Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-03

grun Cnautg gegistes
BY I'LL d. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
The Emperor OF Germany partook OF
solid food, which he greatly relished, on
the 2eth,
THE prayer in the United States Senate
on the oath was offered by Rev. Mendez, a
Jewish rabbi.
QUEEN VICTORIA arrived in Berlin on
the cath. In Difference to her expressed
wish no public demonstration was made.
GOVERNOR GRAY of Indiana was Endorsed
for Vice-President by the Indiana State
the 26th.
GENERAL MARIANA telegraphed from
Massowah, on the 26th, that KING John had
reopened negotiations for peace between
Italy and Abyssinia.
THE managers of the proposed Grand
Army parade in Brooklyn ON Decoration
Day have secured President Cleveland's
consent to review the parade.
THE Americas club of Pittsburg, Pa, gave
their second annual dinner in celebration
of the sixty-sixth anniversary of the
birth of General Grant, on the 9th.
THE sentences of General Caffarel and
Nine. Lamousin, who were convicted of
selling medals of the Legion Of Honor,
were confirmed by the Paris Court of
Appeals On the Goth.
THE President has approved the act for
q bridge across the Mississippi river at
Memphis, and the act to facilitate the
prosecution of works projected for the
Improvement of rivers and harbors.
SENATOR WILLIAM P. FRYE, of Maine
Hon. VIM. Mckinley, Jr., of Ohio, and
Hon. VIM. D. Kelly, of Philadelphia, will
address the protective tariff meeting at
the Philadelphia Academy of Music on
May %.
Mrs. AMANDA CowAN, a so-called ma
terializing medium, was exposed as a
fraud in Boston, on the Goth, by the sud-
den lighting of candles by a party of gen.
tlemen who attended the seance for that
purpose.
THE election to fill the Parliamentary
vacancy in Mid Lanarkshire, England,
which took place on the 9th, resulted as
follows: Phillips, Gladstonian, 3,s4i,
Bonsfield, Conservative, 2,917, Hardie,
Labor, GIT.
HUNDREDS of claimants against the de-
funct American Exchange in London
anxiously awaited the arrival of Mr.. Gill
Zig in Liverpool, only to find him too i'll to
take any steps for the relief of the cred
itors of the concern.
WALKER, son of James G. Blaine, in an
interview with a United Press reporter, on
the 18th, said that the reports so persist
emily circulated of his fathers illness
were very annoying and positively with
out foundation in fact.
EDITOR B. F. DILLEY, of Kingston, Pa,
who mysteriously disappeared about a
month ago, and was supposed to have
been murdered, turnedup in Denver, Col,
on the 9th. 1t is believed that he had
been temporarily insane.
THE Dublin Freeman's Journal of the
9th, commenting on the late papal de-
cree against the "plan of campaign"
urges the people to exercise calmness and
patience, and receive it with profound re-
spect and loyalty to Rome.
THE colored people of the District of
Columbia held memorial meeting in the
Metropolitan A. NJ. E. Church on the oath.
Eulogies were delivered on the life of ex-
Senator Conkling. Frederick Douglas
was the principal speaker.
THE first loss in the fourteen years. ex-
perience of the Occidental & Oriental
Steamship Company was occasioned by
the recent wreck of the steamer San
Pablo, which went ashore near Shanghai,
China, and amounted to 100000.
MAJoR-GEsERAL CROOK has been as
signed to to the command of the Depart
ment of the Missouri, in place of General
Terry, retired; and General Brooke has
been assigned to the Department of the
Platte, in place OF General Crook.
A MAJORITY of the Deputies for the De-
partment of the Seine have signed man
ifesto to the electors condemning the
Boulangist movement. The Senators for
that department have been asked to at
tach their signatures to the manifesto.
A REPORT from Paris on the 23d said:
'France is in the direst danger at present,
for all the enemies of the Republic are
ranged around Boulanger, whom they
will use as an instrument with which to
accomplish the destruction they long for"
1T was reported from Lancaster, Pa, on
the 23d, that four children of j. c. Walt
meyer, residing in West Hempfeld town.
ship, had died, the four remaining chill
dren were dying, and the father and
mother were sick with a malignant type
of diphtheria.
THE Keystone Investment Company of
Philadelphia, said to have been big
s'bucket-shop" and hacker for about
twenty similar establishments in Phila-
delphia and neighboring cities, suspended
business on the 9th, with liabilities
placed at 10000; assets unknown.
THE Democratic Congressional caucus,
on the 23d, adopted resolution that dis