Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-10-06
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/ Savannah, the southern coast and
the Sea Islands were visited, on the
I'd, by violent West Indian cyclone,
which wrecked shipping at sea and
property on land, and doubtless car
ried death and manning to many
homes. Growing crops were de-
stroyed and the losses will aggregate
heavy amount.
Personal Investigations made in the
provinces, emphasize the determina-
ton of the Philippine insurgents to
obtain a specific guarantee of favora-
BILE terms before releasing the prison
ers now in their hands, and it is GER
tain that they will never cheaply re-
linquish their dearly-bought con-
quests.
Herman Doerring has been arrest
ed in Kansas City, Mo-, on information
from Sheriff Reese, of Utica, n. W.
that Doerring is wanted there on a
charge of grand larceny and for other
crimes. Doerring is a German news
paper man.
a duel between NJ. Charles Ernest
Paulmier and NJ. Turot, of the Paris
Lanterne, was fought, on the 2d,
rapiers being the weapons used. NJ.
Turot was thrice wounded in the thigh
and side, and NJ. Paulmier was slight
ly wounded on the lip.
Maj-Gen. Merritt, who, with his
staff, left Manila on August 30, en-
route for Paris, where he will take
part in the peace conference, arrived
in Marseilles, on the list, and proceed
ed to the French capital.
The interior department authori-
ties fear the situation in the White
Earth Indian reservation in Mime
sofa may be serious, Notwithstanding
official reports to them state that no
trouble is apprehended.
Sealing in Behring sea, owing to
past wholesale slaughter, has already
become so Improbable that the seal
ers would gladly sell their ships and
quit the business if they could see
their way out of it.
A convention of postmasters of the
first class will be held atDetroit Mich,
next week. Postmasters desiring
leave to attend it can secure it by APP
plying to Assistant Postmaster Heath
by wire or letter.
A sanitary board, with an American
at it's head, has been established in
Manila. A corps of physicians are
experimenting sanitary work in all
the districts of the city and vicinity.
The transportation of horses to
Manila has practically been aba1-
doned.
dispatch from Madrid says: "The
reported intention of the United States
TO retain the whole of the Philippine
islands has created almost a state of
stupefaction here, and it is semi-offi-
cially announced that the Spanish
government has resolved to vigorously
combat any such action, which, it is
claimed, the terms of the peace proto-
col preclude"
In London, on the Sd, Nancy Gail
ford, the midwife of Bridgeport, Conn,
or the woman suspected of being DR..
Guilford, was remanded at the Bow
Street police court for "A week after
evidence had been presented proving,
her identity with the woman who
landed at Liverpool the previous week
from the steamer Vancouver.
The president has appointed DR..
David J. Hill, of Rochester, n. Y, first
assistant secretary of state, to succeed
John Bassett Moore, resigned. DIR.
Hill is president of the Rochester UNI
versity, is scholarly gentlemen, and
is particularly known through his
knowledge of international law.
AS result of representations made
by the neutrality-suspicious. steamship
line, the German foreign office intends
to invite the governments of the mari
time nations to come to an agreement
to legally compel steamers to follow
the transatlantic routes in order to
avoid collisions.
Judging from returns on the pro-
hibition vote in Canada, barely one
forth of those entitled to vote gave ex-
preston to their opinions at the polls.
As consequence, it is learned that
the government will ignore the whole
proceedings.
The Mexican colors are flying from
the principal hotels of ST. Louis, and
are displayed on many of the business
houses, in honor of n large delegation
of Mexican business men who are WIS.,
iting that city on business and pleas-
ure bent.
The tax levied on Col. Theodore
Roosevelt's personal property at No.
GA Madison avenue, New York CITY,
was paid at the tax commissioners of
fee on the Sd. The amount was 81 .OO5.
At Hutchinson, Kas., on the Sd,
Judge Simpson sentenced Lawyer E.
J. Clark to five years hard labor in
the penitentiary for completely in the
murder of W. C. Boyd, a month ago.
To number of interested callers at
the White House, on the Sd, President
Mckinley took occasion to rciterate
his determination to have no more
troops mustered out for the present.