Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-24

the conviction of Doodle Alderman A. J
McQuade, who is serving a term in Sin,
Sing.
THE General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, representing sixty
nine Presbyteries covering the territor.
from Maryland to Mexico, met in Balti
more on the 18th.
JUDGE BANK of the Superior Court a
Keokuk, Ia, has handed down an opinion
in which he holds that the stHouse of Pub
lie Entertainment" ordinance of Keokul
is invalid and void.
IT is charged that Harry Phillips, JOIN
L. Sullivan's late manager, is a burglar
and wanted in Canada to answer for tn
robbery of the vault of the Grand Trunl
Railroad Company.
THE London Chronicles Rome CORE
spondent telegraphs that he has hear'
that official or semi official relation be
tween England and the Vatican are to bt
restored in the autumn.
THE loss to the town of Fountain, Col.
by the collision and explosion on th'
Santa Fe railroad, on the 18th, is estimated
at 900. The loss to the railroad com
pany will reach $4,000.
THE Senate in secret session, on the
18th, decided not to open the doors whe1
the Fisheries treaty is under considera
ton. Mr.. Hoar's resolution to ADM
official reporters was also rejected.
THE four delegates at large and seven
teen of the twenty district delegates from
Tennessee to the National Republican
convention are for Blaine. Sherman:
name was not mentioned in the conven
ton.
COUNT STRoGoNoFF, of Russia, and his
sister, the Princess Tzcherbastoff, and
escort of 80 men have been captured by 6
tribe of Kurd nomads in Asia Minor, who
demand an immense ransom for theli
release.
ALL of the poo1-rooms in Detroit, Mich,
and Gilman & Barnes book-makine
rooms were closed by order of the police
on the 18th. Gilman & Barnes lost $1,000
on the Kentucky Derby, on the 18th, as a
parting shot.
SENATOR MORRILL,, chairman of the COM
mittee on finance, on the 10Th designated
Senators Allison, Aldrich, Hiscock, Beck
and Harris, as a subcommittee to COM
pile tariff bill as substitute for the
Mills bill.
GEORGE BENSON, the Patti ticket swim
dler, awaiting eXtradition to Mexico,
killed himself in Ludlow Street Jail, New
York City, on the 10Th, by throwing him.
self over the staircase rail to the stone
floor below.
THE Senate finance committee, on the
18th, authorized the chairman to appoint
q sub committee of five to consider the
general subject of revenue revision, so as
to be prepared when the Tariff bill comes
from the House.
THE Minnesota Democrats met in State
convention at st. Paul, on the 18th, elected
delegates to the st. Louis convention and
adopted a platform indorsing President
Cleveland's administration, and the pend
ing tariff legislation.
THE Secretary of War sent to the Sen
ate. on the 18th, letter from the Chief OF
Engineers concerning the necessity for
the fertilization of Puget Sound, w. L,
The letter gives at length suggestions and
directions for the end desired.
THE Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce
has adopted a resolution protesting
against Australia's dealings with the Chi
nese question as fraugnt with danger
to British interests and as likely to affect
friendly intercourse with China.
1T was stated, ON the 18th, that the NOM
ination of Mr.. Fuller to be Chief Jus tice
would likely remain Enacted upon until
after the eight Associate Justices have
gone on their circuits. There was not the
slightest doubt of his confirmation.
A BILL was reported in the Senate, on
the 14th, allowing ex-Commissioner OF
Agriculture George B. Loring $50, S07, the
amount expended by him for sorghum
~ x,1h0 fry
which were disallowed by the Comptroller
TwESrY-oNE members of the Honora-
BILE Artillery Company of London, IN
GLIDING a number of field and staff Off
GERS, sailed, on the 18th, from Southamp-
ton, to become the guests of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company of Bos-
ton.
The suit of Inventor Edison against the
United States Electric Light Company
for infringement of patent. begun three
years ago, and on which twenty-six SINH
lar suits depend, was decided by Judge
Wallace, in the United States Circuit
Court, in favor of the defendant, on the
10th.
SUIT for damages was commenced, on
the 18th, against Ensign Thos. w. Ryan,
U. s. N, and j. II. Meade, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, by the father of Minnie Parsons, for
abduction of his daughter. The court
granted eapias for the arrest of the de-
PENDANTS, and fixed the bail in each case
at coo
MRS. SCoF1EID, held for completely in
the death of Broker Hatch, of New York,
was taken before the Supreme Court,
on the 18th, on writ of habeas corpus,
and discharged from custody on the
ground that the court had no authority to
cause her confinement in the House of
Detention.
GoyERNoR HILL of New York issued a
proclamation, on the 10Th, declaring con-
tapious pleuro-pneumonia prevalent
among the cattle in New York, Kings,
Queens, Richmond and part of West
chester counties, and proclaiming them
under the Federal Animal
Industry act.
SECRETARY WHITNEY, on the ION, ap
the recommendation of the Naval
Roard that Messrs. Cramp & Sons be
Granted an extension of time, averaging
tour months, for the completion of the
cruiser Baltimore, the gunboat Yorktown
and the dynamite cruiser fesINlus' Ao"
building at Philadelphia
THE Disability Pension bull introduced
IN the House, on the 18th, by NJ. Matson,
authorizes the Secretary OF the interior
to adjudicate all pension claims on ac,
count of disability or injuries incurred
since March 4, 1851, filed ON and after ouIy
|, 1880. and up to date Of the passage OF
he bill. The cost of the bill viii not eA-
iced $3.50, 100000.