Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-20

By ELL D. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
For all kinds of stock Montana and
the Northwest Territory have not had
so favora BILE a season for the past ten
years.
GERMANY will shortly notify the Pow
ers that she has taken the islands of
Manda and Patta off the coast of Africa
under her protection.
THE Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, on the 18th, passed the bill
to prohibit the colOring of oleomar-
CRIME to initiate butter.
A NEW crusade has been Inaugural ted
against the Germans in Paris, and they
will have a very uncomfortable time I'M
til the periodical alarm about them dies
away.
THE international labor conference at
Berlin will convene in the main hall of
Prince Bismarck's palace where the
congress of 1873 conducted its delibera-
tons
THE High-License bill for the City
of Baltimore passed the Maryland Leg
islature on the 18th. 1t places the
license at $500 for whisky and $500 for
malt liquors.
THE anti-English feeling is subsiding
in Portugal. The league which was
formed in Oporto for the purpose of as
saulting the British Minister, Mr..
Glynn-Petre, has been abandoned.
LORD SALISBURY, in accepting the in
vitation of Germany to send delegat tie
to the Berlin Labor conference, refused
to in any way lend his influence to the
proposed legal restriction of the hours
of labor.
THE election to fill the vacant seat
for StoI1e-upon-Trent, which took place
on the 18th, resulted in the return of q.
Levesen-Gower, GladStonian, who re-
ceiyed 4,517 votes to J, 1926 cast for w.
W. Allen, UniOnist.
A DECREE was issued on the 11th dis
solving the municipal government of
Lisbon and appointing commission to
administer the city affairs pending re-
is considering.
THE George III. Chance, 4 steam
schooner owned by the deep-sea fishing
fleet, which left Astoria, Ore, for 4
short cruise month ago, is reported
lost She carried a crew of fifteen men.
The revenue cutter Corwin has gone in
search of her.
CHARLES L. FOSTER, of Henry Clews
& Co., was, on the 18th, suspended from
the privileges of the New York Stock
Exchange for six months, for offering
New England stock down to 1914 at a
time when another broker was bidding
49,! for the stock.
THE naval court of inquiry to exam
inc into the charge against Commander
Bowman III. McCalla of the United
States steamship Enterprise, was
opened at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on
the 18th. About a dozen members of
the crew have complaints to prefer.
HoN. THOMAS DAVIS, the patriarch of
the Rhode Island Democracy, has an
nounced that on account of his advanced
age (eighty-three) he will retire from
political life at the end of the present
session of the Rhode Island House of
Representatives, of which he is MEM
Der.
IT is learned upon unquestiOnable au-
thority that the infOrmer, Pigott, adj
dressed letter to Lord Salisbury de-
claring his ability to crush the Parnell-
ties, and asking that an opportunity be
given to him to do so through the gov
eminent. Lord Salisbury refused to in
tcrfere in the matter.
ERICKSON, the Norwegian, who pre-
diets the destruction of San Francisco
Oakland, Cal. Milwaukee and Chicago
Oh April t, and has been wandering
about warning citizens of Oakland to
flee to the mountains, was locked up in
the Alameda County Cali Jail, on the
12th on the charge of insanity.
TIE Prospect Rolling-Nill in Cleve
land, o., was closed down on the 18th,
and the the hands paid off. The debts
of the company will amount to 500, 600.
The works were on big scale. and the
failure is due to lack of capital neces-
sary to carry on the business on the di
mansions projected by the owners.
NEEAT excitement was OcCaSlOned our
ing the municipal election in Biddeford,
Me, on the 10th, by the attempted ar
rest by Republican deputy sheritfs of
alleged Illegal voters, and the arrest of
the sheriffs by Democratic policemen
for interfering with voters at the polls.
a serious outbreak was narrowly eS-
capped.
IT is estimated that 10000 people
entered the Cherokee Outlet, on the
18th, in search of homes, under the
erroneous impression that it was opened
up 70 settlement under the Homestead
law by the passage of the Oklahoma
bill by Congress on the 18th. 1t was
the Public Land Strip that was so
opened.
THE prison at Tomsb. Siberia, is
capable of accommodate ting 400 healthy
and 275 sick eXiies; but the statistics
from 1856 to 1890 show that several
thousand were detained there each year
and that there was an enormous mortal
ity from fever. many beds being made
in the open air. though the weather was
intensely cold.
THE National convention of colored
men in session in Washington, on the