Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-10

9ron County 9fgister.
BY ELI d. AXE
IRONTON. MISSOURI
THE board of lady managers of the
Worlds Columbia exposition have
elected Mrs. Susan Gale Cook. Of Ten
nessee, secretary of the board.
A LONDON TINES Berlin dispatch
says the German press declare that
Germany must be alert, but will never
begin a war, however provoked
THE London courts have granted an
injunction on the City bank against
paying a draft for $4,000 drawn by
Balmaceda in favor of his European
agents.
THE North German Gazette and 9th
er German papers say the Dardanelles
affair is purely British question, the
other powers being only secondarily
concerned.
Gov. AND Mrs. CAMPBELL of Ohio, ar
rived in New York, on the Sd, and went
to the Fifth Avenue hotel for the gov
ernor to rest from the fatigue of his
journey before going to the seashore.
THE hoisting machinery in the shaft
of the Stockton mine, about thirty
miles from Salt Lake City, Utah, was
burned on the I'd; loss, $50. 900. No
lives We're lost, the miners escaping by
another outlet
THREE more British Columbian seal
poachers, the Sapphire, Carmelite and
Wallis, returned to Victoria, on the Sd,
after having made big catches They
We're warned off Behring sea by her
majesty's ship Porpoise-
THE price of bread is raising in Lon
don, and the working classes are al
ready beginning to feel the pinch of
distress consequent ON deficient har-
vests The advance so far is half
penny on the guartern four-pound) loaf.
THE British consulate at Yhehang,
China, was destroyed by a mob. which
attacked the Europeans on the 1st.
The French gunboat Aspie left Kiu-
Kiang for the scene of the disorder.
her commander receiving stringent in
structions to act ,decisively.
THE sealing schooners Carlotta G..
Cox, Annie c. Moore, Borealis and
Geneva have returned to Victoria, Il.
c., with their catch, having been
warned to leave Behring sea. The Cox
carried 1,513 skins; the Geneva, 1876;
IA Annie q Moore 1 and 10
Borealis, 1900.
PRESIDENT GoMPERs of the American
Federation of Labor has extended an
invitation in behalf of the trade unions
of North America to the trades union
congress now in session at Newcastle
on-Tyne, England. to hold an interna-
tional trades union convention in Chi
cago during the summer of 1898.
ADvICEs received from Guatemala
say that the election excitement there
is intense, and it is feared no election
can take place, in which case President
Barillos will hold over. In such an
event he may declare himself dictator.
which will not only cause complied
tions in Cru atemala, but in all Central
America
REV. CHARLES PERCIVAL, of Racine,
Wis, one of the prime movers in the
reform crusade. has incurred the bitter
enmity of the saloon men, and has
been anonymously warned to beware
the fate of Rev. Geo. C. Haddock, who
died a martyr to the temperance cause
at Sioux City, Ia, and whose remains
are inferred at Racine.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER OF the CEN
sus bureau, who is now giving his en-
tire attention to revising the fiscal cen
sus reports, says that he expects to
have the first five hundred pages of the
eleventh census ready for the public
printer on the 18th. He expects to
have several completed volumes ready
for congress in December.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the seven
days ended on the 4th, number, for
the United States, 1877, and for Canada,
90, or total of 217: as compared with
a total of 226 for the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last
year the figures were 2O3, representing
167 failures in the United States and So
in the Dominion of Canada
SIXTEEN Swedish and Norwegian
worlzrEen were blown to atoms by the
explosion of f. A. Reynolds SS Co. S dy-
Mantle factory near White Pigeon,
Mich. on the Sd. The conclusion in
White Pigeon was terrible, and the
citizens were badly frightened. Goods
We're thrown from the shelves, the
cupola of the Lutheran church fell, and
the walls of several buildings Were
cracked and damaged.
ORDER was not restored in Valparaiso
until the streets had been strewn with
the bodies Of over 200 incendiaries and
rioters. The procurator-fscal Fas, who
caused the execution of Cummings and
two others in connection with the plot
to blow up the torpedo boats Lynch and
Condeli, was taken out and shot, as was
also Leon LAWN, editor of FL CONNER
clio, who was caught in the act of dis
tributing incendiary pamphlets.
THE reciprocity treaty between San
Domingo and the United States took
effect on the 1st, and is said to be one of
the most favorable yet made The
treaty removes entirely for this coun-
try the heavy duties heretofore imposed
on more than IS per cent. of the export
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