Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-16

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BY ELL D. AXE.
1RONTON. MISSOURI
SENATOR HILL, of New York, was
cleveland, ON the 9th, to the exclusion
of all other visitors
THE block-tin bill failed of enact
ment after passing the house and being
unanimously reported to the senate
from the committee on finance.
THE king and queen of Portugal and
Archduke Charles Louis of Austria ar
rived in Rome. on the It'll, to attend the
silver wedding Of the king and queen
of Italy.
NOTICES were posted at the Cofrode
and Savior bridge works at Pottstown.
Pa. ON the sth. Of . reduction in the
wages of all employees, to take effect
March Is
PRESIDENT JOHN NJ. COULTER OF the
State university at Bloomington, Ind,
has resigned and accepted the presi-
dency of Lake Forest university at Chi
cago, to begin work there in Septem-
her.
AT the meeting of the board OF direc-
tors of the Western Union Telegraph
Co. in New York, on the 9Th, Gen.
Thomas E. Eckert was elected presi-
dent and general manager for the COM
pany.
DoUeLAss CAMPBELL, former noted
member of the bar of New York and
author Of the puritan in Holland, En-
gland and America" died in Science
tady, N. Y, on the 7th, aged about So
years
VALPARAISO newspapers comment in
very favorable terms on the inaugural
message of President Cleveland, but it
seems strange to them that he made no
reference in the address to the southern
republics.
THE sensation of the day in the Pam
anna trials in Paris, on the 9th, was the
confession of Baihut in open court, ac-
knowledging his guilt and asking par
don of his country, whose good name
he had sullied.
LATE advices from East Africa state
that the German troops have won an
important victory over the hostile ma
tives at Uniangwira. The German
force was composed of white soldiers
and native levies.
The present roll call of the senate
shows a democrats, 80 republicans,
populist, independent and l Farmers
Alliance, and 8 vacancies The vacan-
cies are one each in Montana, Washing
ton and Wyoming.
ALAw has been passed by the Greek
chamber of deputies exempting oil ex-
hibits at the Worlds Colum bian exposi-
ton from export duty and admitting all
goods purchased at the Chicago fair, as
samples, free of import duty.
THE legislative assembly of the island
of Jersey has declared by vote that
quarantine In not preventive of cholera,
and has therefore refused to establish q
quarantine against vessels from ports
alleged to be cholera-infected.
SECRETARY CARLISLE, on the 9th, au-
fhorized the announcement that he
would exercise all the power and dis
cretion vested in him to uphold the
credit of the government and to main
tain the parity of gold and silver.
A MEETING of the bar of the supreme
court of the United States was held in
the chamber of the court at the capitol
in Washington, at IL o'clock noon on
the 18th, for the purpose of doing honor
to the memory of the late Justice La
mar.
MRs. A. L. BROWN. wife of Archibald
L. Brown, and the eldest daughter of
Ter, died in Chicago, on the 18th. after
an illness of only two weeks. The inn
mediate cause of her death was blood
poisoning.
Mrs. u. s. GRANT, having sold her
residence in New York, expects to
make her future home in Washington.
She desires to locate on Lafayette
square, and has made an offer for the
Blaine residence that is now under
consideration.
On the sth Secretary Carlisle accept
ed the proposition of the clearing
house at Denver. Col, to exchange
81 zoo, 600 of the treasury notes of the
issue of 1890 for $1,000, 900 in gold.
This will increase the free gold in the
treasury to 81. 125, 900.
Mr.. j. DICKINSON and Gen. Palmer.
of the Worlds fair commission, called
on the vice-president, on the sth, and
presented him with a handsomely-en-
crossed invitation to be present at the
opening Of the Worlds fair. The vice.
president accepted and will be present
Mr.. HARRISON and his daughter and
grandchildren spent the afternoon OF
the 9Th at the grave of Mrs. Harrison,
in Crown Hill cemetery, near Indiana
polls. In the evening reception was
rendered to the ex-president in the
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