Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04

gro,l County &e9ister
BY ELI d. AXE.
1RONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
i Summary Of Important Events.
THE remains of the late Congressman
Rankin were inferred at Manitowoc, Wis,
on the 18th.
THE failures in the United States during
the seven days ended the Goth were 337;
for the year to date, 1854.
THE Secretary of the Treasury on the
s9tb issued call for $4,000, 600 three per
cent. bonds, to mature March next.
JUDGE BUcKNER has been Endorsed by
the Missouri Congressman to succeed Mr..
Cannon as Comptroller of the Currency.
A RUMoE is current at Constantinople
that skirmish has taken place between
Greeks and Turks on the frontier of Epi-
rus.
LORD SALISBURY has instructed Admiral
Hay, the commander of the English Medi-
terranean squadron to employ force
against the Greeks whenever they attack
the Turks.
THE total number of immigrants arriv-
ing in the United Sta ties during the twelve
months ended December 81, 1885, was $685.
All, against 403.230 for the year ending
December 81, 1884.
A cABLEGRAM received on the 2Sth an
nounced the death of United States Consul
Albert NJ. Lybrook at Algiers on that date,
OF consumption. Lybrook's appointment
was confirmed just one week previous.
MURAT HALsTEAD, editor of the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette, and Joseph J..
Mcdowell, business manager of the En-
tguirer, were arrested on the 10Th on a
charge of publishing lottery advertise
ments.
GENERAL J. B. Fry reiterates his state
ment that General Sherman had said that
"'had c. F. Smith lived, Grant would have
disappeared to history after Donelson,''
and produces a letter containing the ex-
preston.
A POLITICAL article in the Fortnightly
Reuie,o advocates a frank concert of the
Wings with the Nationalists, and in case
of failure OF negotiations with Parnell
they should try to deal with the Home
Rulers through Healy.
IT is stated on the authority of Hon. J..
A. Chapleau, Canadian Secretary of State,
that an amnesty will be extended to all the
political prisoners now undergoing sem
tence in the Northwest. This does not,
however, include the Indians.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week ended January
% was $205, AL. The issue for the CORE
spending period last year was $120, 1896
The shipments of fractional silver coin
from January 1 amount to S151 400.
THE House committee on military af
fairs on the 9th directed Mr.. Wheeler to
report favorably his bill to authorize the
President to restore officers of the army in
certain cases. 1t is said that this bill will
cover the General Fitz John Porter case.
THE House Committee on Indian Affairs
on the Goth authorized the chairman to ap-
point a subcommittee to investigate all
claims for Indian depredations. These
claims will be thoroughly sifted, and such
as are found meritorious will be inco
porated into one general bill.
CoMPTRoLLER DURHAM has just finished
an examination of the accounts of the
Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims for the five months from April to
August, 1855, inclusive. He has disallowed
of these accounts $22 $50, because the pay
ments were net authorized by law.
THE President went to Baltimore on the
evening of the 18th to attend the charity
ball. He was accompanied by Senator and
Mrs. German. Miss Endicott, Miss Villas,
Colonel Cassidy, Colonel and Mrs. Lamont
and Colonel and Mrs. Wilson. The party
returned to Washington the same night.
A MILWAUKEE jury on the Goth awarded
Mrs. Anna Schwemmer 5000 DANA ges
against Mrs. Pauline Knight and Freder-
lex Kurth. The testimony showed that on
March 10, 1885, the defendants maliciously
persuaded Mrs. Schwemmer to drink bit
tiers which had been mixed with croton
oil.
ADvICEs from a number of points in
Ulster, Greene and Duchess Counties, n.
Y, on the Goth were to the effect that
shocks of earthquake were felt on the night
of the oath and the morning of the a5th
In some places they We're very light, in
others somewhat severe, making dishes
rattle.
THE total value of the exports of mer
chandise for the twelve months ended De-
cember 81, 1885, was 1888 ,S46, $50, and for
the twelve months ended December 81,
1884, $I49, 1866, 42S, decrease of $50 ,519, $50.
The value of the imports of merchandise
for 1885 was $jS7 DOL 500, and for 1884,
$629, 261, $50, a decrease of $41, 710,354.
JOHN L. GIDEON, clerk in the general
ticket Office of the Burlington & Missouri
railroad, at Omaha, was arrested on the
18th charged with altering and forging
railroad tickets and disposing of them to
brokers. 1t is alleged that Gideon is one
of a ring of bogus ticket operators, the
amount of whose frauds is yet unknown.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has noti-
fed the Secretary of State that the rumor
that CHAMBERS and farey prevail anon @