Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-02

yro'l County e <eister
By ELI D. AXE
RONToN. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
!. ACCORDING to Bradstreet's weekly re.
view business is booming everywhere.
Rev. HENRY WARD BKEcHER has recov-
cred from his recently announce1 illness,
BR1GADIER-GENERAk JOHN NEWTON
Chief of Engineers, U. s. A, has been re.
tired at his ewn request.
In an encqclical letter to the Bishops Of
of Hungary the Pope says the church
alone can cope with Socialism.
THE Government will rot initiate pro-
'ceedings for indemnity for Cutting, claim
ing that he must do so himself.
S
A DESPERATE effort is being made IL
Madagascar te pay the French indemnity
claim, and terminate French occupation
GEORGE CHAMBERS, an ex-councilman
of Pittsburgh, Pa, proposes to swim the
Niagara whirlpool rapids without artificial
aid.
A NATUKALIzED American citizen ecu.
ban born) named Poublee is held at Ha-
>vana on a charge of reasonable con.
;spiracy.
ANARCHIST PARSONS, from his cell in
the jail at Chicago, has addressed an oper
letter of reproach to Master Workman
Powderly.
BULGARIAN troops in Eastern Roumelia
have declared in favor of the sdeposed
Prince, and the movement for mis- restora-
ton is spreading.
THE revolutionist provisional govern
ment in Bulgaria has been overthrown,
and Prince Alexander is reported on hi:
way back to Sofia.
THE deposition of Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria is said to have taken place in the
night. The prince is supposed to be a
state prisoner in Russian hands.
THE official estimates of the Prussian
crops state that the wheat yield will equa
90 per cent. of the average crop; rye, 81;
barley, 81; oats, 101, and potatoes, IS.
PARNELL spoke in the House of Com
mons on the oath and introduced his
amendment to the reply to the Queens
speech. The ministers decided to op-
pose it.
Mr.. BAYARD, in his negotiations with
Mexico concerning the Arresuris case,
will treat the matter precisely as if the
American.
A PORTION of the mansion of Judge Rice
at Bushmont, near Lixnsw, County Ker-
ry, was wrecked on the 23d by an explo-
sion of dynamite. A similar outrage was
perpetrated on Protestant farmers
house at Gortican, Londonderry.
THE issue of standard dollars from the
minis during the week ended August 81
was S647, 727. The issue during the CORE
y
The shipments of fractional silver COLI
since August amounted to S4s5,977.
GENERAL H. P. RANSOM, prominen
citizen of Lexington, KY, and formerly
general manager of the Kentucky Contra
railroad, died at that place on the oath
1t is supposed he suicided by taking a larg
amount of morphine. No cause is as
signed.
ADvIcEs from Adelaide, Australia
state that the wheat crop in South Aus
tralia will yield, according to the 1ates
estimates, an average of seven bushels tt
the acre. There have been copious rain
throughout the wheat-growing region
and the rain continues.
L. GovINDA Row SATTERY, a Hindoe
who made himself obnoxious by making
blaspbemous utterances against Christian
ity, has been committed to the county jai
upon the complaint of the Ocean Grow,
IN. J.) Camp Meeting Association for dis
turbing religious services.
ISAAC F. MACK died at Chicago on thu
23d. He was born in 1896 at Springfield
Mass. He was the principal of the frs
free school at Cincinnati for two years
where he founded the free schools and wa:
superintendent for eleven years.
ADvIcEs from Tamatave say that French
influence in Madagascar is meeting will
serious obstacles. Public opinion is alb
sorbed in the conclusion of treaty Civ
ing an English company the right of col
llecting customs, working mines and coin.
ing money in consideration of a loan O
:S5,000,00O.
Rev. DIR. KANE, the Protestant clergy
man in Belfast who declared that unless
the police were immedf ately disarmet
two hundred thousand armed Orangemer
would relieve them of their weapons, i.
again out with declaration charging tn.
magistrates of Belfast with criminal par
leying with lawlessness.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York on The
.25th granted the requisition made by the
Governor of Pennsylvania for the surren
der of Daniel Brown, charged with per
jury. The Governor found that the pris-
oner fled from Pennsylvania to Canada tt
avoid arrest for his crime, and is to be re-
garded. as a fugitive from justice.
SEVERAL vessels from the Geor ges and
from the Grand banks arrived at Glouces-
.on August % they encountered a gale OF
great energy. The gale is reported te
have been the worst that has swept oven
the banks for years, and it is feared that
much damage was done and many lives