Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-09


IRONTON, MISSOURI
The direct-tax claims of New Jersey
S2,314, and Ohio, 81, 332, OPS, were pal,
by the treasury department on the Sd
The pope is Frustrated by stomach
trouble, and has been ordered by hi
physicians to remain in bed for tn
present.
MISUNDERSTANDING CARTER, of Mon
tana, received his commission and tool
the oath of office as commissioner of tn
general land office ON the 31st.
On the 31st the treasury department
sent out checks amounting to s.. 043; ga
in payment of the April quarters IN
terest due on AZ per cent. bonds
RUMORs of war between Hayti an,
San Domingo are current. The Oh,
dispute, the boundary-line question, i
the cause of the strained relations o
the two countries
EXCONGREssMAN J. 3. GRINNELL
founder of the town of Grinnell, la.
died in Marshalltown, on the 31st, afte
years illness, aged 20 years, of con
stitutional troubles.
THE total value of cereals exported
from the Argentine republic in 1SS
was SIG, 426, 22S and S25, S25, 500 in 1890
This included wheat, corn, -four, flax
inseed oil and other cereals.
THE Michigan house, on the I'd
passed the Miner bill, which provides
that hereafter presidential elector
shall be chosen by congressional dis
tricts instead of by the state as a unit.
THE bill passed by the Arkansa.
house appropriating $4,000 for the
states exhibit at the Worlds Colum
bian exposition was defeated in the
senate, on the Sd, after long debate
THE Bulgarian government has of
fered reward of 81, 900 for the capture
of the murderer of NJ. Baltcheff. minis
ter of finance. The government has
also pensioned the widow of NJ. Bait
chef.
PRINCE LOUIS BONAPARTE, the sec
ond son of the recently deceased Prince
Napoleon, has been rendered a commits
sion in the Italian army by King Hum
bert, but will retain his Russian colo
nelcy.
THE United States steamer San Fran
cisco left Mare Island, on the Sd, to sail
for Chill, where she is ordered to look
aftar no inf Of Arr,arinar, fsifiznnS
during the continuance of the revolu-
ton there.
THE Paris Figaro asserts that be-
sides his memoirs, the Due de Broglie
possesses the whole of Talleyrand's cor
respondence from the year 1889 to the
time of his death. all of which he will
probably eventually publish.
THE Leeds (England) Millers' asso-
citation. on the 3Ist advanced the price
of flour Is. 3D., making total advance
OF 5s- Cd. during the month of March.
This advance was due to the rise in the
price of English and foreign wheats.
PENSION payments for the first three
quarters of the current fiscal year, ag-
gregated about S97, 900, 900. and point to
a pension charge during the current
year of about S125, 600, 900 CT 10000, 900
more than during the preceding year.
THE failures in the United States for
the first quarter of 1891 We're 3,545,
with liabilities $40, 169, 631, against 3, 223S ,
with liabilities S37, s52, 96S for the same
period last year, the southern and west
ern states furnishing the increase in
both figures
BARON FAvA, the Italian minister at
Washington, presented his recall to
the state department, on the 31st,
having been called home by his govern
ment, because of dissatisfaction at the
progress made in The settlement of the
New Orleans lynching affair.
For gallantry in the Wounded Knee
affair the president has awarded certif-
icates of merit to Nathan lehman.
Richard Costner and William Girdwood,
pIivateS of the Seventh cavalry. He
has also directed that the pay of these
men be increased two dollars per
month.
THE result of the efforts being made
by western army officers to carry out
the provisions of the army appropria-
ton bill authorizing the enlistment in
the regular army of 1000 Indian re-
cruits, has proved very diScouraging,
and it is doubtful if single company
can be recruited.
THE locked-out clothing cutters OF
Rochester, n. Y, held meeting on the
31st, and passed resolutions repudiating
the Knights of Labor and their leaders,
and denouncing the boycott. The man.
ufacturerS determined to receive the APP
plications of the men for work, and the
lockout is therefore at an end.
SECRETARY FOSTER, Architect Wind
rim and Director of the Mint Leach had
a conference, on the 31st, as to what ac-
ton to take in view of the attorney
generals opinion that no appropriation
was made FOR the Philadelphia mint.
The subject was discussed for some
time, but laid aside without action, to
await further conference.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT JAMES IL.
WINDRIM indicated to Secretary Fos-
ter, on the I'd, that he would tender his
resignation as supervising architect of