Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-31


management of the W. c. T. u. is bein.
carried on in the colored churches a
Washington, D. G..
BRIGHAM YOUNG HAMPTON has bee,
found guilty, at Salt Lake, of conspirint
with lewd women to compromise promi.
nent anti Mormons.
GERMANY has notified Minister Pendle
ton that certain Germans who have be
come naturalized Americans will be ex
PEELED from the Empire.
THE London Standard says rascality
hourishes under the American tariff, anc
that all manufactures exported from the
United States are shoddy.
WHEN President Cleveland's appointe
presented his credentials at the Post-offic,
of Ripon, Wis, as Postmaster, he wa:
kicked out of the place by the old incum
bent.
BISHOP FREPEL, in the French Chamber
of Deputies on the 21st, denounced the
evacuation of Tonquin, saying it would
lead to the massacre of the Christians al
Anam.
A PROMISE has been made to the Sultar
will defend Turkish interests in th,
Balkans so long as they accord with those
of Europe.
MINISTER CURRY presented his creden.
tials to Queen Christina of Spain on the
22d, and discussed the subject of CONNER
cial relations between Spain and the
United States.
1od nd a
great many more were terribly injured by
an explosion IN a coal mine at Pont-y.
Pridd, Wales, on the 23d, in which $50 men
were at work.
EVA L. gibson, formerly Of Kirkdale
Mo-, and a daughter of Major Gibson, of
the Confederate army, died on board the
schooner E. G.. Irwin en- route from New
York to Norfolk, Va.
THE examination of John Magee and
wife, charged with sending threatening
letters to the Prince of Wales, resulted in
the acquittal of the woman and the COM
initial of her husband for trial.
IT is asserted pretty positively that GEN.
eral Horatio King, Jr., Judge Advocate
General of New York under Mr.. Cleve-
land and the present Governor, will be ap-
pointed Judge Acknowledgement Of the
army.
Mr.. Cox, the United States Minister at
Constantinople, has begun negotiations
with the Porte for a naturalization treaty,
by which the citizens of Turkey and the
United States will have equal rights in
both countries.
THE editors of La Rerista, newspaper
of Monterey, Mexico, have been ordered to
submit all matter referring to State affairs
to General Reyes for approval on pain of
having the paper suppressed and being
themselves expelled.
V1NcENNEs, IND, had a terrible vista
tion of fire on the 23d, several large business
buildings having been destroyed up to last
accounts and the fire still raging. Terre
Haute was appealed to for help and
promptly responded.
WITH the advance in the price of steel
rails a revival of the foreign steel-rail
trade is made possible. As an Indication
of this the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad has placed an order with for
eign firm for 10000 tons.
THE landlords of Ireland have adopted a
new move to checkmate the National
League. When asked to reduce rents they
innocently reply that if they make a re-
duction they will have to suspend all work
and discharge their men.
THE forty-two shoe factories at Brock
ton, Mass, which have been silent for so
hong time, opened their doors on the 22d
for work under the terms of the award
made by the board of arbitration between
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A MOB of masked strikers made a riotous
demonstration at the Old Eagle Mine near
Monongahela City, Pa, on the 23d. They
forced Superintendent Young into the
mine and made an attack on the houses &C.
cupied by their opponents, smashing things
generally.
THREE letter carriers were discharged
from the Omaha Post-office on the 22d up
on an order from Washington. A few
weeks ago they preferred charges against
Postmaster Contant, and the charges were
Investigated by Inspector Robinson, who
found them groundfess.
THE San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce has adopted resolutions that the
commercial and industrial interests of the
Pacific coast require the early completion
of the California & Oregon Railroad Line,
connecting the chief metropolis of the coast
with the Northern Pacific system of rail-
roads
THE Marquis Of Lorne, speaking of
Lieutenant Greely's Arctic expedition on
the 21st, said that sooner or later England
would reconquer the first honors in Arctic
discovery, but that England was as proud
of Greedy as if he were an Englishman and
had started from London on his polar ex-
petition.
Dr.. BRIDGES, State Veterinarian OF
inspected diseased herd
of cattle at West Willow on the I'D. Six
of the herd are infected with pleuro- pneu-
ponia and will probably have to be killed.
The doctor also inspe tied a herd at Mari
eta where the cattle were found to be suf-
eeripg from tuberculosis.