Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

JUSTIN mCCARTHY, the historian, has
been returned to the British Parliament.
A STEAMER Of the Allan Line has been
quarantined at Greenock, Scotland, with
smallpox on board.
A COUPLE of colored ministers have sued
Baltimore ferry company for denying
them their rights under the civil rights
act.
HON. GEORGE OTTo TREvELYAN, who
was Chief Secretary for Ireland under Mr..
Gladstone, has been elected to Parliament.
WIN. s. WARNER and j. Henry Work
have been arrested at New York and
placed under $4,000 each to answer
charges growing out of the Marine Bank
failure.
THE American Iron and Steel Associa-
tion has forwarded letter to Secretary
Manning, in which it opposes new tariff
legislation.
GENERAL JovANovITCH, who was dis
missed from his command in the Servian
army for disobeying orders, has COM
mitted suicide.
THERE was a full attendance at the Cab
met meeting on the 9th. The session last
ed about three hours, and was devoted al
most entirely to the consideration of the
Presidents message to Congress. The doc
ument is in an advanced state of prepara-
ton, and will be completed several days
before the meeting of Congress.
THE Spanish Minister at Washington re-
ceived a cablegram on the 24th from Mad
rid, stating that King Alfonso had been
stricken with a violent disorder of the res
piratory organs and was alarmingly i'll.
CHIEF CLERK YoUMANs of the Treasury,
who has general charge of the purchase of
supplies for public buildings under the
Treasury Department, has determined that
contracts for such supplies must be made
at the regular market rates, and that where
proposals for supplies are in excess of such
rates the purchases shall be made in open
market.
VIcE-PREsIDENr HENDRICKS died very
suddenly at his residence in indianapolis.
Ind, on the evening of the 25th of what his
physician pronounces paralysis of the
brain.
COMPLAINT has been made to the Cana
dian Government of Stipendiary Magis-
trate Routeau, of Battleford, N. W. T., who
sentenced eight Indians to be hanged
there. He is charged with being preju-
diced.
LARGE amounts of gold and silver coin
continue to arrive at the Treasury from
the overcrowded sub-treasuries and minis
in different parts of the country. The
transfers are principally from San Fran
cisco and New Orleans. About $40, 000, 900
in gold coin have already been transferred
from the former city. About $1,000, 900 of
this amount was taken to Chicago.
KING ALPHoNso XII OF SPAIN died on
the morning of the 25th. Queeo Christina
has been proclaimed Regent during the
infancy of Queen Mercedes, now only five
years of age. The ministry has resigned
and the Queen Regent has called on Senior
Sagasta to form a new Cabinet.
FOUR children were crushed to death and
several others seriously injured by the
falling of an old building at Jersey City,
N. j., on the 25th in which they were gath
ering wood from the condemned structure.
LARGE forces of military and police are
being quartered throughout Spain as a
precaution against Carlist uprising.
RETURNS from the English elections
show decided Conservative gains thus far,
and the Tories are jubilant in consequence.
MRS. JOSEPH BANNING and her infant
child were burned to death in their dwell
ing, which was set on fire by an in
rcendiary, in the Cannon Ball Valley, Da-
kota, on the night of the oath.
THE news of the death of President
Hendricks caused surprise and regret
throughout the country. Everywhere flags
were hung at half-mast.
THE powers have instructed Prince Alex
ander of Bulgaria to agree to an armistice.
King Milan has given orders to his troops
to cease hostilities.
THE Servian forces confronting Widdin
made a desperate assault on that place,
but were repulsed after three hours of san
culinary fighting.
COLONEL THOMAS SAILOR, ex-Postmaster
at East Saginaw, Mich, was arraigned in
the United States Court at Detroit on the
25th on a charge of putting in a rent
voucher for $1,000 in excess of the actual
amount. His successor, William s. Gage,
is accused of a similar offense.
PRINCE LOUIS OF BATTENBERG and wife
have gone to Bulgaria to attend the wound
ed soldiers.
JOHN EATON, Commissioner of Educa-
ton, has rendered his resignation, alleging
overwork and insufficient clerical assist
ance as the reason.
THE Touring mills at Minneapolis have
shut down, owing to the advance in east
bound freights.
THE total number of hogs packed in the
Western States during the week ended the
21st was 4SO 900, against AS 900 for the cor
responding time last year.
A MEETING of tobacco dealers and grow
ers was held at Lancaster, Pa, ON the 25th,
at which it was resolved to petition Con-
gress to increase the duty on foreign to-
bacco to one dollar per pound.
JOHN AND WILLIAM Belts were arrested
at Angola, N. Y, on the 25th, charged
with selling cancerous beef to their Gus
toners.
SINCE 1878 there has been an increase of
152, $40 acres of forest in the German en-
pire, brought about by replanting COM
mons and waste lands.
POPE LEo's encyclical on the Christian
Constitution of States has been translated
in full and is verv different from the cable
condensatiols.
THE funeral of Vice-President Hendricks
will take place at noon on Tuesday, De-
cember 1st The President and members
of the Cabinet will attend.
KING MILAN denies the report that he
will abdicate. The onward march of the
victorious Bulgarian forces continues.
JEREMIAH NJ. DWIGHT, of Ithaca, N. Y,
ex-member of Congress, died on the oath,
aged eighty years.
THE Virginia State Board of Canvassers
find Ayres' (Democrat) majority for At
torney General to be 1925.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is chagrined over the re-
suit of the elections, and has, it is said,
abandoned all hope of more than the bar
est Liberal majority at best.
CAPTAIN WIN. LYLE, of Keokuk, Ia, and
his wife, who were estranged for a number
of years, have become reconciIed and re-
united.
The appointment of Mr.. John H. Walsh
as Assistant Superintendent of the Unit