Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-05

THE law officers of the government
have under consideration the question
how further to proceed with the case
against the Bell Telephone Co. for the
repeal of the Beriiner patent
j. O. LABADIE, notary for several of
the richest estates in the province. has
mysteriously disappeared from Mon
treal, Can. He is about 20 years OF
age. There are fears Of foul play.
SECRETARY LAMONT issued an order,
on the eth, turning over to the state
of Michigan, for use as state park,
the military reservation. buildings and
lands ON Mackinac island, Michigan.
A DISPATCH from -Constantinople, on
the 2sth, said that the sultan had made
complaint to the French and Russian
governments against the attitude of
England on the Armenian question
THE Paris Estasette protests against
the action of the English and Ameri-
can newspapers in denouncing the sem
tence imposed on ex-United States
Consul Waller, and says Waller ought
to have been Immediately shot for his
treAchery.
ADv1cEs received in Hong Kong
from Ku-Cheng, on the 2sth, stated
committee into the recent outrages
was proceeding satisfactorily, the Chi
nese officials giving the commission
ample assistance.
An Armenian newspaper published
In Tif1is received a dispatch from Bey-
rout, on the eth, stating that on
August 10 a band of armed brigands
attacked the Armenian monastery of
st. John and brutality maltreated the
pilgrims assembled there.
On the Goth, Deputy Sheriff Sloan, of
Buffalo. N. Y, seized train of sugar
from Chicago. bound for the seaboard,
to satisfy claim held by the Ameri-
can Exchange bank of Buffalo for
5000 against the Chicago Sugar Co.
The cars contained 100. 900 pounds of
sugar.
For whipping an officer in the Ger
man army before coming to America,
ii. M. Romberg, naturalized citizen
of Decatur. Ind, upon returning to the
fatherland, has been sent to prison for
twelve years Under existing treaties
the American government has no
ground for interference.
On the 29th Acting Internal Revenue
Commissioner Wilson issued instruc-
tions to collectors of internal revenue
extending the time from September 1
to October in which claims for sugar
bounty may be fled. The original
date set was found to be too limited in
which to accomplish the work.
LOUIS WnLIcH. one of the best
known German poets and journalists
in America, died in St Louis on the
3Oth. Deceased's full name was Louis
Which Won Poellnitz, his family be-
longing to the German nobility. He
was plain man. however, and in this
country was always known as Louis
Which.
THE visible supply of grain. in store
and afoat, on the oath, as compiled at
the New York Produce exchange, was
rs follows: Wheat. IS, 0s9, 900 bushels;
decrease, 1.sO4. 600 bushels; corn. S. 2s7,-
600 bushels; increase, SO, 600; rye, $780,
600 bushels; increase. $4,000; barley,
l6, 600 bushels; decrease, 172, 600.
THE war department will take no
further steps in the Chicago drainage
canal matter until the engineer corps
has had an opportunity to make OBJ
servations and take measurements as
60 <hn O1,of n of h0 firy1
of the proposed waterway will have
This work will be taken up as soon as
possible.
A SPECIAL telegram from Kingston.
Jamaica. on the 2sth, said: Capt Gen.
Martinez de Campos has written to
the Spanish consul here, it has leaked
out, that the struggle against the in
surrection in Cuba is hopeless. The
the only means by which Spain can
avoid losing the island The Cubans
here are jubilant-"
THE finding Of what are believed to
be the charred bones of the missing
lad Howard Peitzel in a little frame
cottage in the town Of Irvington,
suburb of indianapolis, Ind, on the
eth, furnishes strong circumstantial
evidence of another awful murder and
attempted cremation by 81. 81. Holmes.
whom it is almost certain occupied the
house in company with the boy for
few DAYS last fall
CONSERVATION was caused in Jeffer-
son and adjoining counties in Wash
ington, on the 27th, by the appearance
of an army officer with a squad of men
bearing instructions to all settlers on
government reserves to vacate the
same before September Is or be re-
moved by troops. The move is the
outcome of recent order of the war
department.. 1t is estimated that ], 800
settlers will lose their homes.
Four violent earthquake shocks were
reported from Pinotepa and Nacional,
In Oaxaca, Mexico, on the 10th, causing
widespread terror. Walls were rent
and roofs caved in. The inhabitants of
the stricken towns took refuge in the
open country. The severe shocks were
preceded by a loud roaring. coming
from the sea. and it is believed in the
stricken locality that subterranean
volcano is on the point OF eruption.
By the new Ontario game law the
close season for deer is from November
rs. 1895, to November 1, 1896, and no
moose. elk, caribou or reindeer shall