Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-20

dents attending her agricultural college.
T-s press OF Alabama, for the most
part, strongly favor the proposition to
establish an educational qualification for
voters.
ELISHA ATKINSON, one of the most wide
Unknown and successful business men of
Boston, died in that city, on the 9th, aged
seventy-five.
EXTERIOR WILLIAM has renewed the or
der of the late Emperor William I. that
none of the imperial servants shall wear
moustache.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
issued call for reports of the condition
of National banks at the close of business
ON December II.
DR.. DUBLIN, of Baltimore, Nd, was ar
rested, on the 10th, at Augusta, Ga, for
fighting duel with Philadelphian whose
name could not be ascertalned.
THE marked favor shown by the Car
o. Russia to the divorced wife of King
Milan of Servia is taken as an indication
of the early downfall Of the latter.
In the primary election which has just
been held throughout Servia, the Radicals
and Liberals scored great victory, the
Progressionists being totally defeated
THE Senate committee on military aft
fairs, ON the 18th, ordered favorable re-
port ON a bill to retire General W. s.
Rosecrans with the rank of Brigadier-
General.
The Berlin agent of the Milan Utaly)
newspaper II Secolo, was expelled from
Germany, ON the 18th, for writing articles
to his paper insulting to the Emperor and
Germany.
THE famous stallion Volunteer, the sire
of ST. Julien and other noted trotters,
died at the Walnut Grove farm, in Orange
County, N. Y, ON the 18th. He was thirty
four years of age.
GROSS frauds in the count of the vote
for mayor of San Francisco, at the recent
election, are being unearthed by the re-
count demanded by the defeated anti
Chinese candidate.
THE Russian Government, against the
advice of III. De Giers, Foreign Minister,
will send an ultimatum to Persia, although
the latter has made the concessions de-
manded by Russia
THE London Star says that Sir Charles
Warren, late chief of the metropolitan
police, is going to Suakim to settle affairs |
there after the fighting between the Brit |
ish and the Arabs is ended.
OFFICIAL notice was sent, on the 10Th, |
to the passenger agents of all railroads !
in the West and Northwest that, at the ex- |
piration of ten days, passenger rates will |
be restored to the former basis.
RUSSELL HARRISON, son of the Presi- |
dent-elect, arrived at the Gilsey House, !
New York City, on the 11th, but his name |
does not appear on the hotel register. He |
travelled alone from Indianapolis.
Two members of the Republican Society |
have been arrested at Naples for an at |
tempt to wreck the German Consulate |
there with a dynamite bomb. No damage |
was done, as the bomb did not explode.
FIVE applicants had already appeared |
for appointment as Judge of the Federal |
Court for the district of Florada, made |
vacant by the death of Judge Thomas Set
tie, less than two weeks ago, up to the 18th.
THE New York Press says that Governor
Gray of Indiana refused to allow the re-
ception room of the Governor in the Capt.
toll at Indianapolis to be used for the re-
ception of Mr.. and Mrs. Morton on the
14th.
CHAUNcEY NJ DEPEw says he will ac-
cept the office of Minister to the Court of
st. James if rendered to him by Mr.. Har-
rison, as he regards it as the most exalted
Office, next to the presidency, in the gift
of the American people.
IT is reported that the Emperor Of Ger
many is engaged in writing a narrative
of his recent visits to the Northern CAPT
tails, which will be illustrated with wood
cuts by his own hand and with sketches /
by the artist Salzmann.
E. L. HARPER, late vice-president of the
Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, who
is confined in the Ohio State prison at
Columbus, gave unmistakable evidence
of insanity, on the 18th, and was removed
to the insane department
NOT single post of KoOntz's Demo-
cratic veterans organization has been
formed outside of Indianapolis, but the
Indiana Department of the G.. A. r. has |
increased in membership since the organ
ization of the opposition order.
SEVERAL members of the crew of |
the oyster sloop Mahoney, sunk in Chesa-
peake bay in the recent engagement with
the State steamer McLane, were drowned
Statements as to the actual number lost
vary from two or three to nine.
THE French Government introduced a
bill in the Chamber of Deputies, on the
14th, providing for a postponement for
three months of the payment of the Pana-
ma Canal Company's liabilities, including |
interest and the redemption of bonds.
TIE strike of the switeknen on the Chi
cago, Burlington 6 Quincy railroad was
declared off on the 18th They went out |
last spring at the solicitation of the en-
gineers, and now give up the fight because
the engineers refuse longer to support |
them.
A MOVEMENT has been begun in West !
Virginia to change the name of the State,
and the matter will be brought up before
the coming session of the Legislature.
Kanawha, the name of a West Virginia
river, has been suggested as the new name
of the State.
liz a late engagement between the Mary
land State steamer Governor McLane, and
the fleet of dredgers in the Chester river,
two of the dredgers' boats were sunk and |
n number of others were taken One of
the crew on the steamer Governor Nc
Lane was shot.
1T is rumored in London that Csm an
Dirna, who is now believed to have both
Henry NJ. Stanley and Emin Bey as pris-
oners, is willing to yield Stanley and
Emil provided Egypt will abandon Sua-
kim. otherwise it is belieYed that the pr1s-
oaers will be killed.
The Dakota Farmers Alliance, recently
in session at jamestown, by resolution
raoorpnapde5 the adoDfiop of law pro-