Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-02

By ELI d. AXE.
fRONTON. MISSOURI
THE application of the state of Ohio
Tor her share of the direct tax. 81, 49,,
o25, was received at the treasury de-
partment on the 27th.
The production of coal in the states
west of the Mississippi has increased
from ASA, 324 short tons in 1880, to TO-
O67, 500 short tons in 1889.
SEVENTEEN wool combers of Brad
ford, England, have formed a combina-
ton to control Botany bay woods and
raise the price of worsteds.
A NUMBER of San Francisco clergy
men held meeting, on the s5th, and
adopted resolutions asking that the
Worlds fair be closed on SUNDAYS
LAWRENCE PARSONS. the third earl OF
Rose, and son of the famous English
astronomer, arrived in San Francisco
on the s5th, to visit the Lick obserra,
tory
IN the New York senate, on the 2Tth
the finance committee reported the
Worlds fair appropriation bill with an
amendment making it $500, 900, instead
of $3.50, 900. No action was taken
WARDEN ]. j. RANDALL, of the Min
nesota state penitentiarv, whose resig-
nation couple of months ago created
something of sensation, died in st.
Paul, on the 18th, of heart disease.
THE queen of the Hawaiian islands.
1T is said, objects to the proposed new
treaty with the United States. She
wants Hawaiian sugar to receive the
same bounty as that raised in America.
On the Goth President Garnet wired
Queen Victoria placing himself and the
officials of the French government at
her majesty's disposal during her resi-
dence at Grasse.
THE morocco finishers, of Lynn,
Mass, who struck seven months ago,
met on the oath and decided to con-
tinue the strike. Five hundred of the
LOO men who went out originally are
still unemployed.
HELEN Z. CLARKE, an Indian girl,
who was teacher at the Carlisle (Pa.)
Indian school, has been appointed spe-
cial allotment agent of the United States
government, with headquarters in Mon
tana.
A CORRESPONDENT at Berlin says that
the anxiety of Prince Bismarck to again
enter the reichstag is superinduced by
e 4lo, aT,, - l.
on the question of Germany's CONNER
cial negotiations with Austria-Hun-
gary
POSTMASTER GENERAL RAIKEs is not
content with crushing the messenger
companies of London out of existence.
He proposes to enforce the claim of the
government to all the money the COM
panies have ever received for carrying
letters.
ONE HUNDRED Scotch crofterS have re-
turned to their homes on one of the
Hebrides from which they had been pre-
viously evicted to make room for deer
preserve. They have thrown up breast
works and declare their intention to
''hold the fort.
IT is now pretty well understood that
If formal alliance between France and
Germany has not been concluded it very
soon will be. 1t is thought that Ger
many is at present without military
head and that now is the time for her
enemies to strike.
THE wreckers working on the United
States steamer Galena. ashore on Gay
head, Mass, have found four feet more
water in the hold of the vessel than
there is around her, showing that the
sand embankment about her is gradu-
ally growing larger.
THE National Association of Demo-
cratic clubs has issued circular letter
addressed to demo cratic clubs through
out the United States inviting them
to appropriately celebrate the ami
versay of the birthday of Thomas Jeffer
son on Thursday, April 2.
OTTO, the mad king of Bavaria. almost
became murderer, one day recently,
while engaged in his favorite pastime of
shooting at peasants from a window.
The gun was by some mistake loaded
with ball, and the peasant received
f1esh-wound in the shoulder.
By his will, which is dated June %,
1889, the late Secretary Window leaves
the family residence and furniture and
one-third of the estate, after payment
of debts, to Mrs. Window, and the re-
mainder to his three children. Mrs
Window is made sole executrix.
On the Gath the secretary of the treas
ury signed warrant for S646, 95S, the
amount due the state of Missouri under
the bill of the last session of congress
refunding the amount of the direct tax
of 1861 to the states and territories
The warrant was sent to the governor
of Missouri.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR GRANT
has settled the controversy over the
proper disposition of TasunlSeOte, the
Indian accused of numbering Lieut.
Casey, at Pine Ridge agency during the
recent trouble, by instructing Gen.
Miles to turn the prisoner over to the
civil authorities at Sioux Falls.
THE British foreign Office has for
mally notified Secretary of State Blaine
that her Brittanic majesty's govern
ment accepts the invitation extended