Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-19

ing no longer attacueu 10 tuc department
of the Interior, and responsible only to
Congress
EMPEROR FREDERICK went from Berlin
to Potsdam, on the yacht Alexandria, on
the list He was enthusiastically cheered
by the populace. The trip seemed to do
him good
AN inquest was begun at MItchells-
town, Ireland, on fthe 18th. on the death
Of Mr.. Vaudeville, who is alleged to have
died from Observation-Disclosures in Tulla-
more Jail.
JAMES MORGAN, leading dry goods
merchant of Milwaukee, will.be nominated
for Governor OF Wisconsin by the Union
Labor party's convention, to be held at
Oshkosh. July "a.
THE Supreme Court of Minnesota has
granted stay of proceedings in the case
of Tim and Pete Barrett, sentenced to
hang on the 18th, at St Paul, for the MUIR
der of the street-car driver. Toleffson.
IT was stated on the 18th, that Queen
Natalie meditated decamping from Wies-
baden with the young Crown Prince
Alexander. and that the German police
were ordered to Illustrate any such at
tempt
KING MILAN formally, on the 9th, in
voked tho aid of the authorities of the
Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau to
force his wife, who was stopping at
Wiesbaden, to surrender to him the
Crown Prince.
BUCK RIDGE CoLLIERY, at Shamokin.
Pa, owned by the Reading company.
which has been idle since the disaster of
1888, at which time seven men were
smothered by fre-damp, resumed opera
tons on the 18th.
THE fire in the De Beers diamond mine
at Kimberly, Cape Colony, has been ex-
tinguished. and the exploring party who
descended the mine, on the 18th, report
that twenty-four whites and 200 natives
had been burned to death.
THE Amalgamated scale was signed, on
the 18Th, by three firms, viz: The Wayne
Iron-works, of Pittsburgh, Pa, 600 en-
ployes; Lang & Co., at Charities, Pa, 400
mon, and the Licking Iron Company, Of
Covington, KY, employing 1000 men.
THE German police, on the 18th, or
dered Queen Natalie to leave Germany
leaving to surrender her boy, the Crown
Prince Alexander, to King Milan's pleni-
potentiary, who took him to Belgrade.
- 1HE w 8Sn1ngCOn fOSk mas changed
hands, and Walter Stilson Hutchins, son
OF the founder Of the paper, steps down
and out as editor, and gives place to Mr..
e. w. Halford, of Indianapolis. who will
in future steer the course of the paper.
AVERY TRUEsDALE, an army comrade of
General Harrison, with infinite pains
completed a cane composed of 1o,5oo
pieces Of wood of thirty EIGHT Kinds, one
for each State, which he has forwarded to
General Harrison as token of esteem.
SreNoR CRIsPI, Italian Premier, is ex-
pected to arrive at Carlsbad, Bohemia,
August IL. Prince Bismarck and Count
Kalnoky, Austrian Premier, will arrive
subsequently, and the three statesmen
of the allied Powers will hold confer
ence.
Some friends of Mrs. Dudley, the En-
glish woman who shot O'Donovan Rosa,
are said to be making an effort to secure
her release from the asylum for insane
criminals at Auburn, N. Y. There is
some question as to the legality of her de-
tention.
IT is stated on good authority that I'M
less the British Government takes some
action in regard to Mr.. Parnell in refer
ence to the recent charges brought
against him by the Times, he will bring a
suit for libel against that paper in the
autumn.
THE United States steamer Swatara ar
rived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from
Nonquitt on the 10th. The gossip aboard
was that, though General Sheridan is
comparatively comfortable in his new
quarters, he can be expected to live but a.
short time.
SENIOR ANTONIO FLORES, President of
the Republic of Ecuador, was pre-
sented to President Cleveland by Sec
rotary Bayard, accompanied by Minister
Romero and Mr.. Flores'private secretary,
on the 18th. The audience took place in
the blue parlor.
PREMIER FLoQUET and General Boulan-
ger fought a duel with swords, at Neuilly,
a short distance from Paris. on the Is tn.
Both were greatly excited and both were
wounded, the vallispt General being
punetured in the NECK and fainting in tbs
al ms of his seconds.
SURROGATE RANSOM, of New York, oy
the 18th, granted the application of Mrs.
Louis G. Hammersiey, now Duchess e-f
Marlborough, for an allowance of
500, 900 for her present support and main
tenance out Of the income Of the estass
left by her first husoxnd.
SYHPArHY and pity for the convicss
family led the President, on the 18th, to
commute the senteace Of VIM. G. Mckee,
who was convicted in May, 1888, of rob-
bling post-off1ce IN North Carolina, and
sentenced to two years in the penitsn-
tiary, to eight NOR shs in Jail
The fleet which will accompany EN-
peror William as an escort on his visit
to Russia will be the largest that Ger.
many has ever put out to sea- 1t will
consist of six iron -clads, four dispatch
ships, four vessels of the training squad
ron and a fiotilla of torpedo boats.
The half-breeds on the banks of the
Saskatchewan are getting desperate, and
are preparing for another armed rebellion
against the Dominion Government The
people claim that since the late rebellion
their condition has been rapidly growing
worse, until now it is simply deplorable.
GENERAL CLINTON B. FIsKE, Prohibition
candidate for President, says the bright
ness of the outlook for the Prohibition
ticket could not be better. He is receiv-
ing thousands Of letters daily from per-
sons heretofore voting with the old par
ties, all giving assurance Of the writer's
support
Al WALL STREET man who knows good
deal about Mr.. Gouid's affairs, said, on
the 9th, that the ex-king of the street is
liable to become either insane or con.
firmed invalid, as the result OF his pres
ent intlisposition. The fact of his illness
is, however, emphatically denied in other
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