Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
| 1T is stated that Sir Edward Mallett,
the British Ambassador at Berlin, will
represent his government in the Samoan
| conference.
| THE rumor that the iron-milIs Of Pitts
burgh, Pa, would be compelled to shut
down because of the low price of the man
featured product, is denied.
THE agitation of the Irredentists is re-
| viving in the Italian provinces.
| THE Pope has disagreed with the French
| Government in the selection of candi
dates for the vacant bishoprics in France.
A CABLEGRAM announces that Prof. Fran
co.'s Terby. of Louvain, Belgium, has OBJ
served a white region on one Of Saturn's
rings, visible against the dark portion Of
the planet.
THE Comptroller of the Currency. on the
18th, authorized the City National Bank of
Sulphur Springs, Tex; the Peoples Ma
tional Bank Of Paola, Kas., and the Ma
tional Bank of Coatesville, Pa, to begin
| business, with capitals, respectively, OF
100000, $4,000 and 100000.
RIGHT Hon. ARTHUR WELLESLEY PEEL,
Speaker of the House of Commons, has
| arranged for visit to Parliament of the
American baseball players now in Lon
don. They will visit Parliament in a
body.
| THEODORE r. TIMBY, of New York State,
| claims to have been the inventor of the
| revolving turret, and asserts that the
| credit of the idea has been wrongfully
| given to Ericsson.
| EMPEROR WILLIAM expects to remove
to the Friedrichskron by the 1st of May.
THE Due d'Aumale had an interview
with President CarnOt at Paris on the
| 18th. He warmly thanked the President
| RI of Ct
| him.
PRIVATE letters received at Berlin from
Zanzibar say that Stanley, according to
| native reports, is marching rapidly toward
| the East coast of Africa.
| VICE-ADMIRAL JACREs, Of the French
navy, died on the 18th. The cause OF his
death was apOplexy.
THE National Supreme Assembly OF the
| Royal Society OF Good Fellows opened its
biennial session at Providence, r. l., on
| the 18th. Twenty-one States were repre-
| scented.
| SECRETARY TRACY. on the 18th, formally
accepted the silver service presented by
! citizens Of Chicago to the United States
| cruiser Chicago.
| THE Montana & Canada railroad. ex-
| tending from Helena, Mont. to the Cana
dian line, has been incorporated at
| Helena.
THE Warren Tube Works, at Warren,
o., which cost $250,0OO to erect three years
ago. have been appraised at $4,000, and
| will be offered at sheriff's sale April 13.
| THE Cabinet meeting, on the 18th, last
| ed about an hour and a half. ALI of the
members were present. 1t was decided
! that the Cabinet meetings shall be held
Tuesdays and Fridays at $3.50 p. m.
a LONE highwayman held up stage
about seven miles east of San Luis Obs
pc, Cal, on the 18th. A man wearing a
| mask and SLOUGH hat appeared suddenly
at point on the p-grade, 1eveled re-
volver at the driver and ordered the
Wells Fargo box thrown off. The driver
complied, and was then ordered to move
on. The passengers were not molested.
THE total coal product OF the country
for 1888 was 145 1868, IA tons, valued at
SOS, 129, 500.
JOHN ROBINSON, father of the long three
Robinson brothers, died at Knoxville, Ia,
| on the 18th, aged seventy three. He was
nearly seven feet in height himself.
THE Paradise Club of anglers of New
York has concluded the purchase of 10,-
coo acres of forest and fifty trout lakes in
various parts OF the country.
| THE German Reichstag was opened on
the 18th. Prince Bismarck was present
| but did not speak.
THE Masons of New York will observe
| April "a as day of thanks giving for the
final liquidation of their debt of 100000.
PROBATE JUDGE MARSHALL, Of Bufllo
| County, Oak, who was arrested charged
with perjury in negotiating q loan, had
| his examination at Chamberlain, on the
| 14th, and was acquitted.
IT is said that Russia is alarmed at the
growing indications of leanings towards
| Germany on the part of the Balkan States,
| and that she will take Immediate steps
towards counteracting this tendency.
| JOHN L. ADAMS. the Macon Ca forger,
| who had tasted for twenty seven days,
| died ON the 18th.
| A LARGE portion of the village of North
| Branch, Mimi, was destroyed by fire on
| the 18th.
| SCARLET FEVER is epidemic at Lapare,
Oak. Many children have died, and there
are many hopeless cases. The commune
ty is terror-stricken.
| STEWART, ESTEP g. Co.'s twenty-four-
| pot window-g glass factory at Marion,
Ind, was burned on the 14th. Loss, S5o,-
! 600.
The shutdown OF the King Philip and
American Linen Mills, at Fall River,
Mass, on the 18th, added over 1000 to the
number of idle operatives there
| THE Paris La Bourse, a supporter OF the
Copper ring, admits that the crisis is APP
palling, and says that the mines will re-
| strict the output for two months.
AN east-bound freight train on the st.
Johusbury & Lake Champlain railroad
was derailed near Jonesbridge, between
| Morrisville and Wolcott, VT, on the 18th.
Sixteen heavily-loaded cars fell into La
noble river and were badly wrecked.
THE famous Belgian statesman, jurlst
and politician, NJ. Matthew Nicholas Jo-
seph LIE Clercque, died on the 10Th, aged
eighty-three years.
The President gave a reception to the
Diplomatic Corps on the 18th.
| JUSTICE MATTHEWS, of the United States
Supreme Court, has suffered another re-
lapse.
| THE Austrian frigate Saida, command
ed by Chevalier de Becker, first class
war vessel, carrying six hundred men and
many cadets, and being in use as a school
| ship of the Austrian navy, arrived in front
of New Orleans on the 18TH She is MAX
ing tour around the world.
ADvICES up to the 10th seemed to indi-
cate the undoubted capture of Willie Tas-
colt, the murderer of Banker Smell, in
Chicago. His capture is said to have been
made in the vicinity of Lake Winnipeg,
Northwest Territory.
THE grand jury at Missoula, Mont,
failed to find true bills against either j. E.
Clifford or DR.. Cunningham, the parties
charged with killing an Indian at Demers-
vile recently, which came near causing
| an uprising, and they were accordingly
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