Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03

1hAAE MINISTER ERR1 says the
French Government will submit plans fol
the revision of the Constitution in May.
On the 9th General Graham again
dispersed the rebels at Tamanieb, and now
considers his campaign at an end.
The lroquois Club, of Chicago, has
extended an invitation to the Democratic
members Of the House of Representatives
to seats at a banquet to be held in Chicago
at the Palmer House, April Is.
TIE newspapers of Berlin assert that
| Mr.. Sargent has declined to accept the ap
pointment as Minister at st. Petersburg
They say he intends to retire from diplo
matte service and return to the United
States, with the expectation of re-entering
the Senate.
On the morning of the 2Sth Prince
Leopold, youngest son of Queen Victoria
died at Cannes, France. He was in his
| thirty-second year.
THE Archduchess Marie Valerie,
daughter of the Emperor Francis Joseph
| of Austria, is afianced to Archduke
Charles Louis, brother of the Emperor.
The Directors of the Western Union
| Telegraph Company at meeting in New
York, on the 18th, passed resolutions of sym
| pathy with the family of the late Augustus
| Schell, who W as one of the company's direc-
tors.
In an address in New York, the
night of the 18th, Rabbi Browne replied
to DIR. j. P. Newman's recent sermon on
foreigners as citizens. The Rabbi stated
that the Jews of New York paid one.
quarter of the $4,000 900 of the annual
taxes raised in the city. They
were in other respects model citizens.
KING JOHN of Abyssinia will receive
Admiral Hewitt and other members of the
English Mission. The King has $4,000 war
riors around him.
THE friendly Sheiks in the Soudan
believe that Osman Digna will now confine
his efforts to robbing caravans.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 25th twenty-five cars o. the
New Jersey Central Railway line were
wrecked, completely blocking the road.
A SEAMAN named John Mcpherson,
on the steamer Thetis, of the Greedy relief
expedition, was drugged and robbed few
nights ago in New York dive.
The popular dissatisfaction over the
verdict in the case of Berner, one of tine
murderers of Kirk in Cincinnati, culmi-
mated on the night of the 18th, in an attempt
to execute mob law on the culprit. The lat
ter had been secretly removed immediat Fly
after sentence. mob of from ten to fif-
teen thousand persons attacked the Jail
and were fired upon by State troops sta
toned therein and a number were wound
ed, some mortally. Berner escaped from
the officers who were taking him to pris-
on.
On the 18th Cincinnati juror was
fined $50 for Offering to procure a verdict
for one of the parties to a suit for a small
consideration.
On the 2sth a building in process of
demolition in Cincinnati suddenly fell,
burying half dozen workmen. Four were
taken out badly hurt and one was miss
ing.
JUD CROUCH and d. S. Holcomb have
been held for trial for the murder of the
Crouch family at Jackson, Mich.
nIIsCELLANEOUs.
THE well-known seaside resort in
Maine, Point of Pines, was sold OH the 25th
under a mortgage, and purchased for the
bondholders for S13) ,O00--less than half the
original cost.
On the 18th transaction was con-
summated at Colera, Ala, involving the i'll
vestment of $l,0O0,OO) capital by Michi-
gan company in an iron furnace and agri-
cultural implement mandatory.
THREE HUNDRED Arabs have joined
the British. bnt the Sheiks stav aIoof.
A NEW bill to prevent the sale of
oleomargarine as butter has been passed
by the New York Legislature.
On the 26th troops were called out
ers at Pesth.
A CLEARINGHOUSE was raided in
Paris on the :6th and twenty-six ladies
were caught playing baccarat.
The Pennsylvania Railroad officers
have promised liberal cooperation with
Southern railroads next year in assisting
transportation to and from the Worlds
Exposition at New Orleans.
ADDITIONAL reports of damage to
life and property by the recent tornadoes
continue to come in from Ohio, Kentucky
and South Carolina.
On the Goth dam connected with
the water works of Newport, r. l., gave
way, and the water swept over Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe's estate, causing considerable
damage.
On the Goth. among the resolutions
adopted by the Inventors Convention at
Cincinnati, was one declaring that the
Patent Office should be made a department
with Cabinet officer in charge.
REPORTS of numerous murders of
Christians by Moslems and of Moslems by
Christians come from various parts of
Crete.
On the Goth the ice broke up at St.
Paul, Mimi, leaving the river clear for tie
first time in many years at that date.
ADvIcEs from TonGuin state that
Prince of the royal family of AMMAN has
been convicted of promoting the massacre
of Christians and has been banged.
On the 2Gth the President sent mes
sage to Congress recommending appropri-
ations for the reconstruction of the navy.
The authorities have released the sis
ter of Degareff, leader OF the party which
assassinated Colonel Sudeikin, the Russian
Chief of Police, who was arrested some
lor-