Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-17

AFFAIRS ,h Cuba are verging on anarchy,
owing to the heavy taxation and reduced
prices of sugar products.
The Legislature of Nova Scotia has ex.
tended the franchise in the municipal cleo
tions to unmarried women.
The forces under Aguero, the flibuster,
have compelled several bodies of Cuban
troops to retire. and there is great excite
ment in Havana.
A DUTCH feet is blockading the Achenese
coast to compel the release of the ships
crew captured some time ago.
The Governments of France, Italy, Ger
many, England and the United States,
have demanded large sums from Hayti for
damages sustained by their citizens during
the riots. -sae-as-.-.--ee.-==~
|. RETURNS of the Department of Agricul-
ture indicate that the winter wheat area
this year will exceed that of 1880 by 2,O00,-
600 acres. r.
The employees of the Toledo, Cincinnati
& st. Louis Road, with the exception of
conductors and engineers, have struck be-.
cause of unpaid wages.
| THE Usage Indian delegation now in
Washington have persuaded the Secretary
of the Interior to recommend that their
tribe be excepted from the bill to allot In
dian lands in severalty.
On the 10 the Senate in executive ses-
sion, passed a resolution authorizing the
President to recognize the International
Association as the ruling power in the
Congo region.
On the evening of the 9th, two brothers
in-law at Niagara Falls went over to Goat
Island and thence below to Luna Island.
One has been found shot through the head,
and the other is supposed to have jumped
in the river and went over the falls.
SMALLPOX is reported as epidemic in
Ballard County, KY.
On the 9th three hundred and eighteen
Mormon emigrants left Liverpool on the
steamship Nevada.
COAL mining in the anthracite region is
to be suspened this week.
THE Grand Jury at Buffalo, N. Y, are in.
vestigating the gamblers.
OUR Michigan neighbors expect good
apple crop, but only half crop of peac hes,
this year.
RECENT heavy rains and waterspouts
caused bad washouts along the Southern
Pacific Railroad in California.
AT Berber the situation grows more men.
acing and the rebels tire aten to lay siege
to the place.
A COMBINATION has been formed OF seven
teen stove manufacturers to control prices
and production.
By reason of coal-heavers' strike Har-
per's Rolling Mill at Newport, KY, has
been forced to shut down.
DURING the seven days ending the 11th
there were IT'S business failures in the
United States and thirty-nine in Canada
AT st. GATHERINGS, Canada, bloody riot
occurred on the 18th between Irish and
Italian railroad laborers.
Four members of the Chinese Privy
Council have been degraded by the EN-
press for the lax manner in which they
have dealt with the Tonquin troubles.
THE circulation of a Geneva Anarchist
journal has been prohibited by the French
Government.
On the 18th, Two dynamiters with stock
of explosives were seized by the Birming.
ham tEngland) police.
IT is thought, a clew has been obtained
which will probably lead to the arrest of
the miscreant who caused the fatal wreck
on the Pan Handle Road.
THE postal revenue, the Third Assistant
Postmaster-Generale estimates, will be ST.
246,s GAG less than last year.
THE markets of Cuba are in state of
panic. Bandits are rowing about the
country, and large bodies of troops are
gathered about Havana. The disquiet is
heightened by rumors that the Government
has effected another large loan at ruin
Gus rate of interest.
On the 18th upwards of 1,00), 900 feet of
logs were released by the breakup of the
ice in the Penobscot River at Bangor, Me.
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