Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-19

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Tor the location of the first factory for
the manufacture of cornstaIk cellu-
lose the new material for filing the
conerdams of war ships.
ELDER j. T. SHANNON, of Lebanon.
Ind, was held up and robbed of a con-
siderable sum of money just as he step
ped OF train in that city early on the
morning of the 10th. The robbers es-
capped.
The character of the information re-
ceived at the war department con-
cernlng the reported Apache out
break IN Arizona shows it to be trifinp
ana not likely to lead to any general
uprising.
ADvIcEs from Abyssinia. ON the 18th,
stated that Gen. Arimondi with his
command had made a junction with
the forces of Gen. Barateri, the COM
mander-in-chief of the Italian forces in
Abyssinia.
PROF. GIANTURCo, of New York CITY,
president of the Italo-American acad-
envy of medicine, has discovered a
lymph which he believes will ulti-
mately furnish the world with a cure
for leprosy.
CONGRESSMAN CRowTHER. of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, introduced a bill in the
mouse, on the 18th, instructing the
secretary of the interior to restore to
the pension rolls those persons who had
been stricken of since 1893
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1t was announced in Vienna, upon
semi-ofhcia1 authority from CONSTANT
nople. on the 10th, that the sultan had
signed the frmans for the admission
through the Dardanelles of the addi-
tional guard ships demanded by the
powers
TEN acres OF land near the old Dun
kard church. on the Antietam battle
field, in Maryland, have been pur-
chased by the Philadelphia brigade.
1t win be converted into park, and
800, 900 monument will be erected upon
the site.
A PUBLIC agricultural conference was
held in London, on the 18th, at which
many influential men were in attend
ance. Mr.. James Lowther. NJ. P, pre-
sided, and stated that the object of the
conference was the establishment of
the system of protection.
81. C. HUNTINGTON, United States
commercial agent at Castellamere di
Stabia, Italy, says Italian oranges will
be shipped to America in large quanti-
ties this season. This has been
brought about by reports concerning
the damaged state of the Florida
orange groves.
SARAH HARRIsBEReER, of Cleveland
O., completed a deal at Pittsburgh. Pa,
ON the 18th, whereby Mrs. Jennie Fos-
tier, of Pittsburgh, sells her husband,
John Foster, for $50 in cash. a pair of
diamond earrings and a diamond pin,
to the Harrisberger woman, whose for
mer lover Fostler was.
A GROWING industry was suppressed
at Dubuque, Ia, on the 10th. when five
men were arrested for selling carcasses
of horses and horse sausage, which
they represented as beef They had
been buying broken-down horses and
slaughtering them in the suburbs. The
E1G<6t WAS SO1o " COuSuDcI0.
PoRTo Rico, it was said on the 18th.
had issued declaration of independ-
ence, and would soon join her sister is
land, Cuba, in the active struggle for
liberty. 1t was further stated that an
army was being formed by the sepa-
ratist party, and that as soon as the
leaders were ready the campaign would
open.
Irwas given out, on the 18th, that
Senator Sherman was preparing an an
swer to the financial part of the presi-
dents annual message, but that he
would not speak until after he had an
opportunity of digesting the report of
the secretary of the treasury, which
had been unaccountably withheld from
congress.
THE steamer Germanic collided
shortly after leaving the Mersey, on
the 18th, near Crosby lightship. with
the steamer Cumbrae, inward bound
for Liverpool. The Crumbrae was
sunk and the Ceramics bows were
damaged. The Germanic returned to
Liverpool. A dense fog prevailed at
the time of the collision.
In the contest for the prize of the
Republican national convention before
the national committee in Washington
city. on the 10th, ST. Louis proved an
easy winner over the rivsi cities of
Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh.
Pa. and New York. and afterwards
received the hearty congratulations of
the representatives of her vanquished
competitors
IT was stated, on the 18th, that Sem
ator Hill would probably speak. on
the 10th, on the resolution introduced
In the United States senate by Mr..
CuIlom on the Monroe doctrine. MIR.
Hill is of the opinion that this resolu-
ton, worded as it is, and interpreted
by the remarks of Mr.. Cullom, leads to
a conclusion that cannot be niain-
tanned by this government.
THE Italian government made tho
announcement in the chamber of dep
uties. on the 9th, that the five COM
panies of Italian soldiers composing
the column under command of Maj.
Tosselli, operating ia Abyssinia, had
been surprised and surrounded by a
force of IS 600 natives. and that only a
small portion of the command had sue
ceeded in making their escape to Ma
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