Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-10-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Insurgents at La Gaspi, Philip
pine islands, have prevented the Amer
| lean steamer Hermanos from loading
or unloading, on the ground that
there are Spaniards on board. They
also refused to allow an officer of the
United States cruiser Raleigh to land
without permission from Gen. Agui-
naldo.
The American Lamp Chimney Co.,
composed of eastern and local capital
amounting to $75O,0OO, has been or
| ganized in Toledo, o., to start u lamp
| chimney factory. l.. d. Libbey is
president of the new organization.
| Others factories Will be put up as bus
mess progresses.
1smael Bey, the Turkish military
governor, on the 10th informed the ad-
Inirals of the foreign war ships that
the sultan had ordered the withdraw
al of all the Turkish troops in Crete,
in compliance with the joint note from
| Great Britain, Russia, Italy and
| France.
The Southern Pacific, together with
the other overland routes, have put
into effect reduced fares for the bene-
fit of soldiers travelling between San
Francisco and Chicago. They will be
| given a frst-class rate of $50 to the
Missouri river, and i sccond-class rate
of $25.
According to advices brought by the
| steamship Tacoma f1om China and Ja-
pan, the oriental press is still in an eX-
| %l,a @v-i1, ,rNi, ~
the dowager empress over the emperor
of China. The press is unable to
solve the riddle of the transfer ofpower.
The steamer Aztec arrived at San
Francisco, on the 18th, from Hong
Kong and Yokohama, via Honolulu.
| The steamer landed 1923 japanese Ia
| borers at Honolulu, and her purser
says that 200 more are en- route, and
will arrive there shortly.
| Doctors Lane and O'Rilly have made
a report to the surgeon-general insist
ing upon the immediate establishment
of an American fever hospital in Ha-
vana. The existing hospitals do not
isolate yellow fever patients.
The total registration in Greater
New York for the first two days was
| 0UO, OOS. TOT NIdHlidlICih anu lAAS
Bronx and Brooklyn the registration
was 1913 larger than on the first two
days of last year.
| Viola Grignon, wife of Ned Grignon,
a wealthy Iukoner, died in Seattle,
Wash, on the 10th. Mrs. Grignon was
the first white woman in the KlOn-
dixie.
The subsistence department of The
army has a statement refuting some
features of the testimony of Maj. Sea-
man, surgeon, before the war investi-
eating commission. Maj. Seaman said
ino one could get supplies for the sick
from the commissary of subsistence,
yet when he left Ponce the chief COM
missary there had at his disposal
S244 900, subject to requisition of sur
geons, for just such supplies as Sea-
man said he wanted.
Information has reached the war de-
partment that a high officer of the
Spanish army very recently made the
statement that had the Spaniards been
aware of the condition of the Ameri-
can army, it's inability to withstand
the hardships of the campaign, its
lack of medical and other supplies and
general inefficiency, as told in the
American press, the Spaniards would
never have surrendered.
In the United States circuit court of
appeals at Philadelphia, on the 18th,
Judge Shiras handed down an opinion
reversing the decision of the United
States circuit court in the customs
| duty case of the importing 1irm of
Never & Dickinson against the gov
eminent, the suit being commonly
known as the Hat trimming case"
The decision of Judge Shiras is against
| the government.
The duchess of Devonshire, wife of
the lord president of the council of
British ministers, while on board
French train bound for Calais lost a
satchel containing jewelry worth $780,
OGO. Her grace left the train at
Amiens and returned to Paris to re-
port her loss to the police. 1t is be-
lieved the satchel was stolen, but there
is no clue to the thief.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, republican
candidate for governor of New York,
started out on his campaign in the
state on the nth. In his party are
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, eN-minis-
ter to Spain, and six members of the
First United States volunteer cavalry,
of which organization the candidate
was the commander when the war
closed.
Jesse James, Jr., and all the parties
named in the confession" of W. w.
Lowe have been indicted by the Jack
SON county (Mo.) grand jury for the
robbery of the Missouri Pacific train
at Leeds on the night of September
p.
/ The thoroughbred stallion Meddler
was sold to W. C. Whitney, in New
York. ON the nth, for s4s, Oo0