Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-22

ding of the Princess of Wales were held
in all European capitals on the 18th.
Members of the royal families generally
called at the British embassies and offered
their congratulations.
THE smallpox epidemic at San Fran
cisco was. on the 10th, officially declared
by the Board of Health to be at an end.
There were 347 cases Gncluding Chinese,
imported) and 81 dea tbs since November.
Quarantine was still enforced.
REPORTS received up to the 18th from
three hundred points in Missouri, Kansas
and Arkansas, give most encouraging ac-
counts of the growing wheat crop, which
is said to be in the best condition ever
known at this season of the year.
Two engineers and a conductor were
killed and nine other persons were in
jured on the Lehigh railroad near Flem-
ington, ". j., on the 18th, by derailed and
colliding locomotives employed in forcing
a passenger train through the snow.
Mr. SMELLING, the English delegate to
the Anti Coercion Conference. who was
arrested for advocating the plan of CAM
pain at Limerick, was sentenced to ten
weeks Imprisonment under the Crimes
act, on the 18th.
Montreal, Can, that the Dominion Gov
eminent intends to publish a black list
containing the names of all American
firms which are in the habit of entering
dutiable goods under false pretexts and
thus escaping taxes.
GENERAL BoULASGER was forcib1y re-
tired by the French War Department on
the 18th for visiting Paris in contempt of
authority. All Paris is agog with excite
ment over this indignity to the peoples
favorite, and results disastrous to the
Cabinet are predicted.
THE life prisoners in the Ohio State
penitentiary were allowed to meet in the
chapel on the night of the 18th to discuss
among themselves matters concerning
their condition. Resolutions We're adopt
ed asking that the Parole law be made to
apply to them.
A HORSE trader named Lee Buck was
severely beaten near Vincennes, Ind, on
the 10Th, by four brothers named UT, for
some sharp trade in which they were the
losers. The father of the young men held
the victims horse while the chastisement
was being inflicted.
SPECIAL requiem services were held in
the London churches and in the Chapel of
the late Emperor of Germany. The Queen
and many members of the royal family
attended at the latter service. Minute
guns were fired at the garrison towns.
ONE of the worst snow storms ever expe-
rienced in the Eastern Middle States oc-
CURED on the 18th and 18th. Hundreds
of trains on the various railroads were
showed in, and thousands of passengers
detained, among whom in some in
stances great suffering was experienced.
THE negroes of Georgia, on the 18th.
asked the railroad commission to settle
the question of discrimination against
them on railroad cars by compelling the
railroad companies to sell first and Sec
ond- class tickets. The matter will be
decided at the April meeting.
JACK DEMPSEY, the pugilist, and the
only American now in position to meet
Mitchell, arrived in Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 18th. He expresses considers able sur
prise at the result of the Sullivan Mitchell
fight, and says he is both anxious and
willing to meet Mitchell, either in this
country or England, on almost any terms.
In the case of Edward Mcdonald, one
of the Cook County Ill.) boodlers, who
was tried with McGarigle, the State SUI
preme Court, on the 10th, granted super
sedeas, suspending the execution of the
three ye ars' sentence until arguments for
a new trial can be heard. Bail was re-
fused.
AT the regular meeting of the director
of the Bank of England, on the 18th. Mr..
Goschen's plan for the conversion of the
public debt, by means of gradual reduc-
tion of interest, was denounced as a
scheme less honorable than the famous
Irish plan of campaign, and an out
rageous attack upon the rights of
property.
of Mr.. Brown, wife and six children and
a hired man, were taken violently sick
while at the supper table at Mason City,
Ia, on tie 18th. In less than an hour
Mr.. Brown and one of his chill
dren were dead. The seven re-
manning victims were very low, and it
was thought that they could not recover.
GENERAL BoULANGER, while driving in
the Rue Honore, Paris, on the 18th, was
recognized by the people promenading
the street, and there was rush for the
vehicle in which he was seated. The
crowd tried to unharness the horses and
draw his carriage through the streets.
Boulanger, much annoyed by the ill-
time, evidences of shis' popularity, escap-
ed before the hor ses were released.
ITALIAN newspapers complain of the
censorship exercised over news dis
patches sent from Massowah, Abyssinia. |
where an italian army is beleaguered. |
When questioned upon this subject in the |
Chamber oflDeputies, on the 18th, Premier !
Crispi retorted that the newspapers |
sometimes distorted the facts. and could |
not be trusted with the news of the army |
movements. Several Deputies protested
against the Prauier1s statamanf