Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-07-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


quarter 81 1899 have been 2,0SO in NUM-
Der. against 3,055 last year, with liza
bilities, of SIC, sos. 900, against $i6,G02,-
252 last year, and for the first half CT
1899 failures were 1852, against 6,756
last year. with liabilities of SIS, III, 200
against S71,246,7S3 last year.
The negotiations in London locking
TO the arrangement of Il mOdus vivpn-
III fixing the Alaskan boundary have
again nearly reached a crisis. The sew
eraI conferences that have taken place
recently between Lord Salisbury ana
Ambassador Choate have been signal
~ disappointing in results.
The American Edible Nut Co., to
control the peanut trade, is about to
be incorporated in New Jersey. The
capital stock will be S5,O00,10u The
charter OF the combination will permit
it to handle nuts other than peanIts
and the product of nuts grown III this
and other countries.
y disastrous wreck occurred. on the
evening of the 3Cth. near IEeckland,
Ind. on the Logansport division Of
the Nandalia line. Engineer William
Cruikshank. of LOgansport, was i'll
stantly killed and Fireman Charles
Holland, Of Terre Haute, seriously III
jured.
\ statement prepared in the oi!l"e nf
the adiutant general of the amy
shows that with the departure of the
PENNSYLVANIA from San Francisco
about $500 achievements were dis
patched to the Philippines during the
week ended the 1st.
The statue of Webster, presented to
the city of Washington by Stilson
Hutchings, and set up on the public
reservation between y street and Mas
sachusetts avenue. was temporarily
unveiled, on the 3Oth, by Mr.. Trenta-
move, the artist.
4 collision between the two armies
at San Fernando seems inevitable
soon. The FilipinOs are active I'll
around the town and can DE- seen
working in the trenches to strength
en- thei1 position.
Since the announcement that 10000
volunteers are to be mustered into tho
army for service in the Philippines, the
preside Mt has been deluged with appli-
ca ions FOR commissions.
d. c. McCool, capitalist, of St. Louis
Mo-. was seriously hurt, on the ;0th,
by being thrown 20 feet down in en-
bankment in runaway, at Ncwaygo,
Mich
The greater, American exposition at
Omaha, Neb., was opened on the 1st.
Gen. Horatio G.. Wright, who made
brillinat record in the late war, serv-
ing at Gettysburg and in the campaign
of the Wilderness and around Rich
mond, died in Washington, on the FL
after an illness of three months. Be-
sides his fine war record, Gen. Wright
achieved eminence as an engipee-,
serving chief of the United States
army engineer corps from 1879 until
his retirement in 1884.
Many persons were injured in a rail-
way accident at Winsford, England,
just before midnight on the 1st. A
freight train on a siding overshot the
buffers and left the rails. Another
freight train collided with the wreck
age, and caused partial fall of
railway bridge. Then crowded eN-
cursiOn train ran into the others. Up
wards of fifty cars were wrecked.
According to the latest reports from
the province of Cavite, P. l., the insur-
gent leaders there were quarreling,
Aguinaldo's cousin, Baldomero Agui-
naldo, had been killed or imprisoned
by Gen. Mariana Trias, commander of
the insurgents in the southern dis
trict of LuZon, and most of his men
had deserted to Trias, who was at San
Francisco de Malibon.
Henry Villas, only son of ex-United
States Senator w. F. Villas. of Wiscon-
sin, died, on the I'd, from diabetes.
He recently returned from California,
where he spent the winter with his
wife, formerly Miss Ford, of Pitts
burgh, Pa. He was 90 years old and
graduate of the Wisconsin state uni
yersity law school.
The Standard Oil Co., according to
a story printed in the Sioux City (Ia.)
Journal, has designs on street railway
lines of cities of the west. Among the
properties on which, it is said, it has
set it's eyes, are those in Sioux City,
Omaha, Kansas City, ST. Paul and Min
neapolis.
Three boys were drowned while
bathing in the Cedar river, at Water
loo, Ia, on the I'd, by the swift current
below the river dam. Roy Harbaugh |
ventured beyond his depth, and in a
vain effort to save him, Bert and John |
Hoover were also drowned.
During the week ended on the 1st |
more than a thousand tons of war ma |
terials and fodder was forwarded from |
the Woolwich (England) dock yard 10 |
South Africa.
Bishop John p. Newman, of the |
Methodist Episcopal church, whose res
idence is in San Francisco, is critic /
ally i'll at his cottage in Saratoga, n. Y.