Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-10-27
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Dan Connor, shift boss at the big
Standard mine at Wallace, Idaho, was
waited upon at night by four masked
| men, armed with reyolyers, who Or
dered him to leave the country within
"a hours. After some parleying he
threat that if he was not gone in that
time they would dispose of him and
his family.
The post office department has or
dered the establishment of military
post Office station at Cavite, near Ma
Mia. 1t will be known as Military Sta
ton No. 2 of the San Francisco post
Office, and will accommodate a large
number of troops stationed at the
arsenal and Whereabouts.
Gen. Ulysses Hereaux, president of
the Dominican republic, arrived at
Nassau, N. P, on the 23d, on the Do
minican war ship Restauracion, to con-
fer with Smith NJ. Weed and other
Americans who arrived there as a spe-
cial commission on the United States
cruiser Montgomery.
Great discomfort prevails among the
Spanish troops in Cuba because of
| non-payment, in some cases for six
months, in others for seven months,
and in still others for even eight
months, and the soldiers fear that they
will be embarked for Spain without re-
ceiving their pay.
dated the 23d, states: "a sheriff S
posse of 100 men are securing the
country near Forest, Miss, for a mob
of negroes who killed white officer.
Several negroes are reported killed,
and the pursuit continues"
The official report of the burials in
the city of Havana since the first of
the present year shows that there
have been 1921 interments. The ay-
erage death rate keeps on steadily at
Al per day.
Emperor William has designed a
marble fountain which he proposes to
erect in Constantinople as a gift to
commemorate his visit and that of
Empress Victoria to the sultan's capi-
tai.
About so Cuban patriotic clubs have
been organized in Havana under the
management, in a large majority of
cases, of physicians, lawyers and 9th
er professional men.
The emperor of China is believed to
be afflicted with an incurable kidney
disease, though it is probable that he
will linger for considerable time.
Baseball is a favorite game among
our troops in Manila
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steps to make San Juan, Porto Rico,
the first naval station of the United
States in West Indian waters. Con-
gress will be asked to appropriate
money enough to make it one of the
best equipped naval stations the
United States has.
From Gibara and Holguin, in Cuba,
come reports of a fearful epidemic of
smallpox. In many cases the dead lie
unburied over so hours, there being
no one to dig the graves. Many vic
Tins are buried in the yards of their
houses. The whole district is panic
stricken.
Cubans in Pinar del Rio are in great
restitution. For some time they have
had no meat. All their forces are dis
tributed in bands of 80 or 40 men,
who find it easier to provide them
selves with food in such numbers than
when in large companies.
Capt. Griscom, who recently re-
turned to Havana from Pinar del Rio,
has surveyed and recommended for
selection the site of a camp capable
OF accommodating 1000 men. 1t is
easy of approach by the high road, and
has a good water supply.
The members of the insular cabinet
OF Porto Rico, who have taken the oath
of allegiance to the United States with
BETTING solemnity, will issue mani
festo announcing their resolution to
avoid partisan politics and party strife.
Paris newspapers warmly praise the
exposition of the French side of the
Fashoda question presented by the
minister of foreign affairs, NJ. Del
casse, in the yellow book on the sub
ject issued on the 23d.
The National Council of Women be-
gan its executive meeting in Omaha,
Neb., on the oath, with a business ses-
sion, and formally opened later with
public meeting in the First Congre-
gational church.
The navy department received dis
patch from San Juan, on the oath, stat
ing that the evacuation of Porto Rico
had been completed by the sailing of
the last detachment of Spanish troops
on that day.
Maj.-Gen. Wesley Merritt, Q. s. A.,
was married privately in London, on
the oath, to Miss Laura Williams, of
Chicago, who recently arrived in that
city from New York.
A movement has been started to
send a Porto Rican commission to
Washington, in order to represent to
the authorities there the needs of the
people of the island.