Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-28
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Germany. in report to the state de-
partment urges Americans to make
| every effort possible to secure a good
exhibit at the Paris exposition in
/ 1900. He says that Americans who
have been to Leipsic and Brussels have
eEurned disappointed at the poor
showing made by the United States
THE Terre HauteQ nd.) Electric Street
Car Co. went into the hands of a re-
ceiver, on the 18th, as a result of a levy
made by the city treasurer for delin-
quent taxes, amounting to SO, 900. The
company also owes $4,000 for street
improvements. and has a heavy bonded
| Indebtedness Russell B. Harrison is
president of the company.
ONE-THIRD of the So OOO, 900 loan put
on the London market by the Dominion
government will be taken up by Ca
madam banks and capitalists.
CoUSCILoR AKIYAMs, who attempted
to commit suicide by carving himself
with yataghan shortly after his re-
turn to Japan from Honolulu, was re-
ported, at last accounts, to be in a fair
way to recovery.
CHARGES of inefficiency in the man.
| agement of the Kansas City post office
have been fled at Washington against
Postmaster Homer Reed and Assistant
Postmaster C. NJ. Seidlitz.
]. B. THUNNIsoN and wife, of Mitch
ell, S. D., were found unconscious in
their home, on the 10th. overcome by
the fumes of gas from hard coal stove.
THE japanese government has decid-
ed to apply the gold standard to the
1E
OF the s135. 900 in bullion withdrawn
from the bank of England, on the 10Th,
SIS, 600 was in American eagles.
A LARGE barn belonging to Robert
Berg, near Hanley Falls, Mimi, was
destroyed by fire recently. While
workmen were engaged in clearing
away the debris. on the 10th, the re-
mains of four human beings were
found, but so badly burned that they
fell to pieces as soon as disturbed.
They are supposed to have been
tramps.
GEN. WEYLER has ordered the release
from the Isle of Pines, the Spanish
penal settlement off the coast of Cuba,
of IL prisoners, who were, it was al
legged, connected in the uprising which
resulted in the imprisonment of Seno-
rita Evangelina Cossio Y CisnerOs, who
recently escaped.
1T is stated by an authority on the
subject that several of the leading man
ufacturers of bicycles will reduce the
price of their 1898 wheel to $50. This
will bring them down to a basis legiti-
mate profit
FERDINAND CARIERE, of RimoDs ke,
4G1
made desperate attempt to shoot Sir
Wilfred Laurier, the Can adian premier,
at Ottawa, Ont, on the 10th. He was
disarmed and arrested.
RICHARD NJ. SCRUGGs, the st. Louis
merchant who was charged with at
tempting to sInuggle certain articles of
jewelry into the United States on his
return from trip to Europe, has been
exonerated by the federal authorities.
SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama, who
has just returned from his trip to Aa-
wall, declares that while he has IA
vored annexation from the beginning
of the movement he was surprised,
upon investigation, to find that the
arguments in its favor had been under
estimated.
The stockholders of the Denver Con-
solidated Gas Co., on the Goth, ratified
the action of the board of directors &C
cepting the city's proposition to lease
the plant at six per cent. on an ap-
praised valuation for eight years.
AN official dispatch received from
Gen. Galleni, the French commander
in-chief in Madagascar, says that a
band of Sakalavas had attacked q
oil ioh flxy0 Tn h
lished in western Madagascar, killing
many of the garrison, including three
officers.
New YORK bankers are considera bly,
exercised over the mass of fraudulent
drafts received from various parts of
the west, drawn on New York banking
and business houses A regular band
of swindlers appears to be operating
through the western states.
GEORGE d. MEIKELJOHN, assistant
secretary of war, and his party arrived
in St. Paul. on the Goth, from Omaha,
and spent the day at Fort Smelling.
They left for the Yellowstone, thence
to Fort Vancouver.
IN connection with the increased
strength of the British army the de-
lenses of the colonies of Great Britain
are receiving unusual attention
PERMANENT state organization of the
Union Veterans union was effected at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the goth, with the
election of full set of officers
TIE statement of the condition of the
treasury, issued on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, .S210, SOS, $40,
gold reserve, S151, 5s4, 2l2.
OWING to the prevalence of yellow
fever in Montgomery, and the fact that
all OF the towns and cities of Alabama
have quarantined against that city, the
state government has temporarily been
removed to Birmingham.
The will of the late George II. Pull
man, after making suitable provision
for his wife. divides his immense for
tune equally between his twin sons
and two daughters The sons portions,
however, are to be held in trust, for
reasons that were best known to their
father.
FIRE, on the 20th, destroyed the bust
ness portion of Osceola, Ark. q river
town about fifty miles north of Mem
phis. 1T is believed the loss will reach
500, 900.
A MANILA dispatch says that = cyclone
and tidal wave devastated portion of
the island of Leyte, one of the Philip
pine group. Several towns and villages
were destroyed and fully 400 natives
persisted.
THERE were 90 new cases of yellow
fever reported in New Orleans on the
20th-a record breaker-and six deaths
Among the latter was Ira T. Britton.