Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-13

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QUEEN VICTORIA sent MSnister Lin
colR message of sympathy and condo |
lence upon the death of his son.
SEVERE shocks of earthquake have
occurred in she government of kutafs,
Asiatic Russia, ~ which three villages
we're destroyed.
NAVAL CABfT THOMAS L. JENKINS
has been dismissed from the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Md, and from
the naval service.
Ten THOUSAND pounds of snetition,
bearing 70.GH0 signatures, was present
ed in the New York State Assembly, on
the Sc, in favor of ballot reforal.
TEE Brazilian Government has re-
solved to,pcomulgata new constitution.
without awaiting she election. assemh
ling and action of a constiss ent Parlia-
meat.
THE Russian Government has EsCr-
chased the line of railway extending
from Rommy, the seat of enc of Russia's
five great annBsl fairs, Re Libiau, a'sea-
port on the Baltic.
THE German Government will form
fifty more batteries of artillery in order
TO complete the two ne# army CORPS the
formation of which WAS sanctioned by
the Last Reichstag.
THE President, or the 9Th, approved
the agreement made by the Commission
with the Chippewa Indians in Mime
sofa and the ceSsicn of some 400, 900
acres of their land TO the United States.
Hon. PERRY BELMONT, of New York,
has received the decoration of Com
mander OF the Legion of Honor, in re-
oognition of his services to the French
Republic in connection with the Paris
Exposition.
SERIOUS difficulty exists between the
Portuguese officials at Mozambique and
a body of 400 imported soldiers, who are
British subjects, and refuse to drill or
perform any military service for the
Portuguese.
SECRETARY PRoCToE has decided to
transfer the military headquarters of
the Department of the Missouri, frCn
Leavenworth, kas., to St. Louis Post
headquarters, will still be maintained at
Le3venworth.
AFTER almost superhuman efforts IN
their behalf, the seven entombed miners
in the Stanton shaft at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, were, on the 18th, abandoned to
their fate, and the flooding of the mine
was, commenced.
THE .dissension between Herr Won
Tisza, Prime Minister, and the other
members of the Hungarian Cabinet in
regard to the naturalization of Louis
Kossuth, has resulted in the withdrawal
from the Ministry of Herr Won Tisza-
Mr. d. Ii. BATES, of New York, rep
resenting company of capitalists who
are prepared to build telegraph lines If
the ostmaster-Generals bill becomes a
law, appeared before, the House commit
tee, on the 4th, in advocacy of the bill.
Two very handsome floral tribates
were sent to Senator Allison. on the
26th, by the employees OF the Senate in
honor of his reelection. One basket
composed of roses and violetS, eXguis-
itely arranged, was fully four feet Icing
THE President has approved the bill
appoint two suitable persons to repre-
sent the United States at the 1nterna-
tional Conference at Madrid in regard
to the protection of industrial property.
THE Supreme Court of Tennessee, on
the 9th, affirmed the death sentence of
John Green, and fiNsd May Is as the
day of execution. Green shot and killed
Ova Davis, in Putnam County, in June,
1887, because she refused to marry him.
The great bridge over the Firth of
Forth was formally opened by the Prince
of MALES and a distinguished company
on the 4th. vast crowd witnessed the
ceremonies. There is great rejoicing
in Edinburgh over the completion of
the bridge.
ABRAHAM. only son OF Minister and
Mrs. Lincoln, died in London, on the
5th, after a lingering Illness caused by
blood poisoning from Il malignant car
burele. With his death the hope OF
lineal succession of the martyr PreSi-
dent is cut off.
A GENTLEMAN returned from Peace
River Indian Reservation brings fright
full stories of starvation and restitution
and sickness among the Indians there,
and states that if the Government does
not take action to relieve them, the
whole band will be exterminated.
THE German expedition TO [ sumbru,
Zanzibar, has been successful. Herr
Ehlers is returning To the coast from
Mount Kilinar Marc, having accom-
plished the mission of delivering to
Chief Mandara the presents sent to him
by Emperor William of Germany.
WILLIAM BUCKNELI. the noted Bhila-
delphia philap thropist, died of apo
plexy, on the night of The 9th, at the
age of seventy-nine years. He gave
Sl42, 600 to Bucknen College; about sos
600 to Baptist churches and missions,
and probably S5GO,OOO to charities oS
various kinds.
IT is asserted that the Portuguese
Minister has failed 70 secure any modi-
fication of England's attitude in his
gotiations with Lord Salisbury and will
return to Lisbon at once. The popular
feeling in Lisbon against England is
extremely menacing as the result of
the Minister'S failure.