Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

IRONTON. MISSOURI
THE daughter of the Italian Prime
Minister, Crispi, has been bethrothed to
the Duke of Comano.
COUNT DILLON, the French exile, who
had just been expelled from Lorraine by
the German police, arrived in Brussels
on the 25th.
THIRTEEN men, all sailors, were SEN
fenced on the 21st, at Aachen, for SNUG
Cling corn into Germany. Their opera
tions during the past year aggregated
hundreds of tons of grain.
An old lady, born under the admins
tration of President Washington, who
is now ninety-three years of age, has
just fled an application for pension as
the widow of soldier of 1912.
GERMANY has proclaimed protector
ate over the East coast of Africa from
Witoo to Kismaya, conditioned upon the
consent of the chiefs there to be given.
The rights of all foreigners are reserved
under the proclamation.
SIR EDWARD WATKINS, who is at the
head of the company organized to erect
structure in London which shall out
Eiffel Eiffel himself, has issued circu-
lar offering $50 guineas for designs for a
tower 1850 feet in height.
THE man Cole, the first of the prison
ers tried at Marysboro, Irel and, for the
killing of Inspector Martin, was, on the
ed, found by the jury guilty of man
slaughter. Father McFadden and the
others accused will probably receive the
same verdict.
NJ. TRANTwEILER, chief engineer of
the Brunig railway, has applied for a
concession from the Swiss. Government
for an underground railway up the jung
frau mountain. 1t is proposed to reach
the summit of the mountain by means
of tubular tunnel.
In speech at Cincinnati, on the 25th,
Senator Sherman said that the next
Congress will undoubtedly institute
some action tending toward the union
of North, Central and South America
into solid phalanx of republics, COM
mercially and politically.
THE Brooklyns won the fourth game
in the worlds championship series from
the New York base ball team, on the
23d, by score of 10 to Z, in six innings,
the game being called on account of
darkness, thus scoring three out of four
games played up to that date.
THE Oxford Copper Company obtained
an attachment in the Supreme Court of
New York City. on the 23d, against the
property in that State of the Paris So
ciete Des Metaux, which organized the
late corner in copper, on a claim for
$3.50, 600 for non-fulfllment of contract.
OK the 23d Mayor Grant of New York
City issued an appeal to the citizens of
that city for subscriptions to the Worlds
Fair fund, declaring that every days
delay endangered the success of the
project, and pointing out the advantages
to accrue to the city from the EXPOSE
ton.
In his great speech at Southport, on
the 23d, Hon. William E. Gladstone was
greeted by house crowded almost to
suffocation. He spoke of the struggle
for home rule in Ireland as being as de-
serving as the late strike of the London
dock laborers of public sympathy and
support.
PENSION COMMISSIONER RAUM is en-
titled to pension as wounded soldier
of the late war. but has never filed an
application. While his case would no
doubt receive careful attention at pres
emit from the pension officials, he has no
idea of trying to get a place on the pen
sion list.
THE New York Cotton Exchange
voted recently on proposition to re-
peal the present system of inspection
and classification of cotton. The result
was 119 for the repeal and 100 against
it. On the 22d the board of managers
decided that the system now in use pre-
vail for the present.
MUNICH, Bavaria, has "Jack the
Ripper" mystery quite as profound as
that of Whitechapel, London. Two
girls were found in that city, on the
morning of the 21st, with their bodies
mutilated in manner to lead to the
suspicion that the London fiend had
started on his travels.
ADvIcEs from Apia, Samoa, reportthe
occurrence of a battle on the Island of
Savoii between the forces of Malietoa
and Tamasese. A thousand men are said
to have been engaged, but it is not
known which party was victorious.
Several are said to have been killed and
large number wounded.
DURING the trial of Father McFadden
in Maryboro, Ireland, on the 22d, vio-
lent alteration between the crown at
torney and the counsel for the defense
took place, which threatened to result
in general fight. After the excite
ment was over, the Judge imposed heavy
fines upon three of the principal Of
tenders.
FIVE pupils in Japanese school near
temple in the province of Kiangsu hid
themselves in collins upon which anoth-
er boy placed the lids and informed the
teacher that they had gone to Heaven.
When the lids were removed all the boys
were found to be dead from suffocation.
The sixth boy fled, but the teacher over
took him and logged him to death.
GENERAL IGNATIEFF arrived in Rome,
on the 22d, on special mission from
Russia to the Vatican, bearing an auto
graph letter from the Gar accepting the
arbitration of the Pope on the Balkan
question, and leaving His Holiness free
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