Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-09

By ELI D. AK
1RONTON, MISSOURI
THE thermometer registered los deg.
In Stockton, Cal. on the 1st- There
We're four deaths from sunstrolle.
LORD SALISBURY has informed the
Irish peers that the government will
oppose further amendments to the Irish
land bill
MARX w. HARRINGTON, of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich. is the new chief of the
weather bureau under the agricultural
department.
NJ THEODORE RoUsTAN, the French
minister to this country, says the ex-
hibit of France at the Worlds fair will
be very complete one.
BUENos AYREs dispatches says that
the revolution which broke out in Cat
amara has been suppressed and the reg
ular provincial government reinstated
in power.
THE 1000 employees at the Pottsville
(Pa-) Steel and Iron Co.. s works struck
at midnight, on the 3Oth, because the
company refused to sign the western
scale of wages.
The president issued proclamation,
on the lst. granting copyright privi-
leges in the United States to citizens and
subjects of Belgium, France, Great
Britain and Switzerland
THAT part of the Mckinley tariff bill
which affects the duty on tin plate i'm
ported from England went into effect
on The list. The former duty was one
cent per pound; the duty will now be
two and two-tenths cents per pound.
IN an interview at Washington with
a reporter of the Evening Post. Direc-
tor of the mint, Leech said that the
increase of circulating medium during
the next few months, as the result of
the coinage policy now pursued, would
be STA, 600, 000
THERE is much Indignation in Lon
don over the remark of Rev. Mr.. Par
ker in a sermon opposing the kaiser's
visit on Sunday to the naval exhibition:
''Surely even the emperor can not want
to spend all the six days of the week in
playing baccarat-"
BRITISH officers who have been en-
gagged in fighting the slave trade in
East Africa, in submitting the report
Of their operations for the year 1920, de-
clare that the traffic is on its last legs.
The action of the Brussels conference,
will, they assert, kill it.
THE body of an infant, which had
probably been dead two months, was
found among the rags at the Telllah pa
per mill at Appleton. Wis, on the 30th.
The rags were shipped from Chicago.
A similar case happened at another pa
per mill in that city last winter.
PRINCE DOLGoRoUKOUFF died in Paris
On the LIST. The prince was, until re-
Gently relieved by the Grand Duke
Sergius, governor-general of the gov
eminent of Moscow. In the Russian
army he held the rank of general of
cavalry and aid-de-camp general.
AT meeting held in Dublin, on the
I'd. the. Irish Roman Catholic bishops
reaffirmed their formal declaration that
Mr.. Parneu was unfit to be a leader of
the Irish people, that he was unworthy
the confidence of the Roman Catholics
and calling upon Irishmen to repudiate
him.
THE Colorado desert basin at Salton,
sixty miles west of Yuma, Ariz., is rap
idly filling up with fresh water from a
subterranean passage, believed to be
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caused by the high waters of last Feb
ruary. At last advices the desert was
converted into a lake five miles wide.
The Florence (Ala.) tripoli works
commenced operations on the 3Oth. 1t
is the only works of the kind in the
United States, and the proprietors are
certain that they have a bonanza The
tripoli is found in large quantities in
Lawrence county, Tenn. 1t is said to
be the only deposit of tripoli on this
side of the Atlantic.
AN attempt was made, on the night of
the LIST, to wreck the steam boat train"
near Wilson's station, Conn. The
locomotive struck and exploded a dyna-
mite bomb at that point, damaging the
engine and tearing off foot of the
lower part of the rail. The train, how
ever, kept the track. and a dreadful
catastrophe was averted.
PROF. ROLAND z. FALKNER, Phi. D.,
of the Wharton school of finance and
economy. university of Pennsylvania,
has been elected to the chair of political
economy in the new school of political
science in the Northwestern university
at Chicago. DIR. Falkner is a graduate
of the Wharton school and of the uni
versity of Halle, Germany.
THE Paris Temps, in discussing the
renewal of the triple alliance, says
that Englands undertaking to protect
Italy from a French attack is not
needed because such an attack is ut
terly improbable. The obvious design
of England is to maintain the balance
of power in the Mediterranean without
favoring any individual power.
THE London Standard, commenting !
upon the French occupation of the |
province of Luang Prabong, supposes |
the movement is prelude to an event |