Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-01

gro,l Conutg gegister
BY ELI ID. AXE.
1RONTON MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE Ohio Legislature on the 26th passed
what is known as the Non-Partisan bill
for Cincinnati.
MANY persons have been wounded in the
series of conflicts between the striking
miners and troops in Belgium.
IT is stated that John Bright, since his
interview with Gladstone, is more favora-
BILE to the Premier's Irish scheme.
In the United States Court at Las Cru =
ces, N. NJ, 173 indictments have been
found against alleged land grabbers and
periurers.
THERE were 221 failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended the 26th, against 22o for the pre-
ceding like period.
A DECISION has been rendered in En-
land that a divorce obtained in America
of marriage performed in England is in
valid in England.
GOVERNOR SToNEMAN of California has
appointed George Hearst, proprietor of
the San Francisco Examiner, United States
Senator, vice John F. Miller, deceased.
NEWS Of desperate fighting between the
French and Hovas in Madagascar just re-
ceived at London has created a sensation.
The French are said to have been worsted.
Mr.. GLADSTONE caught a sudden cold
and was unable to appear in the House of
Commons on the 25th, consequently his
Irish policy will not be announced until
April 8.
AS THE investigation progresses the
forgeries committed by the absconding
accountant of the Bank Rationale at
Montreal, Can, assumes formidable pro
portions.
A. P. MArTHEwsoN, the defaulting bank
president of Norfolk, Neb., is said to be
in Canada. His affairs are in bad condi-
tod, though in all his speculations he pro-
tected his bank.
IT is stated that owing to a quarrel be-
tween Lord Randolph Churchill and Will
liam Henry Smith, the latter will with
draw from the Conservative party unless
Churchill apologies.
THE supervising architect of the Treas
ury recommends additional appropriations
for the following public buildings: Frank
fort, KY, 5000; Jackson, Tenn, Sc, 900;
Oxford, Miss, $12 900; Terre Haute, Ind,
$4,000.
THE London Daily Ne,cs says It considers
the labor difficulties in the United States
the outcome of the governments system of
protection and of the bolstering up of trade
rings to the detriment of the working
classes.
THE Senate committee on District Of Co.
lumbia, decided on the 22d to report
against the confirmation of Mr.. Matthews,
who was nominated by the President to
succeed Fred Douglas as recorder of deeds
of the District.
THE acting Secretary of War has issued
instructions to the commanding officer at
jackson Barracks, New Orleans, to show
all proper courtesies to the young Brazil
ian Prince who is shortly expected to ar
rive at that port.
THE exodus of Jews from Russian Po-
land has attained extraordinary figures.
The statistics show that during the year
1885 no less than 20, $50 left the country for
America, to say nothing of those who en-
igrated elsewhere.
PRIVATE reports about Secretary Man
ming represents his condition as the occa-
sion of much more serious apprehension
than the regular press announcements in
dictate. There seems no doubt that his
trouble is apoplectic.
THE Emperor Williams restoration to
health is ascribed to the warm weather
now prevailing. The 22d was the eighty
ninth anniversary of his birthday. The
newspapers improved the occasion to pay
him the most fervid tribute.
THE Treasury officials are busy getting
up new designs for the silver certificates.
The first ones submitted were not satisfac-
tory, and were sent back for revision. 1t
is proposed to put the face of the late Vice.
President Hendricks upon the ten dollar
certificate.
THE Secretary of the Interior has render
ed decision in the case of the Atlantic &
Pacific Railroad Company, in which he
holds that it has no legal claim to the land
along the line of the road from San Buene-
ventura, on the Pacific ocean, in Cali
fornia, to San Francisco.
O'DoNovAN RossA's paper, the United
IishndH, failed to appear this week. Ros
sa's friends explain that he has been per-
suaded to ,1et up" on dynamite for awhile
and give Parnell "a show" with his peace
full methods, for which, however, Rosa
has a profound contempt.
THE Treasury Department received a let
ter on the oath postmarked Grafton, w.
Va, containing three hundred dollars, as
q contribution to the conscience fund"
The writer said he returned the money
"because when I die I want to go to
Heaven, and fear the three hundred dol
lars will bar me out"
BELGIAN, Dutch and French brewers
have become alarmed at the great increase
in their respective countries in the con-
sumption of beer made in Germany, par
ticularly at Munich, and have, in combina-