Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-07-27
TOPICS OF TIE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| the military DIVISION aU onlilhel-1 Il,
Japan, and over 300 houses surround
ing the place were destroyed and so
On the 18th the city council of CO.
| 1umbus, o., by vote of Is to 3, i'm
! peacEed and removed from Office Jo-
| seph W. Dusenbury, director of public
safety.
Lord Curzon, yiceroy of India, Will
start on tour of central India, on Oc-
| tOber 20, accompanied by Lady Curzon.
On the nth James NacGuire, cash
Ter of the National State bank of Eliza
beth, y. j., was appointed receiver for
the Middlesex County Bank of Perth
Amboy, y. j., recently wrecked by its
cashier, George w. Valentine.
The war department has chartered
the steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry
| horses to Manila.
On the nth eX-Secretary Foster left
Washington for his summer home on
Lake Ontario.
On the 18th the first and third bat
talions of the Ninteenth infantry left
Camp Meade, for the Philippines, via
San Francisco, over the Pennsylvania
| railroad. There were five trains.
On the 18th the contributions to the
Dewey home fund, amounted to SAC,
making S14,4sO in all.
All Colombia celebrated the eighty
ninth anniversary of that country's in
dependence on the Goth. The public
offices in Colon were closed, and all
business was suspended in homer of
the occasion.
The British consul, Mr.. Churchill,
was the first caller on Admiral Dewey
at Trieste, Austria, and was saluted
in the most cordial manner.
Secretary Alger, on the Goth, Gp
proved plans for building for the re-
frigerator plant at Manila. The build
ing Will cost S23O,OOO. and the plant
and machinery 100000.
An order has been issued in Manila
regulating practice before the courts
and substituting the American for
the Spanish system in important re-
spects.
Archbishop John Ireland, of Min
nesota, sailed from Queenstown for
the United States on board the steamer
Britannia on the Goth.
The number OF enlistments, on the
Goth, was AL, making a total to that
date of 3.129.
Enlistments for the ten new vol
Unteer regiments for service in tie
Philippines are going on at a rate very
gratifying to government officials.
Rear-Admiral Pallizer. lately in com
mand of the British North Pacific
squadron, stationed at Esquimault mas
been placed on the retired list.
Active preparations are making in
Washington to give Admiral Dewey Il
welcome entirely unprecedented in the
case OF any American hero.
An explosion on board the British
torpedo-boat destroyer Bullfinch, On
the Solent, during her trial. on the
2lst, killed nine and injured four of
those on board. 1t was the worst ac-
cident of this nature that has occurred
in the British navy in many years.
The victims were terribly injured by
steam and boiling water.
4 number of conventions in the in
terest of good roads and public i'm
provements are to be held in Illinois
during September. Each is to be dis
trict convention, embracing several
counties, and it is expected thousands
viii attend. President W. H. Moore
of the State and Interstate Good
Roads and Public Improvement asso-
citation is arranging with railroads
for special rates.
Capt. Bvrne, with 30 men of the
Sixteenth Infantry. was surprised at
Belong, island of Panay, on the 10Th,
by $50 Panayans, who were, in turn,
surprised by the loss of lis killed and
many wounded. Capt. Byrne lost one
man killed and one wounded. The
fighting was at close quarters.
Judge Morrill,. at Salt Lake, Utah,
imposed a fine of 500 upon Angus NJ.
Cannon, the defendant having, by his
attorneys, pleaded guilty to the charge
Of unlawful cohabitation. Mr.. Cannon
was not present in court, but was rep
resented by his attorney.
The president, on the goth, accepted |
the resignation of Secretary Alger, |
to take effect August 1. 1t was under |
stood. however, that Secretary Alger |
would, in reality, turn over the office |
to Assistant Secretary Meikeljohn,
pending the naming of his successor, |
before the date named.
After a term of rest and nearly COM
plete idleness extending over a period |
Of several years, the volcano of Moku-
weOweo, Hawaii, has again broken
out, and gives promise of one of the
greatest demonstrations ever fur
nished by the volcanoes of the islands.
Elihu Root, of New York, is men
toned as the probable successor of
Secretary Alger.
The grand jury of New York city,
on the Goth, returned an indictment
against Roland B. Molineux for muir
der in the first degree in having
the death of Mrs Kate J.
Adams by means of poison sent
the mail.
Rapid progress is being made in the
of the new volunteer
Almost all of the commits
stoned force of 600 officers have been
appointed, all the new regiments are
partly organized and there were nearly
a sufficient number of men enlisted,
up to the Goth, for three full regi-
ments.
The fourth biennial international
of the Epworth league met
at indianapolis, Ind. on the Goth. with
a large attendance. The delegates were
cordially welcomed at the opening
by representatives of the city
and state and of the Methodist Epis-
copal church.
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, lawyer,
doubter and the most brilliant word