Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13


adopted, authorizing the printing of $4,000
copies of the Presidents message.
THE following is the result of the official
count of the vote at the late election in
Colorado: Harrison, 50,766; Cleveland,
1852; Prohibition, 2,1oo; Labor, 1,265.
SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, denies the
statement, attributed to Railroad Conn
missioner Campbell, that he has been Of
fered the Secretaryship of the Treasury.
The Car and King George of Greece
have agreed that the marriage of Grand
Duke Paul of Russia and Princess Alex
andria of Greece shall not take place until
October next
IT is asserted in the Hobbies of the
British House of Commons that Lord
Salisbury will not appoint a new Minister
to Washington until after Mr.. Harrison
has been seated.
THE opening session of the annual con-
vention of the Nebraska Woman's SUI
frage Association at Omaha was adj
dressed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony.
IT is said that the German Emperor's
illness was caused by cold contracted by
his rising ON cold, stormy night and
opening window of his oyerheated apart
ments at Gelzlingen.
THERE has been a heavy falling off in
the number of hogs slaughtered in the
West this fall, the declRse for November
and the first five days of December
amounting to $4,000.
The Window-Glass Manufacturers Ben
eficial Association of Pittsburgh, Pa, is to
be reorganized shortly, with a view not
only to control prices, but to limit pro-
duction when necessary.
Ex-QUEEN NATALIE has received from
King Milan of Servia all of the presents
he formerly made to her and a grant of a
million francs, which remain at her dis
posaI in the Bank of Servia.
THE New York Sun of the 4th devoted
half page to a recital of the wrongs in
fiicted upon the helpless Aleuts of Alaska
by the gigantic monopoly known as the
Alaska Commercial Company.
GOVERNOR JACKSON of Maryland, origi-
nally selected February %, 1889, as the
date of hanging the murderer Isaac Kee-
nan, but afterward, for obvious reasons,
changed it, substituting instead March 1.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for an
international sculling contest in Queens
land, Australia. The first prize will be
f5O0. Beach, Kemp, Searle, Matterson,
Stansbury, Nelson and McClear will COM
pete
THE working hours of the twenty-five
thousand employees in the shops of the
Philadelphia g. Reading Railroad Com
pany were reduced from ten to eight, with
q corresponding reduction in wages, on
the 5th.
SENATOR GIBSON, of Louisiana, intro
in fho 10 fha RI
create bureau of health and to prevent
the introduction and extension of conta-
gious and infectious diseases in the Unit
ed States.
FRANK W. ADAMS, a clerk in the Wash
ington City pOst-office, was arrested, on
the 9Th, for opening letters. He confessed
the crime, but said he had not found any
money in the letters, and that this was his
first offense.
An injunction was issued in the Chan
Gerry Court at Nashville, on the 9Th, for
bidding Governor Taylor of Tennessee to
issue certificate to H. Clay Evens, the
Republican Congressman-elect from the
Third district.
Irwas rumored at Columbus, O., on the
Sd, that the management of the Ohio Cen
tennial Exhibition is to be investigated
when the Legislature assemblies in Janu-
airy. There is a large shortage, and
crooked work is limited at.
For the maintenance of the United
States Senate during the last fiscal year
there was expended: For salaries and
mileage of Senators, 1891, 157; for salaries
of officers, ETC., $685., 674; for contingent
expenses, $l57,7O1. Total, Ssso,5ss.
The Pope sent to Emperor Francis Jo-
Of A.1cf ria 10 eli nf a
fortieth anniversary of his succession to
the throne, a beautiful image of the Vir
gin fashioned in mosaic. The image was
made in the Vatican and cost $1,000.
REPRESENTATIVES vANDEvER, of Califor-
mia, on the 9Th, introduced a bill in the
House to divide the State of California
into two States. He proposes to divide
the State practically on the line of the
present Sixth Congressional district.
A MEETING of the National Board of Pro-
motion of the "Three-Americas" EXPOSE
ton was held in Washington ON the 9th.
1t was we'll attended and composed of
notable characters, who all spoke enthu-
siastically of the proposed celebration.
THE Great Falls (Mont.) Board of Trade
has appointed special committee on
Statehood, with view to determining the
best course of action for the people to
pursue under the present circumstances.
The movement is entirely non-partisan.
~
JUDGE BACH, on the 5th, gave a decree
for $3.50, 600 with interest against the North
Montana Cattle Company, in the fore
closure suit brought at Helena, Mont, by
the Farmers Loan g. Trust Company of
New York, as trustees for the bondhold-
ers.
Dr.. WALTER WYMAN, surgeon in charge
of the United States Marine Hospital at
Stapleton, L. l., has been appointed chief
of the quarantine division and medical
purveyor, and will shortly go to Washing
ton to assume the duties of his new Of
flee.
THE House committee on rivers and har-
bors spent several hours, on the 9TH, on
the River and Harbor bill. They de-
cided TO limit the appropriation to S10,-
OO0,OO0 1t is probable that the bill will
be completed before the Christmas holi-
days.
In the Supreme Court of New York
City, on the Sd, Circuit Justice Beach di-