Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-20
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY is preparing q

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY Is preparing .
special message to congress on the Gu
ban situation. It will contain some
startling disclosures as to the suffer
ings of American citizens on the island
under the concentration orders of Gen.
Weyler.
A PRELIMINARY contract for a loan of
e16, ZOO, 600 $50, OO0, OOO) has been signed
in Pekin in behalf of a British syndi-
cate.
An Athens dispatch of the 18th said
there had been a rising in central
Macedonia, and that 1900 insurgents
had captured the pass forming the prin-
cipal line of communication of the
Turkish army.
THE wheat crop of Oklahoma is larg-
er than ever before in the history of
the territory. The estimates of the
average yield run from % to 80 bushels
an acre, while some fields will produce
as high as 80 bushels.
JOHN ROSENBERG, a Russian sailor, in
prison at San Quentin, Cal, for horse
stealing, has made sworn confession
before a notary, and in the presence of
several witnesses, that he killed
Blanche Lamont in Emanuel church,
in San Francisco, at the instigation of
a stranger and in consideration of
the payment of 500 for his bloody
work.
The returns received by the immi-
grafton bureau during the last several
months show marked falling off in
the number of immigrant arrivals in
- no Of lie
during the nine months ended March
81, 1897, was 142, 941, as compared with
2O9, $50 for the same period in the fiscal
year 1896.
FAILURES throughout the United
States during the week ended the 14th,
as reported by r. q. Dun & Co., were
264, against 224 for the corresponding
keew last year. For Canada the failures
were 81, against SO last year.
THE proceedings brought by the
heirs of the late Jay Gould to have the
amount of the inheritance tax fixed
was argued before the appellate di-
vision of the New York supreme court
on the 14th.
JUDGE JOHN LOWELL. the distin-
guished jurist, died at his home in
Brookline, Mass, on the 14th. He had
been i'll for some time, and his death
had been expected for several days.
JAMES FRENCH, wife murderer. was
found guilty at Rockford, Ill, on the
18th, and the death penalty was i'm
posed.
STEPHEN r. MALLORY was elected
United States senator from Florida, on
the 18th, on the twenty-fifth ballot.
MAX MARETzEK, the well-known OPP
cratic manager, died at his home on
as.
the treasury, issued on the 14th,
showed: Available cash balance, $685.
17S, 729; gold reserve, S147, 56Sr512.
THE committee at San Francisco hav-
ing in charge the preliminaries for the
sixteenth international Christian En-
deavor convention, which will be held
in that city July to IL next inclusive,
is leaving no stone unturned to insure
its success.
THE courthouse at Lexington, Ky,
was burned on the 18th. Harris beau
tiful masterpiece, Woman Triumph
ant" in the rotunda, was destroyed in
an attempt to remove it. Several val
liable paintings were also burned.
A TERRIBLE railway disaster befell a
military train between Rockenhof and
Eliva, on the Valki-Jurjev line in Rus
STA, on the 14th. Sixteen cars Cwere
smashed. Two officers and nearly 100
soldiers were killed and 80 others were
seriously injured.
THE United States gunboat Nash
Vile covered the 6O-mile course on her
official trial trip in 8 hours. IS minutes
and 90 seconds, averaging 1871 knots,
and winning a bonus of about $50, 600
for her builders.
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD is critical
ly i'll at the home of her friend, Nine.
Demorest, in New York. Her malady
is said to be acute and persistent gas
trio trouble, combined with prostration
from overwork.
MAJ.-GEN. JAMES B. FORSYTH. COM
handing the department of California,
has been placed on the retired ilist on
his own application. lie was confirmed
in his present rank on the 18th.