Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-05

system of duties.
THE testimony of VIM S. Bartle, of st.
Louis, before tile House committee on
agriculture on the oath, created great eX-
citement among lard and pork men of the
entire country. His startling statements
nre generally discredited.
THE suit of E. P. Tenny against the
Boston Congregationdlist for 100000 dam
ages for alleged libelous references to Mr..
Tenny's removal from the presidency OF
Colorado College was decided in favor OF
the defendant on the 9th.
THE House committee on the Judiciary,
on the 9th, agreed to report favorably a
bill providing for the erection of a United
States prison, to cost not exceeding $500,
600, at place convenient for the confine-
ment of long-term prisoners.
DISPATCHES from China on the 2Sth say
that the Honan floods are over, leaving
two million people destitute. The starv-
ing hOrdes are invading the surrounding
towns and devouring everything like To-
Gusts, causing great distress to the poor
inhabitants.
AT the meeting of the New York Nine
teenth Century Club, on the 9th, Miss
Lydia Bell and DR.. Louise Fisk spoke in
support of the efficacy of the "Mind
Cure". DR.. a. W. Hammond replied, Of
fering to give $4,000 for any proof of the
statements made.
JAMES GILHooLY, member of Parlia-
ment for West Cork, who was recently
sentenced to two months Imprisonment,
but released on bail pending his appeal,
was, on the 30th, sentenced to two weeks
additional imprisonment for assaulting a
police inspector.
RECORDER SMYTHE of New York re-
-ceived the following note, marked "Per-
sonal," on the goth: ''Dedr Sir: When a
decision favorable to Jay Gould is rem
dered, $25O,0O0 in 81 900 bills will be left
at your residence" 1t was ev IDENTIFY the
work of some wag.
Rev. FATHER J. c. DRUMGooL, known all
over the world through the paper The
Homeless Child, whose subscriptions built
the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in
Lafayette Place, New York City, at a cost
of $50, 900, died at the Home, of pneumonia,
on the 2sth, aged seventy years.
A SENSATION was caused at the trial of
ex-custom- officials in San Francis
co, on the Goth. One of the defendants
confessed to aeonspiracy by which large
number of return certifcates were fraud
ulently secured and taken to China and
SOl0 TO WOulQ-D6 immigrants.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN POwDERLY
on the 2Sth issued a lengthy circular, call
ing upon the knights of Labor for au-
thority and means to inaugurate a system
of education within the order, and prom
Using to do work for the order such as
had never been done before.
In reply to the offer of the Detroit Euen-
ing Journal to pay $500 to General Greedy or
any other person who would send it a corr
rect guess as to the three hottest days in
Detroit during the coming summer, Cen
eral Greedy, on the 30th, telegraphed that
they should be July IA, Is and I16.
THE International Range Association,
in session at Denver, Col, on the 2Sth,
adopted resolution amending their con-
stitution so as to give individual member
ship, after which a recess was taken to al
low the members to qualify themselves
under the changed constitution.
THE New York Board of Aldermen
passed an ordinance, on the 2Sth, taking
away from the mayor the absolute power
>-of controlling the flags on the City Hall,
and placing it in a majority of the Board
of Aldermen. Mayor Hewitt expresses
himself well pleased with the change.
THE mass of cartilage recently removed
from the Emperor Frederick's throat is
held to furnish incontrovertible evidence
of the correctness of DIR. Mackenzie's per-
sistent contention that the disease is not
cancer. Its voluntary expulsion is be-
1ieved to indicate that nature is making
curative effort.
THE death of Bargarsch Ben Saaid, the
Sultan of Zanzibar, it is feared, will jeop-
ardize all the monuments of progress
reared by that enlightened ruler, and
plunge the country again into semi-sav-
agery, from which it was rescued by Sir
Bartle Frere and the British representa-
fives who followed him.
IT transpired on the Goth that the i'm
provement of Emperor Frederick's condi-
ton is due to the removal from his throat
of a large piece of diseased cartilage of
such nature as has never been known in
a cancerous disease. The cartilage re-
moved will be microseopicaily examined
by Prof. Waldemeyer.
THE arguments in the suit brought by
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road Company against the Rock Island
Railroad Company, which were to have
been made before Judge Gresham, in the
United States Court at Chicago, on the Goth.
were indefinitely postponed on account Of
the Judges absence In Milwaukee
THE President transmitted a message to
Congress, on the 9th, recommending leg
islation TO exclude hogs and hog products
from France aud Germany, In conse-
quence of authentic reports of the spread
of trichinosis in the latter and hog cholera
in the former country. Thus is the much
Slandered American hog indicated.
LAWYER ANDREWS, of New York, pub
1ished long statement on the 2sth, re-
peating the charge that George Gould of
fered money to have the Kansas Pacific
suit settled. On the same day Jay Gould
issued his reply TO this, in which he &C
cuses Andrews of attempted blackmail,
and gave his evidence ON that point at |
length.