Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01

for another year.
LAWRENCE LoNG, of Shelbyville, Ky.
and j. J. Mccain, of Flatbush, n. u
were, on the gath, appointed militar.
cadets at West Point.
Miss EMMA Il. KALBFLEIsCH, con
victed of defrauding Boston merchants
was, on the 18th, sentenced to one yea
in the women's prison at Sherborn
Mass
HIGH Russian authorities view Will
unreserved disapproval the proposed
presentation to the Gar of remon
surances from America and England
against crueltieS in Siberia
Miss ARBIE MOORE GOODWIN, pro
fessor of Latin and Greek at Vassa1
College, died in the Vassar Hospital OF
the 23d. She had been an instructor a
the college for seventeen years.
PETER L. MASON settled on 4 valuable
claim near Seward, Oklahoma, eigh
miles south of Guthrie, a year ago
and, on the Esd, the Government paten
was given him, being the first in the
Territory.
GEORGE 3. IVES, assistant district at
torney. was arrested at Salem, Mass, or
the 25th, on a charge of forgery The
amount involved is said to be so, 600
and the money, he says, was spent IL
eXtravagant living.
THE Post-Ofice Appropriation bill
was finished by the House committee on
post-offices and post roads, on the 22d.
1t carries an appropriation of So, 40,
932, being s., $40, Cos more than the APP
preparation for the current fiscal year.
THE grand master of the Masons of
the District of Columbia, on the 22d,
issued an edict annuling an edict issued
last july against the Cerneau Scottish
Rite Masons for alleged fraternal rela-
tions with the Grand Orient OF France.
THE House committee on agriculture,
on the 23d, authorized favorable re-
port on Senator Edmunds' bill providing
for an inspection of meats for exporta-
ton and prohibiting the importation of
Rdulterated articles of food and drink
FIVE Russian sisters in Moscow were
driven to suicide, on the 9th, by the
short time before taking their lives
they burned all their papers. presume
bly with the object of shielding others.
THE Inman Line steamship City OF
Berlin was seized by the revenue Off
GERS at New York, on the 21st, and
threatened with confiscatiOn for at
tempting to discharge her cargo with
out having first entered at the custom
house.
THE Monetary Times of Toronto, a
leading commercial paper of Canada,
condemns the Dominion Government
for placing duties on agricultural prod
ucts, and says such action invited re-
taliation on the part of the United
States.
THREE Cinnamon were seized by the
custom-house officials at Buffalo, \. Y.
on the 22d, Is they were landing fro.
a row-boat. They were attempting not
only to make an illegal entrance into the
country, but were loaded down with
contraband opium.
EVERY thing is working smoothly and
satisfactorily at the new immigrant
force are familiar with their duties,
business will be transacted more ex-
peditiously and speedily than under the
old employees and old system.
THERE has been q general increase in
the Newfoundland tariff system of five
to ten per cent. The duty on butter
and cheese has been raised to three
cents per pound; cigars ten per cent.
adj valorem and Sc per thousand, and
fresh meats - cents per pound.
Hon. DAVID A. TAGGARr, president
of the New Hampshire State Senate,
was inaugurated as acting Governor, on
the 22d, by the Executive Council. and
will perform the gubernatorial duties
during the absence of Governor Goodell,
who is incapacitated by sickness.
THE levea at Bayou Sara, La, gave
way, on tie ed. and great loss of life
was threatened. Governor Nichols, be-
ing appealed to, promptly sent a
steamer and barges for the rescue of
the imperiled people. He also appealed
for National aid in view of the disaster.
THE Inman Steamship Company filed
DOnu Oh lllueIuHibS Will SolltCIOE Ell
hardt, of New York, on the 23d, for the
steamer City of Berlin, which was
threatened with seizure for unloading
her cargo without a permit from the
customs authorities, and the vessel
sailed the same day.
THE transfer of the State funds and
securities recently under the control of
Stevenson Archer, the defaul ting State
Treasurer of Maryland, to Colonel Ed
win III. Brown, his successor. took place
on the Esd A careful recount of the
securities showed the amount of ArchGrs
defalcation to be 1892, 40l.25
THE new White Star Line Stea mShip
Majestic, which left New York, on the
10th, on her maiden eastward bound
trip, arrived at Queenstown on the Esd,
six days, eight hours and tifty-eight
minutes out. The ships log shows her
daily runs to have been as follows: 342,
ss4. 331. AS. 49, AZ and 3i1 miles.
THE National convention of colored
men in session in Washington, on the
9TH perfected permanent organization
bv the election of Rev. j. C. Price, OF
North Carolina, as president, and w. Z.