Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-26


marriage with any man whose morals are
not of the purest.
SECRETARY Villas has relieved Assis-
tant Secretary Muldrow of the care of
land decisions, and has taken this class
of work under his own supervision.
IT is rumored that Austria is to stand
by Ferdinand as Prince of Bulgaria, and
that in such event Russia will make a
fight, if necessary, to keep him off the
throne.
Mr.. WILLIAM O'BRIEN, editor of United
Ireland, was released from Tullamore
prison on the Goth. A number of other
similar offenders were sent to jail durin e
the day.
THE Government of Portugal has noti-
fed the Secretary of State that it has re-
nounced the protectorate over Dahomey.
which it assumed by treaty concluded
in 1885.
THE st. James Gazette announces the
resignation of Lord Charles Beresford, a
junior lord of the British Admiralty, and
says that other changes in the Admiralty
Office are probable.
Mr.. W. j. LANE, member of Parliame
for the Eastern division of Cork County,
Ireland. has been sentenced to a months
Imprisonment without labor for melting
tenants to resist bailiffs.
THE charges made by Irish leaders
against Mr.. Balfour. that he wanted half
dozen of the most prominent and
physically weakest to die in prison, is to
be brought to the attention of Parliament
EDWARD E. LEWIS and VIM. II. Hunt,
of Pittsfield, Mass, have succeeded in
producing copper by treating iron with
certain acids. Lewis was badly burned
by an explosion in their laboratory on the
18th.
SIMULTANEOUSLY with the order of the
Servian Government for the manufact
ure and delivery of J60, 600 rifles comes
the verified report that 10000 similar
weapons have been contracted for by the
Hungarians.
POLISH land owners are in despair over
the rapid depreciation in the value of
their estates. They complain that the
government avoids buying army supplies
in Poland, preferring to buy elsewhere at
enhanced prices.
AN imperial trade has been issued at
Constantinople which enjoins the War
Ministry to use the greatest dispatch in
completing the military defenses in and
around Adrianople.
JOHN MADDEN, fourteenth victim of the
Bradford (Mass.) disaster, who was in
jured at the farmhouse, died at the hos
pital at Haverhill on the 18th. He be-
longed in Bradford, and leaves a widow
and four children.
THE Mexican Government has for
warded to Washing ton papers requesting
the extradition of Mayer, alias Bourton,
the Patti concert ticket swindler. There
is great anxiety to have Bourton brought
to answer for his stupendous fraud.
REPRESENTATIVE O'DoNNELL, of Michi-
gan, has prepared for introduction in the
House bill providing that, after July 1,
the postage city letters, where the
system of free delivery is establis he'd,
shall be fixed at one cent per ounce or
fraction thereof.
FORT KEoGH, Mont. has the honor of
having the widest range of temperature
of any place on earth. During u recent
storm the thermometer marked Go deg.
below, while last summer it ranged from
120 to 80 degrees above, total range for
year of 1876 degrees.
Mr.. HOWARD DOUGLASS, supreme
chancellor of the world, Knights of
Pythias, states that the necessary funds
have been secured for the entertainment
of the members of the grand lodge of the
United States, and that their next meet
ing will be held in Cincinnati.
THE President, on behalf of himself and
Mrs. Cleveland, has accepted ex-Govern-
or Cornelps invitation to attend the
twelfth annual commencement of Cornell
University at Ithica, n. Y, next June,
conditioned upon the possible emergen-
cies of official duties at that time.
JACOB SHARP swore on the 18th that he
expects to die soon, and that he wants to
settle up all his earthly affairs without
delay, in order that he may die in peace
The suit in which he made this melancholy
affidavit is one brought against him to re-
cover an unpaid bill for wire fence.
A CONVOY of prisoners, while being
taken from South Russia to the Caucasus,
mutinied and attacked the engine driver.
The train was stopped and a desperate
fight ensued, in which eight soldiers, two
gendarmes and thirty-one prisoners were
killed. Twenty-one prisoners escaped.
THE full Corean legation called at the
State Department at Washington on the
18th, and then proceeded to the White
House, accompanied by Secretary Bayard
and Chief Clerk Brown. They were in
troduced individually to the President
who welcomed them to the United States.
THE general passenger agents of the
trunk lines decided, at a meeting in New
York, on the 18th, that on and after
January % all the free passenger bag
gage-150 pounds to each passenger-will
be checked through to Pacific coast
points. All excess baggage will have to
be rechecked at the Missouri river.
AMONG the petitions presented in the
Senate, on the 10th, was one asking for a
change in the postal laws so that paper
back novels, Observation-Disclosures stories''
: shall not be sent through the mails as
second class matter, paying one cent per
pound, while school, law, scientific and
religious books have to pay eight cents
per pound.
THE New York Tribune says that the
accident TO Mrs. John A. Logan, by which
she was thrown from carriage, has left
lasting results. Her friends are informed
by letters that she has severe pain almost
constantly in the injured shoulder. Mrs.
Logan is said 10 have grown old rapidly
since the Generals death, and to have
lost much of her old-time vivacity and
energy.
REPRESENTATIVE BELMONT, chairman OF
the House committee on foreign affairs,
said, on the 10Th, that he did not believe
fish would be put on the free list in any
tariff bill to be introduced at the present
session of Congress, aud that certainly
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