Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-29

groll County geg1ster
BY ELI D. AXE.
1RONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
OVER five thousand silver trade dollars
In the treasury at Buffalo, N. Y, were
sold on the 23d for 20 400 cents each.
A CIvIL-SERvIcE examination is to be
held in ST. Louis on the It'll of August for
assistant examiners in the patent Office.
A STATUE of Gladstone, to be erected on
College Green, Dublin, by the people of
Ireland, is suggested by the Ffeeman's
Journal.
The United Ireland urges the Irish peo-
pie to tender grand ovation to the Earl
of oerdeen on his departure from the
country.
STEPHEN BRoD1E, bootblack, twenty
three years of age, jumped from the Brook
lyn bridge into the East river ON the 23d,
and was fished out uninjured.
COOP rain fell on the 23d in Southwest
ern Kansas, covering a large area and in
GLIDING some districts which had not been
visited by the preceding showers
President CLEVELAND has received
from Prince Bismarck large photograph
of the German Chancellor, framed in oak
and bearing the Princes autograph.
THE remains of United States Consul
Rogers, who died at Vera Cruz five years
ago, are to disinterred on the 1st of Au-
gust and brought back to his home in
Nebraska.
THE House naval affairs committee has
decided to add as an amendment to the
Naval Establishment bill the provision for
the building of a dynamite gunboat to
cost $3.50, 600.
SENATOR ALLISON says that if a vote
can be reached upon the Oleomargarine
bill, the condition of business will be such
that Congress can adjourn without delay
the latter part of the month.
THE citizens of Waterford, Ireland, de-
mand the removal from the Council
chamber of the royal portraits and the
substitution therefor of a portrait of
General Thomas Francis Meagher.
THE sureties of Cashier Thomson of the
Provident Savings Bank, st. Louis, have
made proposition to settle the deficit,
and Receiver Thompson has filed petit
ton for instructions and advice from the
court.
JOE JEFFERSON, the veteran actor, and
his wife have just returned from a salmon
fishing trip to Canada, where they had the
finest of sport. Mr.. Jefferson is now rest
ing at his home on Saddle brook, Hobo
kus, N. J.
THE busin failures throughout the
country during the seven days ended the
23d, as reported by telegraph, number, for
the United States, 100, and for Canada,
"a, a total of 1874, as compared with total
of 1s3 the previous week.
1t was children's day at the White
House on the 10Th, and few of the callers
upon the President were accompanied by
less than two of their offspring, and one
fond mother introduced seven young hope.
fuls to the chief magistrate.
SIR MICHAEL HICKs-BEACH and other
members of the late Tory Cabinet will OPP
pose the admission of the Duke of Argyle
and Goschen into the new Cabinet, and
will urge that the Duke of Abercorn be
appointed Vicerey of ireland.
THE house committee on ways and
means on the Goth directed favorable re-
port to be made upon Mr.. Morrison's
resolution fixing the date of adjournm ent
at July 49, This by no means determines
the time of adjournment, however.
THE American Consul at Paso del Norte,
Mexico, has been instructed by Secretary
Bayard to demand the immediate and I'M
conditional release of A. K. Cutting, the
American editor imprisoned for publish
ing an attack on a Mexican citizen.
The Para Rubber Shoe Company at
South birmingham, Mass, posted notice
on the 23rd that dts factory would be
closed ON July 81. No limit to the shut
down is announced. During its continu-
ance, ], 100 hands will be thrown out of
employment.
WEST ELIZABETH, a mining town twenty
miles south of Pittsburgh, Pa, Is sorely
affecte with malarial fever. 1t broke out
four weeks ago, and ON the Goth there were
over sixty cases. Up to that date only
one death had occurred, but several were
in a serious condition.
ARGUMENT will be made at the meeting
of the Pennsylva nia Board of Pardons at
Harrisburg for a rehearing of the case of
Milton Weston, the Chicago capitalist,
now undergoing Imprisonment in the Riv-
erside penitentiary for completely in the
Murraysville gas-well riots.
COUNT IsNARDS has been sentenced at
Marseilles, France, to one months impris-
onment for violently opposing the police,
having often previously been convicted of
similar offenses- The other persons ar
rested in connection with the roy list riots
were sentenced to shorter terms.
A DISPATCH from Fort Bowie, A. T.,
states that the hostiles have sent wor d
that they desire to pariey with General
Miles. Orders have been sent to Lieuten-
ant Park to cease the pursuit of the In
dians until the result of the parley is as
certained. Geronimo is wounded.
THE Civil-Service Commission has is.
sued an order prohibiting the private Sec
rotary of an appointing or nominating
officer, or the officer who, in the absence of
an appointing or nominating officer, acts
in his place, from being either chairman
or secretary of board of examiners.
E. C. MONTGOMERY carried the head of