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

By ELL ID. AXE.
RoNTON. MISSOURI.
THE bill establishing the Australian
system of balloting passed the Wash
ingtOn Senate on the 18th.
THE Socialist party made great gains
in the election for members of the Ger
man Reichstag on the Goth.
Two men employed as clerks in the
naval department of Russia have been
arrested for selling to German agents
plans of the defenses of Finland.
IT is stated semi-ofFicially that Prince
Bismarck intends to resign all of the
Prussian ministerial offices held by him,
retaining only the Chancelorship.
PERSISTENT efforts are making in the
Vatican to secure an undertaking of the
influence of the Berlin Labor confer
ence, but without success thus far.
THE consensus of opinion about the
Dominion Parliament is that the new
Extradition treaty as ratified by the
United States Senate is all that could
be desired.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is busy per-
fecting his plans for his proposed trip
around the world, which he expects to
accomplish in sixty days, starting from
Tacoma, Wash.
HENRY FAM. the timer of Aberdeen
Y cd for
appointment as special agent of the
Census Office to collect statistics of re-
corded Indebtedness.
A GREAT strike of British coal miners
is probable, four hundred thousand of
the operatives having determined to in
sist upon their demand for a ten per
cent. increase of wages
SAUNDERS BUCKLEY, and his cousin,
Letitia Buckley, were struck by light
ming near Cambria, O., on the Goth. The
former was instantly killed and the lat
ter probably fatally injured.
THE President, on the 18th, awarded
certificates for bravery in a fight with
robbers in Arizona in May, 1889, to
Privates Thornton Hams and James
Wheeler, of the Tenth Infantry.
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An enormous meeting of German So
cialists was held in London, on the
night of the 10th, which passed resolu-
tions thanking the Enperorof Germany
for having issued his labor reScripts.
ALL the clubs and organizations in
Great Britain interested in the eight
hour question have called meetings in
order to make the May demonstration
in Great Britain universal and success
fui.'
AT the Cabinet meeting, on the 18th,
the report of Marshal Mizell on the
killing. in Florida, of Deputy-Marshal
Saunders, was read by Attorney-Gen-
eral Miller, and the subject was very
generally discussed.
JUSTICE DEAK, of the British Column
bian Supreme Court, has rendered de-
cision which declares that the Govern
ment of the United States has no juris-
diction over Behring's Sea outside OF the
marine league limit
THE Democratic members of the Ohio
Legislature, on the 18th, united upon
Congressional redistricting scheme. 1t
gives the Democrats fifteen districts,
the estimates being based on the vote
of 1854, 1856 and 1888.
By resolution passed by the South
Dakota House of Representatives, on
the 18th, the restitution which exists in
MANY parts of that State is admitted,
and Governor Mellette is authorized to
appeal to the East for aid.
THE report of the conference commit
tee on the Worlds Fair bill was adopted
in the New York Sta.a Assembly, on
the 10th, by vote of 119 to l. In the
Senate the Assembly's action was con-
CURED in and the bill was passed.
THE operation performed upon young
Abraham Lincoln, son of the United
States Minister to England, is pro-
nounced by the physicians to be in
every respect successful, and there is
now reason to believe that he will re-
cover.
THE high seas during recent storms
caused considerable damage to beach
property at Long Branch, \. j.; por-
tions of the bluff were washed away in
several places, and the roadway IN front
of the United States Hotel was par
TALLY washed out.
THE victims of a railway accident on
the Grand Trunk railroad at St. George,
near Hamilton, Ont, about year ago,
began suit for damages against the com
pany at Toronto, on the 18th, consoldat-
ing their suits, the aggregate amount
of which is $4,000
AS NJ. TAUCuANOVITCH Servlan Min
lister of the Interior, was leaving his
bureau in Belgrade, on the 21st, he was
seriously wounded in the head by a
stone thrown by bystander. Efforts
were made to arrest the assailant, but
he succeeded in escaping.
A DEPUTATIoN of citizens of Toronto
presented to the Ontario Government,
on the Goth, petition asking that,
with a view toward building up national
sentiment, the Canadian flag be dis
played on certain anniversaries by
every school in the province.
THE Pension Appropriation bill, ac-
companied by favorable report, was
submitted to the House on the 18th.
The bill appropriates sos, S21.46l. The
appropriat ton for the current year was