Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28

THE recent discovery of Nihilist resort
opposite the Annitchkoff Palace in St.
Petersburg has resulted in the arrest of
seventeen persons.
THE Cincinnati theater managers agree
to close their houses on Sunday if the Law
and Order League succeed in closing Sum
day concert saloons.
THE tunnel under the River Mersey be-
tween Liverpool and Birkenhead was for
maIly opened on the Goth by the Prince of
Wales and his two sons.
Hon. HENRY LLOYD was elected Gov.
ernor of Maryland by joint convention
of the Legislature on the Goth, and Hon. A..
p. German was confirmed as Senator.
MAJOR WALSH, of the Canadian North
west Mounted Police, thinks the only way
to prevent an Indian outbreak is by dis
>arming and dismounting the redskins.
THE Secretary of the Treasury on the
Goth received q letter containing So 500,
postmarked New York, which he was re-
quested to pass to the conscience fund.
THE Porte has contracted with Krupp
for a large number of guns, those made at
the Turkish factory being useless. The
outlay will press heavily upon the Turkish
treasury.
THE Berlin correspondent of the London
Times says that the French flag has been
hoisted over Sumbig, one of the Sunda
Islands which has hitherto been under
Dutch protection.
A GKRMAN-AMERIcAN citizen named
Hans lessen, the manager of and heir to q
fax factory at Norburg in Sleswick, has
been expelled from that town by the Ger
man Government.
THE Wheeling wv. Val nail manufac-
turers hope to solve the wage question by
the adoption of an automatic nail machine
recently invented in Boston,, which they
are Investigating.
THE dinner given by the President at the
Executive Mansion on the night of the
21st in honor of the diplomatic corps was
the most brilliant social event of the pres
emit administration.
AT the meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Irish National League in
Chicago on the Goth, President Egan re-
considered his resignation and will re-
main in Office for the present.
The ST. James Gazette charges that
O'Donovan Rosa has several employees
among Irish members of the House Of
Commons, and that the pistol and knife
are to take the place of dynamite.
AT a meeting in Exeter Hall, London, on
che evening of the 18th, Mr.. Stead, editor
OF the Pail Mall Gazette, was presented
with purse Of $565, which had been sub
scribed in penny donations by women.
ALFRED HoLLINs, the blind pianist, a
graduate of the Royal Normal College for
the Blind at Upper Norwood, England, is
Theodore Thomas latest musical acquisi-
tion. He is said to be a remarkably fine
player.
THE members of the present and last
British ministries have received letters
threatening retaliation with dynamite il
the coercion policy in relation to Irelandi is
adopted, or if home rule fer that country IL
refused.
The Senate Committee on Public Lands
has authorized Senator Plumb to report
back favorably the bill introduced by Sem
'ator Wilson, Of Iowa, to quiet the titles of
settler on the Des Moines River lands in
the State of Iowa.
COMMISSIONERS GOLDMAN has called the
annual convention of National Sugar Grow
ers to meet in st. Louis on February 4th
and 5th, and the Mississippi Valley Dairy
mems Association to meet at sthe same
place the week following.
SPAIN win appoint governors of the
Caroline and Pelew Islands, and will send
troops to establish garrisons. She will
also send an expedition to the point where
the gunhoat Albatross planted the German
Gag during the Yap incident.
MISS CLARA BARTON, President Of the
American Association of the Red Cross,
branch of the Association, which win be
forwarded for the relief Of the sick and
wounded Of the Balkan armies.
TIE uncertainty regarding the removal
of the treaty of commerce between Aus
tria- Hungary and Roumania will, If
longer continued, cause the removal to
Germany Of a number of Austrian mer-
chants doing business with firms in Rou.
mania.
LORD SALISBURY has consented to rec
ognize China as nominal suzerain ov er |
Burmah on the condition that the Pekin |
Government abandons its claim to tribute |
from Burmah and opens the Chinese from
tier to British traders at Ave per cent. nd
vaIorem duties, except on opium.
ONE of the severest storms on record fs |
reported from the Pacific coast, and much |
damage to shipping and other property |
has resulted. Several casualties are re- i
ported. San Francisco was for time cut |
OF from communication with the outside
by the telegraph lines being Frustrated il ,
II directions.