Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN thinks the new
diffusion process for making sugar from
sorghum success.
A BIG syndicate has been formed to open
and cultivate 10000 acres of land in the
Yazoo delta. Mississippi.
THE first volume of a new translation
of the Bible into French has been pub
lished at Paris by N. Ledrain, Hebrew
scholar.
JOHN RErFENscHNEIDER, of New York,
has been convicted of eating dog meat,
which seems to be a violation of the health
ordinance.
JUSTICE O'BRIEN has formally declared
Justin Mccarthy entitled to the seat in
the House of Commons which was held by
Mr.. Lewis, and ordered the latter to pay
McCarthy's costs.
THE Treasury Department has received
the estimates OF the State and Agricultural
departments and the civil establishments
of the War and Navy departments for
the next fiscal year.
MAURICE, son of Sarah Bernhardt,
fought duel at Paris on the 2Sth with
and wounded NJ. Lanrlois, because the
latter exhibited painting ridiculing his
{Bernhard's) mother.
THE result of the conference Of Catholic
prelates in Baltimores is that the order
of the Knights of Labor will not be con-
demned. The entire proceedings of the
session will be sent to Rome.
GENERAL KAULBARs has sent another
threatening note to the Bulgarian Gov
eminent, in which he says the eunboats
at Varna will vigorously affirm their inn
portance If events render it necessary.
SECRETARY MANNING resumed actual
control of the Treasury Department on the
Goth, and Mr.. Fairchild was relieved of his
duties as acting secretary, which office he
hes held from the time Mr.. Manning was
taken sick up to date.
A CORVETTE is about to sail from Lisbon
for Mozambique to reinforce the Portu-
guese squadron. A petty King in tina tre-
gion, with 10000 natives, is in revolt. 1t
is sought at Lisbon to connect the revolt
with the Pondo rising.
THE express messenger on the Frisco
train which left st. Louis on the nj ght of
the 18th was overpowered by a robber
when about thirty miles out on his run,
who bound, gagged and tied him to the
safe and then coolly got away with near
ly $4,000.
A GENERAL strike of compositors is
threatened in Berlin. The men contend
that the tariff rec ntly decided upon is
proving unfair, and they give their en-
ployers until January 1 to consider the
matter. The strike will involve almost
every newspaper in Berlin.
THE meeting Of the Cabinet on the 26 til
was the first meeting at which all tn g
members were present since Secretary
Manning was taken sick in May last. The
Canadian fisheries ques ton and the Cab
met participation in the Bartholdi status
Inauguration were discussed.
THE Commissioner of In ternal Revenue
has modified the regulations in regard to
the oleomargarine law so as to make them
conform to the opinion of the Attorney =
General that the components of oleo
margarine are subject to tax only when
made in imitation or semblance of butter.
SECRETARY BAYARD has completed his
review of Mr.. Sedgwick's voluminous re-
port on Mexican matters in general and
the Cutting case in particular, and is sat-
'isfied with it as complete and valuable
document. 1t will doubtless be transmit
60 fbo
sage.
JOHN FRANCIS, sixteen year-old con-
vict sent up from Dayton to Columbus, O.,
escaped from bis guard at the court
house on the Goth. He was of the
principal witnesses for the State in the
Thirteenth ward ga" tally-she forg-
cry cases, which were on preliminary
hearing.
THE international meridian conference
opened at Berlin on the q tn. Minister
Won 'Gossler presided. Delegates were
present from all the German States and
from Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Dem
mark, France, Italy, Holland, Portugal,
Roumania, Russia, Spain, Sweden and
Switzerland.
THE Presidential party to visit New
Y ork to assist in the Inauguration of the
lBartholdi statue consisted of seven per-
sons. as follows: The President, the Sec
rotary of War, the Secretary of the Navy,
the Secretary of the Interior, the Post
Smaster-General and the Presidents pri-
,vate secretary.
ADEsrRucrrvE freight wreck occurred
'on the Pennsylvania railroad at Thorn
dale, Pa, one the 9th. Two freight
trains ,collided. Three cars were COM
pletely demolished, seven others derailed
and one engine was thrown upside down
in a ditch. The track was torn up for
considerable distance.
The steamship British King. which ar
,rived at Philadelphia from Liverpool on
the 9th, brought ;307 Mormon converts.
They will proceed to Salt Lake. 1t is I'M
.detstood that Mormon immigrants will
thereafter be landed in Philadelphia in
stead Of New Y ork, tit being claimed that
the law is construed harshly in regard to
them at the latter port.
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE COL
MAN takes O deep interest in boyish
sports, especially our National game, and
all summer, after department hours,
whenever convenient, he has witnessed
the playing of the nine connected with his
own department.. This MAE has won the
department championship, which so
plea Mr.. Colman that he bad the group
photographed to hang up in the agrioll-
tural building.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT AMIsoN ST
the railway mail service, in his annual RS