Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IN Grace Church, New York, on the
lst, the first session of the first training
school for Episcopal deaconesses was
opened. Others will be started at Phila-
delphia, Cleveland and Richmond.
THE Russian Minister of the Interior
is preparing law authorizing the de-
portation to Siberia, without trial or
formality of any kind, of all foreigners
who have been expelled from their own
countries and whose governments re-
fuse to recognize them.
THE Anti-Lottery law seems to be
more comprehensive than at first sup
posed. Judge Tyner, Assistant Attor-
ney-General for the Post Office Depart
ment, is of the opinion that the law APP
plies equally to the church fair rattle
and kindred schemes CT chance rs to the
Louisiana Lottery, and that newspapers
advertising such are to be as rigidly ex-
cluded from the mails as those contain
ing announcements of the greater grab
for the gold of the gullible.
THE Secretary of State, on the 3Oth,
sent to the Senate statement of the
disbursements from the appropriation
for the expenses of the late Pan-Amer-
lean conference. The appropriation
was 1926, 600 and the expenses SPA
97S. IS, the balance, $50 II, being turned
into the Treasury.
A SERIOUS flaw has been discovered
in the Tariff bill since it was signed
the omission of the paragraph providing
for drawback on manufactured tobac-
co; but as this clause does not go into
effect until January /, Congress will
have an opportunity to remedy the de-
feet.
THE total production of silver in this
country this year will be fifty million
ounces.
Ten business blocks in lion, n. V,
were burned to the ground on the morn
ing of the 30th, and half dozen others
were more or less damaged by fire and
water before the flames were gotten
under control.
THE President promised a lab Dor COM
mittee that called on him, on the 3Oth,
that when Congress adjourned he would
give consideration to the Eight-Hour
law, and would insist upon its strict en-
forcement in the Government buildings.
PERSONS sending mail matter to
either of the Dakotas should be care
full to designate North or South Dakota.
Post-office officials find much annoy
ance from a neglect of this precaution
by many persons.
UNDER the provisions of the pending
Tariff bill all articles of import must
''be plainly marked, stamped. branded
or labeled in plain English words so as
to indicate the country of their origin,
and unless SO marked, stamped. branded
or labeled they shall not be admitted
to entry"
GEORGE HINKLE, eight years old,
shot and killed his five-year-old sister
at Nicholas Courthouse. W. Va, on the
2sth. She had threatened to tell her
father of Georges disobedience.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the iron magnate.
was among the passengers on the
steamer Servia, which arrived in New
York from Liverpool on the 2sth.
CHIEF ARTHUR is in San Francisco
for the purpose of adjusting, if possible.
the differences between the engineers
of the Southern Pacific road and the
officials of the company.
EX-SENATOR DooLIrTLE, of Racine.
Wis, is recovering from the injuries re-
ceived by being thrown from his buggy
Ah. IA pANlL, uldNOT Oh Troy, was
nominated for Congress by tie Demo-
Gratis of the Fourth Ohio district at
Eaton, on the 1st, on the 95th ballot
This was the third convention held. In
all there was deadlock of eight days.
THE business portion of the town of
Oneo1ta, Tenn, the county seat of
Blount County, was entirely DESTROYED
by fire on the 30th
IN the Amsterdam market, on the
3Oth, the price of fine silver declined
from ninety to lightweight guilders per
kilo
A SPECIAL train arrived in Sioux CITY,
Ia, on the 1st, from Boston, carving
about one hundred and fifty New En-
gland capitalists and newspaper repre-
sentatives to visit the Corn Palace.
The Alliance elected three-fourths o
the members of the Georgia Legislat-
ure on the 1st Both constitutional
amendments were probably carried.
BIDS were opened az the Navy De-
partment on the 1st, for building three
armored battle-ships of 1900 tons dis
placement and one protected cruiser of
$500 tons displacement
THE gold premium in Buenos Ayres,
on the 30th, was 142x per cent