Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

during January past aggregated 542, 4I4
bales. valued at S26, 07O, 430; against $50,
s54 bales, valued at $50, $40, o4s, in January,
1887.
THE operation of tracheotomy was
hastily performed upon the Crown
Prince by DR.. Bramann, on the 9th, and
afforded the royal sufferer immediate
relief
TIE Board of Trade of London report an
increase of imports for January, 1888,
over the corresponding month of the
previous year of f376. 600, and of exports
of fI70,000.
THE difficulty which the Crown Prince
of Germany has lately experienced in
breathing is increasing, and it is reported
that the operation of tracheotomy will
be resorted to.
OWING to dissensions among the native
tribes and the detection of the Ailet
chiefs, the advance of the Abyssinia an
troops toward Saati and Massowah has
been suspended.
THE bucketshop carried on in the cor
ridor of the House of Representatives, for
the accommodation of speculative men,
bers, was broken up on the Sth, by order
of Speaker Carlisle.
4hE EuSilSu pOiiC6 CdpbuISu MI L IIO
at London on the 10th. Mr.. Pyne is the
Irish commoner who fortified himself in
his castle and then dared the police to
come and take him.
Mr.. PowDERLY and the general exec
utive board of the Knights of Labor have
formally Endorsed the Reading railroad
ers' and miners strikes. Aid for the
strikers is rapidly pouring in.
MEssRs. TILLMAN CHAPMAN AND
STONE have been appointed by Speaker
Carlisle committee to investigate the
Reading strikes, and left for Pennsylva-
mia on the Sth. They win be absent about
one month.
HERR KRUPP, the great German found
er, has received orders from Austria for $50
heavy guns, to cost 8, 500, 900 forms. The
guns ordered by Turkey and not paidfor
will be utilized to fill the first iustallment
of the order.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Plainfleld, N.
j., states that the heirs of the late John
for 81, 10000 damages resulting from the
Governments refusal to accept the ships
built for it by Mr.. Roach.
THE Metropolitan National Bank Of
Cincinnati suspended on the 9Th. The
fICc-pEl0SlUcHt, COnn H. DeCSiiupD was
rested, later, charged with misapplica-
tion of the bank funds and certifying to
false statements of its finances.
THE Afghan Frontier Commission has
completed it's work of delineating the
boundaries, and the English members
have started for England. The last
boundary post stands on the left
bank of the Oxus, fifteen versts above
Bosaga.
THREE hundred Boston cigarmakers,
comprising employees of five large shops,
refused to go to work on the 9th, owing
to the proposed cut in wages The other
shops either do not belong to the manu-
facturers' union or have not posted the
cut-down.
DIR. STEPHEN and his wife, and Mr..
Robertson, Americans, were being driven
to the Central depot to catch a train
at Glasgow. Scotland, on the 9th,
when the horses attached to their car
riage bolted and threw the occupants
out All three were injured.
LORD DuFFERIN has created universal
sur prise by resigning his post as Viceroy
of India. His action has no political
significance. Lord Lansdowne has been
appointed his successor, who in turn is to
be succeeded by Colonel Frederick Stan
ley.
A STATEMENT of internal revenue re-
ceipts prepared by the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, and made public ON the
Sth, shows that the total receipts for De
cember, 1856, were $40, S95, 246; while the
collections for December, 1887, were $780,
go. 351.
THOMAS STEVENS, of West Gardiner,
Me-, his wife and two daughters have be-
come insane in the delusion that a lot of
monkeys infest the neighborhood. The
parents have been sent to the insane hos
pital and the daughters to the industrial
school at Hallowell, Me.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE s. PRINCE, daughter
of Ex-Governor Collins of Rhode Island,
granddaughter of Governor Bradford of
the same State, and mother of B. Brad
ford Prince, ex.Chief Justice of New
Mexico, died at Flushing, l. L, ON the
9th, aged eighty years.
FIVE cases of trichinosis have occurred
in the family of VIM. Man, a German
resident of Toledo, o., embracing himself,
his wife, two children and the wife's
brother. The disease was contracted from
eating the flesh of a young hog purchased
january s, of butcher. All five are in
O dangerous condition.
AN adjourned NEE ting of the American
Horticultural Society was held at River
side CAL, on the 7th. Ross Lewis, OF
Nevada, read paper on "Fruit Growing
in Nevada" L. A. Goodman, of West
port, Mo-. read paper on practicable
Landscape Improvement for Country
Homes" W. H. Raglan, of Greencas-
tie, Ind, secretary of the society, read
paper on ''Our Neglected Native
Fruits"
THE State Board of Trade of California
has adopted q circular concerning the
condition of the laboring classes in Cali
fornia, which will be sent East for dis
tribution. The circular recites that work
is assured all, and that higher wages are
paid than for the same character of work
east of the Rockies. The circular also
states that the prosperity of the people
Is attested by the fact that while Califor-
mia has but one fiftieth of the population
of the United States, the people have
one-twentieth of the total savings de-
pcsita