Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18

grnn County gegister
BY ELI d. AXE.
1RONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
Greece are exciting grave fears in the Eu-
ropean cabinets.
THE British ship-owners at Sunderland
have promised to employ British in prefer
ence to foreign sailors.
THE anti Chinese convention at Sacra-
mento, Cal, adopted proposition to boy
colt all who employ or patronize Chinese.
MRS. LIZZIE GURNEE, a widow, sues
Commodore Voorhis, of Nyack, N. Y,
for 800, 900 for breach of promise of mar
riage.
A CONSPIRACY to overthrow the govern
ment of the Mikado was recently discov-
cred in Japan in time to remove the
danger.
THREE HUNDRED employees of the Toronto
(Ont.) Street Railway Company were dis
charged on the 10th for joining the knights
of Labor.
of
who with her husband spent 50 900 900 in
ten years, has failed with liabilities of
81 100000.
IT is stated that negotiations between
France and China have been arrested owing
to serious difference of opinion on the
Tonquin question.
ADvICEs from Anam state that anarchy
prevails. that robbers are securing the
country and that the people are in revolt
against French authority.
AN order has been issued by the Grand
Trunk railway that hereafter all Chinese
going over the road will be passed through
in bond and will not be allowed to stop in
Canada.
INDEsCRTBABLE distress has been 'devel-
oped among the inhabitants of the Arran
Islands, off Galway, many of whom are
living on moss and sea grass and are with
out clothing or shelter.
THE Senate committee on appropriations
agreed on the 9th to report an amendment
to the Urgent Deficiency bill providing
$780, 900 for the payment of the funeral ex-
penses of the late General Grant.
THE House committee on judiciary, by
vote of seven to three, directed an adverse
report on Representative Oates bill pro-
hibiting aliens from acquiring title or
owning lands within the United States.
AS required by law Secretary Lamar has
submitted to Congress list of about four
thousand and five hundred Indian depre-
dation claims. The total number of claims
call for an amount approximating $15,000,
900.
UNITED STATES CoNsUL-GENERALW WAL
LER at London declares that the repo t
that the United States consuls in his juris-
diction talk of resigning if their salaries
are reduced is mischievous and wholly
without foundation.
THE agent of the Cincinnati Law and
Order League swore out a warrant on the
Sth for the arrest of Lillian Lewis for par
ticipating in theatrical performance on
Sunday. Miss Lewis is the star in the
"Creole." playing at Havelin's Theater.
THE Postmaster General has issued an
order prohibiting the delivery of registered
mail or the payment of money orders to
Marcus e. Frazier, operating at Des
Moines. Ia, as the Secretary of the Globe
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THE district attorney at Boston has
caused the case against Rev. w. W.
Downs, charged with adultery with Annie
j. Taber, to be placed in the list of cases
for the March term of the Superior Grim
inal Court. and it will probably be reached
about the last of the month.
NOTICE has been given the laborers en-
ployed at the Atlanta Iron works at Sharon,
Pa. that their wages have been advanced
to the price paid before the last reduction.
The increase amounts to fifteen cents per
day. and was made by the firm without
solicitation from the workmen.
1T has been decided to abandon the Saxon
Industrial Agricultural exhibition, which
was to have been held at Chemnitz. This
step has been taken because it was believed
the exhibition would have the effect of
weakening the interest in the national ex-
hibition to be held in Berlin in 1888.
NEARLY eight hundred employees of the
American Hosiery Company, at New Brit
ain, Conn.,, are out on a strike, their de-
mand for higher wages having been re-
fused. The company's officers refused to
meet a committee of the Knights of Labor
to effect settlement by arbitration.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended the 18th numbered for the
United States 210, and for Canada p,
total of 235, against 245 last week and 2ls
the week previous. Failures are on the
decline in every section of the country, es-
pecially the Eastern and Middle States.
JUDGE GILDERsLEEvE of the New Y DIRK
Court of General Sessions has received
letter from a member of the late Board of
Aldermen Offering to reveal the inside
historyaof the Broadway railroad deal
with the aldermen. The letter was
ferred to the foreman Of the grand jury.
CIvIL-SERvIcE COMMISSIONER EAToN's
term of service expired on the 9th und err
the terms of his peremptory letter of res
ignation. 1t was positively stated at the
Executive Mansion that the President had
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