Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-12

tne state convention to meet In New
York City on May ID.
The count of the money in the New
York sub-treasury, which occupied Just
one month, showed an aggregate accumu-
lation of $15s, 575, 645.S5.
1t is said that James D. Fish. the con-
victed ex-president of the New York Ma
rine Bank, is enjoying life and all the
delicacies of the season in his prison
home.
A DISPATCH from Rome, on the 5th,
stated that, owing to recent letter from
Cardinal Gibbons, the papal authorities
have decided not to condemn the writings
of Henry George.
THE strikers boycott. which threatened
to paralyze the entire railroad system of
Chicago, was raised on the 4th, and all of
the discharged men, save those of the Bur-
lington, returned to work.
JOHN T. STONE, the indicted embezzling
manager of the Pennsylvania School Sup
ply Company, of Philadelphia, pleaded
guilty, on the 9Th, and was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
THE Ohio, Indiana s. Western engineers
and firemen of the Brotherhood, on the I'd,
notified General Manager Henderson that
if he accepted any more Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy cars they would strike.
THE German Socialists now enjoying a
refuge in Switzerland have paraphrased
and burlesqued the Emperor's amnesty
decree, and circulated 10000 copies of
their work in the principal towns of Ger
many.
A DISPATCH from London, on the 9TH,
says the subscription to the Mexican loan
haS fa1-O U
finding favor in German quarters. Four
times the amount asked for has been Of
fered.
CLAUS SPRECKELs has chosen Philadel-
phia as the site of his Eastern sugar re-
fnery. He purchased a lot on the Della
ware river front, on the Sd, and will erect
a $3,O00,000 plant, with an estimated an
nua1 output of $35, 100000
IT is proposed to celebrate the twenty
fifth anniversary of the organization of
the Flora Horticultural Society of Cologne,
Prussia, by an international horticultural
exhibition to be held in that city in
August of the present year.
ALL negotiations between Andrew
Carnegie and his employees at the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works having failed,
Mr.. Carnegie, on the 4th, ordered the
works boarded up. This lockout affects
about three thousand men.
THE formal celebration of the one-hun-
dredth anniversary of the settlement of
the Northwest Territory, from which the
States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin were formed, was held at
Marietta, o., ON the 9Th, 9Th and It'll.
THE Secretary of State received
a cablegram from Consul-General
Lewis, at Tangier, on the 5th, from which
it is inferred that an early and satisfac-
tory settlement of the trouble with the
Moorish Government will be reached.
AN investigation into the conduct of the
Philadelphia post-off1ce, by the Congress
sional committee appointed for that pur-
pose, was begun on the 4th. The office, it
is charged, has not been conducted in ac-
cordance with the Civil-Service rules.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg, on the
Sd, says both the Gar and the Pope have
approved the preliminaries of the con-
vention between Russia and the Vatican.
When the details have been finally set
tied, Russia will accredit Minister to
the Vatican.
AT meeting of the Anti-Poverty wing
of the United Labor party antagonists of
Henry George, in New York, ON the 9th,
the chairman said the United Labor party
intended to unite with the Union Labor
and Greenback parties, and nominate a
candidate for the presidency.
j. MARION BROOKS, of California, whose
nomination as district attorney was pend
ing beforeIthe Senate, has notified the Presi-
dent that he has made 81 .000, 900 in real es-
tate transactions since his appointment,
and suggested that the prize be given to
some more needy applicant.
THE Senate committee on education and
labor gave hearing, on the 9th, to sew
eral clergymen from a distance, repre-
senting various Sunday observance asso-
Citations. They advocated an amendment
to the Interstate Commerce law, looking
to the stoppage of Sunday trains.
Mr.. HENRY IRVING, Miss Ellen Terry,
and Josef Holman arrivedin England, on
the 9th, all in excellent health. Miss Terry
proceeded to Bremen, en- route to Heidel-
berg. During the voyage Mr.. Irving gave
readings, and young Hofmann entertained
the passengers with piano selections.
In the general term of the New York
Court of Common Pleas, on the I'd, in
suit to recover for property lost by a
passenger in his berth in a sleeping-car,
it was held that complainant was entitled
to Judgment, and that railroad companies
are responsible for their passengers and
property.
BEFORE the Senatorial committee in
vestigating alleged irregularities in the
Philadelphia post-office, on the 9Th,
Colonel James Lambert, of the Press, tes-
titled that nearly every county had its rep
resentatives from some Government Office
present at the State committee meeting at
Harrisburg.
QUEEN VICTORIA will visit Charlotten-
burg on her return journey from Italy,
and be present during the stay at the pal
ace of Prince Alexander of Battenberg.
1t is understood that the Queen will par
ticipate in the discussion preliminary to
the arrangement of a marital alliance be-
tween Prince Alexander and Princess
Victoria, her grand daughter.
Prof. HOGAN, the aeronaut, had a mar
row escape from death at Jackson, Mich,
ON the 4th. When his air-ship had reached
an elevation of ten thousand feet, he jumped
ont and his parachute at first failing to
~erk, he shot downward rapidly for five
hunared feet. The umbrella-shaped life
preserssr then caught the air, and he de-
scended In safety to the earth.
Two thousand miners assembled N the
cpera-house at Shamokin, Pa, on the 3D., |
= near Master Workman Lewis deliver
.S reason for declaring the late Reading |
OH. The speaker was frequently |
pPaIuoeo during his remarks. which, |
1sNeseI, were very conservatives. He be- |
es tnaS the prosperity of the lahoriuo |