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

DR.. KARL PETERS started from Alexan-
dria, Egypt, for Alden, on the II tn, on his
way to take charge of the Emin Bey re-
lief expedition.
THE Silesian Diet has voted to appro-
pirate the sum of 200, 900 marks for the pur-
pose of erecting monument of Emperor
William 1. at Breslau.
THE interposition OF Ex-King Milan Of
Ser<ia prevented a duel between NJ.
Mihiokovic, chief-of-staff, and n. Bali
markovic, one of the regents.
A GERMAN officer of artillery has dis
covered a new and extremely powerful
explosive for filing shells. The basis of
the explosive is carbolic acid.
GREAT rain-storms have ragged in Cali
fornia recently, the rainfall for twenty
four hours ended at noon on the 18th be-
ing 20 inches, the heaviest ever known
there.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis for the week ended the 9th
amounted to 81, 5S1. The issue during
the corresponding week of last year was
S91. 564.
SCHUYLER MOSES, the oldest Free Ma.
son in the State of New York, and the
Oldest pioneer of Rochester, died, on the
18th, aged ninety. He had been a Mason
sixty eight years.
QUEEN VICTORIA will shortly go to San
Sebastian to pay visit to the cemetery
where lie the British soldiers who fell in
the Peninsular war in the British conquest
of that place in 1913.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan denies that
he has any designs against Russia He
declares that his enemies, wishing to en-
broil England, Afghanistan and Russia,
originated the report.
NEWS has been received from a man
formerly of Waterbury, Conn, who, for
twenty-one years, has been supposed 10
be dead, but who is now a wealthy resi-
dent of Victoria Australia.
VINcENzo VILETTo, an accomplice of
d'Red-Nosed Mike" in the murder of Pay
master Mcclure and Contractor Flanni-
gan. has been captured in Italy, and 81 900
of the stolen money recovered.
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1T is reported that the secrets Of the
Patriotic League were betrayed to the
French Government by a leading officer
of the organization. The name OF the
traitor has not as yet been divulged.
THE Mexican Government has amended
the concession granted to Captain J. B.
Eads for ship railroad, by guaranteeing
earnings to the extent of five per cent. in
terest on sixty million dollars of stock.
EIGHT HUNDRED delegates and visitors
attended the South Dakota Prohibition
convention at Huron, Oak, on the 18th.
The sentiment was almost unanimous for
the adoption of the Sioux Falls Constitu-
ton.
THE Secretary of the Navy has under
consideration the question of furnishing
a naval vessel to convey the remains of
the late John Ericsson to his native land
in recognition of his distinguished serv-
ices.
Owing to the illness of Mrs. Townshend
and her daughter, it was determined to
postpone the taking of the remains of
Representative Townshend to Illinois.
His funeral took place in Washington on
the 18th.
LATE Samoan dispatches received at
Auckland New Zealand, show that there
is no basis for the rumors of the naval
battle that was said to have been fought
between the German and American war
vessels.
TRAIN-wRECKERs tore up the track of
the Transcaspian railway in Russia, caus
ing frightful accident to a passenger
train, on the 10Th. Fifty persons were
killed and injured. The wreckers were
captured.
LORD LoNsDALE has arrived at that
point in the Arctic Circle known as the
Ramparts, which is the last outpost of the
Hudson Bay Company. He and his party
are reported we'll, and his lordship is in
fine spirits.
THE schooner Ellen, which recently left
San Diego, Cal, for the new gold fields at
Ensenada, with eight tons of provisions
and seventy-six miners on board, went on
the beach a few miles north of Ensenada,
and broke up.
LORD COMPTON (Gladstonian) was elect
ed to Parliament from the Barnsley div
sion of Yorkshire, England, on the 18th,
receiving 6,232 votes against 3, ,S1 cast for
B. c. Vernon Wentworth, the Conserv-
alive candidate.
THE Nihilist committee of st. Peters,
burg has issued a secret circular an
nouncing that the apparent inactivity of
the Nihilist leaders is merely blind, in
tended to lull the authorities into false
sense of security.
MAYOR GRANT of New York will head
the reception committee which will go
down the bay on a tug to meet the
Adriatic, which brings back the Chicago
and All-America basel ball clubs from
their tour around the world.
ADMIRAL JOHN LEE DAVIS, aged sixty
four, retired naval officer, died at the
Ebbitt House, Washington, on the 18th,
of pneumonia. Admiral Davis entered
the navy in 1871, and was in command of
the Asiatic squadron when he was retired
two years ago.
THE first sign of the inevitable return of
Queen Natalie To Belgrade as tHe result of
her late husbands desertion OF the throne
and her sons accession thereto is visi-
BILE in the report that meeting is being
arranged between the mother and son
on the frontier.
ARRANGEMENTS are making for meet.
ing between Ex-Queen Natalie and bel
SON. King Alexander of Servia. The az
rangement is made at the request of the
boy-King, who is extremely anxious tt
see his mother, and will take place on tES
Servian frontier.
In the Hartford Comm police court
Alex. Theur and Amos E. Risley, engl-
neers at the late Park Central Hotel
charged with mauslaughter in causing the
explosion of the boiler by negligence,
were, on the 18th, held for the Superior
Court in bonds of s., 500 each.
ON the 14th, the Lower House Of the
n<,fir Lot a l.