Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-27

TIE Berlin Bourse IS weak IN con Sc.
ouence of Prince Bismarck resigna ton.
Prussian consols declined three-quarters
of one per cent, on the 10Th, and other
Prussian securities were depressed.
JUDGE JOHN S. HAGER, ex-collector
of the port of San Francisco, died on the
10Th.
THE Austrian Government, press and
public, greatly fear that the resignation
of Prince Bismarck will lead to a
rupture of the peace alliance.
EIGHT THOUSAND employees of the Arm
strong gun factory at ElswicS, England,
struck, on the 10th, for eight hours work
per day.
LORD SALISBURY denies that the Brit
ish Government intends to hand over to
the Beers the control of Swaziland.
IsHAK KHAN is at Bokara with a large
force equipped with repeating rifles
and artillery ready to invade Afghan
iStan.
JOHN D. SPRECKLEs says the proposed
reduction of duty on sugar will Kill the
beet-sugar industry of California.
Two blocks of buildings and the Elgln
House in La Villa, a suburb of Jackson
vile, Fla, were destroyed by fire early
on the morning of the goth. Loss,
S125, 600 Many of the tenants escaped
in their night clothes.
THE Belgian Minister of Husbandry
has refused to consent to a tax upon
grain imports.
YELLOW fever has broken out at
Campinas, and STA Paola, Brazil.
The Massachusetts Legislative COM
mittee on woman suffrage reported
bill. on the Goth, giving women the right
to vote in municipal elections.
THE work of distributing provisions
and supplies among the destitute min
ers at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was actively
csmme need on the Goth.
QUEEN VICTORIA has donated a cup
valued at 100 guineas, to be raced for
next summer under the auSpicesof the
Albert Yacht Club.
GENERAL CAPRIvI not only succeeds
TO the German CHARACTERISTIC, but to the
presidency of the Ministry.
THE New York Court of Appeals, on
the 21st, affirmed the decision of the
lower court in the case of VIM. Kemm-
Ter, sentenced to be executed by cleo
tricity.
BESIDES comprehensive military
and naval knowledge, General Won
Caprivi, the new German Chancellor. is
we'll versed in modern languages, his
tory and political science.
THE resolution recently introduced in
the House by Representative Boat
ner authorizing the Secretary of War to
purchase $500 tents for the homeless
people in the flooded districts of the
y, CO.
the purpose, was ordered reported favor
ably by the military committee on the
21St.
MORE than two hundred mOOnShinerS
have established fortified camp in
Franklin County, Va. and openly defy
the Federal authorities They have
over one hundred illicit stills in opera
ton, and are producing thousands of
barrels of illicit whisky.
MAJoR-GENERAL GEORGE CROOK, in
command of the military Division of
the Missouri, died suddenly, on the
morning of the 21st, at the Grand Pa
citic Hotel, Chicago, of heart failure.
He was in his sixty-third year.
A REMARKABLE feature of the minis
terial crisis in Germany is that there
has been no organized effort of public
| opinion to induce Prince Bismarck to
| stay in office.
COUNT Won MUNSTER, the German
| Minister to France, it is said, will sue
coed Count Herbert Bismarck as For
eign Minister.
The English colliers are greatly
elated over the successful issue of their
strike.
| GENERAL VoN CAPRIvI, the new Ger
man Chancellor, had a conference with
| Prince Bismarck on the 21st.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, in company with
| Empress Frederick and other royalties,
| received the Prince of Wales on his ar
rival at Berlin on the 21st. As the
| Prince stepped from the railway car
riage the English anthem was played
| by the band.
THE House military committee has
ordered a favorable report on Repre-
sentative Bowden's bill authorizing the
construction of a hosel for colored peo-
pie on the Government reservation at
| Fortress Monroe, Va.