Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-11


ment of the Chinese in the West.
FIVE HUNDRED employees of the Cham
pion Reaper works at Springfield, o.,
were discharged on the Sd because they
belonged to the Knights of Labor.
THE Army Appropriation bill, as report
ed to the House on the Sd, appropriates
for the maintenance of the army during
the next fiscal year the sum of $23, 1897 ,5SS.
THE estimated fire losses of February
were $500, 900 in the United States and
Canada. This is about the average for
February loss for the last eleven or twelve
years. -.-E.-...
THE House committee ON naval affairs
has completed the consideration of the bin
to increase the naval establishment, and
will report the measure to the House at the
earliest opportunity. So
JOHN KELLY, the old Tammany leader,
Is said to be improving in health rapidly,
end his friends are confident that if he es-
capes another relapse during the spring he
will be a well man again.
It is now ascertained that the Senate
committee on military affairs has agreed
to favorable report on the Fitz-John Por-
ter bill by a vote of six to four. There will
also be minority report
THE Prussian Government has ordered
the Polish poet, Kraszwits, to return to
prison on May 1. The poet says that his
return will soon be followed by his death,
as he is now in feeble health.
THURSDAY, the 4th inst, was the twenty
third anniversary of Mr.. Randalps service
in Congress, and handsome flowers were
sent to his committee-room by some of his
friends in commemoration of the occasion.
FRANCE has postponed giving her ad-
herence to the Turko- Bulgarian agree
ment, appointing Prince Alexander ruler
of Eastern Roumelia until the question of
customs duties in Roumelia shall be set
tied.
In recognition of his services as head of
the city government of Davenport, Ia, for
three years, friends of Mayor Claussen
gave him birthday token on the I'd in the
form of a fine horse and carriage, costing
$500.
THE Brooklyn street-car mems strike
ended on the 9th by Deacon Richardson
acceding to the demands of the Knights
of Labor, and traffic was resumed. 1t took
several hours to clear the tracks of impe-
dimenta.
Mr.. BECK introduced bill in the Senate
on the Sd to modify the Sinking Fund law.
1t provides that hereafter the Secretary of
the Treasury shall not redeem more than
$20,00o,0 900 annually of the principal of the
public debt.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio, on the 4th,
affirmed the decision of the lower court in
refusing to grant writ of habeas corpus
in the case of Daniel ]. Dalton, of Cincin-
natl, held for contempt by the House of
Representatives.
AT the request of the Episcopal bishops
of Ireland Lord Plunkett, Archbishop of
Dublin and primate of Ireland, has con-
vened the synod for the I'D inst. to obtain
an expression of the opinion of the church
on the political situation in Ireland.
THE Madrid correspondent of the Lon
don Times says that before the death of
King Alfonso the Carlists offered a reward
of 500, 900 for his head, and that when a
man volunteered to assassinate, the King
the Carlists backed out Of their PROPOSE
ton.
THE Canadian Department Of Marine
and Fisheries have called for tenders for
the charter of six swift sailing vessels of
between sixty and one hundred tons reg.
istered tonnage, to be employed by the
fisheries police force ON the seacoast of
Canada.
IT now transpires that the dog that bit
che Newark IN. ~ children who were
sent to Paris to be inoculated by DIR. Pas
teur, was not mad at all, other dogs who
were bitten by him having come through
the probationary period with no sign Of
the malady.
HUGH MCMAHON, who pleaded guilty to
setting fire to the dwelling and grocery on
the corner of Second and Green streets,
Philadelphia, and conspiring to defraud
the insurance companies of $4,000, was
sentenced on the Sd to ten years in the
penitentiary.
SPEAKER CARLISLE on the 4th announced
the following special committee to inves-
tigate the facts concerning the owner
ship Of Pam Electric Telephone stock by
certain pubic officers: Messrs. Boyle,
Oates, Eden, Hall, Hale, Ranney, Willard.
hanback, and Mohatt.
SECRETARY WHITNEY on the I'd sent .
letter to the chairman of the senate COM
mittee of the New York Legislature in
vestigating the Broadway street railway
case, In which he explains his connection
with the matter, and SAYS il it is in any
respect open to just criticism he IL not
aware Of it.
OF the 1900 presidential offices IL is
learned frem official data that President
Cleveland has filed since his Inauguration
between 1.6sO and 1900. About 1900 of
these appointments were to fill vacancies
by death, resignation or the expiration of
terms. In the remainder-643 in number
he suspended"
The visible supply of grain in the United
States March l was: Wheat, 52I49 696
bushels; decrease, 69a, i43 bushels; corn,
II sos ,910 bushels; increase, 2 $50. 33a BUSH
els: oats, 2,247,s 59 bushels; increase, go.
507 bushels; rye, $50, 21l bushels; increase,
II ,l65 bushels; barley, 1, 49,, 352 bushels;
decrease, 1856, 53S bushels.
tbs majority of the Senate comm ittee
on military affairs, in its report ON the
Fitz- John Porter bill, adopt the majority
report of the last Congress and say: "The
committee have little to add to the repor Is
heretofore made inthis case" They rec
ommend the passage of the bill as simple
set of justice to a deserving officer.