Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The officers of the British and Amer,
lean war ships who have been fra
ternizing during the recent trouble in
Samoa, have decided to erect joint
monument to the memory of the Eng.
disappearing men slain in the various
engagements. 1t is intended to erect
a granite monument with the names
of the British on one panel and the
Americans on the other, surmount-
ing the roll of the killed with the
British and American flags enter
twined.
The building at Cincinnati in which
the national saengerfest is to be held,
was formally dedicated on the 18th.
The exercises consisted of a musical
programme. with chorus and orchestra,
and four brief speeches. Over 5000
people paid % cents each to be adj
mitted to the building, and all, on the
same ticket, received admission to the
Geological garden.
\ dispatch from Rosario, Argentina,
says: THE British steamers Castilian
Prince. Capt. Coull, from London. and
Amphitrite. Capt. Maloney, from Sun
derland, for Buenos Ayres, have been
in collision. The Castilian Prince ar
rived here in a badly damaged condi-
ton. The damage to the Amphitritc
is unknown.
The Berlin KOlnische Zeitung an
nounces the complete failure" of the
disarmament committee of the peace
conference at The Hague. Several
provisions, it asserts, have been adopt
ed in the committee by equal vote; but
all of these. it predicts, will fail in the
plenary sittings.
On the arrival at Brest, France, of
the SfaN, which is carrying Capt. Drey-
fus home from French Guiana for a
new trial by court-martial, torpedo
boat destroyer will meet the cruiser
and transfer Dreyful to the shore.
Senator Ben. c. Harding, of Oregon,
died on the 18th. He was elected to
the United States senate in 1862 to fill
out the uneNpired term of Sena tor
Baker, deceased. Mr.. Harding was
born in Pennsylvania in 1882.
Johnson's island, Lake Erie, which
was famous as a prison for rebel sol
diers during the civil war, has been
sold at auction for 81, 1000. The island
lies III Sanduslly bay, a few miles from
the city of that name.
In a collision off Friedrichshaven,
between the German steamer Artushof
and tie British steamer Mauritus, on
the 18th, the Artushof was sunk, ten of
her crew being drowned.
III. G. Osborn. of the American Flee
t11c Vehicle Co., and c. f. Woods, man
ager of the Fischer Equipment Co.,
beth of Chicago, had themselves ar
rested, on the 10th, for using automo-
biles on the south side boulevards in
defiance of the recent order of tho
South Park board, and the matter will
be carried through the courts as teSI
case.
The Boston Fruit Co.'S steamer Ad-
miral Dewey, which arrived Il: Ecs;.n,
I'll the 10Th, brought among her ras-
sengers Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood. Ini!I-
tery governor at Santiago DE- Cuoa,
and Mrs. Wood and three children.
Gov. Wood reported everything quiet
in his province, with returning rrCs-
pcrity.
The Spanish chamber of deputies, on
the 10Th, approved the bill ceding the
Caroline islands, the I4adrones and the
Pelew islands to Germany. In the
course of the debate Senior Silvela de-
MED that any exceptional tariff had
been granted to Germany.
II is stated at the navy department
that every man attached to the Oly'n
pia, Boston, Baltimore, Concord. RAJ
eigh, Petrol and McCulloch during the
battle in Manila harbor. regardless of
rank or station, will receive a mccall
Oh honor.
Norman Williams, a prominent law
yer of Chicago, died at Hampton, y.
H, on the 10Th. Mrs. Merritt, wife &c
Gen. Wesley Merritt, is his daughter.
and she, with the general, was at the
bedside.
BY the explosion of lamp in the
house of Michael Jasi<a, in Allegheny
City, Pa, on the 10Th, six members of
the family were badly burned. An is
nonths-old babe will probably die.
W. F. Mendall, member of congress
from Wyoming, is spending a month
in Honolulu, studying the conditions
and political prospects of that new
candidate for statehood.
Capt. Joseph B. Coghlan, of the
United States cruiser Raleigh, arrived
IL Terre Haute, Ind, on the 10Th, ac-
companied by his wife, whose home
was formerly in that city.
The entry of DIR. w. S. Mcdowell.
the Chicago oarsman, FOR the diamond
SOULS, at the Henley (England) regas-
ia this year, was received too late 10
be accepted.
The farmers of Kansas have begun
cutting wheat. The quality is uni
fo~mly good and the yield exceeds ex-
pectation.