Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-25

Sroll County Register
BIZ ELI d. AXE
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
THE House agricultural committee viii
take up the oleomargarine question in a
few days and viii frame bill to report to
the House.
DURING st. Patriek's day parade a,
Londonderry. Ireland, on the 18th, a mum
Der of stones were thrown. and an inspec.
tor and constable were injured.
KING HUMBERr of Italy has decorated
NJ. Pasteur. The italian Academy of Med
icine has voted the sum of 10000 francs fol
the projected Pasteur institute.
ON February 2, previous to leaving
Hong Kong for Yokohama, four of the
crew of the United States war-ship Tren-
ton were sent ashore suffering from small.
pox.
THE New York Senate on the 18th passed
a bill providing that street railroad fran
chises shall be sold to the bidder who will
undertake to carry passengers at the low
est rate.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has RENTED
the sentence of dismissal passed upon
Captain Jacob n. Smith. Nineteenth In.
fantry. by general court-martial at TT.
Clark, Tex.
THE street lear drivers and conductors in
Covington and Newport, KY. on the 18th
demanded two dollars a day for twelve
hours and gave the companies until the
21st to decide the matter.
HAMILTON COLE. referee in the Grant &
Ward case. decides that payment of money
on so-caIled contracts was fraudulent and
void, and that Warner must pay over te
the receiver 81 ,s95. 1924.
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THE theory connecting Mike Humphrey
and ''Texas" with the Rock Island ex-
press robbery has been exploded by both
men turning up and accounting for their
whereabouts at the time of the tragedy.
THE Canadian customs authorities have
seized and condemned to destruction 3, 800
copies of Lord Beaconsfield's "Endym-
fon" published by the Harper's, of New
York. A copyright for the work is held in
Canada.
THE British Board of Trade has sus-
pended for six months the certificate of
Captain Houland. who commanded the
steamer Missouri, which was wrecked at
Holvhead while on a voyage from Boston
to Liverpool.
JUDGE THURMAN states that it has not
been determined to bring the Bell tele-
phone patent suit in Columbus. O., and
that the papers will not be filed in any
court for several days, as they have not
been completed.
ALL the cloakmakers in New York, num-
bering 1000, are out on a strike. They
don't ask for increased wages, but merely
demand that the contract system be abol
ished so they may deal directly with the
firms themselves.
THE Mikado of Japan has signified his
intention of contributing 500 to the Grant
monument fund, New York. as token of
his respect for General Grant, and has Or
dered that amount forwarded to the presi-
dent of the committee.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week ended March Is
was Sf11, $50. The issue during the CORE
spending period of last year was sos, 997.
The shipments of fractional silver coin
since March amount to Sl67 ,0s9.
Mr.. HoxIE's reply to Mr.. Powderly's re-
quest on the 18th for a conference was in
substance a refusal to treat with the
Knights of Labor on the ground that on
previous occasions the organization had
broken faith with the corporation.
MANY of the Presidents callers on the
18th reminded him that it was his forty
ninth birthday anniversary. Although
some social recognition of the day was
shown the President did not observe it by
departing in any way from his daily rou
tine.
SENATOR MORRILL, introduced a bill on
the 18th to appropriate 100000 for the
erection of an extension of the executive
mansion south of the present structure of
equal and similar character and to be con-
nected with the executive mansion by a
corridor.
A MEETING of the oyster packers of Bal
timore, Md, was held on the 18th and an
agreement was reached not to pack any
oysters after the first of April, under a
penalty of 81 900. The oyster season has
heretofore continued until the first of May
IN each year.
THE House labor committee on the 10Th
had under consideration a bill proposing
authority to grant National charters to la
Dor organizations. This is regarded as a
matter of considerable Importance as
basis for statutory arbitration in the set
Element of labor troubles
THE stokers of the steamship Oregon are
said to have acted in the most cowardly
manner when it came to deserving the
ship in the boats, using hatch cts, Delaying
pins and other weapons 20 force their way
into the boats, even crCwding the lady
Passengers back i'm their frantic haste.
DAVID STRONG, a Midway (O.) cooper,
was taken suddenly ill on the 18th and died
in few minutes. No apparent cause was
and his ri ends were at a loss to
account for his death. 4 post-mortem,
however, developed that he had died from
having swallowed mis- false
teeth, which had lodged in his throat.