Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

| President Loubet, accompanied by
| Premier NJ. Dupuy and the chief OF th,'
| military household, Gen. McBaillcud,
drove to the Auteui races, on the 9Th.
| At Auteuil they were met by violent
| demonstration, evidently organized,
and directed against the presiden-.
| Such epithets as, Panama. "Abas
Lcubet,'" and "Viva farmee," were
| hurled at him, and he narrowly es-
| capped n blow on the head from :.
| bludgeon in the hands of Count Chris
tino.
Speaking of the purchase of the
| Caroline, Ladrone and Pelew islands
| from Spain by Germany, the Tagliscfe
| Rundschau, the leading organ of the
German expansion policy, says: Ger
| many obtains the remnants which
| America, in her superior manner, de
| spised. The value is small, and there
Is no need of joyous transports" 9th
| er German papers speak in like slight
| ing terms of the German governments
| late purchases.
The bonds issued by the city of To
| ledo, o., amounting to $150000, which
were sold to the Northern national
bank and refused on the grounds that
| the act of the legislature permitting
| the issue was illegal, were sold, on the
| 4th, to Spuitzer q Co., the city agree
ing to refund them at 31% per cent.
In view of the publication of infiam-
matory editorials in the press of Santi-
ago de Cuba, Gov.-Gen. Brooke issued
| an order, on the 4th, directing the APP
, Fofntment of a press censor for Santi-
| ago. The editors were indignant, but
the public generally were pleased.
The American liner Paris, still OF
| the rocks near the Manacles, was, or
the 18th, handed over to the under
writer's and salvagers, who will make
| other attempts, to float her. There had
| been no change in her position since
the last attempt TO tug her Off.
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, and
Comptroller of the Currency Dawes,
with their wives, left Chicago, on the
4th, for Seattle, Wash, where they will
embark on Admiral Dewey's former
dispatch boat. McCulogh, for visit 10
Alaskan points.
Several sewer pipe manufacturers OF
Steubenville, o., who returned from
trust unorganized. They said the pros
poets for it's formation were poor.
The queens birthday was officially
celebrated in London on the Sd. The
chief event was the trooping the coli
oTs on the Horse Guards parade.
The jury in the case of Baron and
Baroness De Bara, on trial in Chicago,
charged with using the mails to con-
duct fraudulent business, brought
in a verdict, on the 5th, finding both
CT the defendants guilty. The maxi
mum penalty is II years and six
months imprisonment and a fine of
ST., 900. \ motion for new trial was
made, and, pending the decision, sen.
fence was deferred.
Brighten. Wilson, corps of eng;-
neers, has just completed a thorough
inspection of the river and harbor for
tification works on the Pacific coast.
He says that he inspected every har-
Dor from the Mexican boundary, be-
ginning with San Diego and ending
with posts on Puget Sound. He was
very favorably impressed with the COLI
dition of the works he inspected.
The steamer Queen sailed from SaE
Francisco for Alaska on the 5th. She
carried a large number of passengers,
some of whom are destined for the
Cape Nome district, which some people
credit with being richer than the Klon-
dixie.
Isaac Reck and daughter, Mrs. Mary
j. Cope, while standing on the 2. I.
w. & c. crossing at Alliance, o., were
run down by a light engine and in
stantly killed, the remains being man
gled beyond recognition.
BY direction of the president, Brig
Gen. King, who has just arrived at San
Francisco from service in the Philip
pines, has been honorably discharged
from the volunteer army, to take eff
feet August ?.
Sherman NJ. Reese, assistant super
intendent of the Ducktown sulphur
| and copper works, was shot down from
ambush and killed by unknown par
ties. on the 5th, near Isabella, Polk
| county, Tenn.
A dispatch from Apia, Samoa, via
Auckland, n. L.. dated May 81, said:
Both native factions, the Malietoans
and the Mataafans, are disarming. MAJ
taafa has surrendered 1880 guns
Many burglaries have been commit
ted recently in hotels, stores and priv
ate house in Havana, and the police be-
lieve an organized band of American
crooks is at work.
Due d'Arcos, the new Spanish minis
ter, and his wife, called upon Mrs. Me
Kinley at the White House on the 5th.
On the 5th the British house of COM
mons voted Gen. Lord Kitchener
grant of 6 1885,.
Earthquake shocks were felt at
Colon, Colombia, on the 4th and 5th.