Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-05
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


police searched several houses and
found ammunition and medicines.
Many arrests have been made.
IT is stated that Gen. Maxine Gomez
the leader of the Gu ban insurgents, has
reaftirmed his determination not to &C
cept compromise with the Spanish
government, but to adhere to his de-
mand for the absolute independence of
Cuba.
The steamship City of Mexico left
Seattle, Wash, on the 25th, carrying
for Dyea over 4O6 passengers, 80 horses,
| about 1000 tons of freight and 25 dogs,
nearly all bound for the gold fields.
Iris stated that the Turkish military
committee will go at once to Thessaly
to meet the Greek officers and mark out
the new boundaries. 1t is expected
| by August L.
TIE whaleback steamer Everett, now
on its way from India, where she has
been with supplies for the famine suf-
ferers, will make regular trips from
San Francisco to points on the Yukon,
| in Alaska, on her return.
| MAJ. SAMUEL F. CANDY, of Vancou-
yer, Wash, committed suicide. on the
/
Mascot, which was about to sail for
Portland, Ore.
| Mr.. AND MRS GLADSTONE celebrated,
on the 25th, the fifty-eighth anniver-
sary of their wedding. Many visitors
| joined in the family rejoicing at Ha-
| warden, and scores of the townspeople
saluted the venerable couple while on
their way to church.
i ATr1n NJ ATyr-- Con ~ Ay
died, on the 26th, in Jersey City, n. j.,
| in her one hundred and first year.
| She was born in Prussia. She saw
Napoleon march into Prussia, and
| waved red handkerchief at the great
emperor.
FATHER Tom SHERMAN, son of Gen.
| VIM. Z. Sherman, has arrived in Seat
tie, WASH, from the east. He is bro
ken down in health and went to Seattle
for recuperation.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, $3.50, ga, S43;
gold reserve, SAB, 7a6.217.
The steamer City of Topeka arrived
at Seattle, Wash, from Alaska on the
26th. The Topeka brought no Klon-
dixie passengers nor glittering gold,
but reported that the miners were
focking toward Dyea by the score
from Juneau and Sitka, and that both
places threaten to be depopulated.
AT Watson, w. Va, locks have been
put on all the gates and deputies called
| for, which places every mine in the
county under the county's protection.
This is done by the operators SO the
county will be responsible if any of
their property is burned.
| Col j. FENToN SEYMOUR died in Dem
| YER, Col, on the 27th, of Bright's dis
ease He was born in New York state
in 1882, and went to Colorado in 1860.
In the early days Col Seymour oper-
| ated stage lines. Later he engaged in
mining.
THEODORE C. ScHINTz, Chicago law
yer and real estate dealer, who recently
failed to the extent, it is said, of nearly
a million, was arrested, on the 27th, on
q charge of alleged fraud in selling
trust deed for S., 600. He was released
on bail.
| OTTO WEBER, who was arrested
recently, charged with being an &C.
complete with John SchlegeI in the
sensational street murder of DIR. Lyman
A. Berger in Kansas City, Mo-, was
liberated, after his preliminary trial on
the eth.
| THE British government has pur-
chased from the Maryland Steel Co., of
Baltimore, $50, 900 tons of rails, that
company's bid being es,675 less than
the lowest British bid.
THE ST. James Gozette, commenting
upon Japan's protest in the Hawaiian
| GsAnonrd;nor RI
usage it amounts to a threat to resist
the transfer of the archipelago by
force, and is equivalent to warning the
United States that they must give up
their views as to Hawaii or prepare for
war"
On the 27th the president announced,
among others, the following recess ap-
pointments: T. v. Powderly, commits
siouer-general of immigration; Robert
j. - racewell, comptroller of the treas
ury, and Alexander l.. Morrison, col
lector of internal revenue for the dis
trict of New Mexico.
DISPATCH received by the state de-
partment from the United States con-
sui at Mozambique, on the 2sth, said
that the French steamer Alphee, which
cleared for Beira, May II. for Mozam-
| OIHuC, udA hOO ONCA ACuA0 AASAA oAN
that it was feared she had foundered at
sea- 1t is probable she had mails from
the United States on board.
The stock of the Glucose Sugar Re-
filming Co. has been placed in the list
of unlisted securities on the Chicago
stock exchange. The official announce
ment, issued on the 2Sth, stated That
the total issue is $40, 900, OOO of which
S26, 900, 900 are common and S14, 0OO, 90
preferred shares
Miss GRACE ALLEN, the Kansas school
teacher, on trial at Chandler, Okla,
was acquitted, on the 2sth, of the
charge of poisoning Miss Phronia
Eckes, her rival, and the latter's moth
err The verdict received the COM
mendation of the public.
BIDS were opened at the treasury de-
partment, on the 2sth. for the founda-
ton work of the Chicago pest office
building. There were % bids. of which
that of Macarthur Bros. Co., of Chicago,
for S2OS, 45S was accepted.
ADMIRAL WALKER, Capt. Carter and
Prof. Haupt, the new Nicaragua canal
commission, held a preliminary meet
ing in the engineers Office at the war
department on the 29th. Although
they have not received their Commits
sions, they discussed at some length
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