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The morning call., 1890-08-07

of war with France. The French Foreign
Minister is to be questioned in the Cham Der
of Deputies on the subject. He will be
asked whether the French Government has
obtained from Belgium explanations admit
ting Of no equivOcation.
The morning call., 1890-08-07

Battles B,twesn Indians and Mex cans
CITY OF MEXICO. Aus. 6.-Seyefd bat
ties have been fought between faqui In
dams and Mexican troops IN sonora. III
which the latter have been victorious.
The morning call., 1890-08-07
The King of Dahomev,

PARIS, Aug. 6.-The Temps says: The
King of Dahomey is reported dead. Egba-
sis is marching to join the French The
Dahomeyans are trying to intercept him.
The morning call., 1890-08-07
THE HOUSE.
Adoption Of the Conference Report on the
Original Package Bill

Original Package Bill.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.--In the House,
Reed Of Iowa presented the conference re-
port on the Original Package Bill. The re-
port leaves the bill exactly as it passed the
Senate, and is dissented from by Oates Of
Alabama, one Of the conferrees.
After debate the conference report was
ad0pted-Ayes 100, noes 90.
The House then went into Committee OK
the Whole on the General Deficiency Bill.
but without disposiDg Of the bill the
committee rose and the House adjourned.
The morning call., 1890-08-07
FRANCE GAINS A POINT.

England Virtually Acknowledges Her Sow
ereignty Over Madagascar.
PARIS. Aug. 6.-An agreement between
France and England in regard 10 Zanzibar
has been signed. BY the terms of the
agreement France gives her assent to the
establishment of British protectorate over
ton by Great Britain of the extension
of the French sphere OF influence in Al
geria and Senegal to Niger River. The
agreement also provides that the British
Consul in Madagascar shall take his exc
qnatur from the French Government.
The morning call., 1890-08-07

Ventura farmers have commenced har-
yesting their lima-bean crops
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18

1t is noted as one of the signs of
the times that nobody out West has yet
undertaken to read Brother Plumb out
of the Republican party.-Buffalo Cour-
Ter.
Senator Edmunds will probably
find that in the case of the Federal
election bill, go over" and ''go under"
mean the same thing. st Louis Post
Dispatch.
There are no protection Demo-
Gratis, as that term was once used, i'll
either house of Congress, but the
most perfect accord in the Democr attic
ranks on the subject of a reduction of
taxation.-N. Y. World.
With a bully in the Speakers
chair, insensible to any consideration
but party success, and blackguards on
the floor, it is about time that the House
adjourned and went home. 1t would be
a relief to an angry and disguised coun-
try.-N. Y. Herald.
boiled down ''reciprocity' means
tariff reform, nothing more, nothing
less. The people demand the true es-
sence of the latter, and will have it.
High-tariff advocates may prefer to take
it sugar coated under the name of reci
procity.-St. Paul Pioneer Press (Rep.)
--Allegheny County, Pa, that gave
Harrison 20, 40S majority, is unm istaka-
bly, in the throes of revolution. OF the
six leading Republican journals in
Pittsburgh, five - the Dispatch, the
Telegraph, the Times, the Press and
the Leader - refuse to support Della
mater.
The Chicago Inter Ocean wants to
know why the Democrats oppose the
force bill if they are SO sure it will re-
suit in Democratic victory. Such an
inquiry can only come from small
Drained politician who sees nothing but
politics in PATRIOTIC opposition to a
bill that destroys the freedom of cleo
tions.-Boston Globe.
The State platform of the Indiana
Democracy is ginger-cake. 1t sharply
arraigrs the present Administra ton for
it's deliberate abandonment of civil-ser-
vice reform, for the use of Government
offices for the payment of campaign
debts, for treating public patronage as
a family appendage, and for It's hostil-
ity to the rights and interests of the
producing and laboring masses.-Chica-
go Globe.
Tho campaign in the First dis
trict languished and apathy was general
until Mr.. Reed appeared. The cormo-
rants at once gathered about him like
vultures about a carcass-with the ad-
vent of the dictator moral ideas went
up with bound. Every man noted as a
corruptionist became at once enthusi-
astic. How much it cost to give Mr..
Reed his great plurality tits impossible
to say, but it is safe to conclude that
never in the history of this district has
money been used SO lavishly and so cor
ruptly. 1t is a great trium phi for the
Speaker. but victory won in such
a way ought to bring a blush of shame
even to his brazen cheek.-Port land
(Me.) Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18
IN MEMORIAM.
Meeting in Connection with the Movements
eo ferpetuate the Memory of the Union
Soldiers who Died while Prisoners Of
War.

Meeting i'm Connection with the Movements
To ferpetuate the Memory of the Union
Soldiers who Died while Prisoners OF
War.
NEW YORK. Sept. 10.-A joint meet
ing of the board of trustees and the
executive committee of the advisory
board OF the Union Prisoners of War
National Memorial Association was
held last evening at the Fifth-Avenue
Hotel for the purpose of further con-
slGering the project of erecting a MEM
orial building. The association was
organized to peretuate the memory of
Union soldiers and sailors who died in
rebel prisons.
1t was decided at a former meeting
TO build memorial hall in Washing
ton. ID. c., to take the form of great
National military and naval museum
AT last nights meeting about thirty
persons were present including Miss
Clara Barton, president OF the Red
Cross Society; Miss Nichols, General
Horatio c. King, Major Kilgore, Col
onei Bell, Captain Taylor, Quartermas-
ter of the G. y. r., and Captain Decker.
Captain Decker called the meeting
to order and read several letters of re-
81 AIoLi military men VINO
had been invited to be present. Cap
tain Decker then introduced Miss Bar
ton.
Miss Barton said that she was in
hearty sympathy with the object of the
association; that it was a good work
and should be pushed on to finish. She
said that it was time something sub
stantial should be erected in memory of
those who died in rebel prisons in tor
ture and ignOminy. She told how she
witnessed the arrival in Annapolis at
the close of the war, of 4 lot of Union
prisoners from unreasonable, and de-
scribed their terrible condition. She
also spoke of the expedition sent to
AnderSOnville on the 9th of July, 1865,
for the pun pose of learning who was
buried in the prison cemetery; of the
nine acres of dead that they found
there, and of tho CHASTITY relics found
on the ground in the cemetery and in
side the stoclxade.
AT the close of Miss Barton's remarks
the chairman announced that the meet
ing would go into executive session to
consider what action should be taken to-
ward raising a fund
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18
THE MAINE ELECTION.

Governor Burleigh REFLECTED by at
Least $4,000 Majority-The Four Con-
gressmen Returned by Substantial Ma
jOrities.
PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. 1.-Two hun
dred towns give Burleigh 10, 3S5; Thomp-
son, 81, 42T: Clark, SCI; scattering, 95S.
The same towns in 1855 gave a Repub-
1ican vote of so, 351, Democratic of 81
244. prohibition of l, 2T6, scattering 1890;
Republican plurality, Is, sos. against
Is, COZ; Republican gain sol. If
the towns to hear from fall
off in the same proportion the
final vote should stand: Republican
vote about Ga. 500: Democratic, As, 500;
scattering. 1000; total, 113, 900. In 1886,
the last off year, the vote stood: Re-
publican, 6S, 99l; Democratic, $3.50;
Prohibition, 3,S6S; scattering. %. Re-
publican plurality, Is, 702. This year
the plurality will be about 10, 900, gain
of s 500, and 1,00O ahead of the presi-
dental year. The Prohibition vote comes
united with the scattering or omitted,
so it is classed as scattering, and may
be. considerably larger. The members
of Congress are all reelected by large
maiorities, Mr.. Reeds being doubled;
the county officers were mostly Repub-
lican, the Senators are nearly all Re-
publicans, and the Representa- tives
must stand nearly as strongly Repub-
lican
lis estimated that the Legislature will
stand Senate-Republican IS: Demo
Gratis. 3 House-Republican H.; DEM
ocratS, 34
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18
THE PATROL WAGON.
Some of the Appliances Stored Away IL
Its Numerous Lockers.

| Some of the Appliances Stored Away in
Its Numerous Lockers.
| The outfit of an ordinary patrol wagon
| is as curious as it is interesting. The
passing observer usually imagines that
the heavy, brass-geared vehicle is mere
! ly for the transportation of drunken
beings The sound of the wagons gong
is associated with a raid upon gam
bling house or the arrest of an in
ebriate But the blue-coats who stand
guard on the patrol wagons have a
varied line of duty.
To begin with. they are called from
the police boxes. and without knowing
the nature of their errand the officers
ride on to the scene of perhaps a MUIR
der, an accident, fire or riot. When no
intimation of the case to be at
tended to is given old officers can
usually tell from the locality from
which the order came. AS, for in
stance, a hurried call from the foot of
Van Buren, street would undoubtedly
mean railroad accident. Very often
the officers feel so confident of the nat
ure of the case that they prepare the
stretcher beforehand. This latter is
only one of the many appliances with
which the patrol is supplied. The
signal-service officers, as the policemen
on duty are called, are drilled in the
use of the various appliances given into
their care. The stretcher every body
is familiar with. The ice-cap, a rubber
bag made to fit over the head, and capa-
BILE of being filled with chopped ice,
plays an important part in sunstroke
cases. Every wagon has one or more
of these useful sacks, which answer the
purpose until the patient can be placed
| in a cot at hospital.
Then there is the medicine chest,
with its simple assortment of lint,
bandages ammonia, bromide, idioform,
soap, alcohol and few surgeons instru-
ments. Periodical schools of instruction
are held for the purpose of teaching the
men the rudiments of a surgeons duty.
They must act and think quickly. Very
often minutes delay in forming
ligature proves fatal to the bleeding
victim. Rubber and wooden blankets
and court plaster are also to be found
in the wagon lockers. Extra clubs,
dark lanterns, handouts, come-a-longs,
revoivers and ammunition are like wise
carried. Numerous other little but nee
essary articles are slowed away in the
drawers of the blue wagon. A pair of
graphing hooks for the recovery of
bodies are taken when the officers start
out on a hunt for drowned man.
ITO tell the truth" remarked an old
patrol-service man, as he worked away
upon a contrivance of his own to be
used in setting broken limbs, ''the
average citizen has no idea of the
numerous little and unpleasant things
that we must attend to. Why, that
last corpse l fished out of the river
His listener had departed by this time.
Chicago News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18

Tod. there's storm coming up
Bud cried, as he caught Tod by the
hand. Lets dig for homer
If t%gging meant long forward strides
! they dug to some purpose. Two tired.
drenched, draggled boys they were, as
they stepped upon the porch. 1t was
dark outside. and the light from the
kitchen window streamed upon them.
BLESS me, there's that tramp again.!
mamma cried And he's brought
| another tramp with him."
We're no tramps," Tod said. Were
Tod and Bud. We want to come in
''Oh. I've no doubt of that" mamma
| cried.
I'VE ruined away" Tod said, tear
fully, repentantly. We're sorry. Any
how, I'm sorry. I'm very sorry, and
III lie ever so good.
We'll, that's something else" mann
ma said ''come in. I've always kiss
for little boy who tells me he is
sorry"
She picked up Tod and kissed him,
wet, and draggled and berry-stained
though he was. Tears came into her
ewes, and her heart beat faster, for she
had become alarmed about them.
I'm sorry, too, confessed Bud, and
so mamma stopped and kissed him.
They washed themselves. dried their
clothes, ate hearty supper, and then
went to bed.
ITS nicer here than in the old bark
hut commented Tod.
There's no place so nice as home,
sagely added Bud. Frank Ii. Stautfer,
in interior.
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UNDER WATER.
Heavy, Continuous Rains Produce "A Flood !
in Portions of New York-CansteO and /
HornellsyIlle Inundated.

Heavy, Continuous Rains Product "A Flood
in Portions of New York-CanisteO and
Hornellsyllle Inundated.
CANIsTEo, n. Y, Sept. 1.-THE peo-
pie of this town were aroused at four
o'clock yesterday morning by an alarm
which proved to be that of flood. A
continuous hard rain had succeeded in
raising Purdy and BENEFITS creeks
which overflowed their banks, and for
the third time inside of two years all
the south and west portion of the viii
lage is sea of water. Cellars are full,
walks afloat, gardens are covered and
seeming desolation prevails. No par
ticular damage is anticipated however,
except to two or three individuals.
The Canisteo river which flows across
the north end of the village is also over
its banks, inundating that portion of
the village and causing some of the in
habitants to move to the second stories
of their houses. The Erie road is COM
pletely blocked. All kinds of business
is at standstill. Several bridges over
the small creeks have been washed
away. The neighboring city of Hor-
nellsville is also flooded, and word
comes from there that the water was
never higher and considerable damage
is expected. The towns below are also
under water
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18
M. ZNER'S STUPIDITY.
OF All the Diplomatic Biunderers Ever
Discovered He Is the Worst.

Discovered He Is the Worst.
All of the blunderer's who came to
the front under Secretary Bayard's ad-
ministra ton of the State Department did
not in the entire four years of their serv-
ice commit so many egregious follies as
have been charged already to Miner,
United States Minister to Guatemala.
This fellow committed an unpardon-
able offense as soon as he reached his
post by expressing an opinion on local
politics which the American Govern
ment had to disclaim. Now he has
added to a long list of other indie
cencies an amazing interference in
matter that was none of his business
and has made himself responsible for
the assassination of a political fugitive
on board of an American vessel.
Mr., Blaine's jingo foreign policy sinks
into contemplate insignifcance when
an American Minister, an American
ship and the American flag are of no
avail in protecting man who had
placed himself under their care. Our
red-mouthed Forakers and Tuttles
would have made Rome howl if such
thing had occurred under Democratic
admins tration.-Chicago Herald.
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FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
RODERICK, JAMES, AND NE.

Papa and mamma went out to row,
And left rs all alone ut home, you know
Roderick, James and me.
Now, dears," they said, lust play with
your toys,
Like dear little, good little, sweet little boys,
And we will come home to tea"
We played with our toys the longest while!
We built up our blocks for nearly II mile,
Roderick. james, and l.
But ..@n they came tumbing down, alas
They fell right against the Look ing glass;
Oh, hoar the pieces did H.
Then we found a pillow that II ! rip,
And all the feathers we out III }.
Roderck, James, and l.
And we made snow storm, II = ''ri0is one,
All over the room. Oh wasnti- fun.
As the feathery flakes did fly!
But just as the storm was raging around,
Papa and mamma came in. and found
Roderick. James, and me.
Obi terrible. terrible things they said.
And they put us all three right straight to
bed.
With the empty pillow case under my head,
And none OF us had any tea.
Laura L. Richards in St Nicholas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18
The Site Selected.

CHICAGO. Sept. 1O.-The direc tors Of
the Worlds Fair Association, at
meeting held yesterday afternoon. Sc
iected the dual site of the Lake Front
and jackson Park as the place for To-
eating the great exposition. The final
and decisive ballot resulted: Lake
Front and jackson Park, 23; North
Side, 4; West Side, s. The choice was
then made unanimous. 1t is tho de-
sign to place the grand entrance 30 the
exposition and the buildings for fine
arts ard kindred displays on the Lake
Front, and the agricultural, livestock
and other exhibits at Jackson Park.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18

vious truth. Quay has failed to luStl-
fly himself, and though opportunity and
ample time have been given him he re-
mains silent. His silence under such
circumstances is the confession of guilt
An honorable man does not long daily
when his honor is assaulted. He has de-
layed too long to justify belief in his
innocence, and he stands a convicted
criminal before the bar of pu bile opin-
ion"
This IS a strong, courageous attack by
party subaltern upon a party leader.
The sting of it lies in its obvious truth.
1t is well that the assault has been
made, for it will serve to warn the
electors of the Republic against the I'M
scrupulous character of the man chosen
by the Republican party to win cleo
lions by corruption or otherwise. Quay's
toga cloaks an infamous career. But
let us suppose that Quay with all this
infamy upon him had felt that he could
save the tariff plumber for his friends
and pass tho force bill likewise, and
that, feeling SO, he had lent himself as
eagerly to the contamination of the
scOundrelism which Kennedy dvocated
as the ScOundreliSm of more taxation
for the benefit of protects. In such
situation would Kennedy have spoken
these bitter words of condemnation?
is it just and honest" asked the Ohio
Republican, Ito remain in my Neat
silent because one who is accused of
crimes and refuses to seek vindication
is a Republican, and that Republican
the recognized leader of my party
If Quay had fathered the force bill i'll
the Senate how oblivious the fanatical
Kennedy would have been TO the short
comings of Quay, whom he now ar
raigns with tremendous scorn.-Chicagc
rTi,,onS
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18
vORACITY OF BIRDS.
Two Baby Robins Consume a Snake at a
Single Meal.

A friend who loves to note the ways
of birds tells robin anecdote which
might find place among the humors of
Arcadia. Over a nest Of two f1edglings
which he had for some days been watch
ing, he one day noticed the mother
robin futtering about and scolding in
unusual agitation, and climbing to dis
cover the reason he found the two young
ones nearly choked i'll an effort to swal
low the opposite ends of snake. The
snake was little brown one that would
have made light lunch for secretary
bird, but, of course, was entirely over
sized ofor the capabilities of the half
feathered robin. If the mother bird
had even heard about the reptilia of the
antipodes she must have captured that
snake under the impression that it was
an Australian angle-worm. Or. per-
haps, tired of continual small foragings,
she had determined to procure her fam
lily days supply at one swoop and give
herself a rest. The result alarmed her
when she found that her chicks were in
a fair way to kill themselves deglutinat-
ing their dinner
The first impulse was to relieve the
struggling nestlings, but on close in
spection he satisfied himself that their
predicament was more droll than dan
gerous. The snake had evidently lost
all interest in the proceedings, but the
little birds had not. First one would
give mighty gulp and then the other,
each time putting out of sight small
section of serpent, and the watcher con-
cluded that if left alone they would
their disputed meal themselves. At
any rate curiosity got the better of any
desire to help them. For full hour
he looked on to see the resolute little
gluttons pull themselves outside of the
snake, the old robin returning every
few minutes to offer some excited re-
marks, and then he was called away.
After two no urs he got back to the
tree, and found one of the young ones
doing TRANQUILITY over his finished din
ner, and the other holding about an inch
of detached snake and still swallowing.
The two had compromised matters some
how, butwhe Their the last swallOwer or the
first got the bigger share in the division
he could not tell, for examina ton of the
severed reptile indicated that the MISS
ing end had been digested off. The
amazing peptic power in young bird,
enabling it to dispose of several times
its own weight of food in day, is we'll
enough known; but the idea of digest
ing one end of a single meal five times
as long as the caters body was so ludi-
crous that the Listener ventured to guess
that the old bird herself had finally
pecked the snake in two The friend,
however, insisted on his view of the
case. Instead of biting off more than
they could chew these redbreast babies
had actually chewed more than they
could bite off.
1t should be added tn at the remain
ing inch of the snake was successfully
slowed away at last and assimilated
into juvenile robin, neither of the little
birds being at all the worse for its huge
repast. Boston Transcript.
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DAWN is AT HAND.
Even Little Vermont Is Growing Tired of
the Republican Party

the Republican Party
1t is an ''off year." when majorities
Usually dwindle, but that fact will not
wholly explain the falling off of the
Repu blican vote in Vermont. Democra-
cy has never been power in Vermont
A narrow prejudice which prevents
Vermont from looking beyond its
mountain Businesses and wool and
marble have kept the State a
Republican stronghold. George M.
Stcarns, witty lawyer of Chicopee,
Mass, was once asked to address the
Democrats of Vermont on political is
sues, and replied that business engage
ments kept him at home, but if the
Democrats of Vermont would assem- BILE
in his back yard he would address them
from his rear porch. But the Democra-
cy Of Vermont, though few in mum Der,
have been staunch IN their adherence to
principles and have always made gal
liant fight against overwhelming odds.
To-day they see the Republican majority
rapid dwindling and their own strength
increased. When the total vote is made
known political philosophy will be able
to determine the causes. An loft year"
aided; Gubernatorial candidate whose
polite Il tactics smell as strongly as the
pelts he deals in has had something to
do with it; prohibition may have weak
ened the Republican ranks, but the in
crease in strength of the tariff-re form
idea will be found to be the chief cause
of Republican disaster. Vermont is es-
sentially farming State, and there. as
everywhere, under the baneful influence
of Mckinleyism the farmer has suf-
fered. Tariff reformers have cause to
rejoice and to look to the future with
ever-increasing hope.-Chicago Mail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-18
Gigantic Suspension Bridge.

The proposed new suspension bridge
across the Hudson river, between New
York and Jersey City, will be gigantic
affair 1t is to be 1000 feet long, 100
feet wide and 40 feet above high tide.
The central span is to be 2, $50 feet-not
quite twice that of the Brooklyn struct-
ure; the two shore spans are to be 3 500
feet each. The towers are to be SOC feet
high; the Brooklyn's are $50. The
Washington monument is 555. The four
supporting cables are to be four feet
each in diameter, against the sixteen
inches of the Brooklyn bridge. Each
cable will be composed of Is, 900 steel
wires The anchorages will be half as
large as the National Capitol building.
and each will contain more masonry
than the largest of the pyramids OF
Egypt. The cost of the structure is esti-
mated at SIG, 900, 000.---N. Y. Star.