Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-04


lector of customs at Halifax. n. s., to is
sue licenses to American fishermen until
the end of this year.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has donated $50 to
the new City Hospital at Baltimore. Nd,
which will be used to furnish room &c
be named in his honor.
1t is stated upon reliable authority that
the French Government will almost i'm
mediately establish a military fort at
Dunkirk, on the English Channel
KAISER WILLIAM has ordered that the
inaugural of the late Emperor Freder1ck's
mausoleum at Potsdam be celebrated on
the 18th of next October, Frederick's
birthday.
Irwas reported. on the Goth, that the
position of Consul-General at Liverpool
had been given to Thomas Sherman, Of
Maine. 1t is one of the best offices in the
consular service.
By the recent election in Melbourne,
Australia, sixty-fve government sup
porters and thirty-two members of the
Opposition were returned to the Victoria
Legislative Assembly.
THE father of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Rev. Lyman Beecher, passed the closing
years of his life with cloud resting over
his mind. His symptoms we're very SIM
liar to those which now affect Mrs. Stowe.
THE council of San Reno, Italy, will
shortly erect two marble pillars in men,
DRY OF the late Emperor Frederick, in
front of the Villa Zirio, at San Reno,
where the lamented ruler lay i'll SO long.
NIKITA has scored a great success in
Moscow, Russia, as Zerlina in Don Clio
vianni." Scenes of indescribable en-
thusiasm attended the performances. and
the prima donna was the sensation of the
hour.
CHAs. B. SMITH, Republican candidate
for Congress in the Parkersburg CIV. Va.)
district, has served notice of a contest on
J. N. Jackson, who holds the Governors
certificate. Smith makes out a strong
case.
H. NJ. FLAGLER's yacht Oneida arrived
at Charleston, S. c., from New York, on
the 18th. with her flag at half-mast. Mr..
Flagler's married daughter, Mrs. F. H.
Bennett, of New York, died during the
voyage.
THE knitting mill of Thomas & Pettin-
gill, at Amsterdam, n. Y, suspended
payment, on the Goth, pending meeting
of the creditors of the firm. Over one
hundred hands were thrown out of en-.
ployment.
THE Cologne Gazette, commenting on
the Samoan question. says that owing to
the attitude of America it is natural that
Germany should seek full agreement
with England before the Samoan confer
ence meets.
QUEEN VICTORIA expressed great sor-
row that owing to the bad roads she was
unable, during her stay at San Sebastian,
to visit the graves Of the British soldiers
who fell in Wellington's successful siege
of the fortress in 1918.
In the British House of Commons, on
the 26th, resolution was adopted that the
government should ascertain whether the
European Powers were willing to meet in
conference to discuss measures for the
suppression of the slave trade.
THE Gear and Czarina, with many men,
bers of the Imperial family and large
number of government officials and dip
lomats, attended the funeral of Count
Paul Schouvaloff, the late Russian AM
bassador to Germany, on the 18th.
THE President has appointed Judge
Wilson, of Arkansas; j. HI. Otis, of ILL
nois. and Ex-Governor Robinson, of
Massachusetts,, commissioners to as
sess the value of the Oklahoma lands
which will revert to the United States.
JOHN FIELD, a member of the notion
firm of Young, Smith, Field 6 Co., has
been asked by Postmaster General Wanna
maker to accept the position of postmas-
ter 'of Philadelphia Mr.. Field was
member of the Committee of One Hun
dred.
THE Navy-Yard Commission, on the
18th, visited the Mount Vernon Reserva-
ton near Mobile, Ala, and examined the
Mobile river as to its suitability for
navy-yard site. A reception was given
the commission by the Athelstone Club
In the evening.
A DISPATCH from Vienna, on the Goth,
says: The rivers in Hungary are rapidly
rising, and great damage is threatened.
The town of SZedenz is entirely under
water, and it is feared the recent disas-
trous experience of this unfortunate place
will be repeated.
NJ. GEIsENDoRF, the son of the Swiss
Consul at Cannes, France, was found
murdered near the railroad track at
Monte Carlo, Italy. His valise, which was
lying near by, had been rifed. He had
recently won large sums of money at the
Casino gambling tables.
AN agent with force of emergency
men, evicted twelve families from their
noIulnSS Ut Clongorey. ireland, on the
Goth, and subsequently burned all but one
of the twelve buildings. The house spared
was reserved to furnish quarters for the
police aiding the evictors.
THE arrangements for transporting the
Russian army to any quarter of the coun-
try, in the event OF war, have been COM
pleted. The entire country has been
divided into specified districts, with Off
GERS designated to control the military
movements in each district.
THE pilot-bo Webb, which reached
New York from Southern waters, on the
2sth, reported that when fourteen miles
off Fenwick Light-ship she picked up a
life-boat which bore the name of the Con-
serva. The boat was slightly damaged,
but her lines were intact. This is the
third e-boat picked up in the same To-
cality.
AMONG the nominations made by the
President on the 9th were the following:
Robert T. Lincoln, Minister to England;
Murat Halstead, Minister to Germany;
Allen Thorndyke Rice, Minister to Rus
STA; Patrick Egan, Minister to Chilli;
Thomas Ryan, Of Kansas, Minister to
Mexico; John Hicks, Of Wisconsin, Min
fefa IN Perm.