Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-08

By ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE President has approved the act au-
thorizing the appointment of an acting
assistant treasurer.
IT is stated that Lake Michigan at Chi
cago is gradually rising at the rate Of
about four inches year.
SEVERAL leaders of the Belgian Social
lists at Paris were arrested on the 31st
while attempting to hold a meeting.
PRESIDENT GREW of France has signed
decree raising the fund for the relief of
the poor to 81 800, 900, making it larger than
ever before.
THE late Countess Chambord left 81 $780,
600 in cash, deposited with the Roths-
childs, besides vast and immensely valu-
able estates in Austria.
A PARTY of Mexican customs officers re-
Gently surprised band of smugglers near
San Fernando, killed their leader and cap
tured large quantity of goods.
THE Pail Mall Gazette says Gladstone is
riding straight for fall, and unless he
modifies his Irish scheme the country will
have neither home rule nor Gladstone.
AT indianapolis the Central Union Tele-
phone Company are preparing to abandon
the field on account of the recent decision
limiting the amount they may charge for
service.
DR.. BRADIN, who attended Neal, the by
drophobia victim, at Newark, N. j., got
some of Meals saliva in a cut on his finger.
He has gone to Paris to be treated by
Pasteur.
THE New England agent of the Missouri
Pacific railway notified shippers and con-
Meeting lines on the 3Oth that the road was
again receiving freight for all points On or
-eached by its lines.
A GENERAL strike took place in the pa
per mills of Birmingham, Eng, on the 1st,
against an ordered reduction of thirty
three per cent. in wages. 1t is believed
the strikers win accept a more moderate
reduction.
THE visible supply of grain in store and
afioat in the United States and Canada on
the 9th, was as follows: Wheat, 49,774,-
800 bushels; corn, 1871 ,073 bushels; Ga ts,
2,5SO,929 bushels; rye, 545, 6O6 bushels; bar
ley, ,039, 7O4 bushels.
THE Jeans Manufacturers Association
of the Ohio valley met on the 29th and
decided to cut working hours from eleven
to ten hours day, advance pay five per
cent. an hour and to curtail production,
owing to the state of trade.
SENATOR CULLoM introduced in the Sem
ate on the 3Oth bill appropriating 100000
for the erection in Washington of a monu-
ment with appropriate statuary to COM
memorate the illustrious public services of
the late Abraham Lincoln.
THE Secretary of War received dis
patch on the 1st from General Crook con-
firming the reports of the surrender and
subsequent escape of Geronimo and part
of his band, but giving no details in addi-
ton to what has already been published.
THE Steinitz-Zukerto chess match
wound up at New Orleans on the night of
the 10Th with another victory for Steinitz,
giving him the championship of the world.
The game was the eleventh played in New
Orleans and the twentieth of the great
match.
GOVERNOR FORAKER of Ohio on the
31st appointed the Cincinnati police
commission, as follows: Two years,
Thomas c. Minor, Democrat; Geo.
r. Topp, Republican,; four years, Robert
8. Morgan, Republican; Milo G.. Dodds,
Democrat.
AT late hour on the 30th Secretary
Manning's physicians reported slight
Improvement in the condition of their pa
tient. He had rested quietly and comfort
ably during the day and evening, and
altogether, they said, he was doing as we'll
as could be expected.
THE Reading (Pa.) iron works, in re-
Spouse to the petition presented by the
men, advanced wages fifteen per cent,
excepting puddlers, who will receive three
dollars and half instead Of three dollars,
beginning on the ID. The employees num-
Der some two thousand.
NEAL, the keeper of the Newark, IN. ~
dog pound, who was bitten by Spitz dog
some weeks ago, and who had suffered the
tortures of hydrophobia for four days, died
tempt to treat him by the Pasteur method
tailed because not made in time.
A FIvE-DoLLAR counterfeit brownback
National bank note has been discovered,
purporting to be an issue of the Central
National Bank of Norwalk, Conn.,, and
giving the charter number of the bank as
4O4. This bank has never issued a note
of the series of 1882, and its charter num-
Der is 2,342.
THE total number of rioters killed during
the recent rioting in Belgium has been as
certained to be twenty six. 1t is probable
that the persons arrested for melting the
strikers to violence can not he punished,
as it is doubtful whether the mere act of
melting to riot is punishable under the
provisions of the penal code.
THERE was no change in the condition
of Secretary Manning on the I'd. His ply
sicians would only say, when interviewed,
that their patient was a little better or
little worse, as the case might be. 1t is
known, however, that the Secretary is par
TALLY paralyzed, and can barely move his
arms. There was no danger, however, OF
an immediate change in his condition
SECRETARY ENDIcorv received dis
patch from General Crook on the 30th con-
firming the news of Geronimo's surrender,
and it was read to the President. Subse-
quently General Sheridan called on the
President, and, after a short consultation,
a dispatch was sent to General Crook,
presumably containing definite instruc-
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