Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-12-16

HARRY 81. ADAMS, ex-treasurer or
Kings county, n. Y.,died in Broozly n
on the 9th. An Indictment for misap-
preparation of funds was hanging over
Mr.. Adams head and his bondsmen are
being sued in civil action to recover
$50, 600.
JAMES HASTE, for many years
captain of the Thames Rowing club,
died in London, on the 9th.
Mr. JOHN LoUGHBoRoUGH PEARSON,
the distinguished architect and mem
Der of the Royal Academy, died in Lon
don on the 10th.
GEN. VoN BUELow, of the artillery
branch of the German army, died in
Berlin, on the 10th, of influenza.
The text of the definite treaty of
peace between Turkey and Greece,
which was published in London. on
the 18th, contains about 1000 words,
including two protocols, referring, re-
spectively, to the commercial conven-
ton and consular immunity. The
treaty amplifies the preliminary peace
terms, all of the points of which have
already been published.
A GREAT sensation was caused, on
the 10th, by the posting broadcast of
red placards, even in the inner town
and Hofburg, of Vienna, inscribed: No
Augsleich," abolish the Language
Ordinances" and German is the
National Language" The police tore
the piacards down.
The board of naval bureau chiefs, on
the 10th, recommended that the little
Pinta, which has done so much service
in Alaskan waters and is now at Mare
Island navy yard, be condemned and
sold, as the repairs urged as necessary
would cost more than the value of the
craft would warrant.
On the 9th Gov. McCord of Arizona
telegraphed the secretary of war, pro-
testing against the abandonment OF
Fort Whipple, suggested in the last re-
port of the war department.
UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR Col.
JOHN HAY and Mrs. Hay dined with
Queen Victoria at Windsor castle on
the evening, of the 10th. and spent the
night at the castle.
POLICE have expelled a number of
anarchists and have made many house
toulouse searches in Berlin, Frankfort,
Mayence and Munich.
The recognition of Cuban belliger-
ency has experienced a decline of in
terest since the presidents message.
There is growing in place of 1t feel
ing that a crisis of graver character IS
fast coming. 1t is felt by many mem
bers of congress that either Spain will
abandon the island or this country
will intervene by force before the win
ter is over.
Of
Ign, n. Y, within four days, recently,
gave birth to five boys, two of which
died, while the other three are living
and doing we'll, as is also the mother.
Mrs. Breslau is a small woman, IS years
old, her husband being two years her
junior.
A BOLD attempt to hold up Southern
Pacific train at STEMS Pass, y. NJ, re-
suited in battle between five outlaws
and two guards and a messenger in the
express car. The leader of the robbers,
who was identified as SANDY" or Vic.
Collins, was killed, and the other ban
dts fed.
IN compliance with a peremptory or
der of the secretrry of war the repri-
mand of Capt. Lowering was read be-
fore the assembled garrison of Fort
Sheridan, Chicago, on the 10th, instead
of being posted, as had been intended.
Capt. Lowering took care to be absent.
URANIUM has been discovered near
Black Hawk, Col. The mineral is
worth 81, 500 per ton, and the agents of
a French syndicate have announced
that they will buy all that can be pro-
duced, as it is much desired by the
French government.
JAMES WoOD, the Oldest inhabitant
of Portsmouth, n. H., celebrated, on
the 10th, the one hundred and first an
niversary of his birth. Wood has lived
there so long that the memory of the
next oldest inhabitant does not extend
back to the time when he was not
there.
Hon. CHARLES FLEsCHMANN died at
his home in Avondale, a Cincinnati
suburb, on the 10th, from paralysis.
The stroke, which was the second,
came the day before, and he never re-
gained consciousness.