Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-01

garlan question.
The constables who arres ted the whole
sale liquor dealers at Des Moines, Ia, and
then released them, have been indicted
for receiving brides.
THE presidential party en- route to
Florida, ON the 21st and 22d, were the re.
cipients of enthusiastic greeting by large
crowds at all points along the route.
THE injunction of secrecy was removed
from the fisheries treaty on the 21st, and
it was given to the press, together with
the Presidents letter accompanying it.
IT is stated that the Government of
Bulgaria has firmly resolved to reject any
proposal to dethrone Ferdinand even
If such proposal be supported by the
Powers.
IT was thought in Washington on the
Democratic convention had narrowed
down to Chicago. st. Louis and San
Francisco.
THE newspapers of Madrid state that
the Duke of Montpensier has notified the
government thatlhe will return to Spain
notwithstanding Prime Minister Sa-
gasta's warning.
a DISPATCH from San Reno states that
thO CIO"h InCo 10 Il uc" tuOo III
his throat, which was especially made for
him in England, and that better results
follow from it's use.
THE fisheries treaty was considered by
the Senate in secret session on the Goth.
An evident desire to order its immediate
publication was barred by the code of
rules governing the body.
SIX THOUSAND striking miners in and
al I1urNr T,frIr oh foil To
work On the morning of the goth, COM
pletely modified by President Corbin's
gift of $4,000 to the miners.
IT is stated that MIR. Joseph Pulitzer,
proprietor of the New York World and
st. Louis Post Dispatch. will probably be-
come totally blind. His treatment at
Santa Barbara was not successful.
AN influential Republican Senator is
credited with declaring that hereafter
all executive business upon which the in
junction of secrecy is not specially voted
viii be conducted with open doors.
FEDERAL offics-holding members of the
National Democratic committee took the
hint recently sent out from Washington,
and were represented on the committee,
at its meeting on the odd. by proxy.
A RULING of the Supreme Court of the
United States on the Goth, in effect defers
for the present the execution of the sem
tence of death pronounced upon Brooks,
alias Maxwell, the slayer of C. Arthur
Preller in st. Louis in 1885.
ON the 22d Mrs. Josephine Ammon, the
wealthy widow of Cleveland, o., who was
incarcerated for contempt of court for re-
fusing to reveal the whereabouts of a
young girl whom she was defending from
lot 81 ~
On the 22d convention of Republican
clubs of Michigan was held in Detroit, at
which a State league was organized, and
measures discussed for conducting
successful campaign next fall. General
Alger was the unanimous choice for Pres
ident.
A BILL was introduced in the House on
the Goth by Mr.. Blount, of Georgia, pro-
viding for the reorganization of the
postal service. Three classes of post
masters are created, with salaries rang
ing from 5000 per anuum, with per-
quisites, to $50 per quarter.
SIR HENRY BURKE, who owns estates at
Woodford, Ireland, has agreed to the plan
offered by his tenants, and settlements
have been made in accordance with it to
the satisfaction of all. Only Lord Clan
w
that district against their tenants.
IT was stated in the House of Commons
on the Goth that agricultural values in
Great Britain had shrunk f42, 100000 In
1885, and could not now be less than
ESQ, 200, 600. Thousands of acres of land
had gone out of cultivation, greatly in
creasing idleness and reducing wages.
SECRETARY OF WAR ENpIcoTT's reply to
the Boutelle resolution of inquiry relative
to the disposition OF captured rebel flags,
was read in the House of Representatives
on the Goth. The author of the resolution
characterized the reply as a weak attempt
to evade responsibility for the acts of the
present Administration.
THE Legislature of Maryland was con
siderably excited on the 23d over the dis
covery that bill had slipped through the
House and been sent to the Senate con-
tanning a job by which a high Federal
official was to receive a fortune at the ex-
pense of private citizens. The bill was
recalled and very materially modified.
DIR. MCGLYNN sent a cable message in
Latin to Rome on the 18th. 1t is said
to have been addressed to friends there
who have been working in his interest all
along. The doctor does not want to re-
poets to have, the ban upon him removed,
and see his enemies in the church hum
bled.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, in an ad-
dress TO the Oxford Union Society, on the
23d, said: 'sWhen England has ceased to
be a nation of wealth; when her manu-
features and her commerce have depart
ed, and when manly resolution and logged
determination no longer remain, and the
memory of the past is forgotten, then, and
then only, will home rule be granted in
Ireland"
THE New York State Senate Trust In
vestigating comm ittee took up the Cot
toon-S Seed Oil Trust on the oath, over
ruling the objection of the attorney for
the Trust, and developed some interesting
facts. Mills which before the formation
of the Trust were ON the verge of bank
ruptcy, have since received an actuA
dividend of twelve per cent. on their in
yeStment.
On the odd the Democrat ic National COM
mittee met in Washington and fixed the
date of meeting of the National DEM
ocratic convention for July 8. Invita-
lions from New York, Cincinnati Chi
cago, st. Louis and San Francisco were
presented and the claims of the several
places to the honor of entertaining the
convention Were ably urged by repre-
sent@tives from each. Ten ballots were
taken, when the convention adjourned
until the I'D, with San Francisco leading
by the following vote: San Francisco, II.
Chicago, 10; St Louis. Il; New York and
Cincinnati out of the race.