Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-03

cerned in market quotations.
JOHN c. HoUK was elected, on tn
2Ist, to represent the second district O
Tennessee in congress to succeed hi
father, L. c. Houll, deceased.
NJ. De GIERs, the Russian minister O
foreign affairs, had conference wit
Emperor William, on the gath, and wa
afterward entertained at breakfast b.
Chancellor Won Caprivi-
EMPEROR WILLIAM and Prince Bis
marck have, temporarily at least, bun
led the Ratchet, and the prince ha
abandoned his intention of leading
party in the reichstag against the gov
eminent
A DISPATCH from Odessa says tina
twenty-four vessels, which were par
TALLY loaded with cereals, when the or
der prohibiting the export of grain
went into effect were allowed to com
plete their cargoes-
THE Standard Gas Light Co. of New
York is about to bring action agains
Wallace C. Andrews, the former presi
OcHl VI CoLh 1oi CiiC lCSohCi.
of $4,000, 900 of the company's stock
which it is alleged is illegally held b,
Mr.. Andrews.
THE tin plate manufacturers of Wale
have resolved to shut down their works
for a fortnight in December and a fort
night in January in order to counterac
the continued tendency towards lower
prices arising from the accumulation O.
stocks in the United States.
THE subscription opened by the Paris
Figaro to cover the fine imposed upor
the archbishop of AK and the costs o.
his trial took but single day to accom-
p1ish the desired result. 1t received
+. 222 francs Many of the French no
bility were among the subscribers.
RI. Hon. WIN. L. JACKSON, the new.
ly-appointed chief secretary for Ire.
land, was reelected, on the Esd, as mem
Der of parliament for North Leeds
without opposition Mr.. Jackson's ap-
pointment as Mr.. Balfour's successor
necessitated his reelection to the seat
he represents
Gov. ALVIN p. HOvEY of Indiana died
at his hotel in indianapolis, at LEO p.
m. on the 23d. His last moments We're
peaceful and conscious. All the inn
mediate members of his family We're
present. The direct cause of his death
was heart trouble, superinducing fail
ing respiration.
THE presidents of the twenty trade
organizations which make up the Bos-
ton Executive Business association,
have signed petition to be presented
to congress asking that new postal
law be established making fOurth-class
matter dutiable at the same rate of
postage as third-class matter.
THE national republican committee,
in secret session in Washington on
the Esd, elected James S. Clarkson, of
Iowa, TO succeed Chairman Quay: p. A.
Hobart, of New Jersey, vice-chairman,
to succeed Mr.. GARRISON, and William
Barbour, of New York, treasurer, to
succeed w. w. Dudley. The elections
We're by reclamation.
THE supreme council of the Farmers
Alliance, in session at Indianapolis,
Ind, adjourned, on the ed, to meet
next year at Atlanta, Harrisburg or
San Francisco. the place to be selected
by the executive committee. A grand
summer encampment was decided upon,
the fixing of the time and place being
left to n special committee.
ADvICEs from Rio de Janeiro, state
that Fonseca, besides abdicating the
dictatorship, has renowned his title of
commander-in-chie and retired to
private life. The papers are, however,
demanding the impeachment of Fon-
SEGA, and also of his ministers, on the
ground that they are responsible for
the moneys spent during the short
lived dictatorship.
THE barometer in use at the weather
bureau in Toledo, o., sank, on the Esd,
to Il lower notch than had ever before
been recorded. At noon intense dark
ness settled down upon the city,
making it necessary tor shopkeepers
to turn on their gas and electric lights:
and the street gas lamps would have
been lighted had not the gloom began
to dissolve at the end of an hour.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country, during the
seven days ended on the 27th, number,
for the United States, 237, and for Can
ada So, or total of 295; as compared
with a total of 2S5 for the previous
week. For the corresponding week of
last year the figures We're 249. repre-
senting 21l failures in the United States
and So in the Dominion of Canada.
HERR WENMUTH, German imperial
commissioner to the Worlds Columbian
exposition, has fled his report of his
visit to the United States He strongly
urges that Germans dc all they can to
secure representation at the fair. He
regards Chicago as remarkably well To-
Gated for the exposition. and states
that he is making good progress in or
Eanizing joint exhibitions of certain in
dustries and in forming a committee
for the womep's department.
THE annual report of General Super
intendent j. E. White of the railway
mail service shows that ut the close of
the fiscal year, June 30, mails were
carried on 1853, SIS miles of railroad in
the United States. The rolling stock
of the railway post office lines con-
sisted of 500 whole cars in use and no
in reserve, 1.7S1 apartment cars in use
and 500 in reserve, making the total
number under the coutrol of the de-
partment ., s91. There are 6,O32 clerks
I'm the service.
AN earnest aonea1 has baan pro-