Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-07-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

been captured and executed by Lieut..
Gabbel.'
The British government announces
that it will contribute e45,0OO ($22@,-
D00) to the Antarctic expedition fund
\ private dispatch was received in
| Washington, on the 18th, from one Of
| the marine officers stationed at Ca
vite, stating that all were well there.
AS the mail had been interrupted,
| this dispatch was welcome to a num-
Der of those having relatives at Ca
vite.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury issued on the 9TH showed:
| Available cash balance, S277, 663, 1872;
| gold reserve, S243.232, 500.
! Mr.. Samuel Clemens Mark Twain)
and family left London for Sweden,
on the 18th, where Mr.. Clemens will
| take the Swedish cure.
| The members of the international
| peace conference went to Amsterdam.
/ On the 9th. and were received by Queen
| Wilhelmina, after which they were en-
| tertained at magnificent banquet in
! the palace, followed by a reception in
| the throne room.
| According to the deliberate verdict
| of the London Pathological society.
| DR.. Lambert Lack. the eminent throat
| specialist, is credited by his learned
| colleagues with having discovered the
germ at the root of the dread disease
| cancer
The war department. on the 9th, au-
thoTized the issuing of tents and "a
tiOns from the army post at San An
tonic for the relief of the sufferers by
the great flood in the Brazos valley.
That the Standard Oil CO., as an Ohio
corporation, will soon cease to exist. is
shown by the fact that the immense re-
finery plant at Cleveland. the second
largest in the world, strung along in
the valley of Kingsburg Run and on
Broadway has already been practically
abandoned.
Ambassador Choate and Lord Sails
bury are almost deadlocl1ed over the
modus vivendi fixing the Alaskan
boundary. Neither side will accept the
provisional line proposed by the other,
the Canadians demanding the inclu-
sion of the Porcupine country and the
Americans the projection of the boun-
Diary line northwest from a point two
miles above Kluckwan.
Immediate and full satisfaction has
been demanded by the United States
government of Guatemala for the ar
rest, Imprisonment and confiscation
of the property of J. b. Richards. an
American citizen, lately in Guatemala
This prompt and vigorous action Was
taken in the case, on the 9th, by tic
state department.
Upwards of 10000 accredited dele
gates and thousands of visitors were
present at Detroit Mich. when the
first business meeting of the Interna-
tional Christian Endeavor convention
was held on the 9th. President Clark
delivered his annual address and Sec
rotary Baer made an interesting re-
port.
The United States cruiser Newark left
Valparaiso, on the 18th, for the Philip,
pine islands. She will call at Callao,
Peru.
Capt. Dreyfus' physical condition
shows the ravages that his imprison-
ment brought about. He is suffering
from a severe attack of dysentery. The
military physician, DIR. Ferrand, says
his illness is the result of the long
stay in the deathly climate of DEVILS
island.
The Spanish commissioners return
ed to Manila from their conference
with Aguinaldo at Tarlac, on the 9th.
They brought with them the Spanish
garrison of Baler, which recently sur
rendered to the insurgents, after a
siege of more than year, and IA civil
prisoners
Commissary General c. A Woodruff,
United States army, has given orders
to the New York agents of the Chi
cago packers for $4,000 pounds of
canned roast beef. The order specifies
that the canned roast beef is for inn
mediate shipment to Cuba.
Almost every officer who served in
the volunteer army during the war
with Spain, and who had been honor:,-
bly, mustered out, has again offered
his services to meet the needs of tn =
Philippine campaign. Altogether no
less than 10000 applications for conf
missions~in the new volunteer army
now forming, have been received at the
war department and have been placed
on the files.
Perry Smith, of Manitowoc, Wis,
who has been totally blind for 80 years,
is slowly regaining his sight in his
right eye. Ten days ago he was at
tackled by severe pains In the eye. APP
plication of hot water relieved the pain
and the next day his sight began TO
return.
George W. Julian, one of the found
ers of the republican party, and man
who earned great prominence through
out the country during the days of
anti-slavery agitation, died at his
home in Irvington, suburb of In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 7th.
Gen. Jos. Wheeler will leave Wash
ington so as to sail from San Francisco
on the Tartar on July 80. He will not |
resign his seat in congress, it is I'M
derstood, even if he remains in the
Philippines all winter.
The trial at Cabunatuan, Island of |
Luzon, of the slayers of Gen. Luna
the Filipino leader who was assassinat-
ed by the guard AT Aguinaldo's resi-
denee-is ended. The accused were ac-
Quilted on the ground of self-defense,
it being shown that there was 4 con-
splracy 10 kill Aguinaldo.