Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-19

| domingo, costa Rlca ana OCnef cOur-
tries, may possibly be extended to the
British West Indies Negotiations are
about to be commenced with the latter
Icountry.
THE council of administration of the
G.. A. r. has fixed upon September 20
as the date of the meeting of the grand
encampment at Washington next year.
RUMORs are circulating in the French
capital regarding an alleged revolution
airy attempt at Athens to overthrow
the dynasty of King George.
A DAMAGING cyclone swept over Bel
GUM, on the 18th, doing much damage
in the city of Brussels and in the prov
inces.
A MAN known as Matt Shea was
found murdered near Greencastle, Ind,
on the 18th, having been stabbed thir-
ty-seven times and otherwise mutilated.
Shea is said to have feared being killed
because of knowledge he claimed to
| have about the Cronin murder. He
claimed to be the Clan-na-Gael agent
| who sent out the report from Toronto
that Cronin was in that city, thus mis-
leading the Chicago police.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
| seven days ended on the 18th. number,
for the United States, 25S, and for Can
| ada IS, or a total of 291; as compared
with total of 266 for the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures were 266. repre-
sentiug 22t failures in the United States
and AZ in the Dominion of Canada.
1T was stated at the department of
state, on the 18th. that there had been
no correspondence between this gov
| eminent and that of Italy in regard
to the New Orleans lynching affair
| since last spring, and consequently the
dispatch from Rome stating that this
government had acknowledged liabil-
ity for the affair and would pay in
demnity is incorrect.
MEssRs MOODY AND SANKEY, the
famed American evangelists, have
agreed to make a tour of Scotland.
They anticipate period of consider
able spiritual success.
SECRETARY TRACY contradicts the re-
port that Admiral Gherardi has been
ordered to relieve Admiral Brown of
the command of the South Pacific sta
ton.
The president issued proclamation,
on the 18th, fixing Thursday, Novem-
Der 90, as a day of thanksgiving.
THERE is almost a complete blockade
of the ports of Rio and Santos, Brazil,
from which the bulk of the worlds sup
ply of coffee is exported. This is due to
INSULT cient custom house facilities and
inability to load and unload the vessels
now waiting to receive and discharge
cargoes. Unless this situation is soon
relieved, coffee dealers in this country
say that prices will soon advance, as
the supply here will soon be exhausted.
The receipts at the custom house at
IquiGue, one of the largest of the
nitrate ports of Chilli, during the month
of October amounted to 81, 627, OOO The
greater portion of this amount was
paid as export duties on the nitrate
shipped from that port. The receipts
We're the largest ever known at that
port.
Hon. ALLEN G. THURMAN was rs
years old on the 18th. The anniversary
was shorn of much of its former bright
ness, for the willow rocking-chair that
has stood so long by the side of the
open fireplace in the old English sitting
room that leads out of the hall of the
old homestead in Columbus, O., was
empty. Judge Thurman is in excellent
health.
HUNTERS from Park Rapids, Red
Lake Falls and La Prairie, Mimi, re-
port that an epidemic has broken out
among the wild geese, and thou
sands of birds are floating weak and
helpless on the lakes and ponds. The
natives are gathering them in great
quantities to pluck the feathers.
RUTHEvEN, Ia, has been undergoing
a fearful siege of typhoid fever, and it
has now developed that the cause is the
decaying matter which abounds in the
lakes surrounding the town.
CHARLES BETHEARD, his wife and
three children, comprising an entire
family, were cremated by the burning
of their home in a tenement in Column
bus, O., on the 18th.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
A MOST serious revolt broke out, on
the 10th, near Foo-Choo, one of the