Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-23

grun Gunutg gegister
By ELL d. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
NINE persons were injured in the wreck
of passenger train on the Manitoba
railroad on the 14th.
THE fisheries treaty, said to be sati
factory to all parties, was signed by the
commissioners on the 14th.
RUSSIA'S finance minister has prepared
a new monetary measure for considera.
tion by the council of the empire.
FORTY persons were kill ed in a mine
explosion in the Krenzgraban coal mine,
near kaiserlan tern, Bavaria, on the
10th.
TIE constabIes who arrested the whole
sale liquor dealers at Des Moines, Ia., and
then released them, have been indicted
for receiving brides.
IT is reported and generally believed in
Berlin that Russ ia is anxious to act with
the Powers in the settlement of the Bull
garian question without delay.
Mr.. HERBERT GLADSTONE tainted the
government on its inter failure to prevent
the progress of the plan of campaign, or
r.
CHARLES CHANDLER and Miss Susan
Gates were suffocated in the burning of
the ST. Adams (Vt) Hospital, of which
they were inmates, on the night of the
18th.
AN application was filed, on the 18th, in
the Supreme Court of New York by ad-
herents of Henry George for the incor-
poration of the Anti Poverty Associa-
tion.
A "WooLEN GOODS ASSOCIATION" was
formed at meeting held in New York, on
the 14th, for mutual protection. 1t is de-
MED that the association is in any sense
''trust."
Mr.. WILLIAM O'BRIEN's arraignment of
Chief Secretary Balfour in Parliament on
the 18th has raised him at a single bound
TO the position of parl iamentary debater
of the first rank.
THE case against Jay Gould and Rus
sell Sage for alleged embezz1ement of
Denver Pacific stock did not even come
before the New York grand jury, which
adjourned on the 18th.
j. d. PYNE was convicted at Dublin on
the 10Th of melting resistance to the bail
ifs, and sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment. At the close of the trialihe
was arrested on similar charge.
BREEN, the defeated candidate for Con-
gress from the Eleventh (Michigan) Con-
gressional district, will contest the cleo
tion of II. W. Seymour, on the ground of
intimidation of voters by mine bosses.
By a decision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, promulgated on the
10th, Southern railroads are required to
furnish accommodations, equal in all re-
spects, to white and black first-class
ticket-holders.
RUSSIA having threatened to suspend
diplomatic relations with Turkey, if the
Porte persisted in sendinglGrand Vizier
Kismail Pasha as commissioner to Sofia,
the latter has contracted a convenient
illness, and had his commission revoked
PREMIER TIRARD left the French Cham
DER of Deputies in disgust on the 10th, de-
claring he would resign because of an
adverse vote on the appeal of the govern
ment to take into consideration the ques-
ton of reducing the salaries Of treasury
paymasters.
On the 14th the Secretary OF the
Treasury asked Congress to appropriate
ninety thousand dollars to supply de-
ficiency in the appropriation for the sup
: port of United States prisoners, caused
by the law prohibiting the employment of
convict labor.
THE estate of the murdered millionaire,
Smell, has been administered upon. He
died intestate, and his property, valued
at s., 050, 900, goes to his wife, son and
three daughters. Three years ago he
decided his wife in fee simple property
valued at s., 100000.
In the examination of Richard K. Fox,
charged with participating in the
rangements for priz e.fight, held in the
Tombs police court, New York, on the
14th, it not being shown that Mr.. Fox was
present when the arrangements were
made, he was discharged.
BREADsTUFFs exports from the United
States during January pas t aggregated
In value SIS, 122, OF, against S14, 523, 800 in
January, 1887. Exports of the principal
articles of provisions during January
past were valued at $6.s26,9S0, against
$s,1s1. Az in January, 1887.
COLLECTOR MAGoNE of the port of New
York has requested the special treasury
agent in that city to investigate the re-
port that the Dominion Government in
tends to publish black list of New York
merchants who have been detected in
supplying fal Sc invoices to their Canadian
customers.
REPRESENTATIVE Cox, of New York IL
trodueed.a bill in the House on the 14th
providing for the indemnification of the
mayor, aldermen and commonalty of New
York City for the principal and interest of
bonds issued to the Union defense COM
mittee Of New York in 1S61-62. The
amount involved is s, 292, 657.
An opening was made near the main
shaft of the Hecla branch of the Calu-
met Sc Hecla mine, at Calumet, Mich, on
the 18th, and sparks and smoke issued in
abundance, showing that there was still
fire in the mine, and that it was near the
surface there The miners claim that this
is the only part of the mine where the fire
still exists.
RICHARD CASSIBoNE was sent to the
Ohio State penitentiary on the 18th, for
six years. on a thirty-two-year old sem
tence, for manslaughter, received in
Muskingum County in 1850. He broke
Jail after sentence was passed, and
was not discovered until two months
ago, living at Chillicothe under an as
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