Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-08

| MEXICAN mines have produced in this
| last ten years S9,51S, 900 in gold and $685.
527, 900 in silver, aud last years product
| was the heaviest of all in silver and sec
| ond heaviest in gold.
ENsENADA. Lower California, and San
Diego, in Southern California, will soon
| be connected by rail.
ALOCoNoTIvE on the Delaware q Hud-
son railroad exploded while drawing a
heavy freight train between Pittston and
| PleasantvilIe, Pa, on the I'd. The entire
| front end of the boiler was torn off back
to the bell, but fortunately no one was
| hurt and the engine did not leave the
! track.
Mr.. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN makes a fiat
/ tering report of the gratifying results of
| the fisheries conference, highly compli-
menting the conferees on their mode
/ rate bearing and valuable efforts.
THE Mills Tariff bill cont nues to fur
nish the chief topic offconversation among
statesman of all parties at the National
| capital. As a rule they are 10th to COM
| nit themselves, desiring more time in
which TO study its provisions in com.
rarison with existing duties.
THE Senate committee on military af-
fairs on the I'd agreed to report favora-
bly, the bills appropriating 100000 to ex-
| tend the quarters at Forts Niobrara and
| Robinson, in Nebraska, and giving tele-
| graph operators who served three mon tbs
in the military service during the late
! war an honorable discharge with simu-
| lated rank. The House committee on mil
| itary affairs has also agreed upon favora-
| bic reports on similar bills.
A CONCURRENT resolution was adopted
| in the Legislature of New York, on the
!
| obsequy of removal of the remains of the
| late ex-President Antonio Daez, of Ven-
eZuela, from New York to the Pantheon
| at Caracas.
KNIGHT OF LABOR cooperative stores
have proved a failure in the Schuylkiu
Valley.
Two men were fatally and two others
severely injured by fall of rock in the
| Quincy mine at Hancock, Mich. on the
1st.
CHARLES DEWITT CLINTON WILKINSON,
q widely know II comedian and manager,
died in Worcester, Mass. on the I'd, from
heart disease. He was fifty-eight years
old.
GARRETT ROACH, a son of the late John
Roach, the ship-builder, died of pneu-
monia at his resi- dence in New York on the
| I'd.
York. granted DR.. McGlynn a permanent
injunction restraining Henry George and
his followers from incorporating an Anti
| Poverty Society.
TIE Blount bill, increasing the salary
Of the general superintendent of the
railway mail service $500; creating the
office Of assistant general superintendent
at a salary of 5000; increasing the
salaries Of chief clerks $100a year. and
reducing their travelling expenses from
four to three dollars a day, will be favor
ably reported by the House committee on
post-offices and post-roads.
ACTING LAND COMMISSIONER Stock
Slayer, during the mon tn of February,
| held for cancellation seventy five land
entries and Cancelled outright 145 entries
upon the ground of fraud, restoring to the
public domain sixteen thousand acres OF
land. During the same period he recon-
mended the criminal prosecution of sixty
one timber trespassers, and forty civil
suits to recover $1,000 as damages for
timber depredations.
MICHIGAN'S new Liquor law was, on the
ID, held by the State supreme Court to be
constitutional in the main, though con-
tanning some minor provisions of an un-
con Institutional character.
A DELEGATION of thirty Chippewa In
dian chiefs from W Wisconsin and Michigan
called at the White House on the ID, and
had an audience with the President, in
which they urged tho payment of Sis, 600
due to them under old treaties. The Presi-
dent promised to aid them in every way in
his power to see that they received their
just dues. The matter will be called to the
attention of Congress.
RI. Hon. Jos. CHAMBERLAIN was dined
by the Canadian Club of New York on
the ID.
THE Iowa State Democratic convention
will meet at Dubuque, May 2.
EFFORTS made at Chicago on the I'd to
end the Western freight rate war failed.
IT is rumored that two trains on the
Panhandle came into collisionnear Bur-
gettstown, Pa, on the 3D. killing twenty
nine persons, including the crews of both
engines, and wounding seven. The acct
dent was caused by the failure of tele-
graph operator to deliver train order.
A BILL to abolish slavery is to be intro
duced in the Brazilian Legislature next
Nav.
KING JOHN of Abyssinia is holding
conference with tribal chiefs on he Italian
war situation.