Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10

DEFAULT was made IN the payment Of
interest on the first mortgage bonds Of
the International & Great Northern rail.
road on the 1st.
THE reduction of the public debt during
April amounted to So, 235, 300; and for the
first nine months of the current fiscal
year to $97, 49,, SS1.
ALLEN o. MEYER, the absconding wit.
ness in the Ohio tally-sheet forgery cases,
was, on the Sd, sentenced to ninety days
in Jail and to pay fine of 500.
THE Comptroller of the Currency de.
clared a sixth dividend of five per cent. on
proved claims against the Richmond
und.) National Bank on the ID.
DR.. CHARLES E. SIMMONS, who attended
the late Samuel J. Tilden during his ILL
ness, has brought suit against the Tilden
estate for $4,000 for professional serv-
ices.
GENERAL PoPHoFF, commander of the
Sofia (Bulgaria) garrison, claims to have
been offered, and to have refused, Rus
sian bride of DOC, 600 roubles to betray his
country.
A MARBLE bust of Garibaldi, presented
to the Senate by the Garibaldi Monument
Association of Washington, was placed in
position in one of the Senate corridors
on the ish.
THE Empress of Germany, accompanied
by Princess Victoria, started on tour of
the Elbe provinces on the Sd. The royal
party met with very hearty reception at
Wittenberg.
THE London Standard, of the Sd, has a
dispatch from Berlin which says that clear
- -y-f-
ence of French and Russian intrigues
against Italy.
THE trial of VIM. O'Brien, NJ. P, for a
speech made at Loughrea on the Sth OF
April, was concluded on the Sd. Mr..
O'Brien was sentenced to three months
imprisonment.
DURING an executive session of the SEN
ate, on the ID, Senator Sherman submit
ted favorable report from the foreign
relations committee on the Chinese I'M
migration treaty.
THE committee on education and labor
agreed, on the 4th, to submit favorable
report on the bill to prohibit the employ
ment of aliens on public buildings and
other public works.
JOHN DILLON, in a speech at Killmurry,
County Limerick, on the 4th, advised the
people to continue to adopt the plan OF
campaign, and to boycott every one who
took an evicted farm.
THE recent announcement of the en-
gagement between Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain, of England, and Mary. the daughter
of Secretary Endicott, was denied by the
family of the latter on the 3Oth.
THE Interstate commerce committee
finished its consideration of a series of
proposed amendments to the Inter State
Commerce act, on the ID, and authorized
Mr.. Cullom to report them as bill.
DIR. NoRvIN GREEN, president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, adj
dressed the House committee on post
Offices and post-roads, on the I'd, in oppo-
sition to Government ownership Of tele-
graphs.
NJ. GOBLET, French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, has instructed NJ. Waddington,
Minister at London, to inform Lord Sails
bury of the agitation now going on in
France for the repeal of the Favored
nation" law.
GOVERNMENT receipts, during April, ag-
gregated 1851, 7s9, about $4,000 less
than for April, 1887, while Government
dIIlOuutcu W SIt.SoU.CtO, Ut
81 ,5O0, 900 less than for the corresponding
month last year.
GENERAL SHERMAN presided at the an
nual banquet of the Loyal Legion at Gin
cinnah ON the I'd. Among the notables
present were Governor Foraker, General
Rea, ex-President Hayes and General
Lucius Fairchild.
TrI1S of To
peka, Kas., adjourned, on the Sd, without
acting on the plan proposed for GEN.
trail sale agencies, referring the matter to
the Farmers National convention at To-
peka in November.
SENATOR EDMUNDs' adverse report on
the Fisheries treaty takes the broad
ground that under the provisions of the
the United States secures
nothing of value to which they have not
already a natural right.
DURING the progress of the trial of VIM.
NJ. P, at Dublin, burglars en-
tered the sessions Office and stole the
and warrants relative to the
case, making it necessary to reopen the
trial from the beginning.
THE Indiana Republican State conven-
lion, held at Indianapolis, on the Sd, elected
ex-Governor A. G. Porter, Richard w.
j. N. Huston and Glenn c.
delegates -at-large to Chicago,
md instructed them for Harrison.
THE Rhode Island State and the two
District Republican conventions were
,eld at Providence on the Sd. The follow
ng delegates at-large to Chicago were
.hosen: Fred. /. Marcy, W. r. Walker,
Richard Thornley,, and George I. Grams
on.
THE Minneapolis tMinn.) Journal
reated a sensation, on the I'd, by the pub
ication of alleged documentary evidence |
f the truth of the charge of treason. In |
s6f. brought by Mr.. Ingalls, in his speech |
n the Senate, on the LIST, against MIR.
Toorhees.
IT was reported in Washington, on the
d, that if the Senate rejects the FISHERY
realty, and the Canadians continue to an
oy American fishermen, the President
'ould probably issue a proclamation I'M
err the Retaliation act, and lay an en-
argo upon Canadian goods.
EMPEROR FREDERICK bestowed the Sec
nd-ciass decoration of the Red Eagle
pom the burgomaster of Berlin, on the
|, as a reward for his exertfons In the
slief of flood sufferers, and has asked the
rlvy council to recommend other persons
no are deserving Of similar rewards.