Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Sir Wilfred Laurier will.yisit Washing
ton with Sir Louis Davies to attend
the sealing conference.
REPLYING to the semi-official state
ment concerning the dangerous state
of affairs in west Africa, issued in
Paris, on the 26th, the British colonial
officials declare that there is no rea-
sonable fear of complications at Nikki,
provided the French government be-
HAYES reasonably.
II view of the outbreak of yellow
fever at Memphis, Tenn, and Birming
health, on the 25th, notified its execu-
tive officer at Vicks burg that no refu-
gees must be allowed to return from
the north before November ].
OVER $50, 900 of alleged fraudulent
warrants on the United States treas
ury, on the account of the Creek Indian
nation, in Indian territory, have been
discovered by the government authori-
ties.
A DISPATCH from Havana, received in
Madrid on the 25th, said there were
40, 900 soldiers on the sick list, and that
the financial condition on the island
was frightful, commerce being COM
pletely Earalyzed.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY, on the 25th,
positively decided to request the cour<
to defer the sale of the Union Paci tic
railroad at least until December Is, to
give congress one last chance to act in
the matter.
SILAs GRAY, who had served IA years
of life sentence for murder which
it develops was done by another, was
released from the penitentiary at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the Goth, and left for
his home in Indiana county.
On board the Vigilancia from Tam
pico, which arrived at New York on
the 26th, was Viscount Sante Thyrso,
late Portuguese minister to Mexico,
who has been promoted to minister to
the United States.
Mrs. BooTH-TUCKER,o of the Salvation
army, arrived at Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the Goth, from 1shpeming, Mich,
and was greeted by several hundred
officers and privates. At night, adj
dressing mass-meeting at the First
Baptist church, she tainted and had
to be carried from the platform. Her
physicians did not anticipate serious
THE supreme court of Iowa declares
that, while no law compels bicyclists
60 use lantern or bell at night, wheel
men without them are guilty of con-
tributcry negligence in case of acct
dent.
STATES ATTORNEY DENEEN, of Chi
cago, arranged, on the 27th. to place
the second Luetgert trial on the docket
for Monday November g. If more time
is desired by the defense they will have
to secure it by making formal request
for continuance.
E. A. HITCHCOCK, of st. Louis, United
States minister to st. Petersburg, took
passage ON the American liner St.
Paul, which sailed for Europe on the
27th. He was accompanied by his
wife and daughter.
YEARS of fraud, abuse of power and
loss of money to the city of Chicago in
its water department, have finally
been recognized by the mayor and al
dermen, and a water commission, COM
posed of Commissioner McGann, Super
| intendent of the Water Office Lang,
three aldermen and two real estate
men has been appointed. A thorough
revision of the present water rates is
contemplated.
THE works of the Verify Plow CO.,
at Brantford, Ont, were burned on
the Goth. Loss, ST5, 900; insurance, $50,
600.
THE London Times announces the
marriage at Kensington, on the Goth,
of ]. NJ. Jingale, of Glasgow, Scotland
to Annette, youngest daughter OF
Henry Quincy Grinten, of Louisville
KY.
THE German government has re
| solved to found an imperial bureau Il
collect statistics regarding all branche:
of the national production. The fig
ures and facts so gathered will be pub
lished regularly, SO as to enable thu
government officials to be posted as t.
the exact state of industry, export ant
import, as well as of agriculture.
A FORMAL denial was issued, on tn
2Tth, by the government OF Spain
the statement that the Spanish minis
ter at Washington, Senior Dupuy d
LONE, had presented to the govern
ment of the United States a note oil
the subject of filibustering expedition
which are alleged to have left Ameri
can ports for Cuba.
MAJ. ALFRED c. GIRARD, surgeon
stationed at Fort Duchesne, Utah, ha
been detailed to represent the Unite'
States army at the ninth meeting o
. the international congress of dermot
omy and hygiene.
THE duchess of Teck. cousin of Quee
Victoria and mother-in-law of the duk
, of York. died at White Lodge, Rich
mond, England, on the 27th, of cardia
failure, the result of a supplements
> operation for strangulated hernia, fC
which she underwent the primary OF
Grafton in July last. Flags on all pull
, lie buildings throughout the Unite
, Kingdom were displayed at half-mas
r THE Waoash building in St Lou
: formerly the Polytechnic institute
I was Quilted by fire, on the 9th. il
, | voIving q loss of nearly 100000. Man
r of the valuable records of the Wabas
: Railroad Co. were destroyed that 1t wi
A take years of labor to replace.
: THE election of delegates who are.
choose the deputies of the Baden die
of which body half the members haV
: to be reelected. resulted, on the 2Stl
I in the national liberals losing five seat
n including three representing Carlsruh
: which were won by social democrat
4 The national liberals thus lose the col
q troll of the house.
a TIE next move of the governmeI
= toward final settlement of the who
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