESSMEN HOLMAN, of Indiana, and
Hepburn, of Iowa, have been renom-
mated.
SIR ROBERT PEEL, hitherto Tory, will
be Gladstone candidate in the coming
English election.
IT is denied at Ottawa that orders re-
specting the enforcement of the fisheries
treaty have been Cancelled.
JUDGE HAWKINS has been confirmed,
and entered upon his duties as Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior on the 18th.
DIR. vow ScHELEIss, formerly King
Ludwig's physician, denies that the King
was insane, and maintains that he was &C.
centric only.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York vetoed the
act of the Legislature providing for cumu-
1ative voting in elections for the choice of
aldermen in New York.
GENERAL F. NJ. DRAKE, of Centerville,
Ia, has given Sc, 800 toward the establish
ment of a memorial professorship in Drake
University at Des Moines.
If the French Senate passes the Expul-
sion bill NJ. Waddington will resign the
Enthusiastically at London, and other
French ambassadors will do likewise.
IT is stated that Great Britain is not
fully satisfied with the Seizure of Ameri-
can vessels by Canadian authorities and
the matter is in fair way of amicable
settlement.
THERE was general strike of cooks and
walters in most of the large restaurants in
San Francisco on the 18th. Many restau-
rants were compelled to close, others ran
short-handed.
ADDITIONAL returns from the Nova
Scotia elections show that the government
will have the support of between twenty
eight and thirty members out of House
umbering thirty eight.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland held
their first official reception on the evening
of the 10Th. 1t was successful and bril-
liant affair, being one of the largest ever
given in the White House.
THE Brazilian Prince Leopoldo and the
officers of the Brazilian frigate Berosso
attended the Presidents reception at the
White House on the evening of the 18th,
and were the recipients of marked atten-
tion.
Mr. HEALY, speaking at the Land League
meeting in Dublin on the 10th, said ver-
diets of murder should have been rendered
against Chamberlain by the coroner's jul
ries sitting on the cases of the Belfast riot
victims.
A PARTY of French civil engineers, COM
prising a commission appointed to exam
inc the railway system of the United
States and Mexico, called at the White
House on the 18th and paid their respects
to the President.
A TELEGRAM from Saigon says: Two
French officers have been killed with pois-
oned arrows at Thankoa, and there have
been fresh massacres of Christians in
Anam. The rebels have burned some viii
lagos near Tourane.
The Greek Government has sent note
to Turkey complaining of the manner in
which she has permitted the Greek pris-
ouers in her custody to be treated, and re-
minding Turkey that such conduct can
not be easily forg often.
AS far as can be learned the Liberal To-
cal government, or secession party, in
Nova Scotia were successful at the cleo
lions on the 10Th by a large majority. The
supporters of the government claim TWEEN
ty-nine of the thirty EIGHT seats.
THE Orange Grand Lodge of Ireland has
issued manifesto protesting against "the
betrayal of the loyal minority of Ireland
at the bidding of Mr.. Gladstone and Mr..
Parnell in the interests of rebels, outrage
mongers and other violators of the laws"
APPALLING mortality is reported among
the British troops at Assouan. One hun
dred and six men of the Dorset regiment
have died within the past two months.
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