Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-30

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fRONTON. MISSOURI.
THR Merchants national bank Of
Seattle. Wash, failed on the e1st
TIE revenue cutter Perry sailed from
Port Townsend, Wash, on the 2ed, foz
Behring sea-
Ok the I'D Gov. Hastings of Pennsyl
Sania approved the bill prohibiting the
selling OF pools and 1ansmisssng bet.
On racing tracks
IT Is learned that the Belgian gov
eminent has decided upon the indeft
mite postponemene of the project to an
cex the Congo territory, hence thu
resignation of Count Wester1oo.
The congressional, senatorial AMI
legislative superintendent bills were
defeated in the Pennsylvania house,
ON the 2ist, and the Judicial appor.
tionment bill was defeated in the sen
ate.
IT was stated in St Petersburg, OF
the 23d, that Russia will not consent
TO Japan's military occupation O
Corea, and that she will soon reques
Japan to recall her 2arrisoRs FROM tina
country.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND people made
the rush for the 437 claims in the Kick
apoo reservation, ON the 23d, only b
find that the '.sooners" had anticipated
them and secured all the really desirs
BILE claims.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai On tn.
oath. said great excitement had beer
caused by a report that the Russians
had occupied Kirin, Manchuria, thus
cutting of the retreat CT a large force
Of Japanese troops.
IT is stated that Mr.. Joseph Choate's
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OF the income tax law before thu
United States supreme court wa.
Ee00, 000 one-ha1f of which was paid as
aretainer. regardless of the result
A -CAHEGRAM received, on the 2ed
from Mr.. John w. Foster stated thai
he would leave Tien Tsin on that date
for Shanghai, to remain in that city
several weeks 1t is not expected thai
he will sail for the United States be
fore july 1.
Mrs. MARY BROWN. a monogamiar
pensioner, died, on the 10th, at hel
home miles from Knoxville, Tenn.
She was the widow of Joe Brown, q
soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was born in 1904. Her husband died
6fty-one years ago.
ADvIcEs from Madagascar say tina,
fever is making fearful ravages among
the French troops there, especially
among those who spent the rainy sea-
SON on the coast. OF one company OF
soldiers $50 strong, only forty nsen
were available for duty.
THE navy department has decided to
court-martial Lieut.. Edward j. Dorm,
ordnance officer, and Lieut. Wilson W.
Buchanan, of the cruiser Olympia,
for neglect of duty leading to the
death of a gunner ON board that YES.
sell while on the Pacific coast
A DISPATCH from Yokohama on the
22d, said that diplomatic relations be.
tween Japan and China had been re
sumed Mr.. Hayashi, japanese vice.
secretary of foreign affairs, has been
appointed minister 1T Pekin, and Mr..
Bokuyeiko has been appointed acting
premier of Corea.
ASSISTANT AroRxEY-GEkERA THoM.
AS, for the post office department, is.
sued fraud orders, On the cath, against
Charles Adams and Ella Moore, of
Mishawaka, Ind. for sending out illegal
patent medicine circulars. and against
the Central American Fur and Wool
Co, of indianapolis, Ind.
The president. on the 24th, ap.
pointed R. Dorsey Mohun, of the Dis
frict of Columbia, to be United States
consul at Zanzibar. Mr.. Mohun is the
present incumbent of the Office of COM
mercial agent at Bona Congo Free
State, which will cease to exist by act
Of congress On July 1 next
On the 21st Commissioner Miller sent
the following telegram to all collect
Ors of internal revenue throughout the
United States: dispense with serv'
ices of all persons employed under al.
1owance made for income tax work a,
close of business on the e5th inst, re
porting at once number discontinued
and salary and expense allowance o.
each"
In specs in one of the committed
rooms, on the 21st, NJ. Rouvier made
the startling statement that the ex
penditures of the French government
were increasing 1000, 000, 600 francs
every decade He said that such n
increase was beyond the country
means and declared that the country
was nearing disaster which only re
trenehment could avert.
DIRECTOR OF THE MINT PRESTON esti
mates the production of gold by the
mines Of the Uaited States approx.
mately, during 1924, to have beer
I.91o, SEQ fine ounces, of the coming
value of $50, $50. 600. an increase Over
1898 of 50, SOC. GOO, which is the larges'
amount produced in any year since
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