Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-16

DAT recent meeting of the Flint ant
Lime Glass Manufacturers Association
in Pittsburgh, Pa, an advance of no
quite five per cent. was made in prices
The best authorities saw California
will this year pack l, 300, 600 boxes o
raisins. This is about twenty times the
raisin output of ten years ago. Ship
ments East have already begun.
A FAINT comet was discovered by
Prof. E E. Barnard at the Lick Obser
vatory at San Francisco, at SAG p. M,
on the 9th. It's position is 10 hours, Il
m. % deg. south; motion easterly.
AT the trial, at Croydon, England, on
the 10th, of Lord Cahir, for making
threats against neighbour, his lordshiI
roundly cursed the police magistrate,
and was in turn sentenced to the work
house.
On the 9th partial returns from the
special election in New Mexico, held on
the eth, tor the adoption or rejection OF
the State Constitution, indicated the de-
feat of the Constitution by at least 5000
majority.
THE English Government has de-
manded OF Portugal the immediate set
tlement of the claim of the British
r African Lake Company for indemnity
for the illegal seizure of the steamer
James Stevenson.
LOUIS REMEIIN, the member of the
Cincinnati Board of Improvements OF
,.,hO ,1ha1l id in n.
lie letter II believe you to be dishon-
est" has demanded that the Governor
make charges against him.
PUBLIC opinion in Spain favors re
prisals to offset the effects of the Nc
Kinley bill on the Spanish and West
Indian trade, and the Spanish Minister
at Washington will enter the protest OF
Spain against the measure.
\ SYNDICATE of New York and En-
Clish capitalists has it's agents in
Hutchinson, Kas., negotiating for the
purchase of the salt plants there. Two
have already been purchased, and OPP
tions are held on some of the others.
EMPEROR WILLIAM received a tele-
gram from King Humbert of Italy, on
the 10th. addressed to My true friend
and ally" and announcing that the
Italian King had forwarded to the
Emperor 4 life-sized portrait of him
self
STRIKING union workmen of Sydney,
\. 5. W., attacked the firemen heaving
coal at Bull, on the 9th, and, after dis
persing them, occupied the mines. The
ri hi To nrT.l
and reinforcements had to be sent to
the scene.
A NUMBER of citizens of Boston have
united in remonstrance against the ap-
preparation of public funds for the cree
ton of memorial in honor of the late
John Boyle O'Reilly, on the ground that
he was 1.-The interchangeable enemy of the
public schools
THE first Joint session of the British
Iron and Steel Institute and the Amer
lean Societies of Engineers and Iron
and Steel Manufacturers was held in
Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
9th. The meeting was success be-
yond anticipation.
THE Supreme Court of Michigan has
test case taken to it by John w. Teek,
who wanted to open saloon in Van
Buren, County, which had voted dry.
The court decided that the law is per-
fectly constitutional.
A sCULLION named LADDERS employed
in the kitchen of the Archduke Sigh
mond, at Grunden, Austria, has been
arrested for putting arsenic in the fooS
and causing the illness of the Aachd uke
and his suite, to procure the dismissal
of a chef whom he hated.
JOSEPH T. CAPPLE and his three
brothers, all poor men, living at Tren-
ton, \. j., say they have received in
formation leading them to believe that
they are heirs to the estate of James
Wood, deceased, of England, who left
property worth $4,000, ooo
THE discovery of tuberculosis in two
herds of cattle in Manchester, n. H..
and the likelihood of a spread of the
disease, has caused almost a panic there.
Milkinen are losing their customers by
the score, and the local sales of beef
have perceptibly decreased.
CAPTAIN PETER FOSTER, the oldest
member OF the Grand Army of the Re.
public in tho United States, died at
Mount Pleasant, Ia, on the night OF
the 9th. He was ninety-six years oil
age. and fought in the war of 1912. the
Mexican war and the civil war. His
funeral was held under the auspices o.
the Grand Army.
IT is said that the French Cabinet is
considering plan by which it is hoped
to come to terms with America Oh the
tariff question. The PROPOSE ton SUBJ
stantially is one of mutual concession
or reciprocity. Unless some terms are
arrived at an attempt will be made to
virtually exclude American products
from French markets.
THE eighty first meeting of the
American Board of Foreign Missions
opened at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
Sth. All missions were reported in a
fiourishing condition. The whole num-
Der of church members received since
the board began work eighty-one years
ago, is 1883. The years receipts
were S163, 434. OF, and the disbursements
762, 946 9S.
THE centenary of the birth OF Father
Matthew was celebrated, on the 10th,
throughout Ireland by special service in
the Catholic churches, and by public
celebrations in local halls. In Tip