Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Earl of Dunravcn and Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, on the 18th. assured Il
deputation of miners that they would
favor state Limitation of the hours of
labor.
THE semi-annual meeting OF the de-
partment of superintendent of the Ma
tional Educational Association, for the
training of teachers, opened in New
York City on the 18th.
SIXTEEN persons were drowned, on
the 18th, by the sinking of the steam
ship Coral Queen in a collision with the
Rotterdam steamer Brinio off the river
Tees.
w. HORACE ROSE, prominent law
yer, was, on the 18th, elected mayor of
the city of Johnstown, Pa, as lately
formed by the consolidation of eight
contiguous boroughs.
Miss AMY c. FOWLER, the English
girl who goes to devote her life to work
in the leper settlement at Molokai, left
New York, on the 18th, for San Fran
cisco, en- route for Honolulu.
COUNT ANDRAssY, the Hungarian
statesman, died, on the 18th, in the
sixty-seventh year of his age.
THE Bulgarian Government is in pos
session of information sufficient to JUS
tify the fear that another plot against
the life of Prince Ferdinand is in exist
ence.
II is thought that 500, OOO 600 will be
required to cover the expense involved
in the English Governments new Land
Purchase bill.
THE vote for successor to the late
~ ,-,,
from the Fourth Pennsylvania district,
on the 18th, resulted as follows: Rey-
burn, Rep, -, $50; Ayers, Dem, 16, 446;
Tumbleston, Pro, 23S.
JUDGE ZANE has decided that six
Mormon councilmen who received the
highest number of votes in their re-
spective wards in Salt Lake City in the
recent election, are entitled to certltl-
Gates of election. This would make the
incoming council stand nine Gentiles
and six MormonS. The GentileS APP
pealed from the decision.
THE annual convention of cigar man
ufacturers of the United States held in
New York, on the 10th, took action
favoring a National bankruptcy law.
THE increased earnings during .Ianu-
airy of the entire system of the Baltl-
more & Ohio railroad, east and west of
the Ohio river, were S1,40S,510; in
creased expenses, $3.50, 463; net increased
earnings, S92S, 041.
AN alarming rebellion is in progress in
Morocco. The royal troops have been
defeated by the rebels at NASSAU and
are besieged in the town.
GOVERNOR HILL. of New York signed
the Worlds Fair bill on the Goth.
A REMARKABLE feature of the Ger
man election, on the Goth, was the en-
tire absence of the anti-Semitic faction,
who abstained from voting because the
candidates did not meet with the APP
proval of the CARTEL electoral commits
sion.
OWING to depression of business. a
number of spinning mills at LODI, Rus
sian Poland, have beenshut down and
upwards of 4, 900 spinners are thus locked
out. They are in destitute condition
and threatening violence
DE-. Blood. charged with being i'm
plicated in the murder of Hiram Saw
telle, was arrested at Middleboro, Mass,
on the Goth. and taken to Boston.
CLAUS SPRECKELs addressed the House
| committee on ways and means on Ihe
sugar question on the Goth. He was OPP
posed to making any reduction IN the
duty on sugar He said the United
States could raise enough beets to sup
ply the sugar demand
| SECRET negotiations have been In
progress in Rome to induce the Portu-
guese Government to propose that the
Pope shall arbitrate the dispute be-
tween Portugal and England, but have
failed.
A WEALTHY syndicate is forming
plans to erect immense oil retinerles at
Findlay, Lima, Cygnet, Delphos and
! Upper Sandusky, o. The company will
be formed of capitalists from Chicago,
Milwaukee and Pittsburgh, who will
put $4,000, 600 into the enterprise.