Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-20

THE Archimandrite of st. Petersburg,
Russia, will succeed the Bishop of San
Francisco, whose recall has been Or
dered.
THE Lottery bill was, on the 10th, in
definitely postponed in the North Da-
kota House of Representatives by a
unanimous vote.
THE appointment of Indian Commits
sioner Morgan, which had been hung up
in the Senate for some days, was con-
firmed on the 18th.
Two pressmen have been dismissed
from the Bureau of Printing and En-
craving for refusing to work with q
coiored young lady assistant.
THE Bank of England has been au-
thorized to increase it's issue of notes
by ESQ, 600 on condition that it makes a
similar increase in its securities.
FEARS are entertained that the Lot
terry bill recently defeated in North Da-
kota may yet be revived and passed by
the present or some future Legislature.
THE Mercer County On. j. grand jury,
on the 18th, reported that they had
found no bill against DR.. Knitfen and
Miss Pursell in the mysterious knitfen
murder case.
THE investigation into the Jersey
City On. j. election frauds has devel-
oped the fact that one-third of the votes
in six election precincts cast for Senator
Mcdonald, were fraudulent.
THE case of the Duke of Orleans,
charged with violating the Expulsion
law, was called in Paris, on the 18th,
and the young Duke was found guilty
and sentenced to two years imprison-
ment.
GENERAL. SHERMAN, General o. O.
Howard and other veterans made patrl-
otto speeches at a banquet of Lafayette
Camp No $50. New York Sons of Vet
Grams, on the night of the 18th, in honor
of Lincoln's birthday.
CHRISTIAN HERR president of the
Lancaster pa National Bank since
1865, dropped dead, on the 1lth, while
conversing with a friend He was
eighty years old and very wealthy, own
ing large landed estates.
THE Methodist church intends 20 found
National university in Washington,
and arrangements are making for the
purchase of a ninety-acre tract of land on
the Tennallytown road. near Oakview,
as site for the university.
THE German Socialists have aban-
doned their idea OF organizing an uni
yersal labor strike in May, owing to the
favorable utteranceS contained in the
recent rescripts issued by Emperor Will
lam with regard to the working classes.
COMPTROLLER OF TIE CURRENCY LACY
declared. on the 18th. a final dividend
of ten per cent in favor of the creditors
of the Lowell National Bank, of Lowell,
Mich, upon claims proved amounting to
$50, 1856. The bank failed in September,
1SSS.
IT is estimated that there is in the
hands of Kings without thrones, Princes
without principalities, and Dukes with
out duchies, many of them, indeed,
without countries, wealth sufficient to
pay the public debt of every power in
Europe.
Mrs. MARY SHERMAN, house keeper
of the late Amos f. Beckwith, president
of the Dyerville Manufacturing Com
pany of Providence, r. l., now claims to
be his widow, and says she intends to
assert her rights. The matter causes
social sensation.
SIR JOHN MACDoNALD discredits the
report that the United States Govern
ment has decided to strengthen the fleet
of cruisers in Behring Sea and to use
more stringent measures during the
coming season to keep Canadian seaiers
out of those waters.
Ara largely-attended meeting of Phil
adelphia business men, on the 18th,
resolutions were adopted protesting
against the Mckinley bill relative to
the administration of the Customs laws,
and urging the Pennsylvania Repre-
sentatives to oppose its passage.
MANY more Cretan judges and law
yers have resigned their judicial and
legal functions owing to the arbitrary
order requiring legal proceedings in the
courts to be conducted in the Turkish
language, and others are preparing to
leave both the courts ana the country.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Battenburg,
the ex-ruler of Bulgaria, who is known
as the Count of Hartenau, has been APP
pointed commandant of the Seventh
regiment of Austrian Dragons, sta
toned in Vienna. 1t is understood that
he will be made General within a
year.
THE vote on the question of revision
of the Confession of Faith, which was
taken by the Presbytery of San Francis
co last October, and which resulted
against revision, was reconsidered by
the Presbytery, on the 10th, the ballot
again resulting against revision by
vote of % to -.
THE enormous fortune left by the late
Duke of NIoptppnSi0r has furnished