Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15

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By ELI D. AXE.
1RoNToN, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES
4 Summary q Important Events.
In the House of Commons on the 5th
Gladstone paid glowing tribute to thu
late William E. Foster.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has formally ac
cepted the governorship of Eastern Rou.
melia for the five-year term.
SIR HENRY HALFoRD, the wellknown
English riieman, is said to be dying OF
Bright's disease of the kidneys.
THREE Apache chiefs and seventy-twc
bucks have left Fort Bowie, Ariz., for Fort
Marion, Fla, as prisoners of war.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has entirely recovered
from the fatigue of his exertions in the
House of Commons on the evening of the
Sth.
CONGRESSMAN O'NEILL, of Missouri, i:
trying to stop the military bands from
competing with other bands at picnics
parades, etc.
IT is stated that the British Government
has decided to subsidize line of steamers
between British Columbia and Hong Kong
and Australia.
THOMAS A. THATCHER, professor of Latin
and literature in Yale college, was discov-
cred dead in his bed on the morning of the
9Th. He was in his seventy-seco year.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended
April was 500, 627. The issue during the
corresponding period of last year was 49,
49S.
Mrs. EMMA A. COOLIDGE, who recently
pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder
young Mrs. Mellen at Boston, was sem
fenced on the 9Th to three years imprison-
ment.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Bulgaria de
clines to accept the advice of the special
Turkish Minister that he acquiesce in the
decision of the powers on the question of
his title.
ALDERMAN DELAcY, of New York, can
not be found, and it is stated that he left
the city on the night of the 4th with the
intention of remaining away until the
clouds roll by"
THE general order of the knights of La
fund on hand of 500, 600, deposited in five
Eastern banks, with monthly receipts ag-
gregating $4,000.
THE first National strengthening con-
test in the history of the country occurred
at st. Louis on the 9th, and was very in
teresting occasion. The fleeces were taken
from over sixty sheep.
THE first annual gathering of the Ma
tional Association of Wool-Growers began
the features of the gathering was grand
strengthening contest.
WESLEY SIMMONS, young man living
seven miles from Andrew, jackson Coun
ty, Ia, blew the top of his head off with a
shotgun on the 9Th. When found his body
had been partially devoured by hogs.
Ii, the United States Court at Dubuque,
Ia, on the Sth the case of Charles Trask,
of independence, against the Illinois Cen
trail railroad for damages, owing to the
loss of thumb, was settled by the plaintiff
receiving $1,000.
THE remains of Captain Emmett Craw-
ford arrived in Denver on the 9Th, in
charge of Major j. G. Bourke, of Captain
Crawford's regiment and for long time
an aide to General Crook. The remains
will be inferred at Kearney, Neb.
THE architects of New York and Phila-
delphia have a large amount of work on
hand and more permits have been taken
out this season, in number and in value,
than last year. The same general con-
dition is reported from Western cities.
THE Brunswick Bake Collender Billiard
Table Manufacturing Company at Chi
cago on the Sth acceded to the demands
presented by committee of workmen for
a twenty per cent. increase of wages in
all departments. The company employs
$50 men.
MIR. L ARNELL III MS speech IN the COM
mons on the Sth said there were one or two
matters in the Gladstone scheme that were
Objectionable, and these the Irish menu
bers would endeavor to have rectifed. As
whole, the bill was acceptable to the
Irish party.
AT the Mormon general conference at
Provo, Utah, on the 9th, lengthy epistle
to the church was read from President
John Taylor and George Q. Cannon. The
epistle considers though the present suf-
ferings are severe, they are not so bad as
formerly experienced in Missouri and Illi-
nois.
THE House committee on judiciary voted
instruction on the Sth to Representatives,
to report favorably his bill to repeal those
sections of the Revised Statutes prohibit
ing the payment of pensions or the allow
ance of claims of any person who was
disloyal to the United States during the
last war.
A COMMITTEE of coal miners, represent
ing the 5000 diggers in four pools on the
Monagahala river, called upon operators
on the Sth and notified them that if their
wages were not advanced on May 1 from
two and a half to two and three -fourths
cents per bushel a general strike would be