Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-27

1RONTON, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
NJ. TRIcoUPIs has undertaken to form a
new Greek ministry.
SECRETARY MANNING was out riding on
the 18th with Mrs. Manning and looked
much improved.
EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR is growing
steadily worse, notwithstanding his occa-
sional better turns.
SENATOR LOGAN has introduced a new
arbitration bill as substitute for the one
recently passed by the House.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR, for the first
time in seven weeks, went to drive in Gen.
trail Park on the 18th. 1t is said he felt
no ill effects from his outing.
MINISTER Cox on the 10Th presented the
Sultan of Turkey number of gifts sent
by President Cleveland, among them
COplcS VI luo ldSU CeHSuS IepOi
THE American fishing schooner, Ella NJ.
Doughty, has beer seized by Nova Scotian
authorities at Cape Breton for alleged in
fraction of the Canadian fishery laws.
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WARD & PAYNE, one of the largest firms
of edge-tool makers at Sheffield, England,
threaten to employ German workmen if
their employees refuse to submit to a reduc-
ton in wages.
A REPORT of the Goth announced that
fighting had occurred at three different
points between the Greeks and Turks on
the frontier, the Turks in each case being
the aggressors.
SPEAKER CARLISLE says if the House
should attempt to consider all the special
orders it has already made and pass the
appropriation bills besides, it would be in
session until next November.
COLONEL WARING, NJ. p. for County
Down, Ireland, has written letter urging
Obstetrics to organize and prepare to re-
sist home rule. "For Gods sake" he says
'let US have deeds, not words"
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THE collector of customs at Sitka, Alas
ka, has been notified that the practice
adopted by him of issuing permits to i'm
port liquors into Alaska for medicinal
purposes is inconsistent with existing reg
ulations.
A MORMON meeting was broken up by,
indignant citizens near Fayette City, Pa,
on the evening of the Goth, and the seven
missionaries engaged in the services w ere
roughly handled, clubs, stones and other
missiles being used.
THE Government of Switzerland is TAX
ing active measures to put an end, in tn at
country, to the propagation of the Nor
mon church. Numerous arrests of Nor
mon missionaries have been made, and it
is probable that more will follow.
ALDERMAN JAEHNE, the convicted New
York "boo dler," was sentenced by Judge
Barrett on the Goth to nine years and ten
months in Sing Sing prison. A motion in
arrest of judgment was overruled, and
Jaehne was taken to prison the same even
ing.
CAPTAIN KEYS and Lieutenant Ward
have been arrested by General Miles for
dilatoriness in proceeding to the assist
ance of Captain Lebo during the latter's
recent engagement with the hostiles.
They have been taken to Fort Grant and
their command turned over to Captain
Lebo.
EXCITEMENT has been caused in shipping
circles at the East over the announcement
that the schooner Augusta Herrick, which
left for the Bay of Fundy recently on a
fishing cruise, was armed with two 36-inch
yacht guns and good supply of ammuni-
ton, with which it was intended to defend
her from interference.
THE Secretary of the Navy has placed
the United States steamer Dispatch, which
arrived at Washington on the 18th, at the
service of the Senate and House commit
tee on Indian affairs, who desire to in
spect the school at Hampton, Va. The
party intended to sail from Washington
on the evening of the Goth.
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THERE was rumor current on the 21St
that the Ella Maud, one of the vessels
owned by Lewis, Chase & Whiten, of
Portland, Me-, had been seized for ship
ping two men in one of the colonial ports.
The firm had heard nothing from the Cap
tain. They say that if he shipped men he
went beyond his instructions.
For some time past a group of German
Anarchists have been holding meetings in
Cleveland, O., and calling on persons of
their stripe to arm with guns and bombs.
Mayor G. w. Gardner issued a proclama-
ton on the 18th forbidding such meetings.
The police will dispense all such crowds
hereafter and arrest the leaders if neces-
sary.
IT has just been made public that dis
crepancies amounting to $4,000 were
found in the accounts of John r. Smith !,
who for nineteen years was treasurer of
the Board of Domestic Missions of the Re-
formed Church of the United States. This
led to his retirement last June. Officers
of the board consider themselves secure
against ultimate loss and will not prose-
cute.
THE grand jury at Belleville, ILL.,, re-
fused to indict the special deputy sheriffs
engaged in the Cahokia bridge massacre,
and they were accordingly turned loose
on the 10th and departed for their homes.
Considerable indignation was expressed
by the laboring element at the outcome,
while on the other hand the more conserv-
ative commend the action of the grand
jury.
GOVERNOR Robe, of Maine, in an int ter
view on the 21st, said that to his mind the
seizures of American schooners was a
blunder on the part of the Canadian Gov
eminent, an outrage upon our flag and a
gross insult to the fishermen and owners.
The sentiment of Maine was that the Ma
tional Government should protect our
property when in Can adian waters as il