Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-05

By ELI ID. AXE.
IRoNTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
THE Massachusetts, Tariff Reform
League held its annual meeting at Boston
on the Goth. The banquet was brilliant
affair.
THE remains of the late Daniel Mann ing
were consigned to the tomb at Albany, N.
Y, on the 9th, with impressive cere-
monies.
THE resignation of the Servian Ministry
has been accepted bv King Milan. The
retirement of II. Ristics is considered q
check to Russia.
THE Cleveland {O.) IRON Trade ReUie,c
places the losses by fire to the iron works
of the country during the year at $4,3S1, =
600 against $3,417,5O in 1886.
THE wear 1887 has added 1900 miles OF
new main line tracks to the railway sys.
tenn of the Countrywide greatest single
years record in the history of the United
States.
THE Bulgarian Sobranje has passed
bills authorizing the government to con.
clude treaties of commerce with all coun :
tries and to issue loan of $40, 600, 900 for
railway construction.
An enormous cave, rivaling the cele-
brated Mammoth Cave, containing num-
mified bodies and relics of bronze and
pottery, is reported having been discov-
cred at Bloomfield, XIV.
THE Prince of Wales has presented John
i. Sullivan with most astounding walk
ing stick of malacca, with huge twisted
snake for a head, in massive silver, and
with its scales carefully carved.
Mr.. PARNELL is spending the Christ
mas holidays with Mr.. O'Shea at Ethan,
in Kent. Mr.. Parnell's health is much
improved. He will probably address his
constituents in Cork in January.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, the members of
the Cabinet and Private Secretary La
mont went to Albany on the Goth, to
attend the funeral of the late ex-Secre-
tary of the Treasury, Daniel Manning.
CAPTAIN PAINTER and Mate Fischer of
derland, England, under charge of MUIR
derous cruelty to members of their crew
during a recent trip from San Franc isco.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH gave a Christ
mas present TO Count Andrassy, accom-
panied by such peculiar remarks as to sug-
gest an Endorsement of Andrassy's ener-
getic policy on the pending international
complications.
A CoNCEs SION has been granted by the
Mexican Government to a steamship COM
pany for line between New York, New
Orleans and Vera Cruz, the vessels to
touch at all Mexica ports on the Gulf of
Mexico and to carry mails.
MOST of the German rivers are frozen
over. Several of the Baltic ports, includ-
Ing Konigsburg. are closed. The southern
and western rivers are covered with drift
ing ice, and it has been found necessary
to remove the pontoon bridges. Railway
traffic is greatly interrupted.
JOHN CROSBY, president of the Millers'
National Association, and a member of
the great -four milling firm of Washburn
Crosby & Co., Minneapolis. Mimi, died on
the morning of the 29th of a complication
of diseases. The immediate cause of his
death was paralysis of the heart.
THE steamer Roman, which arrived at
Boston on the 22d, brought a stowaway, a
Scotch boy of eighteen, and permitted
him to land and escape. The Commits
sioner of Emigration has fined the COM
pany $1,000 and the vessel is detained in
port until the boy is returned or the fine
paid.
IT is stated on reliable authority that
the Pope has instructed Archbishop Wal sh
and the other visiting Irish prelates to
adopt a conciliatory attitude toward the
government in Ireland. The Pope on the
26th received Queen Victoria's jubilee
gift, which was presented by the Duke of
Norfolk.
ANDREW SIMLER disappeared a week
ago from his home near Canton, o. On
the 9th he was found in hay NOW with
both legs frozen up to the knees. Simler
declares that he crawled into the the hay
NOV with the intention of lying there I'M
til he froze to death. The chances are
he will die.
ADvICEs from Sydney, New South
Wales, state that the French comman-
dant of the New Hebrides had been or
dered by his government to evacuate the
islands in January. A French company
is buying land from the natives of the
New Hebrides for the purpose of estab-
fishing trading stations.
RICHARD 81. HAERINGER, a popular
young man who has just died at Troy, n.
Y, was a constant smoker of cigarettes.
He became troubled with an affection of
the heaN, which was followed by dropsy.
Several physicians attended him, and
they all agreed that his system had been
shattered by nicotine poisoning.
THE Pope, in receiving sixty delegates
from the former pontifical army, headed
by Generals Kansler and Charlotte, ex-
army, but this affiiction, he said, was
softened by the hope that the day was
near when he would again be enabled tc
have his devoted soldiers around him.
ADvICEs from Auckland, New Island
say that the French have annexed Ralatea,
one of the Society islands. The native
chiefs refusing to submit, the gunboat
Scorpion bombarded the villages, and a
proclamation was issued stating that the
natives would be punished and fined I'M
less they submitted to French authority.
THE best part of Wakefield, Wis, is in
ashes. Among the buildings destroy ed
are the Wakefield Bank, Haywood, West
colt & Murray's large general store, post
Office R. A. Morris jewelry store, Millen.
thal's clothing store, Coliseum Theater,
dozen saloons and a large number of
about forty buildings in
all.
Mrs. EUSIcE BoswoRTH TAYLOR, wife
of Congressman e. B. TAYLOR, of Ohio,
died on the Goth of apoplexy at Providence