Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-29

WdFu fafker Deacon mad been pardOned
by President Carnot, the pardon to be
made public. among others, on the 22d,
the one hundredth anniversary of the
proclamation of the First French re-
public.
QUARTERMAsTER-GEN TAYLOR Of
the G. A. Z. reported to the national
encampment, on the 21st: Receipts
for the year, s35, 96O.77; expenditures,
$50, PIG. 1G; balance on hand. $7,54s. 20.
Assets including United States bonds
and supplies. 500, 1885. The Grant
monument fund amounts to 81, TITS. 81,
of which $226. 10 was received since the
last encampment.
ACCORDING to the report of Inspector
General John f. Pratt of the G. A. r..
the total number of posts now in ex-
istence is 1868; total number of post
| members in good standing, 391, 500;
| number of muskets owned by posts,
80, 05S; number of posts having relief
funds, 2,0O>; total amount of relief
funds, s476, sos; total amount expended
for relief, s310,44s: total amount of post
funds in hands of quartermasters, $3.50,
$40; total amount of property other than
| in quartermaster and relief funds owned
by posts, 81, 342, 1873; total members in
good standing, 4O7. ISL
THE Woman's Relief corps conven-
ton met in Washington on the ED.
The report of President Sanders showed
| that during the year 81, 314 had been
| turned over to the posts; cash for re-
lief, sS1, 463: relief other than money,
1891. Balance in the relief fund of
| corps, ST, BIT; general fund, 1922, 535 81.
The assets showed decrease, since the
| date of last report, of nearly SO per
cent.
THE executive committee of the Co
lumbar exposition issued a prospectus,
on the 22d, announcing that subscrip-
ton books would be open from October
10 to October Is for 81, 900, 900 of the
| registered debenture bonds of the
Worlds Columbian exposition. The
bonds will bear per cent. interest and
will be dated November 1, 1892, pay
able on or before January /, 1894.
AS THE Rock Island passenger and
mail train No. 4, from the west, was ap-
preaching the side track at Farnum.
Ia, a little before a. M. on the 22d it
crashed into a heavily-loaded freight
pulling from the main line onto the
side track. The engine was struck
square in the center fairly splintering
eight freight cars.
On the ed Secretary Foster ordered
DIR. Hamilton to turn Camp Low, N. j.,
over to DIR. Sawtelle and return to his
station at Chicago, via Washington.
THE National Association of ex-Army
and Navy Chaplains was organized in
Washington on the ed.
ExGov. GRAY. of Indiana, paid visit
to ex-President Cleveland at Buzzard' S
Bay, Mass, on the 21st.
WINsLOw WILKES broke the track
record at indianapolis, ON the ed, by
pacing mile in s:11A.
MARION HEDGEPETH, the leader of the
Glendale (Mo) train robbers, for par
ticipation in which Adelbert Slye is
now serving a twenty-year sentence,
has about concluded to withdraw his
plea of not guilty and take a twenty
year sentence rather than allow his
mother to sacrifice her property in a
hopeless effort for his defense.
THE Richmond (Me.) savings bank
suspended, on the Esd. because of large
withdrawalsoof deposits, owing to the
bank passing it's July dividend on &C
count of depreciation in the value
of its assets.
THE marchioness of Abergavenny
died in London on the esd. She was a
daughter of Sir Harcourt John John
stone, of Hackness Hall, Yorkshire, En-
gland, and sister of the first Lord Der
went
SAMUEL NJ. CLEMENT, president of
the Marine bank, of Buffalo, n. Y,
was stricken with paralysis, on the esd,
and the result will probably be fatal.
BICYCLIsTs from all nations have been
invited to compete in the long-distance
race between Vienna and Trieste, via
Grasse. The route is 40 miles long.
THE government of Guatemala has
issued a decree closing absolutely all
Atlantic ports of that country as a
quarantine against cholera.
GEN. JOHN Pope, of st. Louis, died at
the soldiers home in Sandusl1y, o., on
the night of the 23d. aged 80. He was
born in Kaskaskia, ILL.,, in 1928.