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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

My officers, in conjunction with those OF
Russia, have completed the demarcation of
Afghanistan in conformity with the conven-
ton of 1887. trust the work thus concluded
will tend to remove the possibility of mis-
understanding between both powers regarding
the Asian possessions. deeply regret that
the efforts to induce King John of Abyssinia to
refrain from war with Italy have been unsuc-
cessful,
The fisheries conference at Washington is
progressing. The negotiations with respect &c
the regulations of the Suez canal have been
concluded, SO far France and En-
gland are concerned. England has al
so entered into an agreement with
France for the protection of life and
commission. The conference held in London
to consider the possibility of ending the in
furious system of sugar bounties has pro-
crossed considerably toward the conclusion of
a satisfactory arrangement. The estimates for
1888 have been framed with a due regard to
economy.
Parliament will be asked to provide for the
improvement of the means for the defense of
the ports and eoaling stations made urgently
necessary by the advances in military science,
and also to sanction an arrangement for
special squadron to protect the Australasian
commerce; the colonies to partly bear the cost
The measures adopted by the last Parliament
for the government Of Ireland have been care
fully carried out. The result of this legislation,
factory. Agrarian crime has diminished, and
the power of coercive conspiracies sensibly
abated. Measures tending to develop the re-
sources of Ireland and to facilitate an increase
in the number of the proprietors of the soil
will be presented. Attention will be invited to
the subject of local government in England
Measures will be presented for dealing with it
in combination proposals for adjusting the re-
lation between local and imperial finances and
mitigating the burdens imposed upon rate
payers.
The prospects of commerce are more hopeful
than in many years. I regret there is no CORE
spending improvement in agriculture, and
commend that interest to the care of Parlia
ment hoping that means may be found to meet
the difficulties under which it labors. Parlia
ment will be invited to consider proposals for
cheapening the transfer of land, for modifying
the procedure whereby the Inherent
charge is collected, for promoting technic
al education, for preventing undue
preference rates charged by railroad companies
on foreign and domestic produce, for remedy
ing abuses in the formation of companies under
limited liability, for amending the law regulat
ing the liability of employers lin case Of ac-
cidents, for improving the position Of the Scot
fish universities, for regulating the borough
police of Scotland and for diminishing the cost
of private bill legislation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
OUR LIVE STOCK.

Figures From the Department of Agricult-
ure Statistical Reports Showing the
Extent of the Live Stock Inter ests of the
United States.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The February
statistical report of the Department of
Agriculture relates to numbers and values
of farm animals. There is reported in
crease in horses mules and cattle, and
decrease in sheep and swine. The largest
rate of increase is in horses, amounting
to fully five per cent, and it is general
throughout the country, though largest
west of the Missippi. The aggregate ex-
ceeds 100000. The increase in mules
averaged three and half per
cent. The increase in cattle is
only two and half per cent,
corresponding closely with advances In
population. 1t makes the aggregate
over 10000 600, or 80 per 100 of population.
In sheep the decline appears to be be-
tween two or three per cen THE aggre-
gate of focks being about 43, 500, 900.
There is q smaller decline in numbers of
swine-less than one per cent. leaving
the aggregate over 100000. Prices of
horses and mules are nearly the same
as last years, but both are lower
than in the year 1884. when the
continuous advance from 1879 culmi-
mated. The average for all ages is $71.S2
for horses and $40. IS for mules. The fall
in mich cows has been from $26.0S to
$24.65, or over per cent. in oxen and
other cattle. In sheep, as in other stock,
the advance was steady after 1879. and
amounted to % per cent. in four years.
The present average is $2.05. or nearly as
much as in the depression of 1879, when
prices were the lowest in twenty years.
There has been an advance in the average
for swine of all ages from 81. As to "a. %, or
eleven per cent. The annual advance was
continuous from 1879 to 1883, then declin-
ing to 1886, and slightly advancing again
since. The aggregate value of all farm
animals is SIS, 100000 more than a year
ago, the totals for cattle being smaller
by about $4,000, 900; for sheep, a trifle
smaller, with an increrse in those
for horses, mules aud swine. The horses
represent $946 0O0. 600; the mules, $175, 000,-
900; the cattle, $97S, 000,000; swine, $221,-
900, 600, and sheep, $50, 100000 A grand
aggregate of 2, 409, 900, 600 for domestic ami.
mails on farms and ranches.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
OUR ENGLISH COUSINS.

How Little They Know and How Mucn
They Think They Know of America ano
Their Relatives-The Parneilites Caiieo
Upon to Cut Loose From Their American
Affiliations.
LONDON, Feb. 10-It might be amusing
for disinterested observer to gauge py
.he leaders in the most influential En-
glish journals the real state of feeling in
this country toward America and the
Americans. For years the general undsr-
standing is that the republic over the sea
is being allowed to exist in some mystef1-
Gus manner for the benefit of England,
and that it viii all cone right in the END
for the superior nation; out tnere
are occasions when the pasriotlc
Briton doubts whether America is not
mistake after all, and whether it would
not BE- better were it erased from the map
altogether. President Cleveland's mes
sage gave languid encouragement TO
the liberal minded Englishmen, ands the
hores thereby aroused OF possible free
trade gave hope of revival of the de-
pressed manufacturing interests, but
with it there was mingled a
doubt as to whether such pros
pevtice state of affairs were not too
good to be true. At any rate, the future
benefit is problematical, while the dread
of the imported dynamiter carefully fos-
tered by the detectives and the alarmed
Tory organs, is an ever present element
of dismay. While some of the best legal
talent in England express the
opinion that the sentence pro-
nounced upon the alleged dynamiters,
CaIlan and Harkins, was not warrant-
ed by the evidence, the Times and the
Standard seize the opportunity to pro-
claim all Irish-Americans as either
would-be murderers or as encouragers
and sustainers of the daring men who at
different times have given the British
Government SO much trouble and carried
alarm into so many households in the
great cities. Without, as it would seem,
the slightest reason for such
course, they call upon the Parnellites to
openly disavow all connection with the
Irish-American societies that have dis
PLAYED such active and practical SYM
rathe with the discontented poor of Ire
land, and, furthermore, to refuse the
funds so freely subscribed in tho United
States. AS this money is absolutely nec-
essary for the support of the Irish men,
bers of Parliament, it is hardly likely that
this not altogether disintsrested advice
will be taken. The government is using
every means to crush the National
League, but it is safe to predict that they
will hardly meet with more success than
rev arded the efforts of the most despotic
nations in Europe in former gen.
erations TO stamp out Free Masonry.
The people of Ireland cling to the League
with that unreasoning stoldity that
iefies alike promised benefit or threat
ened punishment, and if their sufferings
are almost unbearable, they have at least
the consciousness of knowing that many
of the landowners are as poorly off as
boy hot bo of the
most fortunate have been seriously re-
1ucad
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

DR. PATTON president elect of Prince
ton college, preached on the 18th in Mar
quand chapel, Princeton, N. j. The ser.
mon was strong defence of faith against
materialism. No allusion was made to
his election, except in a prayer asking
guidance in the decision of the momen-
tous quest ion of the present hour. The
chapel was crowded.
The body of Russian, named Lorenzo,
! was found two miles north of Hunting
ton, Ind, ON the 18th, with bullet-hole in
the back of his head. The pockets of the
dead man had been rifled of valuables.
ia cob Kallenback was placed under ar
rest on suspicion of having committed the
murder.
GENERAL preparations for war appear
to be going forward with undated zeal
on the frontiers of continental Europe.
THE latest reports from the German
Crown Prince are of most favorable
character.
TWENTY EIGHT men arrested in New
York on the 18th on charges of maintain
ing and running bucketshops were ar
raigned at the Jefferfon Market Police
Court on the 18th. All but Arthur Cole
man and Andrew r. Hammond waived
examination and were held each in $500
bail.
AT Vincennes, Ind, on the 18th, Larry
Mccartney was shot and killed by George
Hartman. The men quarreled over dice
and women. McCaffrey insulted Hartman
and drew a knife, when the latter fired
three shots, instantly killing Mccartney.
Hartman fed and has not yet been ar
rested.
Mrs. SARAH J. ROBINSON, charged with
the poisoning of her brother law,
Prince A. Freeman, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree, at Boston, on
the 18th. She is supposed to have poi
soned seven persons, all relatives, for
their Reinsurance.
THE Kansas Pacific bondholders who
failed to make a case against Messrs.
number of alleged receivers of embez-
zled Denver Pacific stock.
THE Central Labor Union of New Y ork,
against the pending Tenement-House
bill; denounced the sugar trust, etc, and
opposed the repeal OF the Saturday Half
Holiday law.
SENATOR CULLoM was the principal
speaker at the anniversary celebration of
the birth of Abraham Lincoln by the Re-
publican National League at Washington
on the 18th. Fred Douglass, Simon Wolf
and Captain O'Ferrall also spoke.
The birthday of Abraham Lincoln was
celebrated with a banquet by the New
York Republican Club on the evening of
the 18th. Senator Evarts was the princi-
pal speaker.
THE for titude, cheerfulness and recu-
perative powers of the Crown Prince,
after undergoing the painful operation of
| tracheotomy, challenges the animation Of
all who are about him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
COOL TO THE LAST.

How Clement Arthur Day Met His Death
at the Hands of the Hangman, Actually
Yawning Under the Moose, and Assisting
to Adjust it to His Neck.
UTICA, N. Y. Feb. S.-Clement Arthur
Dav was hanged here at 1925 O'Clock this
morning for the murder of Josie Rosa
Cross in June last
Day did not wake until half-past six
O'Clock this morning, when he ate hearty
breakfast of ham and eggs, toast and cot.
fee, and then practiced for a time on his
guitar. He spoke lightly of his rapidly.
approaching doom, and asked that he be
furnished with a substantial lunch before
the march to the gallows began. Rev. e.
Owens, Days spiritual adviser, arrived
at 9:15, and was at once closeted with the
condemned man, who seemed the
least nervous of the two.
Rev. Mr.. Owen offered prayer,
and was followed by Day, with
an eloquent supp!ication, in which he
said he was not guilty of premeditated
murder. Later Sheriff Bachelor read
the death warrant, which Day listened te
with grin on his face and nodded his
head several times. At it's conclusion his
arms were pinioned and the march to the
scaffold began. Day laughed at a re-
porter who slipped on the icy walk and
mounted the platform with a firm tread.
He even assisted in placing the moose I'M
der his own chin and yawned during the
operation. A brief prayer was said, and
the drop fell at 1924 IL a. m, and nine
minutes later Day was pronounced deed.
The neck was broken and the face was
not con torted. But twentyfour persons
witnessed the execution. The crime for
which Day was executed was the murder
of Josie Rosa Cross, his mistress, near
Boonville, on June 9. 1887. Josie, accom-
panied by Day, started to walk to Boon
vile, and when only a short distance from
the house Day threw his arm around her
and with a large butcher knife stabbed
her fourteen times in the breast. On the
preliminary examination Day said that
both Josie and he wished to die, but he
did not have the courage to kill himself
after he had made away with the girl.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
PARLIAMENT REoPEMEo.

The British Parliament Reassembies with
the Usual acknowledgements of the
Queens Speech as Read by Proxy-Ouf-
line of Proposed Government Measures
for Consideration.
LONDON, Feb. 9.-Parliament reasseln-
bled to-day. The approaches to the Par
lament buildings and the adjacent streets
were crowded with people. They were
quiet and orderly for the most part and
nothing occurred to mar the occasion.
The beef-eaters, in accordance with
ancient Gus tom, searched the vaults OF the
buildings for gun-powder and dynamiters,
but neither explosives nor miscreants were
found.
The session was opened by the reading
of the Queens speech by the Lord High
Chancellor, and was as follows:
THE QUEENS SPEECH.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN-We continue to
receive from all the Powers cordial assurances
of friendly sentiment well as an earnest de-
sire 20 maintain the peace of the world
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
Paid the Penalty with His Life.

HELENA, Mont, Feb. fitzpatrick John
Hart was hanged at half past eleven
O'Clock this morning for the murder Of
John Pitts, miner, on the morning of
November Z, 1885. Pitts had accused
Hart of criminal intimacy with his step.
daughter, living at Elkhorn. On the day
In question Pitts went to Boulder as
Hart thought, to procure a warrant for
Harris arrest on a charge Of seduction.
Hart followed him from Elk.
horn to Boulder, and, after max,
Ing the tour of several saloons
found Pitts in the cour t. house, and pre-
Stunning that no was getting out the pape'.
For his arrest. shot him
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
Terrible Powdor-House Explosion.

SUNBURY, Pa, Feb. 10.-A terrible ex-
plosion took place at half-past nine
o'clock this morning at the powder. house
Of the Dupont Works, two miles back of
Wapwolpen, a station on the North and
West Branch railroad. -Four men, named
Keeshback, Stout, Teets and Rossman,
were instantly killed, their bodies being
blown to atoms, not vestige of them be.
ing found. Several other workmen were
badly injured. Ten or twelve men were
working in another building belonging to
the works, but escaped. The houses in the
village and surrounding country were
shaken as if by an earthquake. No one
about the place has any idea as to the
cause of the explosion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
Died Fron, HIS Injuries

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 10.-J. Wood
Russell, the brakeman Of the Kansas City
Cable Company, who was fatally injured
in the accident on the incline Wednesday
night, d led yesterday morning. The 9TH
ers who were injured will probably re-
cover. The feeling against the company
is intense. This is the third serious acct
dent which has occurred at this incline.
The bluff is 116 feet high al
this point, and the grade ia
eighteen feet in 100. Dependence
is placed upon the grip and the
brakes in making the descent
and experience has shown that
Meth or is infallibla
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
Worked the Law for His Own Benefit.

WICHITA, Kas., Feb. 10-An inspection
of the docket in the court of the lately
indicted Justice Walker shows upward of
one hundred and fifty whisky prosecu-
tions during the last six months of the
past year, in each of which nothing but
the costs, amounting in each case to
thirty-four dollars, were paid, and each
time County Attorney Jones moved that
the fine of 800 prescribed by law be
RENTED. These cases have netted Jones
about four thousand dollars, not one dol
lar of which has been paid to the school
fund, and but hundred dollars to the
county treasurer. These occasional al fines
proved a species of license to the parties
to conduct business.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

The Prince and Princess of Wales will
celebrate their silver wedding on the 10th
prox. Already presents are finding
their way to Marlborough House.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

FENToN c. ROGERS was killed and
Mrs. T. NJ. Morgan critically burned in a
natural gas explosion at the residence of
the latter in Anderson, Ind, on the 7th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

SPEAKER CARLIsLE's order removing
all telegraph wires from the corridor of
the House was carried into effect on the
9th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

8 LEADING papers of Hungary combat
the position taken by Bismarck in his
speech that Russia has privileged posi-
ton in Bulgarian affairs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

MEMORIAL services to dedicate a tablet
to the memory of the late Sena tor John
A. Logan were held in the Metropolitan
Episcopal Church at Washington on the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

The constab.es who arrested the whole
sale liquor dealers at Des Moines, Ia, and
then released them, have been indicted
for receiving brides.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

COTTON exports from the United States
during January past aggregated 542, 474
bales. valued at $26, 070, 430; against esq.,
S54 bales, valued at $50, 910 04S, in January,
1887
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

THE operation of tracheotomy was
hastily performed upon the Crown
Prince by DR.. Bramann, ON the 9th, and
afforded the royal sufferer immediate
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

TIE Board of Trade of London report an
increase of imports for January, 1888,
over the corresponding month of the
previous year of f376. 000 and of exports
of fT7O.O0O
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

THREE hundred Boston cigarmakers,
comprising employees of five large shops,
refused to go to work on the 9th, owing
to the proposed cut in wages. The other
shops either do not belong to the manu-
facturers' union or have not posted the
cut-dOwn.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

A SPECIAL dispatch from Plainf1eld, N.
j., states that the heirs of the late John
Roach are about to sue the United States
for s., 600 damages resulting from the
Governments refusal to accept the ships
built for it by Mr.. Roach.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

Mr.. PowDERLY and the general exec
utive board of the Knights of Labor have
formally Endorsed the Reading railroad
ers' and miners strikes. Aid for the
strikers is rapidly pouring in.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

HERR KRUPP, the great German found
er, has received orders from Austria for $50
heavy guns, to cost $500, 900 forms. The
guns ordered by Turkey and not paidfor
will be utilized to fill the first installment
of the order
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

THE difficulty which the Crown Prince
of Germany has lately experienced in
breathing is increasing, and it is reported
that the operation of tracheotomy will
be resorted to.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

THE Afghan Frontier Commission has
completed its work of delineating the
boundaries, and the English members
have started for England. The last
boundary post stands on the left
bank of the Oxus, fifteen versts above
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

A STATEMENT of internal revenue re-
ceipts prepared by the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, and made public on the
Sth, shows that the total receipts for De-
cember, 1885, were $40, 1895, 246; while the
collections for December, 1887, were $780,
$50. 351
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

THE Metropolitan National Bank Of
Cincinnati suspended on the 9Th. The
vice-priesident, John R. Decamp, was ar
rested, later, charged with misapplica.
tion of the bank funds and certifying to
false statements of its finances.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

DR.. STEPHEN and his wife, and Mr..
Robertson, Americans, were being driven
to the Central depot to catch a train
at Glasgow. Scotland, on the 9th,
when the horses attached to their car
riage bolted and threw the occupants
out. ALI three were injured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

THOMAS STEVENS, of West Gardiner,
Me-, his wife and two daughters have be-
come insane in the delusion that lot of
monkeys infest the neighborhood. The
parents have been sent to the insane hos
pital and the daughters to the industrial
school at Hallowell Me.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

THE bucketshop carried on in the cor
ridor of the House of Representatives, for
the accommodation of speculative MEM
bers, was broken up on the Sth, by order
of Speaker Carlisle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

MEssRs. TLLMAN CHAPMAN AND
STONE have been appointed by Speaker
Carlisle committee to investigate the
Reading strikes, and left for Pennsylva
mia on the Sth. They will be absent about
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

Owing to dissensions among the native
tribes and the detection of the Ailet
chiefs, the advance of the Abyssin an
troops toward Saati and Massowah has
been suspended.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

THE English police captured Mr.. Pyne
at London on the 10th. Mr.. Pyne is the
Irish commoner who fortified himself in
his castle and then dared the police to
come and take him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

LORD DUFFERIN has created universal
sur prise by resigning his post as Viceroy
of India. His action has no political
significance. Lord Lansdowne has been
appointed his successor, who in turn is to
be succeeded by Colonel Frederick Stan
lev.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

Mrs. CHARLOTTE 8. PRINCE, daughter
of Ex-Governor Collins of Rhode Island,
granddaughter of Governor Bradford of
the same State, and mother of B. Brad
ford Prince, ex.Chief Justice of New
Mexico. died at Flushing, l. L, ON the
9th, aged eighty five years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16

The State Board of Trade of California
has adopted a circular concerning the
condition of the laboring classes in Cali
fornia, which will be sent East for dis
tribution. The circular recites that work
is assured all, and that higher wages are
paid than for the same character of work
east of the Rockies. The circular also
states that the prosperity of the people
Is attested by the fact that while Califor-
mia has but one fiftieth of the population
of the United States, the people have
one-twentieth Of the total savings de-
pcsits.