Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-11-15

over the newspaper reports of the inf1u-
euce exar.ed over him by favorite Amer
leans.
In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
on the :5th, Justice Williams decided that
the Mechanics Lien law was unconstltu-
tional.
AMoye the Republican residents OF
Washington arrangements for the COM
ing inaugural are already being DIS
cussed.
HFyRY ARTHUR BLAKE, Governor and
Commander-in-Chie OF Newfoundland.
has been promoted to Knight Command
er of st. Michael and st. George.
TEr betrothaI will shortly be announced
of the Prince of Naples, the Crown Prince
of Italy. and Princess Clementine, the
third daughter of King Leopold OF Bel
GUM.
Tim London Morning Post quotes at
length from the last annual report OF the
United States Commissioner OF Agricul-
ture, which it characterizes as an sad
mirable book"
THE report that the Clyde steamer Sag
NAV carried arms and ammunition from
New York for the use Of the Haytien inc
surgents has been confirmed by examina-
ton of her papers.
ENGLISH aud German gun -boats have
been ordered to Formosa to protect the
interests of foreigners there. A rebellion
has broken out among the Chinese resi-
dents against taxation.
THERE were persistent rumors In Lon
don, on the 5th, that the British Cabinet
had decided to leave the Washington
Legation in the hands of a Charge DAT
flares for at least year.
ANOTHER atrocious woman murder,
with the usual disgusting butchery of the
remains, was perpetrated in Spitalields,
London, on the night OF the SSh. As be-
fore the police are impotent-
THE Treasury Department has ruled
that sbenedictine" is dutiable at two dol
lars per gallon and three cents per bot
tie, and not at the rate of fifty per cent.
ad valorem, as proprietary cordial
SIR JOHN MACDONALD views without
appreheusions for the future the election
of Mr.. Harrison, and expresses no doubt
that new and satisfactory Fisheries
treaty will be negotiated in good time.
OLIVER WALcorr, aged sixty five, a
prominent citizen of East Long Meadow,
Mass, and descendant of one of the
signers of the Declaration OF Iudepen-
dence, died, on the Sth, from heart dis
ease.
Mr. GLADSTONE, replying to a deputa-
ton which called on him, on the 9th, at
Birmingham, said that he considered it
his duty not to retire from public life so
long as the Irish question remained I'M
settled.
TIE manager and artist of the Paris La
Charge were, on the 5th, each sentenced
to two months Imprisonment and to pay
a fine of 500 francs for ridiculing the
French army and clarifying General
Boulanger.
The International Currency Commits
sion has finally made its report. 1t advo-
Gates the cooperation of England with
the United States, Germany and the Latin
Union to secure the restoration of BIZ
metalism.
REPRESENTATIVE FoRAN, of Ohio, attri-
butes Mr.. Cleveland's defeat to the tariff
question, and says: eve simply placed
a club in the hands of our political oppo-
nents, and they proceeded TO beat out our
brains with it."
THE Wons1n's Standard, a female suf
frage organ at Des Moines, Ia, condemns
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union for indorsing the Prohibition tick
ct. and says this will probably break up
the organization.
A SPECIAL from Youngstown, O., re-
ports the DEATH on the Sth, of Mrs. Han
nah Sharkey, the oldest woman in the
State. She was one hundred and eleven
years of age. having been born at Cork,
Ireland, in lit.
AIR. HARRIsoN's victory in the presi-
Dental election excites little interest in
British diplomatic circles, where it was
expected the election would be intently
watched. The public show almost no in
terest in the result
AT the fall games OF the Manhattan
Athletic Club. in New York, on the 9Th,
j. 8. Mitchell threw the 16-pound ham,
mer $50 feet, beating the record, aud
threw the 56-pound shot 81 feet inch,
beating the record.
WIN. PARKEs, register of deeds of Nell
son County. OAK, absconded, on the 5th,
with $4,000, which he had secured by
mortgaging his property two or three
times over, escaping dete ction by neg
lecting to index the NOR tgages.
THOMAS LITTLE, aged about sixty five
years, of Altoona, Pa, died suddenly, on
the night of the 9TH. of heart disease. He |
was bachelor, and lived a miser's life.
Bonds and money to the amount of $780,
600 were found concealed in his trunk.
THE steamer Saginaw, which sailed
from New York, on the 9Th. for Hayti, is
reported to have had on board arms, am
munition and other contraband articles.
An attempt by the revenue cutter Chau-
der 10 overhaul her proved uuavailing.
SIXTEEN sailors of the ship Hecla, |
which arrived at Tacoma, W. T., on the |
4th, losded with wheat for Great Britain.
entered suit in the District Court against
Captain Snow of that vessel for cruelty.
Their allegations of ill-treatment and |
starvation are blood -curdling.
CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw will deliver the |
ora ion on the occasion Of the centennial |
celebration of Washington's Inaugural |
ton, in New York April 80, next. DR.. |
Storey will offer prayer. Whittier will |
read poem, and Archbishop Corrigan |
will pronounce the benediction. |
The Freeman's Journal of Dublin. Ire |
land, of the 9Th, asserts that all govern
ing sentences for being concerned in |
dynamite plots. were offered their free
dom il they would give evidence for the |
Times before the Parnell Commission, |
and they all refused the offer.
THE wife of Secretary OF War Endicott |
has announced the approaching marriage |
of her daughter to Hon. Joseph Cham |