Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-25

Srn,I Goautg gfgister
By ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
The Chinese indemnity to Japan is
to be paid In silver in FIVE yearly in.
Etallments.
ACTING SECRETARY HANLIS decided
on the 18th. that the sale of stamp al
buns containing fac-simile stamps is
illegal
TIE Paris Figaro of the 18th pub.
fishes q report that DIR. Nansen, the
Norwegian Arctic explorer. has found
the North pole, and that it is situated
ON chain of mountains
THE japanese legation at Washing.
ton was, on the 18th, officially notified
from the foreign Office at Toxic that
treaty of peace between China and ia
pan had been signed At Shimonoseki
on the 18th
THE eolored people of the District oi
Columbia celebrated the anniversary
of the abolition of involuntary serFl'
tude in the south on the 10th, by a
street parade and public exercises In
Washington
THE fifth international convention
of the Young women's Christian Asso-
cation of the United States and Brit
ish provinces, opened in Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 18th. about $50 delegates
being In attendance
The London Globe, on the 18th. as
serted that Great Britain would refuse
to accept the answer of the Niearaguan
government to the British ultimatum.
and would take immediate steps to
enforce her demands
THE assembly concurrent resolution
submitting to vote of the people
proposed constitutional amendment
providing for woman suffrage was
passed by the New York senate on the
Isth-yeas, 20, nays, l.
MINISTER YANG YU, the Chinese rep.
reseatative in the United States, re.
ceived official advices from Shimo-
noseki, Japan. on the 10th, informing
him that the protocols of peace be
tween China and Japan had been
signed.
INTERVIEWED in Chicago, on the 18th,
Vice-President Stevenson refused to
talk on political matters, and would
not define his position on the silver is
sue, or answer general questions with
regard to the white metal as a polit-
ical factor in 1896.
Mrs. MARY BROWN. a monogamian
pepsioner, died, on the 10th, at hel
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
ffty-one years ago.
DUKE ALBEIT, heir apparent to the
duchy of Wurtemburg, was seriously
injured, on the 10th, by falling head
foremost from his horse He is suffer
ing from conclusion of the BRAIN The
physicians, however, do not believe
that his life is in danger.
UNITED STATES secret service agents
arrested c. o. Jones. a newspaper art
list of Chicago, on the 18th, for com
plicity in counterfeiting two-cen'
stamps Another man was also taker
into custody at the same time. but his
identity was not revealed.
DISPATCHES from Havana to the
Spanish government. on the 10Th, stat
ed that the rebellion in Cuba was
spreading, but the insurgents are bad
~ armed and equipped If the upris
ing spreads further Gen Martinez
Campos will ask for reinforcements.
HAVANA hospitals are overcrowded
with wounded men who are arriving
from the interior at the rate of TWEEN.
ty-fve day. The dead are buried al
night to avoid comment On the 10th
there were about 500 in the hospitals
IS per cent of whom it was thought
would die.
IT was rumored in Findlay, O., on
the 18th, that G. C. Harris had sold
all his oil interests to the Stand.
ard Oil Co. for $500. 600. Harris refused
to deny or affirm the report He was
the heaviest producer in the Ohio
fields, and controlled a vast amount OF
good territory.
OJE HUNDRED employees of the Cleve
land CO., Ship Building Co. went on,
on strike on the 5th. The company
proposed to pay the old hands s.. 81
and new men So. IS per day. The strike
was for q $3.50 per day rate. The
strikers were employed in the boiler
making department
On the 10th Secretary Gresham
through Ambassador Bayard, informed
Great Britain that this country will
not permit, without protest, the bonn
bardment of Greytown, and that the
landing of English troops on Nicara
guam soil will be viewed as an act in
imical to American interests.
The treasury department has dis
continued the collection of statistics re
garding the production of tin and ternt
plates. The importations of foreign
tin plate will be collated only in sta
tistics regarding imports, as under the
new tariff it is not deemed necessary
TO collect further information.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on tn,