Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-29

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BY Ell .: AXIS !
RoNToN. MISSOURI. |
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE United States consular service
pays its own way and turns over small
surplus to the Treasury.
THE United States Supreme Court
decides that the Alabama and Florida Kali
road is subject to taxation.
THE Canadians are having consider
able trouble to take care of destitute immi-
grants arriving from Ireland. = = :
THE issue of standard silver dollars
for the week ending the 10Th amounted to
$3.50 900, against $94O, 600 for the same time
last year. -,
COLONEL A. K. MCCLURE, of the.
Philadelphia Times, has been arrested on
a charge of criminal libel at the instance OF
George Smith.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ending the 10th in the United States and
Canada aggregated 2S5, against 2l5 for the
previous week. -
MARQUIS TsENG said on the 18th that
during the preceding few days the sltua-
ton between France and China had become
exceedingly critical. ls.,,. 80. --r..z,,
The Austrian Minister promises to
try and secure the electrical display of the
late Vienna Exposition for the New OrleHns
Exhibition next year. =
ARECEPTION was given Mons1gnor
Capel on the 10th by the Catholics of Phil
adelphia, PA. His leave Of absence has
been extended six months. :,
JUDGE CHARLES A. WNsLOw, One'of
the Commissioners Of the Missouri Supreme
Court, died in Jefferson City on the 18th,
of consumption, aged forty-six years.
DIR. ALBERT GEHoN, of Washington,
D. c., has been elected President OF the
Public HealtfrI Association. The next an
uual meeting is to be held in st. Louis, Mo.
=. EDwARIs GIBSON, member Of Parlla-
meut for dublin University, is proposed as
candidate ufor. the Rectorship of st. An
dresvs' University in opposition to Minis
ter James Russell Lowell. -
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JACOB NELLING, the murderer OF
Ada Atkinson, at Atkinson, Ind, Septem
Der "a, was taken from the jail at Fowler
IND. by a party of masked men on the
night of the 18th and hanged.
The Spanish Minister of War insists
On a constitutional revision securing uni
versal suffrage, and refused the Sagasts
COMPROMISE, to which the other Cabine
officers are willing to accede. So }':i '.''
The British steamship Condor foun
dered during a violent storm on the 18th OF
the coast of Holland. While she was sink
ing the boilers exploded. Eighteen 1--we
were lost. The steamer Hymethus ais
went down in the same storm.
STRIKING miners at Norway, Mich.
are reported behaving in riotous manner
On the 18th they attacked the Superinteno
ent of one of the mines and beat him out
rageously. 1t was thought the militia woul
have to be called out to settle the trouble.
THE Rickert family-father mothe
and ten-year-old boy, are in the clutches G
the law at st. Louis, Mo-, charged wit
couuterfeiting. Detectives visited thel
residence on the 18th and found a consider
able quantity of counterfeit coin, and m'
terial and tools for making 1t. i'
A BERLIN dispatch of the 18th says
-~The warmth of the Crown Princes recel
ton in Genoa has given much gratificatro
here. The presence at Genoa of Russia
Admiral with two Russian corvettes was
garded of a special mark of the Gar
friendship and of having political slgni
cance."
THE Secretary of War in his est
mates. which have been submitted to I'll
Treasury Department, recommends the a
preparation Of $1,000, 900 to be expended {
river and harbor improvements during d
coming fiscal year. This is only $2S,0Oop
less than the engineers estimates of VIII
could be profitably spent during the ye
ON the works now in progress.
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SECRETARY Teller has rendered Z
Important decision in reply to question
the Commissioner of Pensions asking fpI
proper and uniform construction OF the
vised Statutes concerning pensions to 9
pendent mothers. The Secretary maintai
that if a SON was a minor the father "
entitled to his services, or if not living I
mother was so entitled, and therefore
pendent .fathSa OF mother should be allow
pension..,sv 90 - -
CoMMANpEk W1LpEs, of the Yant
testified. before the Court of Inquiry /
the 10th that aside from the wooden shea
i ing the Yantic was. equipped for pc
voyage the same as she would have Dc
for a trip to the West Indies. The fail'
of the expedition witness thought due
the following causes;I Manning 5ne -
.teus with an inefficient captain and crew
s.beach oombersn and ':long shoremen"s
neglect OF. those by whoseorders the ex
idition was fitted out to acquaint themsel