Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07

OF Agriculture has issued an order to
managers and agents of railroads and
transportation companies revoking the
| order of July 8, last, prescribing regula-
tions for the transportation of Texas and
other Southern cattle, and for the isola.
| ton, cleansing and disinfection of pens
| which had been occupied by such cattle,
| in the belief that the danger from
| splenetic or Texas fever has passed for
the present year.
THE official report on the cruiser
| Charleston, recently ordered by Secre-
| tary Tracy, was received at the Navy
Department from San Francisco on the
31st. The trial board found the cruiser
completed and ready for acceptance.
THE Jumbo natural-gas well, which
has been supplying the town of Wabash.
Ind, with light and fuel, gave out on
the Goth. Another we'll will be sunk.
EX-PosTMAsTER T. W. D. PHILLIPS, of
Burrillville, r. l., has become insane be-
cause of his removal from his postmas-
| tership which, with the exception of a
short time in the Garfield Administra-
| ton, he had held for a long term of
years. He was taken to an asylum on
the 3Oth.
On the 31st Assistant Attorney-Gener-
al Shields reported to the Secretary of
the Interior that there was no legal i'm
| pediment to the relinq uishment of its
| claim to the neutral strip by the Chero-
| kee Nation.
LEWIS ANDREWS, aged one hundred
| and nine years, died at Pottersville, N.
! Y, on the Goth. He was bright and act
| i've up to the day of his death.
THE Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs
has apologized to the American Minis
| ter for the illegal arrest of American
tourists last August on charge of
pocket-picking, and states that damages
can be recovered on application to the
Court of Appeals.
IT has been settled that the cruiser
Baltimore will not have another official
trial. The vessel will be accepted by
the Government, the contractors paying
S25, 600 penalty for failure to develop the
required horsepower.
M. TsCHERNIsCHYEsKI died at Sara
toff, Russia, on the 31st. He was born
in 1928. In 1858 he became one of the
editors of the ST. Petersburg Review, but
soon incurred the enmity of the govern
ment, and in 1864 was sentenced to
twelve years hard labor in the Siberian
mines, to which three years were after
ward added. There was an erroneous
report of his death ten years ago.
THE Government directors of the
Union Pacific railroad, in their report to
the Secretary of the Interior, ON the
31st, say that in their Judgment the in
terests of the United States demand
early action by Congress to secure the
payment by the company of it's indebt-
edness to the Government. They rec
ommend the passage of the bill pending
when the last Congress adjourned.
THE President, on the 31st, appointed
States Attorney for the Territory of New
Mexico.
THE German Emin relief committee
has forwarded communication to DR..
Peters recalling him from further prog
ress toward the interior of Africa, and
instructing him to return home.
IN drunken brawl between Hunga-
rian laborers on the Jersey Central rail-
road near Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the LIST,
in which knives were freely used,
dozen men were slightly wounded and
three or four so severely hurt that their
lives are despaired of.
THE south-bound passenger trainon the
Fl. Worth railroad, while snow-bound
near EaSton, Col, on the LIST, was run
into by freight, and Engineer Hickey,
Fireman Flanagan and one passenger
were killed.
DIR. O'REILLY, the treasurer of the
Irish National League in America,
handed to the Dublin branch of the
league, on the 1st, the sum of es,O
collected in the United States.
THE State concluded its presentation
of testimony in the COLON forgery case
at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 1st. Four
experts in penmanship and two bank
cashiers testified with more or less cir
cumstantiality that in their opinion the
disputed signatures are forgeries.
HIRAM A. JONES, of Newburg, n Y,
whoeoriginated the pony express across
the,eontinent, and held many important
public positions, died, on the 1st, at the
az nf Sayanty