Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23


Mr.. CHRISTOPHER RICE MANSEL Tall
BOT, Liberal member of the British Par
lament for GlamOrganShire, died on
the 18th. He was the oldest member of
the House of Commons, having sat con-
tinuously for sixty years.
THE Senate committee on Territories,
on the 18th, authorized favorable re.
port on the bill for the admission of the
State of Wyoming. No minority report
will be presented although the vote in
favor of the bill was not unanimous.
SEVERAL. restaurant keepers of Pitts
burgh, Pa, were prosecuted, on the 18th.
for selling quail out of season. One keep
er. Monte Jones, had rs birds in her
possession, and will have to pay a fine
of S1,150 Other keepers will pay
amounts ranging from 500 to SO.
CARNIVAL week opened in Augusta,
Ca, on the 18th, with the turning over
of the keys of the city by the mayor to
King Cotton. At night there was pro-
cession with 200 floats. The city was
crowded with visitors. On the night of
the 18th the grand carnival took place.
THE Senate committee on Indian at
fairs reported favorably, on the 10th,
the bill authorizing the President to re-
move the Apache Indian prisoners to
Fort Sill. /. t: also the bill to enable
the Secretary of the Interior to locate
Indians in Florida on lands in severalty.
CAPTAIN TEIvIER, the French traveller
who has Just crossed Africa from west
to east, confirms the previous reports OF
the high-handed conduct of the Portu-
guese in Southeast Africa, and declares
that the English have lost prestige in
Southeast Africa through their pacific
policy.
THE Treasury Department decided, on
the 18th, that the marble statue of
President Garfield recently imported at
New York and intended TO form part of
the Garfield Memorial, a public mOnu-
ment now in course of construction at
Cleveland, o., is entitled to admission
duty free.
CUAKIR PASTA, the Turkish govern
or of Crete. has received orders from Con-
stantinople to reinforce the garrison of
the island. 1t is expected that COLI
sions between the troops and the peo-
die will shortly be renewed, through
the provocation of the augmented mill
tary forces.
THE call issued by Secretary of the
Treasury Window upon National banks
holding Government funds to the extent
of S41. 900, 600 to surrender ten per cent.
of their deposits expired on the 18th.
OF the 49, banks affected by the call los
responded, and the amount surrendered
is 81, OBS, 500.
HENRY GIBSON, city attorney of Roam
oke, Va. who was visiting Richmond
on business, on the 18th, was found dead
in the carriage by the driver who had
taken Gibson few miles out in the
country on the formers return to his
stable. Gibson's death is attributed to
heart disease.
THE feeling against the English in
Lisbon is very bitter. The English res
identS have been made the victims of
public luminosity to such an extent that
it is proposed to send a deputation to
Lord Salisbury urging him to adopt a
more conciliatory policy. Many En-
glish employees have been dismissed.
THE activity and earnestness of the
new Premier of Portugal, Senior Pimen-
tn, in pursuit of the policy of the minis
try is winning many adherents from the
majority and fast disarming the Repub-
LEANS who saw in the surrender of the
Gomez Cabinet to the demands of En-
gland a pretext for agitation if not act
ual revolution.
OWING to the extravaganza and reck-
lessness of the senior partner, the
George T. Smith Middlings Purifier
Company, of Jackson, Mich, one of the
most important industries of that city,
has been forced to the wall with liabil-
tiles estimated at half a million dollars.
The assets, if properly handled, will
realize about the same.
THE editor, business manager, local
editor and news foreman of the Milford
{Mass.) Daily Journal are suffering
from ia grippe" and two-thirds of the
composing force are just recovering
from the same malady. The wives of
the editors and foreman are seriously
i'll. Out of thirteen suburban CORE
spondents eleven are i'll with influenza.