Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IHE cOmmerclal treaty between the
United States and France has been con-
Guided. The hitch in the negotiations
regarding the value of articles to be
mutually admitted free of duty was
overcome by the friendly attitude of
both parties to the treaty. The value
of free articles is fixed at 1900, 600
francs annually.
Two NEW light steel revenue cutters
are about to be placed on the upper
lakes by the Dominion government for
the protection of the fisheries by the
use of nets. One of the new boats will
be placed on Lake Superior and the
other on Lake Huron.
SUGAR making in Cuba is greatly re-
tarded by the want of field hands to cut
the cane. Receipts at the principal
ports of the island are far behind those
of last year up to the LIST of March.
MANY of the changes of troops from
post to post during the early summer
will be accomplished by marching, thus
giving the men a season of practical
field work, not to mention the item of
economy.
THE first entry of goods destined for
the Worlds fair exhibition was made,
on the 18th, at the custom house in New
York. These were ten cases of an
tiques, which arrived on the steamer
Claribel from Port Limon.
IT is stated from Warsaw. Poland,
that Russia is billeting troops in priv
vate houses, fearing an insurrection.
LATEST reports from Honduras, via
the City of Mexico, assert that Hon
duras has refused to grant concessions
to the Louisiana lottery.
THE Canadian government will take
the duty off binding Irvine as conces-
sion to the Manitoba farmers demands.
THE nitro-glycerine magazine of the
High Explosive Co. on the Kubz farm,
miles west of Findlay, O., blew up.
on the sth, with a report that startled
the whole country around and broke n
number of plate-glass windows in
Findlay. 1t was one of the most ter
rife explosions ever experienced in
northwestern Ohio.
The pure-food bill passed the senate,
on the 9th, without division.
The Behring sea treaty was sent to
the senate, on the sth, by the presi-
dent. So far as can be learned it was
not accompanied 5y any recommends
ton.
CHOLERA has appeared at Herat, AT
ghanistan, and is said to be advancing
along the road to Persia
A DISPATCH from La Paz, Bolivia,
says that government troops sent
to quell an Indian outbreak, which oc-
CURED few days ago, encountered the
redskins and completely routed them.
The dispatch states that 1000 Indians
We're killed in the engagement and
thirty of the government troops were
badly wounded.
POLICE JUDGE BORGELET was shot
twice and seriously wounded while
holding court at Lincoln, Neb., on the
9th. His assailant was Chas. Wagner,
whom the judge had previously fined
for larceny. Wagner was arrested.
THE steamship Missouri, loading at
New York the great cargo of food given
by the American people to the starving
Russians, will carry 4.03S, 7s4 pounds
flour and l, 500, 600 pounds cornmeal, or
a total of 5, 53S, 7S4 pounds
A DECREE has been issued permit
ting the export of corn from the Rus
STAR district at Kootais, on the Black
sea.
HE LONDON Dally news OF the Stn
printed an article praising the ener-
getic action of Mr.. Hirsch, the Amer
lean minister to Turkey, in protesting
at the decree of the porte ordering all
schools to procure a license from the
government on else close.
THE German steamer Messina, from
London for Marseilles, was wrecked oft
Scilly, on the sth, and only one of her
crew of twenty-six men escaped.
THE diplomatic correspondence be-
tween Secretary Blaine and the British
Sir Julian Pauncefote, re-
veals sharply-deined issue between
the two countries on the seal fishery
question