Iron County register., 1890-03-06

ingUon, at net profit of about 500, 900.
THE report of the death of Abraham.
son of Minister and Mrs. Lincoln, in
London, on the Goth, proves to have been
premature.
IT is officially announced that the
labor conference which it was proposed
to hold in Berne has been abandoned by
the Swiss Government.
THE funeral services over the remains
of the late John Jacob Astor, of New
York, took place on the 25th, and were
of the most unostentatious character.
THE act to authorize the President to
confer brevet rank on officers of the
United States army for gallant services
in Indian campaigns received execu-
tive approval on the 2Ith.
IT is asserted that England and Italy
have entered into written treaty which
provides for cooperative action by those
nations in the furtherance of their in
terests on the western coast of the Red
sea-
HERR ZIMMER, editor of a newspaper
published in Breslau, was sentenced, on
the Goth, to imprisonment for two years
for insulting reference to Emperor Will
lam in commenting on His Majesty 5
labor rescripts.
IN the British House of Commons, on
the night of the 2Sth, Henry Labouchere
was suspended by vote of IT to .6 for
refusing to withdraw the statement that
he would not believe Lord Salisbury nor
Attorney-General Webster.
EMIN PAsHA has written to 4 friend in
Berlin that he declined the khedive,s
offer of the Governorship of Eastern
Soudan, with his residence at Suallim,
and that he is resolved to return to
Wadelai and reconquer that country
for Germany.
THE Treasury Department has informed
the Christ Church vestrymen of Lewis
burg, Pa, that to bring in a minister
from Canada under contract has been
decided by United States Circuit Court
in New York to be a violation of the
Alien Contract Labor law.
THE Rhode Island Prohibitionists put
in nomination the following State ticket
on the Goth: For Governor, Rev. JnO.
Lang; Lieutenant-Govern Joshua c.
Brown; Secretary of State, John w.
Mooney; Attorney General, John L.
Blodgett; General Treasurer, John z.
Hazard.
AIETTER from Henry NJ. Stanley was
read at the meeting of the corpora tiOn
of the city of London, on the 27th, in
which Mr.. Stanley says he hopes to ar
rive in London on April Il, when he
will receive the address which it is the
inteation of the corporation to present
to him.
THE statement of the business of all
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, east of Pittsburgh and Erie, for
1890, as compared with the same months
in 1889, shows an increase in gross earn
ings of s6i3, sos; an increase of expenses
of 1888, ,315, and an increase in net earn
ings of 1928, $50.
A MAss-MEETING was held at the
Cooper Union, New York City, on the
2Sth, to protest against the Russian
Governments treatment of political
prisoners Resolutions requesting the
intervention Oh inc american tIoNtIH-
ment to check the outrages upon Rus
sian prisoners We're adopted.
EX-CoNGREsSMAN Taulbec, of Ken
lucky. was shot through the head and
dangerously wounded in front of the
Capitol building at Washington, on the
2Sth, by Charles f. Kincaid, Washing
ton correspondent of the Louisville
Times, whose ear he had pulled while
denouncing him as a coward.
THE Queen-Regent of Spain, on the
2Sth, issued decree granting amnesty
in some instances and reduction of the
term of imprisonment in others in the
cases of political and criminal prisoners
now in confinement. This action is
taken in celebration of the recovery of
the infant King from his recent illness.
THE Army Appropriation bill, accom-
panied by a report. was submitted to the
House, on the 2sth, by Representative
Cutcheon, of Michigan. The total
amount appropriated is S24, 4,45s,220, an
increase over the appropriation for the
current year of S633. 604. The estimates
of the War Department aggregated S25,-
611.574.
PUBLIC feeling with regard to the
harsh treatment accorded political pris-
oners in Siberia by the Russian Govern
ment appears to be crystalizing. In
London a committee, with branches at
Newcastle and elsewhere, has been or
ganized for the purpose of securing a
mitigation of the evils under which the
eXiles suffer.
As compared with the last general
election, the Socialist vote throughout
Germany in the recent contest shows an
increase of 561, ,407, and the Ereissin-
mig vote an increase of 224,600. In
contrast to this the combined vote of
the Cartel parties shows a decrease of a
million while the Centrist party's vote
has decreased 20G, 657.
THE National convention of colored
men in session in Washington, on the
4th perfected permanent organization
by the election of Rev. ]. c. Price, of
North Carolina, as president, and w. G..
Chase, of Washington, secretary. Alist
OF honorary vice-presidents, one from
each State represented in the conven-
tion, was also selected.
LETTER communication in Russia has
become unsafe. the authorities having