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

THE report from Nantucket, Mass, that
one of the crew landed from the wrecked
steamer Canoabury was i'll of cholera, was
denied on the 30th
The report of the Erie railroad for Feb
ruary shows an increase of S12,6so in net
earnings, as compared with February,
1887.
| THE Russian Government has decided
70 spend half million roubles in the
construction of forts and barracks at
| Piczagor, Zirrienkir and Luck.
| ORDERS have been issued by the Russian
| Government for all artillery brigades in
Poland to send half of their reserve am
munition to Kisveheiniff. where a flying
corps is to be organized to operate against
! Bulgaria.
! By the overlooking of the Monan river,
In Prussia, fifty villages were completely
submerged.
| THE correctness of DIR. Mackenzie's
diagnosis and the wisdom of his treat
ment of the Emperor's case is becoming
daily more apparent.
WIN. E. SMITH. eX-AsSistant Secretary
of the Treasury and ex-chairman of the
Democratic State committee, died at
Plattsburg, N. Y, on the Both, aged thirty
| six years. He was a law partner of Smith
| NJ. Weed and protege of the late S. J..
| Tilden.
THE House committee on invalid pen
sions, on the 30th, appointed a sub-com-
mittee to consider the various pending
bills looking to the repeal of the limita-
ton clause of the pension act.
| COUNSEL TWEED, of the Central Pacific
railroad, made an argument before the
| House committee on Pacific railroads, on
| the 30th, in favor of the bill under con-
| sideration to extend the time allowed his
| company to meet its Indebtedness to the
| Government.
| THE Plumb bill, allowing Kansas to
swallow No Mans Land, passed the Senate
on the Goth
GATHER REESE, of Spring Greek, N. c.,
was shot and killed while trying to escape
| from a deputy sheriff and his posse on
| the 30th
! On the Soth, Deputy Revenue Collector
Taylor, OF Raleigh, NC reported the capt
ure of an illicit still in Chatham County,
N. C.
FREDERICK A. MARLEY, of Coshocton
O., committed suicide on the 30th so that
! his five children could get possession of
his property.
Mrs. JOHN GARLICH of Cincinnati,
was instantly killed by an elevator, on the
29th, while trying to step off before it had
stopped.
THE bill granting the st. Louis & San
| Francisco railroad the right of way
through the Indian Territory passed the
Senate on the 29th.
WILLIAM ID. POOLE was, on the 30th, in
| dicted by the grand jury at Boston for
embezzlement. Poole was at one time
chief deputy United States marshal.
CHILL INDIANA, q full blooded Cherokee
Indian, living at Madison, Ga, has claim
on some property there, which, if he can
get proofs, will net him 5000.
ALBERT MURRIsH, an insurance agent
living in Center Township, Neb., shot and
killed his wife and fatally wounded the
hired man. on the 30th, because he sus pect-
ed them of undue intimacy.
THE French Ministry, being defeated in
the Chamber of Deputies, on the 30th, re-
signed.
FIFTY THOUSAND English volunteers
participated in the Easter Monday festivi-
ties. Half that number engaged in a
sham battle, with Dover as the objective
point.
DIR. MACKENZIE having been booted by q
mob upon the streets OF Berlin on the 3Oth,
the Emperor promptly gave orders for his
protection in the future. and declared that
taken as an insult to himself.
GOVERNOR JOHNSON of Maryland, on
the goth, pardoned the seven judges
and clerks of election who were
found guilty of frauds at the polls two
years ago, and sentenced in June last.
A LONDON cablegram ON the 30th con-
firmed the report of a loan of $14, 000,000by
the British Government to the Canadian
Pacific, also; concession of 100000 to
the road for giving up its monopoly.
DR.. EDISON, of New York City, and q
staff of assistants, boarded the steamship
Brittania on the Both and vaccinated the
Italian emigrants on board, after which
all except about seventy-five We're per-
mitted to land.
THE mails from New York City to the
City of Mexico were, on the 30th, by an
order of the Postmaster General, expe-
dited from twenty-four to thirty hours.
The reduced time is six and one-half days.
The House committee on commerce, on
the Both, agreed to favorable report on
the bill establishing permanent quaran-
tine at San Francisco: also, the bill to
change the method of paying steamboat
inspectors.