Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-06

S1st.
ADJUrANr-GENERALD DRUM was placed
upon the retired list of the army on the
18th, his sixty fourth birthday.
A GRAND council Of the five Indian ma
lions in Indian Territory is to be held at
Purcell, ]. T., beginning June 3.
IRIS expected that President Harrison
and President Diaz of Mexico will meet
at Fort Worth, Tex, some time this
month.
ADMIRAL KIMBERLY reports to the Navy
Department, under date of May p, that
the Samoan natives are disbanding and
that peace prevails.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that baskets made Of wool, willow and
metal are not dutiable as baskets, but as
manufactures in part Of wool
Ex-CoNGRKssMAN JOHN HAMMOND, Of
New York, died at Crown Point, on the
18th, Of consumption. He was Colonel Of
the Fifth New York Cavalry during the
war.
to be dispatched to Behring Sea to main
tain our rights to the seal fisheries as
against the Canadian poachers and their
armed protectors.
THE London Standards Berlin corre-
spondent says it has been decided that
it would be superfuous to renew the
treaties between Italy, Austri, and Ger
many (the triple alliance).
HENRY O'BRIEN, the defaulting treas
urer Of the Catholic Knights, Of Column
bus, Ind, returned to that city, on the
night of the 10Th, and surrendered. He
mil or1
ing.
The Pope has ordered that on the day
of the unvailing of the monument to
Giordiano Bruno, who was burned as a
hereto in the year 1900, the whole of the
papal guards and gendarmes shall keep
within the Vatican.
WILLIAM Roam RUFFIN, great grand
son of Thomas Jefferson, and we'll known
throughout the country as q successful
stock-raiser and turfman, died, on the
9th, at his home in Chesterfield County,
Pa, aged forty-four.
A PROTOCOL has been drawn up by the
Samoan Commissioners which will be
signed if favorable answers are received
from Washington and London. No fur
Their meeting will be held until the forth
coming instructions arrive.
NJ. FAURE, member of the French Cham
Der Of Deputies, withdrew, on the 9th.
the questions regarding the reported
treaty between France and Hayti that he
intended asking the government during
the discussion of the budget.
THE executive officers of the committee
of One Hundred at Indianapolis, Ind, are
displeased over the action of the Presi-
dent in RENTING the fine of Sim Coy, of
that city, who is serving term in the
penitentiary for election frauds.
MEMBERS of the Mississippi River Com.
mission and representatives of railroad
and steamboat interests at New Orleans
held q conference, on the 9th, and dis
cussed the feasibility of building bridge
over the river in front Of the Crescent
City.
IT was recently announced that sick
ness prevented King Kalakaua of Hawaii
from going to the Paris Exposition. 1t is
learned from good authority that His
Majesty, although desiring to pay visit
to the exposition, lacked the necessary
funds.
On the morning of the 9th every ore
handler in Marquette, Mich, struck for
an increase in pay. Nearly three hun
dred men went out. A big fleet of ORE
carriers, with a capacity of 1900 tons,
was tied up. The men demanded $f.75
Per day.
In the Bishop inquest in New York, on
the 9th, Robertson, the mind readers
regular physician, testified that he had
often seen Bishop in catalepsy when he
seemed dead. Witness would not have
performed the autopsy so soon as it was
done.
SECRETARY PROCTOR, who returned to
Washington, on the 25th, from joint
visit to his home at Proctor, VT, and to
West Point, left again for his home, on
the 9th, on receipt of telegram stat
Ing that his SON was seriously i'll with the
measles.
REFERRING to the indignation caused in
France by the announcement that King
Humbert of Italy would visit Strasburg,
the Kreuz Zeitung tells the French to
mind their own business, nor dare to in
terfere with Germany's doings in her own
provinces.
COLONEL JOHN C. HASKELL, Of Column
bia, s. c., was, on the Both, elected as the
member of the National Democratic COM
mittee from South Carolina. Colonel
Haskell is q member Of the Legislature,
and one Of the most prominent lawyers of
the State.
SECRETARY BLAINE, on the 30th, sent
long telegram to Minister Reid, at Paris,
demanding an immediate Investigation of
the matter of the arrest and alleged ILL
treatment of three American ladies at
Mentone, France, and insisting upon an
ample apology.
THE twice. postponed exclusion rendered
by Secretary Blaine in honor Of Sir JUL
ian Pauncefote, the new British Minister,
took place on the 18th, a distinguished
party boarding the United States steamer
Dispatch and sailing down the Potomac
as far as Mt Vernon.
PREPARATIONS for the triennial con-
clave of Knights Templar next fall are
going forward at Washington with some
rapidity. Advices received from the va
rious Communicates throughout thecoun-
try indicate that fully $4,000 Masons win
be in line the day of the parade.
The London Times Berlin correspond
emit reports that the American Commits
sioners to the Samoan Conference have
had q tough fight for the assertion of the
principles for which they contended, and
that the convention, when concluded, will
show that their labors have not been with
out success.
THE findings of the court OF inquiry
appointed to investigate the case OF
Passed Assistant Paymaster Henry J.
Smith, Of the Essex, whose disappear
ance from that vessel in the latter part
of April caused quite a senskSion in naval
circles, were received at the Navy Depart.
ment on tbs 9th.