Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18

IT was decided at a French cabinet
council. on the 9th, to ask parliament
for a grant to enable France to take
part in the Chicago Worlds fair.
DISPATCHES from Shanghai announce
that fresh attacks are continually being
made upon the Christian missions in the
interior. In one case troops sent by the
Chinese government to que1 the dis
turbances joined the rioters
On the 9th the jury in the celebrated
baccarat case in London found verdict
against the plaintiff, the effect of which
Is that Sir William Gordon-Cumming
must be cashiered from the army and
expelled from the clubs.
RESOLUTIONS have been adopted by
the Southern Baptist association of
England censuring the prince of Wales
for his conduct in connection with the
baccarat scandal. A copy of the res
olutions was ordered sent to the prince.
THERE has been published in England
and on the continent lengthy circular
note signed by the Gillian provisional
junta or government. representing the
insurgent party of Chilli, appealing to
the powers to recognize the insurgents
as belligerents-
SOLEMN requiem services in COM
memoration of the death of Sir John
A. Macdonald. late premier of Canada,
were observed at Westminster abbey
on the 18th The queen was repre-
scented by members of the royal family
and high officers of her court
IT is said that the queen is 80 deeply
stirred up over the baccarat revelations
that she has directed the prince OF
Wales to make an early personal ex-
PLANTATION of his conduct, and that some
of the princes associates in the game
may be made to feel the royal displeas-
ure-
BECAUSE of Hippolyte's refusal to
keep pledges made to representatives
of the United States involving the lease
of coaling station and certain COM
mercial privileges, the president is seri-
OuSiy JIG duSoeici VI Nue-
ting off all diplomatic relations with
Hayti.
THE report received from Simla to
the effect that among those killed in
the last engagement between the Brit
ish, under Lieut.. Grant, and the Mani
puris at Fort Thabet was the usurping
rajah is erroneous The person meant
,,ae +ba proapder-iu-chief of the
Manipuris in the field.
SIR AMBROSE SHEA, governor of the
Bahamas, arrived in New York, with
his family, on the steamer Cienfuegos.
on the 18th. He was highly indignant
because the customs officers insisted on
examining his baggage, claiming exemp-
ton on the ground of representing
foreign government
HENRY STRONG, of Greene, Chenango
county, n. Y, who arrived in New
York city on the 9th, declared that two
weeks before he met Robert Ray Ham
ilton face to face in the Yellowstone
region. He says he is willing to go on
the witness stand and testify that he
saw him alive and well.
BY decision of United States Cir
cult Judge Phillips, of Kansas City,
Mo, death from sunstroke does not en-
title the beneficiary under an accident
insurance policy to recover, on the
ground that sunstroke is not an acct
dent, but disease of the brain arising
from natural and known causes
ADvICEs from the west coast of Africa
state that much excitement has been
aroused in Monrovia, the capital of Lii
IBERIA, by the news that the French
have seized part of the Liberian coast
near Cape Palmas. An appeal will
probably be made to the United States
against this action on the part of the
French.
A LARGE number of Indians near
Cooks Inlet, Alaska, are dying from
the grip. During the week ended May
10 twenty Indians died within a
radius of FIVE miles. In village few
miles distant from the cutting and
packing company's cannery everyone
had died with the exception of two
children.
THE supreme court of Pennsylvania
handed down an opinion, on the 18th
ousting Richard G. Oellers from the po
sition of city treasurer of Philadelphia
and upholding the claims of W. Red
wood Wright to the office. Oellers wa:
elected by the councils and the county
commissioners, while Wright was the
governors appointee-
THREE men, an engineer, conductor
and d brakeman, We're crushed to dealt
under the wreck of a coal train on tn,
Pennsylvania & Northwestern railroa,
near Bellwood. Pa, on the 18th Sew
eral other trainmen We're severely in
jured. The accident was caused by tn
train getting beyond control while de
scending a steep grade.
THE census Office, on the 18th, CAV
out the tobacco statistics of Mort
Carolina The total number of planter
in the state during the census year wa
1880: the total area devoted to tobacco
e7,O71: the total product 36,315, 25
pounds, and the value of the crop to tn
producers, estimated on the basis c
actual sales, S5.175, $50.
THE annual banquet of the member
of the San Francisco chamber of CON
merce was held at the Palace hotel o
the night of the 10th. The guest of tn
evening was ex-senator Warner Miller
of New York. president of the Near;
~r,,,p Canal Construction Co. who do