Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-11-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

George A. Steele & Co., of Portland,
Ore, have petitioned the United States
court to be declared bankrupts and to
be discharged from all Indebtedness.
The assets are given in the petition as
$150,000 and the liabilities $411,000.
MIR. Steele's failure is due to his eff
forts to support with his own fortune
the East Side electric railway, be-
tween Portland and Oregon City.
After the excursion to Jericho,
Djevad Pasha, former grand vizier, re-
Gently Turkish governor of Crete, and
now attached to the person of EN-
peror William as a special representa-
tive of the sultan, VIII leave the i'm
perial suite. 1t is remarked that this
is due to some unpleasantness.
During a severe storm Saturday
night a small area, about half mile
square, around Denmark Hill, Cam
berwell, London, was visited by cy-
clone. Cabs were overturned, win
dows, doors, lamp posts, trees and
chimneys were blown down and
number of houses unroofed.
A dispatch from Manzanillo says:
"Lieut. Young has formally claimed,
on behalf of the United States navy,
the wrecks of the Spanish gunboats
that went ashore or were sunk by the
United States gunboats in the memo
rable engagement of ManZanillo ON
July l."
A sensation was caused in Ponce, =.
r., on the goth, on the arrival of the
Red D steamer Philadelphia from the
Spanish main, by the discovery in the
handbags of two passengers of num-
Der of explosive cartridges containing
dynamite.
Emperor William has sent his por-
trait in brilliants TO Tewfik Pasha,
Turkish ambassador to Germany, who
who was among the high Ottoman dig
nitaries that received the emperor and
empress recently in Constantinople.
A great fire in Serina Cur, one of the
capitals of Cashmere, in the Vale of
Cashmere, on the 2Sth, destroyed all
public buildings and many residences.
One man was killed. The damage is
estimated at ten lakhs ($3oO,Ooo).
Fraulein Pocha, one of the two
nurses who attended the late Herr
Barisch, of Prof. Nethergale's patho-
logical laboratory, the first victim of
the outbreak of bubonic plague in vi
emma, died on the Goth.
The country around Mentone, France,
was visited by a terrific hailstorm, on
the 3Oth. The hailstones were of i'm
mense size, and the olive and lemon
crops were completely destroyed.
10 10
commissioners at Paris had referred
to this government a formal demand
of the American commissioners for the
absolute cession of the entire Philip
pine group, caused the greatest sur
prise in Madrid on the 31st. The
strongest feeling prevailed that the
government should protest energeti-
cally against what is regarded as a
violation of the spirit of the protocol.
The powderhouse of the New York
and New England Titanic Smokeless
Powder Co., at South Acton, Mass,
was demolished by an explosion on the
31st. There were 20 men employed in
the building, all of whom escaped,
with the exception of two, who were
slightly injured in the rush to get
out.
The whole Japanese cabinet has re-
signed, the ministry being unable to
agree upon the question of filling the
portfolio of education. Thus the
first attempt at party government in
Japan has proved failure. 1t is
probable the next cabinet will be a
coalition of liberals and clan leaders.
s.
cruiser Reina Mercedes, sunk Just in
side the mouth of Santiago harbor, is
about to begin. The task is compare
lively easy. Work on the Cristobal
Colon continues, but much difficulty
is found in using the pontoons on ac-
count of the heavy seas.
Word has reached the interior de-
partment of trouble threatened by, a
band of young Sioux, on the Pine
Ridge agency, in South Dakota, who
are reported to have started an or
ganized movement for the forcible re-
moval of Indian Agent Clapp from the
reservation.
Rear-Admiral Bunce's retirement on
December 25, will make Rear-Admiral
Dewey the senior officer of the navy.
and If congress revives the grade of
admiral, as desired by Secretary Long,
his appointment to that rank will fol-
low without any further jumping.
The Civil Service Reform league has
sent letter to the president, express
ing its hope that he will not, as re-
ported in the public press, withdraw
a number of places now filled by civil
service method from the scope of the
civil-service rules.
The Massiilon (O.) Stoneware Co.
has volunteered to increase the wages
of its employees, restoring the 12H
per cent. cut of last winter. The force
of employees win also be increased so
per cent.