Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-12

| PRINCE BISMARCK, on the 5th, asked
| permission of the Emperor to resign the
CHARACTERISTIC, alleging ill-health as his
| reason.
/ The Ho1se committee on p ost-otfice
| completed the consideration of the Post
| Office Appropriation bill, on the 9Th.
| Roscoe CoNKLING has recently been I'M
| der the care of physicians, suffering from
an abscess in his right ear.
| MORMON missionaries are reported as
doing q very successful work in the upper
counties of the State of Georgia. Fifteen
| persons left Oconee County for Utah with
| in few days, recently.
| In his reply to Governor Wise, Senator
/ Malone, of Virginia, says, sarcastically,
that ''as our leaders have diminished by
! desertion and revolt, our rank and file has
! grown.
| A POLISH WOMAN named Volvovitch,
whose husband was hanged at Wilkes
| barre, Pa, on the Sd, e1oped with butch
er to whom she had been engaged since
| her husbands conviction, on the evening
| of the 9th.
GEORGE ALLEN, of Aiken, s. c., for
some time a sufferer from disease of
the stomach, which caused every thing he
ate to give him terrible pain, determined
| to "cast physic to the dogs' and starve
out the malady by refusing all food. The
pain entirely ceased after thirty-nin
days. He was buried two days later.
The Prohibitionists of Woodbury.
County, Ia, were surprised, on the 9th,
by the granting of license by the County
Court, to the Seller Brewing Company, to
manufacture beer for one year.
A CALL for National conference of the
slngle-tax advocates, to be held in Chi
cago, July 4, 1888, has been issued.
A PHILADELPHIA i1ry- IN the 9Th award
ed damages to Adam Forepaugh, the
Snowman, for delay in getting his show
train to Meadville, Pa, in time to give an
afternoon performance.
Mr.. PARNELL's Arrears bill provides
that all proceedings for the removal of g.
tenant for nou-payment of rent shall be
stayed upon the tenants application for
revision of rent, until a decision upon
such application is given, and that no ex-
ira rent shall be exacted for improve
ments made by the tenant.
KENNEDY PORTER, son of Ex-Governor
Porter of Tennessee, was probably fatally
shot at Nashville, on the night of the 9TH
by VIII Edmunds. The origin of the diff
iculty is supposed to have been the at
tention of young Porter to Edmunds' sis
ter.
Mr.. T. w. RUSSELL, UniOnist member
for South Tyrone, on the 9th intimated his
intention to move the postponement of
Mr.. Balfour's land bill for six months.
THE Boston Herald of the 6thistates that
Frank l.. Wilson, a freight clerk of the
Boston & Providence railroad, in that
city, has absconded, and is -, 200 or $40, 900
short in his accounts.
THE California State Prohibition con-
yention adjourned on the 9th.
The executive committee of the trunk
lines took action, on the 9th, in the matter
of lake and rail tariffs, which We're finally
settled for the season.
FIGHTING was reported a3t the 9th, be-
tween the Spanish garrisV vt Zooloo and
the natives of the Zooloo islands, in which
the Spaniards lost ten killed and seventy
wounded, and the natives two hundred
killed.
In sparring match, under Queensberry
rules, at Rome, N. Y, on the 9th, Con
Tobin, of Troy, knocked out Bob Rey-
nolds, of Syracuse, in three rounds.
THE President, on the 9th, approved the
Logan and Blair pension bills.
THE President has nominated Brigadier-
General Crook to be Major General.
The Treasury Department reports a net
decrease in the monetary circulation dur
ing March of So, 167,514.
The bill, which has passed the Iowa
Senate, providing that all executions in
bIclU obSsoC SIIouAo t<ehC plttCC 1C t1C pCuI-
Tertiary, by either electricity or hanging,
as the judge might decree, was defeated
in the House of Representatives on the
9Th.
BUSINESS failures for the week ending
April were follows: For the United
States, 1879; for Canada, IS; total, 227.
For the corresponding week last year the
total failures numbered 223.
THE Pope, on the 9th, summoned Cardi-
nal Lavigerie, Archbishop of Algiers and
Tunis, to consult upon the policy of
France toward the church.
WHITE and Cross, the Raleigh, IN. Co.
bank forgers, offered, on the 9th, to return
to Raleigh on the charge of forgery, with
out extradition, but not on the charge OF
carrying stolen money into Canada.
Counsel for the Norfolk Bank refused to
withdraw this charge.
THE London Standard believes that the
government intends to drop Mr.. Balfour's
Land bill, and substitute therefor a bill
for the prolongation of the term of the
land commission. Also appointing
additional sub ACCOMPLISHMENTS