Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-04

AnE orASure lEuS.) MID erS nave emu
ed their strike by accepting reduction o
wages.
The remains of ex- President Theirs ane
Leon Gambetta are to be transferred t.
the Pantheon.
Rev. MEssRs. HASTINGS AND DAvI:
were fined $50 and costs for preaching Oh
Boston Common.
THE report circulated on the 9th tina
cholera had appeared in Quebec is en-
phatically denied.
Hon. W. F. DAVIS and II. T. Hasting
have been arrested at Boston for preach
ing on the common.
GENERAL MIDDLETON has officially re-
ported his capture of Poundmaker to thu
Dominion Government.
FOUR crypts have been added to tn
Congressional library at Washington, bu
more space is yet needed.
THE General Council of the Reformed
Episcopal Church began its annual ses
sion at Peoria, ILL, on the 9th.
The Anglo German Fiji Commission ha
agreed that Germany shall not establish
penal colonies in the Southern Pacific.
GENERAL BOOTH of the Salvation Army
has ordered a brigade to prepare for serv.
ice among the Indians in the Northwest
THE wool growers concluded their CON
vention in st. Louis with a set of resolu
tions demanding a restoration of the wool
duty.
THE Cabinet at Washington has decided
that a continuance of the Government ex.
hibits at New Orleans is unlawful and in
expedient.
In the French Chamber of Dep uties, by
a vote of 3SS to TO- the Government was
Endorsed for its action concerning the re.
cent riots.
THE Japanese Government has confer
red the order of the "RisiDg Sun" upor
five Americans for services in the Toxic
University.
IT is semi officially announced at Paris
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
and England.
PosfMAsTER-GENERAL Villas has sus.
aries of Postmasters of the third and
fourth classes.
A PROTEST reached Washington on the
9th against the appointment Of NJ h
Phelan, of st. Louis, Mo-, as United States
Consul to Halifax.
The New York Grand Jury returned q
presentment agains the Board of Health
for inexcusable delay in suppressing null
sances in tenement houses.
DAMAGE suits amounting to 500. 600
have been brought against the operators
of the Cuyler Colliery, Pottsville, Pa, on
account of the recent disaster.
The Texas Land Board has inaugurated
a vigorous war on the cattle syndicates
who are using land unlawfully.
ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, the Presidents
sister, has written an exceedingly caus-
tic letter in reply to recent utterances OF
Rev. Howard Crosby on total abstinence.
JAMES EARLY, of Vicksburg, Miss, tells
q story that corroborates recent state
ments of others concerning the suffering
and ill treatment of laborers in Guate-
mala.
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THE workingmen of Quebec, in a meet
ing on the 25th, passed resolution re-
questing the Government to prohibit the
importation of Chinese labor in the Do
minion.
AGGREGATE collections of internal rev.
enue for the first ten months of the fiscal
year ending June 30th were 500, 164, All, a
decrease from the corresponding period
last year of $7,037, $50.
CAPTAIN ALFRED AWKWARD, now in New
York, pronounces the recent sensational
story from London, in which he was said
to be the real instigator of the Riel rebel
lion, absolutely untrue.
THE recent arrest of the American Con-
sui at Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil, was for
chastising an editor who grossly Ibeled
him. He was highly complimented by
the people for his manly conduct.
THE bill to make ten hours a days
work has passed both houses of the Michi-
gan Legislature. The measure does not
apply to farm labor, but to all other kinds,
and is mainly directed toward workmen
in the lumber region.
A PROPOSITION to allow the Government
exhibits to remain at New Orleans after
the 31st inst. was considered by the Presi-
dent and Cabinet on the Goth. The
weight of opinion seems to be that the
law will not allow it.
SMALLPOX is raging in Shenandoah,
Page County, Ia, and special police are
out guarding the houses infested. Nine
teen houses have thus been quarantine
The Mayor and the President of the Board
of Health have the disease.
In view Of the alleged prevalence of
yellow fever in the northern Mexican
States the Secretary of the Treasury has
been requested to reappoint the sanitary
inspectors on the border line of Arizona
He will probably comply with the request.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA has broken out
among the cattle in various parts of
Pennsylvania, and fears that it will be-
come widespread are felt. There is danger
also that the outbreak of ro-pneumonia
in Newcastle County, Delaware, may
spread to Pennsylvania. Several herds Of
cattle in Delaware are now affected.
AN amusing incident occurred a few
days ago in st. Louis. Among the Wis
itors to the panorama of the Siege of
Paris, recently opened on Washington
avenue, there CHANGED to meet Prussian
and a Frenchman, both Of whom had par
ticipated in the memorable siege. The
pair quietly admired the beauties of the
wonderful painting for some time, when
a casual remark by the Prus-
sian relative to some incident
of the siege ELECTED retort from the
In moment the seige was
;r v,y-ooreas again. and the air was fillad