Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-23

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THE Gillian cruiser ErraZuriz steamed
out for Havre on the 10th. 1t is thought
she will attempt to secure a crew of
seamen in England.
PROPS. MENDENEALL AND MERRIAM,
United States Behring sea commission
ers, sailed from San Francisco for
Alaska, on the nth, on the United
States steamer AlbatrosS
IT appears that Lord Salisbury has
offered to pay the Portuguese govern
ment 200. 900, 600 francs in consideration
of the surrender to Great Britain of all
the possessions of Portugal in southeast
Africa.
THE government cros, report for Man
itoba was issued on the 10Th. The bull
letin shows the crop prospects to be the
brightest known for years. There has
been an abundant rainfall and wheat
harvesting will begin about August Is,
THE municipal elections at Metz, o1
the 12th, resulted in the choice of a
council composed of nine Germans and
twenty-three protestants against Ger
man domination of Alsace-Lorraine
The result has created sensation
there
AMONG these whom President Carnot
decorated, on the 14th, in honor of the
dali Of the Bastile, were three Aneri-
cans, Mr.. Van Bergen, DIR. Nachtel'and
Mr.. Shwei5ser, a delegate from the New
York Benevolent society. The two for
mer were appointed officers, and Mr..
Shweitzer "a knight of the Legion of
Honor.
THE italian government has reduced
che salaries of its ambassadors at Lon
don, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, St. Peters
burg'and ,Constantinople, $4,000 francs
each, and leSsened the incomes of it's
representatives at some other capitals
5000 francs each. The annual saving
to tine government will aggregate 2O0,-
900 francs.
THERE was a remarkable series of
fatalities at Rankins, Pa, on the night
of the 18th. man committed suicide,
the house he had lived in burned down
from a lamp explosion and two chill
dren were cremated, and later asEtwO
men were searching among the ruins,
a chimney fell, killing one and fatally
injuring the other.
THE secretary of the treasury, on the
10th, issued a call on nationalbanl1 de-
positories for nearly 100000 900 of gov
eminent funds in their possession. This
amount is distributed among forty-two
banks, and is to be transferred to the
different sub-treasuries by August IS.
,1x - h,r lie cd
altogether as repositories.
THE socialistic labor parity and single
tax league have this year been refused
permission to hold meetings ON Boston
common by the Boston city govern
ment On the 18th the party hired a
hall and held a meeting at which the
action of the government was de-
nounced and a petition drawn up de-
:manding the right TO hold 'open-air
meetings
The Haytien revoiutionists who had
been exiled to Kingston, Jamaica, met
in general assem- bly, June 90, and elected
Gen. Anselme Prophetic general-in-chief
of their forces. The new commander
has issued an address to the people of
Hayti in which he calls on his fellow
citizens to support him in delivering the
country from the murderous rule of a
Ttyrant.
THE source of the new Safton lake
has been settled. The water flows
from the Colorado river The water is
carrying down an immense quantity of
seed and excellent cattle food is SPRING
ing up everywhere. The desert will
soon have good pasturage. 1T IS be-
1ieved that the channel is permanently
cut, and that the desert will always
contain water, except in how stages of
the Colorado river.
THE business failures throughout'th the
country during the seven days ended
on the 18th, as reported to the mercan-
tile agency of r. G.. Dunn Sc Co, by
telegraph, number, for the United
STATES, 244: for Canada, SO: total, 274;
as compared with total of pa for the
week previous. For the corresponding
week of last year the figures We're 207,
representing 1s7 failures in the United
States and 20 i'll the Dominion of Can
ada
OF the men arrested in Sofia, ol the
l4th, in connection with the ASA sSinar
ton of NJ. Constantine Beltcheff, the
bulgarian minister of finance, two
We're students. They confessed that
they murdered NJ. Beltcheff, and sse-
eompanied the confession with the
statement that they were hired to com
init the CRIME by DIR. TZatchetf. Dr.
Moloff and Colonel Kissoff, all OF
whom were promptly arrested by the
Bulgarian authorities.
The scaling schooner Maggie Mae,
Capt Cox. retur.ned to Victoria, Il. C..
from the north on the 18th. The cap
tain reports havflg been stopped at the
entrance to Behring sea by the United
States steamer ThetiS, showing pro-
clamation and warning them that if
caught in the sea after notification his
vessel would he seized. The schooner
accordingly returned with only three
skins. Other schooners had been
warned and were Oh their way home.
NINA VAN ZANDT, of Chicago. who
gained uotoriety by marrying the an
archiSt. August Spies. b. proxy. was
married on the 10Th, to Stcphana Ma
lata. ! he young couple viii go to Italy
on tbf.,v wedding tour. Nina says she
never ~ympathized with anarchy, but
was iI:i,uced by her family. after much
opposition, to take the course she did
in TIE hope of saving Spies. whose