Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-07

IT has been decided by the Post office
Department that the cylinders used in
monographs and 81 aphoph ones are to be
treated as first-class matter, subject to
letter postage.
THE President has approved the act in
regard to the water reserve lands in Wis
consin, and the act to increase the max
1mum amount of international money
orders from $50 to 500.
GENERAL ALGKR was interviewed, on
the 30th, on the possibility of his going
into Mr.. Harrison's Cabinet. He said he
had no better Information on the subject
now than he had six weeks ago.
DISPATCHES from Auckland regarding
affairs at the Samoan Islands state that
the German naval officials have been noti-
fed to search all vessels in Samoan
waters for contraband articles.
Ex-GovERNoR ALBERT G. PORTER of
Indiana stated, on the Goth, that he had
received information from source in
which he placed implicit faith that War
ner Miller is to be in the Cabinet.
Mr.. C. P. HUNrIsGroN, of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, was, on the
18th, given a hearing by the Senate COM
nnittee on Pacific railroads, which has the
Mitchell bill now pending before it.
THE London bureau of the New York
Herald announced, on the 2Sth, that Ow-
ing to defects in the machinery the pub
location of the London edition of the
Herald would be delayed for some days.
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania has
signed the joint resolution submitting to
a vote of the people the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution prohibiting the
sale or manufacture of intoxicating
liquor.
MIR. DAVID SHEEHY, member of the Brit
ish Parliament, who was arrested in Glas-
gov on a warrant for violating the Crimes
act, was, on the 10Th, sentenced to six
months without hard labor. He took an
appeal
VIM A. SLATER, of Norwich, Conn.,, on
the 31st transferred to the Norwich Acad-
envy $4,000 as permanent fund, the in
terest of which is to be used in defraying
the expenses of the Slater Memorial and
Museum
Acknowledgement WYMAN
of the Marine Hospital Service received
telegram from DIR. w j. Pettus, at CAL
weston, Tex, on the 18th, stating that
eight cases Of smallpox had broken out
in that city.
Mr.. PRESTON, the Haytien Minister, on
the 1st, informed the Secretary of State
that several vessels are being fitted out at
New York for an expedition against Hayti,
and the matter was referred to the Treas
ury Department
COMPTROLLER TRENHOLM rendered his
resignation to the President, on the Doth,
and left Washington for New York City,
where he at once entered upon his duties
as president of the American Surety Com
pany of that city.
SIR CHARLES UPPER, Canadian High
Commissioner to England, paid visit to
the Paris exhibition grounds on the 30th
He expressed regret that circumstances
rendered it impossible for Canada to take
part in the exposition.
THE British steamer Topaz brought to
New Orleans, on the 3lst, six sailors of
the Boston whaling schooner Alcyon, who
left the schooner at st. Vincent, claiming
i1l-treatment, and demanded the protec- |
ton of the American Consul
THE passenger agents of the trunk lines, !
at meeting in New York City, made
rate of one cent mile for military Or
CARNATIONS of New York State and Penn
sylvania to the Washington Inauguration |
centennial in that city in April.
SENATOR SABIN, of Minnesota, visited |
General Harrison on the LIST. To a press |
representative he said that he had no !
Cabinet aspirations whatever, and that his |
pilgrimage was of vicarious nature, the |
beneficiary of which he refused to name. |
THE Post-office Appropriation bill, as
completed, on the 1st, by the House COM |
mittee on pOst-offices and post roads, |
proposes a total appropriation of $685.,
to- oil as
than the appropriation for the current |
year.
THE prosecuting authorities at Indian
apolis deny the statement OF the managers |
OF the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance |
Company that they are responsible for the |
non-arrest of Moore, the defaulter, no in
structions to that effect having been re-
ceived by them.
DR.. JOHN w. UNDERHILL died at Gin
cinuati, on the 18th, from the effects of |
cocaine. A few years ago he began ex-
perimenting with the new drug, and be-
came hopeless victim, although he was
a man of fine health and a physician of
excellent standing.
AT the reception to Congressman and
the Judiciary, on the 31st, the President
and Mrs. Cleveland were assisted by Miss
Bayard, Mrs. Eudicott, Mrs. Fairchild,
Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Dickinson. The
attendance in personnel aud costume was
distinctively brilliant.
TIE New Jersey Democratic caucus,
on the 2Sth, completed plans for read
justiug the Assembly districts of the
State. The caucus chairman introduced
bill, on the 10Th, which carves out th1rsy-
seven Democratic districts out of a total
of sixty in the State.
IT is understood that an agreement was
reached on the 1st between the members
OF the house and those of the Senate in
terested in the Territorial Admission bill
by which the policy of the Republicans,
agreed to in caucus, will meet wish the
of the House conferees.
THE committee appointed to inquire into
the condition of the British navy, as man
Tested by the recent maneuvers, report
ed, on the 3Ist, that the ships, with few
are unsuitable for modern
warfare, and that the feet as it exists is
unfit to command the seas against an en- {
emy. III