Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

treasury Maynard decided that SIX pairs
| of silk hose and eighteen pairs of silk
gloves, imported for the use of the Bishop
of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con-
| ception at Albany, n. Y, are not exempt
| ed from duty as ''regalia specially
| imported in good faith for the use of
| any society incorporated or established
| for religious purposes"
HENRI WOLFF, the celebrated Dutch aro-
naut, assembled from Antwerp, Belgium,
| in a balloon, on the 10th, accompanied
| by Lieutenant Daniel The balloon was
| driven seward, and it is feared that its
occupants are lost
THREE large men war will be built by
Russia during the present year.
The House appropriation committee, on
| the 18th, gave a hearing to Major J. w.
Powell, Chief of the Geological Survey, in
favor of an appropriation of $4,000 for
surveying the arid lands of the West and
determining the proper points where ir-
rigating reservoirs should be located.
The ultimate cost of completing the work
of irrigating the arid lands is placed at
So, 800, 900.
THE London Standard says that the pub
LEGATION of the indictment against Prof.
Gefficken shows that Bismarck himself
was the author of the charges against SIR
Robert MOrier.
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offered the Carthusian monks of the
Chartreuse la Grande fS,0OO,000 for the
secret and the monopoly of the manufact-
ure and sale of the famous chartreuse
cordialS.
IT was reported, on the 10Th, that the
health of Rev. Charles II. Sturgeon, of
London, is rapidly improving.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS, at the
Fishmongers' COmpany's banquet in Lon
don, on the 10th, responding to a toast
said: 1.-THE only complaint bring against
this country is that my experience here
makes it more difficult to say goodbye
than to perform any other duty which has
devolved upon me since 1 came here"
THE Reichsanzeiger published, on the
the 10th, by command of Emperor Will
lam, the indictment brought against Prof.
Gefficken, in order to enable the public to
Judge as to the administration of Justice
in his case.
A SPECIAL from Jackson, Miss, on the
10Th, says information has been received
by Governor Lowry that mob law con-
tinues to exist in the southern part of
Noxubee and the northern part of Kemper
County, and that negro cabins are being
destroyed by incendiary fires. Over forty
families have been driven away and their
cabins burned
a MAJORITY of the ROyalists in the De-
partment of the Seine have decided to
vote for General Boulanger.
THE Republican Legislative caucus at
Salem, Ore, on the 10th, decided to re-
elect J. N. Dolph to the United States
Senate.
Mr.. GLADSTONE will shortly visit Rome,
and hold personal interviews with the
Pope and King Humbert.
Mr.. JOHN BRIGHT, who had been i'm
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18th.
PRINCE BISMARCK is suffering from in
disposition in consequence os his exer-
lions at the opening of the Reichstag..
A SISTER of Edwin Booth Miss Rosalie
Ann Booth, died in New York City, on
the 18th, of paralysis, at the age of sixty
five years.
PERRY S. WEsrFALL. editor and pro-
prietor of the Terre Haute Und.) Satur-
| day Evening Mail, died, on the 10TH aged
| fifty-five, from a paralytic stroke
w. ID. WASHBURN was nominated for
| United States Senator from NJ innesota by
the Republican caucus at st. Paul on the
18th.
THE President, on the 10th, sent to the
Senate the nomination of John Earring
| ton, of Minnesota to be collector of Gus
toms for the district of Minnesota.
CONTINUED rains in Wisconsin have
| melted the snow, and logging operations
have again been brought to standstill.
THE Vienna Fremdenblatt denies the
statement published in the Novoe Vremya,
of st. Petersburg, that Austria, under an
agreement with the Porte, would occupy
the second portion of the Saudjak of
Novoe- Bazaar, in Bosnia.
Hon. GEO. d. WISE has served on Ed
.mund Waddell, Jr., his answer to the lat
ter,s notice of contest in the Congress
sional election in the Third (Va-) dis
trict.
A COTTON warehouse on the Liverpool
docks was burned. on the 18th, entailing q
loss of $3.50, 900.