Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-19

BY ELI D. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
The Behring SEA bill formally passed
its first reading in the house of lords,
on the 10th. without debate.
THE general elections in the Neither
lands resulted in the defeat of the gov
eminent by large majority.
THE Union league club of San Fran
cisco gave reception to ex-President
Harrison on the night of the 1eth.
Both branches of the New York leg
1slature adjourned. on the 18th, out of
respect to the memory of David Dud-
ley Field.
THE Brazilian ministers Of foreign
affairs, public works and finance. ten
dered their designations to President
Peixoto on the 18th.
For the first time since it's initial
march from Massillon, O., the Coxey
Commonweal army was storm-stayed
ut Uniontown. Pa, on the 10th.
On the 10th Mrs. Patrick Mulstay.
the wife of New York stonecutter,
gave birth to three boy babies, whose
combined weight was thirty-fve
pounds
Mr.. GLADSTONE made his appearance
in the house of commons on the 18th,
and was present while the budget was
being introduced by Sir William Yer
non Harcourt.
IN German factories child labor, if
not entirely abolished, has to a very
great extent been done away with. In
1892 only II ,212 children under IA years
were so employed, as compared with
&c, 4S5 in 1890.
THE French presidential election has
been fixed for November 2. President
Carnot is not among the candidates.
Ill-health is given as his reason for not
seeking reelection. There are many
candidates in the field.
A TERRIFIC and destructive storm
prevailed along the Atlantic coast, on
the 18th, doing much damage to ship
ping and other exposed property. Four
teen lives are known to have been lost
along the New Jersey coast.
AMzIE SMITH, who for thirty years
has been in charge of the senate docu-
ment room. was taken suddenly i'll at
his desk, on the 18th. and was at once
removed to the senate library and put
under the care of a physician.
Coffin and A. s. Reed. charged with
aiding and abetting Theodore P.
Haughey in wrecking the Indianapolis
national bank, were begun in the fed
eral court at indianapolis, Ind, on the
10th.
THE pope, in special bulletin issued
on the 10th, nominated Cardinal Ram
polla, papal secretary of state, as arch
priest of st. Peters. His holiness de-
clares that this action is taken in rec
ognition of the cardinals great serv-
ices to the church.
The works of the American Grape
Sugar Co. at Buffalo, n. Y, were de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. The lives
of sixty of the night workmen on the
top floors were imperiled. and after
the fire many of them were missing.
Loss, 81, 200, ooo; insurance. 100000.
THE American Railway union has
asked Judge Dundy of the federal
court at Omaha, Neb., to order salaries
of monthly paid men on the Union
Pacific restored to the figures existing
prior to September last. and that the
restoration date from the receivership
in October.
Mr.. WILLIAM WILDE, the divorced
husband of Mrs. Frank Leslie, of New
York, was married in London by spe-
cial license, recently, to Miss Sophia
Lees, a young lady of Irish parentage,
who is said to be very wealthy. The
fact of the marriage was kept secret
until the 18th.
THE French government has re-
ceived advices from China that the
Chinese at Hsianfu have burned the
French mission at that place and mall
treated and imprisoned the French
missionaries The government has de-
termined upon demanding an explana-
ton and apology
THE house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce, on the 18th, or
dered favorably reported bill pre-
pared by the committee providing a
retired list for officers of the revenue
cutter service, by which all officers
who are disabled are to be retired and
given waiting-order pay.
WIDESPREAD dissension has been
caused in the Oklahoma presbytery by
a certain faction of young men voting
old and tried ministers out of their
fields against the wishes of the
churches where they were serving and
recommending certain personal friends,
vet in college, for the places.
The report of the late Sir Gen. Por-
tai, who was British consul general
and political agent at Zanzibar, has
been issued. The report strongly
urges the construction of a railway to
the coast and the draining of the ter
ritory around the Victoria Nyanza
with a view to the development of
commerce in that region.
j. W. WooD, ex-treasurer OF Calhoun
county. Mich, and grand receiver OF
the A. o. U. W., has been missing
since March 90. His books are now
in the hands of the officers of the or
ganization, who are Investigating his
accounts for six years--the time he has
held office-and up to the 9th they had
found a shortage of over 1908 in his
accounts.