Iron County register., 1888-10-25
LIE Ireasu-g pepartment holis tha:

THz Treasury Department hollis thai
maple sugar is dutiable.
AUSTRIAN military authorities are in
creasiny their activity on the Russian
frontier because of the stationing Of
large numbers OF Russian troops in the
section named.
The ship builders at Dundee, Scotland,
struck, on the 17th, for an advances in
wages. The masters conceded an adj
vance Of one per cent, and the strikers
resumed work.
PRINCE FERDINAND has summoned the
Bulgarian Sobranje to meet on the 9th
inst.
Dr.. MACKENZIE denies the statement
that Empress Frederick saw proofs of
his book before it was published.
THE Pennsylvania Farmers Club, en-
bracing dozen Of the best-known men
of the State, were entertained at dinner,
on the 18th. by Mr.. George w. Childs, at
his country place 'sWooton." Among
the guests was General Sherman, who
planted a pine tree near an oak planted
by General Grant in 1884.
FOUR Galway UrelRnd) moon1ighters
were sentenced at Wicklow on the 18th.
Cahill got one years. Imprisonment at
hard labor, and Noon. Reilly and Bran
nally nine months each.
j. d. MCCLURE, paymaster for Contrac-
tor McFadden, who is building q branch
road for the Lehigh Valley Company, and
his body guard, one Flanagan were
shot and killed by three masked men in
strip Of woods on the mountain near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 10th, and robbed
of S24, ,000
KING HUMBERr will shortly arrange for
a visit to Berlin to return the call Of En-
peror William.
CONGRESS adjourned sine die on the
goth.
THE British Government leaders are
anxious to make the coming session of
Parliament short, and at the same time
wish to accomplish large amount of
business.
THE coroner's jury Investigating the
Mud Run Pa.) catastrophe. was in ses-
sion, on the 10Th. but could not decide on
verdict.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will review the
Business Mems parade in New York on
the 9th.
THE business community of Ro chester,
n. Y, was agitated, on the 10th, by the
announcement that Fl. s. Briggs, the safe
manufacturer, had mysteriously left the
city; that he was charged with forgery,
and that the sheriff had levied on his
property. The extent of the forgeries IS
unknown, but they will amount to at least
$4,000.
WRIGHT SANFORD died, On the 10Th, at
the Gilsey House, New York, of consump-
ton. He had been sick long time. He
was well-known club and sporting man.
MRS. CArHARINE MCMAHON. aged one
hundred and three, died at Greencastle,
Ind. on the 18th.
TRE book makers at Washington claim
that their Western Union wire was
tapped, on the 18th, and the result Of the
last race at Gutenberg held back long
enough to permit the wire tappers to
back the winning horse in the books after
the race had been run. They estimated
their losses at $500.
PRINCE DoLGoRoUKI, Russian Minister
to Persia, and General Rehubach, Gov
ernor of Turkestan, have been summoned
to st. Petersburg to atsfnd a council to
consider reforms in the administration of
Turkestan.
JUDGE SHELLABARGER filed in the
United States Supreme Court, on the 18th,
q petition for writ of habeas corpus iu
the case of David S. Terry, of California,
who was sentenced by Judge Field, a
San Francisc, :, to Imprisonment for con-
tempt of court
THERE is an average of fifty applica-
ington by those who are desirous of go
ing home to vote.
XAVIER ONLoFsKr and Brian e. Linn,
OF the SarsfeId Guard, formerly of the
British army. on the 18th, fought a
broadsword contest at New Haven, Conn.
The fight was bona fide, and about 1,S00
people Witnessed it. Linn proved the
better soldier and horseman. After Sc
curing eleven points to Oniofski's seven,
he endorsed him.
The friends of D.. w. A. Dunn, a
nephew of Judge Thurman, have endowed
a bed in the Mt. Auburn Hospital at Cin-
cinnati in his memory.
COUNT Won PAAE. Austro- Hungarian
Ambass ador to the Vatican, is about to
retire from his position. The Emperor Of
Austria will decorate him with the Grand
Cross of the Order of st. Stephen Of Hun
gary upon his retirement
COLONEL j. F. Bates the chief of the
free delivery service in the Post-ofice
Department. in his annual report to the
Postmaster General, states that the in
crease in the number of free delivery
Offices during the past year was 1863, mak
ing the total number of such offices 35S.