Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-25
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

They want independence, he says, and
will not lay down their arms until
they get it. This ought to be con-
elusive SO far as regards the Cuban
armies, for it is probable Gomez voices
the aspirations of his soldiers Per-
haps this purpose to reject Sagasta's
proposed autonomy may interfere with
the administrations plans, but it will
have to be taken into the account
nevertheless
Oh the 18th the United States SUI
preme court took a recess until the
goth.
ACCORDING to Secretary Wilson's an
nual report, the United States govern
ment soon will be in the business of
distributing poppy seeds to encourage
the production of opium in this coun-
try. Last year the imports of the drug
amounted to S3S, 900, 600.
The American colony in Paris has
lost its most famous character in DIR.
Thomas w. Evans, who died suddenly
at his residence there on the night of
the 14th. He never recovered from the
shock caused by the recent death of
his wife.
known abolitionist and advocate of
woman suffrage and temperance, died
at Saratoga, n. Y, on the 18th, aged 81.
A vIGoRoUs fight is being made to pre-
vent the Palisades of the Hudson from
being used by inscriptions quarrymen.
In the audit of accounts following
Gen. Weyler's departure from Cuba,
the thorough nature of his corrupt ad-
ministration has come to light, though
the authorities are strenuOusly trying
to keep defalcStion in various depart
ments secret
A MILWAUKEE dispatch says that
John b. Ketcham and Minnie VILLAGE
Walkup were married in that city by
Rev. Mr.. Roberts on September "a last.
Ketcham is the man who died sudden
ly in Chicago few days since, re-
puted grass widower.
ON the 10th Secretary Alger issued
an order for the retirement of Lieut.
Col. w. E. Waters, deputy surgeon
general, under the 80 years service act.
WARRANTS were issued for the ar
rest of officers of the defunct Peoples
savings bank of Lansing, Mich, on the
10th.
The storehouse of the c. A. Woolsey
paint and color works in Jersey City
collapsed on the 18th. Twenty-Five
people who had been employed in the
structure had sufficient warning by
the swaying and sagging of the walls
to enable them to escape, and no one
was hurt. The loss to the company
will be about $4,000.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg, on
the 10th, said: ''All day long a fierce
wind from the sea has driven the wa
tiers of the Neva up the stream and
flooded the canals, the suburban is
lands and outlying portions of the city.
Several bridges have been swept away,
and the flood continues to rise, threat
ening to assume grave proportions"
SENIOR RAMOS and a delegation of
Mexicans interested in the manufac-
ture of paper near the city of Mexico,
inspected the big paper mills at Glens
Falls, n. Y, on the 10Th, with a view
of introducing improved American ma
chinery in their own mills
THERE was considerable excitement
in the coffee market in Amsterdam,
on the 10th. Average spot Java de-
clined % cents, an unprecedented
fall. This is ascrib bed to large receipts
and heavy crops, especially in Brazil.
PRESIDENT FErTERLoF of Girard col
lege, Philadelphia, has issued an edict
against football, and hencetorth the
students of the institution must keep
off the gridiron. The ban on football
was the result of a boys leg being
broken in a practice game.
Miss JESSIE IRENE PEET, pretty and
with fortune of $3.50, 900, and Alfred
Herrimen, who was formerly the fam
lily coachman, but .latterly manager of
the estate of the brides father, now
deceased, were married at Millertown,
n. Y, on the 10th.
An immense deposit of strontaIn has
been discovered in Put-in-Bay island,
Lake Erie, and 60 tons were recently
shipped east. The stratum of stron-
tain is many acres in extent and of the
finest quality. tits largely used in the
manufacture of fireworks.
THE president has delegated Hon.
John W. Foster to act as a special
plenipotentiary of the United States
to conduct negotiations for the settle
ment of all questions pending between
this country and the Dominion govern
ment
On the 18th, VIII. Clemens and Riley
Wallace, while at work at the sheds of
the St. Louis Cotton Compress Co.,
which were wrecked by the tornado
last year, and are now being rebuilt.
fell, by the giving away of a rotten
timber, a distance of 80 feet, and both
were fatally injured.
JUDGE EMORY F. BEST, of Georgia, as
sistant commissioner of the general
land Office, has resigned, and, on the
18th, was appointed assistant attorney
geneal for the interior department
THE final act on the part of this gov
eminent in the ratification of the treaty
adopted by the recent Universal Postal
congress was taken, on the 10th, when
President Mckinley signed the formal
convention or treaty, and Secretary of
State Sherman had the government
seal affixed. The treaty takes effect
January l, 1899.
THE arrest of % Crotians in Bolivar
county, Miss, by an agent of the inn
migration bureau is only the beginning
of active enforcement of the alien con-
tract labor law against the imported
stave cutters and lumber workers in
southern camps.
GEN. BLANco has sent q report to
Madrid as 10 the condition of affairs in
Cuba, in which he indicates that de-
spite the utmost vigor, extensive opera
tions in the east, where the Cubans are
very strong, will be impossible for some
weeks.