Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-15

$ron Cni1utg gegister
By ELI d. AXE.
The city of Copenhagen was, on the
9TH, declared free port.
The abandonment of Fort Mckinney.
Wyo., has been ordered by Gen. Brooks,
commanding The department of the
Platte.
HERR KoCK. president of the German
reichsbank, will succeed DIR. Hermann
Won Schelling as Prussian minister of
justice.
Two W. C. T. q. WOMEN of Indian
apolis, Ind, were refused the right to
vote, on the 9th, and test case will
be begun.
On the eth Germany, through EN-
peror William, replying to President
Dole's official notification. acknowl-
edged the Republic of Hawaii.
The plant of the Edison Electric
Light Co., located at Hackensack, n.
j.. was totally destroyed by fire at
o'clock on the morning of the 9Th; loss,
about $4,000.
A YOKOHAMA dispatch of the sth
said that the japanese were laying
torpedoes at Port Arthur and in other
ways completing the trap which they
had been preparing for the Chinese.
THE latest returns, up to the Sth,
from all parts of the state of New
York, indicate that all of the consti-
tutional amendments voted upon in
that state, on the 9Th, were carried.
A RECENT cloud-burst near Valencia,
Venezuela, killed $50 persons and dam
aged the coffee and other crops to the
extent of $500, 200. Houses were lev
eled, bridges washed away and traffic
generally suspended.
Hon. JAMES S. DODGE, of Elkhart,
Ind, has been announced as a candi-
date for United States senator to sue
coed Senator Daniel w. Voorhees,, as
result of the political avalanche in the
Thirteenth Indiana district.
AMONG the demands upon which
Japan will insist as conditions of the
settlement of the war with China are
the payment of an indemnity of about
$40, OOO 900 and the cession to her by
China of the island of Formosa.
On the 9th Emperor William offered
Herr Won Hammerstein, director of the
province of Hanover, the new portfolio
of husbandry, which the latter ac-
copied. This appointment is regarded
as great concession to the agrarians.
On the 18th Chairman Babcock of the
Republican congressional committee
gave out statement, in which he
claimed the election of $50 repu blican
congressman, with several states to
hear from. and small ma ority in the
next senate.
MIKE KELLY, the baseball player,
died at the Emergency hospital in
Boston on the Sth. He arrived in BOs-
ton on the 9th, to join the London
Gaiety Girls theatrical company, and
was taken sick that morning with
pneumonia
THE house special committee, Rep
resentatives Bailey, of Texas; Lane,
of Illinois, and Broderick, of Kansas,
appointed to investigate the charge
of malfeasance in office against Judge
Kicks, of Cleveland, O., will meet in
that city, on the 18th, to begin their
work.
A PRIVATE dispatch received at the
New York cotton exchange. on the
9th, announced the failure of Busch &
Co., of Havre. The announcement
caused drop of four points in cotton.
Later it was said that the firm had
very little interest in cotton, being in
volved principally in coffee.
ACCORDING to a telegram from Pekin,
dated the 5th, China is disposed to con-
clude peace upon the basis of the &C
acknowledgement of Corea's independence
and the payment of an indemnity to
be fixed by the powers. The powers
who are willing to support this ar
rangement are requested to intervene.
THE Central Trust Co., recently OPP
Grating in Philadelphia, but now in
Washington, was, on the sth, declared
a fraudulent concern by the post office
department and denied the use of the
registered letter and money order sys-
TEN, on the ground that the concern is
Conducting scheme devised to de-
fraud the people out of money"
THE Texas cotton palace was formal
" opened at Waco, on the sth, with
great ceremony. Many distinguished
visitors were present from all parts of
the country, and the day was observed
as a general holiday. The palace,
which has front of 400 feet and a
depth of 300 feet, was erected by the
people of Waco at a cost of S250,00
A CHOLERA riot occurred in Huszth,
a village of Hungary, at the junction
of the Thesis with the Nagy-Ag, on the
eth, arising from the popular anger at
an edict declaring that all persons who
die of cholera must be buried in sep
arate cemetery. Gendarmes fired upon
the mob, killing one person and wound
ing many others. Sixty arrests were
made.
AN application was prepared in Chi
cago. on the Sth, and forwarded to Sec
rotary of State Henricksen, for a
charter for an organization to be