Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-24
By ELI d. AXE.

By ELI D. AXE.
The French cabinet resigned in a
body on the 18th.
The stock room of the Clipper Plov
Co. at Defiance, o.. was burned on the
10th. Loss, Sae, 900; small insurance
ARGUMENT on the constitutionality
of the income tax law was concluded
on the 10th. before Judge Hagner. O.
Washington, in equity court No. .
and the judge said he would render hi:
decision ON the 23d.
THE duke of Orleans, pretender t.
the throne of France, left Stowe house
London, on the 10th. 1t is believed
that the ro-alists of France are pre-
pairing to take some decisive action il
view of the crisis in France.
UNABLE to solve the problem pre-
sented by the resignation of Premier
Dupuy, NJ. Casimir-Perier. ON the 18th
resigned the Office of president of the
French republic. The announcement
caused CONSERVATION in Paris.
A GENERAL movement is on foot to
have all Central American countries
annul existing extradition treaties
with the United States; but nothing
will be done until the result of Cas-
tellano's mission to Washington is
learned.
THE directors of the Galveston cot
ton exchange recommend to the plant
ers of Texas and the ,cotton-grOwing
states a reduction of % per cent. in
acreage to be planted this year as the
only way of restoring prices to COM
pensating basis.
LEE MANTLE. of Butte, and T. FL.
Carter, of Helena, were, on the 10th,
elected United States senators by the
Montana legislature in joint assembly.
Both are republicans. Mantle was
chosen for the short term and Carter
for the long one
THE school board of Ann Arbor,
Mich, at a special session, on the 18th,
rescinded the rule under which Prin-
cipal Pettingill had expelled fifteen
students of the high school for be-
longing to secret societies, and the boys
We're immedia tely reinstated.
THE Fidelity Trust Co. of Louisville,
KY, was. on the 18th, appointed re-
ceiver of the W. c. Depauw company,
manufacturers OF window glass in Al
exandria and New Albany, Ind. The
plants are valued at 81 ,OO0, 900, three
times the Indebtedness of the COM
pany.
THE legislature of Michigan, in joint
session, on the 18th, reelected Hon.
James Mcmillan United States senator
for the long term by.a unanimous vote,
John Donovan, Of Ray, the lone demo-
crat, voting for him. Hon. Julius
Cesar Burrows was elected for the
short term.
Mr. FRANCOIS FELIX FAURE was, on
the 18th, chosen president of the French
republic by the national assembly, con-
-voked in Versailles for that purpose,
to succeed President Casimir-Perier. re-
signed. The proceedings were marked
by strong socialist and monarchist
demonstrations.
On the 18th the members of the Span
ish chamber of deputies from Porto
Rico asked that Porto Rico be not in
cluded in the mooa1s vivendi between
Spain and the United States. This re-
quest was made upon the ground that
Porto Rico sugar goes to Canada and
not the United States.
By the sudden flooding of the Dig
lake colliery at Hanley, England, on
the 14th, 100 of the 240 miners en-
ployed therein were cut off from es-
cape, and their fate could only be
known after the water was pumped
from the pit. II was feared that most
of the imprisoned men were drowned.
The house appropriations committee,
on the 18th, completed the sundry civil
appropriations bill TOR the coming ifs
cal year. AS reported the bill carries
an appropriation of s3s.54O,721, being
S.. s43.793 less than the estimates on
which it is based, and S4,2s6, ga above
the amount carried by the bill for the
year 1895.
SECRETARY CARLISLE submitted to
the house, on the 10th, a plan of reor-
ganization of the immigration bureau
as provided for by an act passed by
congress at its last session. Twenty
nine inspectors are provided for at an
salary OF S44, 500. For the
entire service the appropriation asked
is S3e4, 600.
The terrible explosion at Butte
Mont. greatly alarmed the people of
Swansea, a suburb of Tacoma, Wash,
where the powder magazine of the
company Of San Francisco is
located The company was notified,
on the 18th, that unless the magazine
was removed forthwith the people
would destroy It.
A JURY ia the United States district
court at Chicago, created sensation,
on the 10th, by defying the distinct
of Judge Seaman and refus-
ing to bring in a verdict in accordance
with the courts instructions. They
a afterwards, under duress and protest,
found as the court demanded, except
ing one man, who was ordered under
arrest for contempt.
ADvICEs from the orient received by
the steamer Empress of Japan, which
arrived at Vancouver, Z. c.. on the
18th, state that since the arrival of Lui
Kun Yieh. Ii Hung Chang's greatest
enemy, the situation at Pekin had
grown more complicated. A decree
had been issued condemning to death