Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-04

Sruu Gnnutg gegister
By ELI ID. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
A DIsPArcH from ST. Petersburg. on
the oath, announced that China had re-
fused to ratify the Russian loan
CH1NA's non-acceptance of the Rus
sian loan proposals involves the with
drawal of her recent concessions to
Russia in connection with the Siberian
railway.
1t is the intention of the German
emperor. in the spring, to send a
squadron to visit the ports of the ma
tons which were represented in the
naval display at Kiel
COMMENCEMENT exercises took place
ut Chillocco Indian schools, in the
Cherokee strip. on the 26th, eight
graduates, representing six different
Indian tribes, acquitting themselves
with credit.
THE United States consul at Foo
Chow. China, reports the appearance
of the Hong-Kong plague at that place.
He says it is already established as an
epidemic, but that SO far it is confined
TO the city proper.
THE gold reserve reached s1o7,4 49,
e55 on the Goth. The stipulated gold
payments into the treasury by the
Belmont-Morgan syndicate under the
agreement of February last have
been fully carried out
A DISPATCH from Shanghai. on the
Goth, said the high officials in that city
are confidently expecting that war
will ensue between Russia and Japan
over the administration of affairs in
Corea within three months
Santa Fe. N. NJ, the Peralta claim for
IL, O0O, 900 acres in Arizona was, on the
25th, pronounced fraud and rejected.
James A. Peralta-Reavis, the claim
ant. was Immediately placed under ar
rest.
THE figures of the passport bureau OF
the state department show that more
people will leave the United States for
Europe this summer than ever before,
except during the Paris exposition OF
1889 and the exceptionally prosperous
year of 1891.
THE diplomas for the foreign com
missions at the Chicago Worlds fair
have been prepared at last, and the dis.
tribution will begin in few days from
the state department, through Assist
ant Secretary Rockhill. There are fifty.
eight of them.
MRS. MARY BROWN. a monogamian
pensioner, died, on the 10th, at her
home miles from Knoxville, Tenn.
She was the widow of Joe Brown, a
soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was born in 1904. Her husband died
fifty-one years ago.
NJ. HANAroUx, French minister of
foreign affairs, has furnished to United
States Ambassador Eustis a copy of
the minutes of the court-martial which
tried and condemned John L. Waller,
ex-United States consul at Tamatave,
TO twenty years imprisonment
JUDGE BRowN, of the United State.
circuit court in New York. on the oath
denied the application for a writ of re
moval in the case of Charles A. Dana
indicted by the grand jury of the Dis
trict of Columbia for an alleged Grim
inal libel against F. B. Noyes, of the
Washington Star.
JUDGE BIDDLE, in the quarter-ses
sion court in Philadelphia. on the
25th, sentenced Col. William NJ. Run
kle, who pleaded guilty to assaulting
Col. A. Louden Snowden, ex-ministel
to Greece and Roumania, and also ex
minister to Spain. to three months inn
prisonment in the county prison.
A CoURT-MARTIAL sitting at Prem
ysl, Austrian Galacia, convicted TWEEN
ty-six hussars for the murder Of
a quartermaster and three non-com
missioned officers. Ten of the convict
ed men were selected by lot, sentenced
to death and shot on the oath. The
other sixteen were sentenced to life
imprisonment.
THE current number of the Railway
Age contains statistics showing thai
the total miles of track laid in thu
United States from January to July
/, 1895, were GAL miles on 65 lines
against 525 miles on 81 lines for tn,
same period OF 1894. In % of the Al
states and territories no track has thu
far been laid this year.
HARRY T. HAYWARD, of Minneapolis
Mimi, the condemned murderer o
Catherine Cling. has formally applied
to the New York Life and Travellers
Accident Insurance Co. for the SIC. 00'
insurance carried by his victim Ac
ton will be taken by the executors o
the estate of the murdered woman t.
have the assignment of the policies t.
Hayward set aside.
THE government of Venezuela hav
ing requested the government of tn,
United States to endeavor to effect
renewal of diplomatic relations be
tween Caracas and Paris, the Ameri
can government consented to act il
the capacity of mediator. The Frencl
government has. however, intimate,
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