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

fibustering against the Direct-Tax Dill.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
PREMIER FLoQUEr read statement OF
the policy of the new French Cabinet, in
the Chamber of Deputies. on the Sd.
AT a smoking concert given by the au-
thorities of Dover, Eng, on Easter Mon
day, Yankee Doodle" was rendered by
the band of the Munster Fusiliers, and
was greeted with a spontaneous out
burst of cheering.
SEVERAL New York City brewers are
reported to have signed the agreement
submitted by the journeymen on the Sd,
Notwithstanding their pledge to the Ma
tional Association to sign no more con-
tracts with labor unions.
JOHN G. GARRISON, the great pitcher of
the Chicago team, was sold to the Boston
club, on the Sd, for $4,000.
In the sham battle on the southern
shores of England, on the ID, the invading
forces achieved a pronounced advantage,
owing to the use of old-fashioned short
range guns by the defenders.
NJ. MELINE was chosen president of the
French Chamber of Deputies, on the 4th.
DR.. WOLFENDEN, of Bolton, England.
has been invited to attend the Emperor of
Germany during DR.. Mackenzie's absence
in England.
IT is thought that the approaching visit
of Prince Alexander of Battenberg to
Charlottenburg may result in his mar
riage to the Emperor's eldest daughter
the Princess Victoria.
CHIEF ARTHUR announced, on the 4th,
that he had no intention of resigning from
the Brotherhood.
THE President, on the 4th, returned to
the House, without his approval, the bill
for the relief of the executor of Donald
Mckay.
THE bi-metalic conference assembled
at Manchester, England, on the 4th.
A PROJECT is on foot to bring one of the
New York ex-boodlers back from Canada
to testify against Jake Sharp.
THREE families of pauper immigrants
I'd.
PRINCE GHIKA has declined to form a
cabinet for Roumania.
AN explosion of gas in the Nelson shaft,
by which two men were horribly burned
and otherwise injured; the premature ex-
plosion of a blast at the Garfield colliery
by which one man was fatally injured, and
an explosion of boilers, without casual
ties, at the Cameron colliery, were the
days incidents at Shamokin, Pa, on the
4th.
WITH the single exception of La Justice,
the newspapers of Paris join in the attack
upon the new Ministry. The appointment
of the hot-headed NJ. Gobelet, as Foreign
Secretary, is regarded as especially weak
THE French Chamber of Deputies ad-
journed on the 4th to the 10Th.
THE business manager of the New York
Star denies that the paper has changed
hands.
THE California State Prohibition con-
vention met at San Francisco, on the 4th,
with about four hundred delegates at the
opening session.
On the 4th, at Philadelphia, Benjamin
Harris Brewster, Attorney-Generalo of the
United States under President Arthur,
died from the effects of kidney disease.
AvALANCHEs in various parts of Tyrol,
Austria, have done much damage to prop
erty within the last few days. A house
and the occupants, four women, were
killed.
The accounts of A. L. Fawcett, treasurer
of Marion township, Morgan County, O.,
who had been absent some weeks, were
examined on the 4th, and found to be
81 800 short.
THE project of erecting a statue of Gen.
eral Gordon, in Trafalgar Square, London,
was considered in the House of Commons,
on the 4th, and will be carried out during
the latter part of the year.
SIR RICHARD SUTTON, owner of the
yacht Genesta, was married at st. Peters
Church, Eaton Square, London, on the
9th, to Miss Constance Carbet.
THE Senate, in secret session, on the 9Th,
removed the injunction of secresy from
the Chinese treaty, heretofore published,
and from the report of the committee on
foreign relations on the British Extradi-
ton treaty.
Six new cases of smallpox were re-
ported to the health board of New Y ork on
the 9Th.
The signla corps observer at Southport,
N. G., on the 9Th, reported the American
schooner Douglas Hoover, with a cargo of
iron, five days from New York,
on Frying-pan shoals. The vessel and
cargo are a total loss.
THE police of Ridgewood, L. l., recently
found box containing Knight Templar
jewels, valued at 8, 900, on the spot where
the murdered body of Sarah Alexander
was found in 1879.
FRANK PITTMAN, of New York, was
found guilty of murder in the second de-
gree, ON the 9TH, for the murder of his
daughter Rachael.
THE Democrats of the District of Column
bia, on the 9Th, elected VIM. Dickson and
Lawrence Gardner as delegates to the st.
Louis convention. Both are unpledged.
The rolling-mills of the Blair Iron Com
pany and the Portage Iron Company at
and Duncanville, Pa,
closed down on the 5th, and a thousand
men were thrown out of employment.
SEVEN men were fatally or severely
scalded by molten iron, with which they
were running casting in the Delaware
Iron Works, New York, on the 9Th.
THE executive committee of the trunk
lines, on the 9Th, considered the matter of
export rates, but adjourned without arriv-
ing at decision. Differential rates and
emigrant rates were also considered, but
we're finally referred to the meeting of
he trunk line presidents.
IT is predicted that Prince Alexander
If Battenberg will shortly return, as the
,fsanced husband of Princess Victoria, to
.eign as King over Bulgaria, backed up
~ the powers Of England. Germany and
Austria.