Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-26

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE Secretary of the Interior on the 18th
drew warrants on the Treasury Depart
ment for s. ,S52 $50 on accosnt of quarterly
payment of pensions.
SERIOUS riots have occurred at Nacas-
aki, Japan, between the Chinese and JAM
anese. Five Chinese were killed and one
hundred were wounded.
SECRETARY BAYARD asserts that the
situation concerning Mexico is of the
gravest character, and indicates that he
will stand firmly by his original demand.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND caught his first
fish on the 18th. 1t was a speckled trout,
weighing three-fourths of n pound. an I'M
usual weight for brook trout at this
season.
IN speech in the House of Commons,
on the Goth, Thomas Power O'Connor
maintained that Lord Randolph Church
ills speeches were the original cause of
the Belfast riots.
ELI WHITNEY BLAKE, inventor of the
Blake stone crusher, and a nephew of Eli
Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, died
at New Haven, Conn, on the 18th, aged
ninety-one years.
GENERAL BoULANGER, French Minister
of War, has been unable to legally sup
press the sale of his biography. Thou
sands of copies have been sent into the
provinces and the sales throughout the
country have been enormous.
THE opening session of the ninth annual
convention of the American Bar Associa-
ton was held at Saratoga, n. Y. on the
were present. Judge Poland, of Vermont,
called the convention to order.
The East Indian Government is invit-
ing tenders at Newcastle for transports
to be ready to proceed to Bombay and
Calcutta at the end of August. They are
to be used, it is presumed, to carry REIN
forcements of troops to Burmah.
THE London Times of the 21st gave
prominence in its columns to a letter sug-
costing the prosecution for treason on
their return to their homes of the Canadian
delegates and other British subjects who
figured in the Chicago convention.
IT is expected that the formal exchange
of the copies of the extradition treaty be-
tween the United States and Japan will
soon be announced from Toxic, and that
its PRONUNCIATION by the two governments
will take place Immediately thereafter.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended
August IA was $500, 427. The issue during
the corresponding period of last year was
$3.50, 461. The shipments of fractional sill
yer coin since August amounted to 1913, =
O29.
GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSON, govern
ment director of the Pacific railroads,
who left Omaha on the 18th on his annual
inspection tour over the Union and Central
Pacific railroads, is laid up at North
Platte, having been seriously Frustrated
by heat.
BY an order received at Omaha on the
10Th from the Postmaster General, the
w
has been abolished, to take effect Septem-
Der 1. The new division Will consist of
Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Dakota
and Nebraska.
THE Berlin North German Gazette states
that Prof. Brakenbush has made a large
F., annexation I'm South Patagonia on behalf
of Germany. The London Standard, COM
menting on this, says it thinks that Bis
marck will have to reckon with Chilli and
the Argentine Republic.
GRAHAM successfully navigated the
whirlpool rapids on the 10Th with his head
protruding from the barrel. James Scott,
a fisherman of Lewiston, attempted to
swim the whirlpool rapids the same day in
cork suit. His dead body was picked up
at Lewiston an hour later.
THE Chinese Times says, in relation to
Frances protest against the establish
ment of a papal nuncio at Pel1in: '''China
tolerates all religions, but she repudiates
French Interference with church affairs
beyond personal protection of missiona-
ries who are French citizens"
THE acting Secretary of the Treasury
has decided that the department has no
power to extend the privileges of the inn
mediate transportation act so as to allow
the forwarding to st. Paul of ar ticles i'm
ported at New York, destined fer the in
dustrial exposition at Minneapolis.
ORTIZ H. STEIN, the notorious journal
iistic adventurer, whose exploits in St.
Louis, Kansas City and Leadville have, at
different times, formed newspaper sto-
ries, was arres ted at San Jose, Cal, on the
18th on charge of obtaining money by false
pretenses from G. w. Ryder, jeweler.
The long-talked-of convention of the
Irish National League began its sessions
in Chicago on the 18th. Michae DaTitt
and the rest of the Irish contingent from
across the water occupied seats On the
platform, and Mr.. Davitt and Editor
.O'Brien of the Iisf World made brief
speeches.
AT Dungannon, ireland, on the 18th,
bands of Nationalist paraded the Pro-
testant quarter of ths'town shouting for
home rule and cursing the Queen. A riot
broke out and several persons were injured
the Protessants and the Catholics thus
spreventings desperate Sight.
GALVESTON has again been devastated d,
this time betx cen wind snd water, and
the scenes of 1915 have been repeated upon
an even more extended scale. Wreck and
ruin covers the~east end of the island, and
thousands of people have been rendered