Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-10-14

effects of the La Mascotte explosion on
the Mississippi, bringing the list of deaths
now up to thirty.
Spain to pardon General Villacampa and
the officers associated with him in the
recent uprising at Madrid.
JACOB RoMEIs has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Tenth
Ohio distrIot. Thus Hurd and Romeis will
fight the battle over again.
MARCUS KATE murdered John Rataza-
dol in dance-house in Jersey City, N. J..
on the morning of the 9Th. The quarrel
was about some women present.
THR cultivation of tobacco in Germany
is decreasing owing to the system of taxa
ton. The decrease in the number of
planters is Il, 900, compared with 1885.
THE Royal Inniski1len Fusileers, sta
toned at Aldershot, Eng, resisted a draft
for service in Africa, and in the riot that
ensued on the 7th a number of soldiers and
police were wounded.
NATURAL gas was struck at Fairmont,
WA, on the 9Th. 1t is said by expe-
rienced gas men to be the largest well in
the country. The noise from the rush of
the gas can be heard from six to ten miles.
THE French Institute met on the 18th
and accepted the bequest of the Chantilly
estates by the Due d'Aumale. The insti-
tute adopted a resolution declaring graft
$ude for the Due d'Aumale's patriotic
generosity.
The French Government has ordered
DIT, l.
Spain, where he is under sentence of i'm
prisonment for insulting the Queen, to be
inferred in the department north of the
River Loire.
The Bulgarian Government has notified
foreign consuls at Sofia of General Kaul-
bars action in trying by bribery and in
timidation to induce the military COM
mander at Rustchuk to release the polit-
tical conspirators.
THE American Consul at Kingston, Ont,
having been asked by the the United
States Government to report If any dis
ease existed among cattle it that district,
made a close investigation and has report !
ed in the negative.
THE New York Court of Appeals handed |
down decision on the 5th confirming the |
ex-Alderman Jaehne, who was convict ed
on a charge of bribery in the Broadway |
Railroad franchise.
THE Admiral commanding the British |
squadron on the American station tele- |
graphs that the distress in Labrador is |
exaggerated and that the wants of the |
distressed people in both Labrador and |
Newfoundland have been relieved.
AT Cabinet Council at Madrid, on on |
the 7th, Qaeea Christina signed the decree |
committing the sentences of the cond emned |
insurgents. The Queen also signed de- |
cree freeing the slaves in Cuba from the |
remainder of their terms of servitude.
THE illness of ex-senator Withers, now
United States Consul to Hong Kong, is of |
an unique character. Dr. Lennon, one |
of his physicians, calls it entero colitis, |
which is an infiammatory affection of
both the smaller and larger intestines.
The Dominion Government has just is
sued an order forbidding the SARGE In
dams to leave their reservation. This
tribe has long been giving trouble to the
settlers, bat it is expected that prompt ac-
ton on the part of the mounted police will
put an end to further depredations.
Up to October the aggregate fire waste
for the United States and Canada in 1886 /
was $50, 000. 600, against ST., SOC, 006 for the
same period of 1885, so that with October, |
November and December yet to be heard
from, there is no likelihood of a lower
figure than S10o, 600 900 to be charged for
fires in' 1886.
THURSDAY, the 7th, was the greatest
day in the history of st. Louis in point of
attendance at her dual attractions, the /
Fair and Exposition. At the former the
attendance was over a hundred and forty /
Thousand, while at the latter nearly fifty
Thousand people visited the building dur
ing the day and evening.
The Spanish Cabinet was in session five |
hours on the 9th discussing the sentences
of death imposed by the court-martial on
the leaders of the recent revolt, and finally
decided to advise the Queen to commute
the sentences. A petition for the pardon
of therrebels, signed by 5000 merchants
and tradesnen, is published. 4
THE general distribution Of the new
one-doalar silver certificates began on the
4th, and will be continued until the de-
mand, which is very great, has been en-
tireIy supplied. The notes are being
printed at the rate of $4,000 day. The
new tive -dollar silver certificates will not
be ready for issue for two weeks yet.
AT meeting of the trustees of the Pea
body fund in New York on the 7th, tine
following executive committee was ap-
pointed: A. h H. Stuart, Senator Evarts,
Chief Justice Waite, ex-President Hayes
Jas. d. Porter, Chairman Winthrop. A
resolution was adopted to increase the
allotment to Souxh Carolina IN view Of the
devastation. caused by earthquakes.
Ar a meeting in Milwaukee on the
night Of the 9Th Robt. Schilling, State or
ganizer of aae knights of Labor of Wis
consin, deHounced the proposed execution
of the Chicago Anarchists as an outrage
BIS in famous as the nging of JohnsBrown.
He said he did not bekeve in anarckism,
but sympath ixsd wi III s ocialists. Thexen
timent met with nprtNEious applausefrom
those present, among whom were Knights
Of Labor.
The Washington Post OF the 7th pub
fishes the following: SIT can not be dis
covered that any Thing has been said
officially at the War Department to justify |
the report that General Miles disobeyed t
orders and made terms with Geronimo, but I
It is said that certain officials in the de- G
partment, white not positively giving out ]
'epor Is, have encouraged the publication &
If these structures on General Miles in or b
Ter to favor General Crook, who seems to