Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-04

THE funeral of the duchess or Teck
cousin of Queen Victoria, will take
place on the Sd.
THE daughter of Count Badeni, the
Austrian premier, was married in
Vienna, on the 2Sth, to Count Adam
FraSineski.
Dr.. OTTo NoDENsKIJOLD, the we'll
known Antarctic explorer, will superin-
tend an expedition. to be fitted out at
the joint expense of Norway and
Sweden, to ascertain whether any trace
of Prof. Andree's balloon can be found
near Prince Charles promontory.
A DISPATCH from Tangier, says: THE
sultan of Morocco has won a victory
over the Benanier tribe at Tabla- The
tribesmen fed to the mountains
Many prisoners were taken, and %
heads were spiked on the walls of Mar
kesh.
The days statement of the condition
of the treasury, issued on the 2Sth,
showed: Available cash balance, S211,-
7O5, 1897; gold reserve, S152, SIS, 100.
THE comptroller of the currency, on
the 2sth, authorized the First national
bank of Shawnee, l. T., to begin BUSH
ness. Capital. $50, 600.
ALLthe meetings of cotton operatives,
| throughout the north of England, on
| the 2Sh, instructed their delegates
| to inform the operators that their men
| would not consent to the proposed re-
duction in their wages. AS so per
cent. of the employers have combined
with the object of enforcing reduc-
| ton, the situation is most critical.
| About $50 600 operatives are affected.
THE White Star liner Britannia, from
| New York, arrived off the harbor of
| Queenstown at IL .. m of the goth. A
| tender went out, but was unable to get
| alongside owing to the high seas pre-
vailing. The Britannia proceeded for
| Liverpool, after a half hours delay,
without landing the Irish passengers
and mail.
The New York World opened fund,
on the 29th, for the erection of a memo
rial to Henry George. Jos. Pulitzer
subscribed 1000: Mayor Strong of
New York, city $50; Mayor P. j. Glea-
son of Long Island City, $50, and
| Charles S. SteckIer, leader of the Man
haitian democracy, S25.
| FRED Rico MORA and Ricardo de
Requesens, found guilty at New Or
leans of making false notes of the bank
of Costa Rica and the cure cy of the
Republic of Colombia, were, on the
10Th, sentenced to two years impris-
onment at Sing Sing, n. Y, and to
pay fine of 81, 900.
FAILURES throughout the United
States during the week ended the 29th,
asreported by r. G. Dun & Co., were
219, against 27O for the corresponding
! week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 25 against 40 last year.
Miss REBECCA WIswELL, who, it is
thought, was the oldest army nurse in
the country, died at her home in Ply
! mouth, Mass, on the Goth, of heart
disease. Miss Wiswell was born in
] Provincetown in 1906.
An imperial order issued from Con-
stantinople, on the goth, authorized the
Ottoman consuls in Greece to resume
their duties.
WALTER r. HoUGHTON, a mail clerk.
aged 25, was arrested at Cheyenne,
Wyo., on the goth, and confessed to
stealing the registered package con-
tanning $4,000 which had been sent,
September %, by the Bank of the Re-
public, Chicago, to the State nationat
bank at Butte, Mont.
UNDER a decision of the Kansas SUI
preme court inmates of the two sol
diers' homes located in that state are
practically disfranchised. The state
constitution disables inmates of any
asylum maintained at public expense
from acquiring a residence for voting
purposes
| CAPT.-GEN. WEYLER embarked on the
steamer Montserrat, at Havana, on the
Goth, but under instructions from Mad
rid the vessel was ordered not to sail
until after the arrival of Marshal
Blanco, the new encouragement OF
Cuba.
! GEN. JAMES LoNGsTREEr, of Georgia,
was appointed commissioner of rail
roads. by the president, on the goth, tc
succeed Gen. Wade Hampton, resigned
A MADRID dispatch says that the pay
of the army in Cuba is 500, 600, 900 pese
tas, or about 500, 900, 600, in arrears.