Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-09-28

Iron County Register.
BY ELI D AXE.
[RoNTON. +: MISSOURI
The Massachusetts, democratic state
convention, on the 21st, nominated
Robert Treat Paine for governor, to-
gether with full state ticket and
delegates to the national convention of
1900. The Chicago platform was reaf-
6rmed.
Gen. Maxine Gomez has gone to Be-
jugal, Cuba, where the remains of his
SON are buried, so that he may visit the
grave daily. He will also superintend
the construction of the vault which
is to be the final resting place of thu
remains.
Corporation Counsel Whalen, JUS
tice Charles III. Truax, President Silas
b. butcher and Engineer Peter A. Nos
trand were the witnesses put ON the
stsDd, on the 21st, at the Mazet COM
mittee's investigation of the affairs of
the Ramapo Water Co. of New York.
The Chicago & Alton Railroad Co.
filed with the recorder of deeds of
Sangamon county, illinois, on the Goth,
a mortgage for $55, 00O, 00c to the Hi
nois Trust and Savings Bank of Chica-
go, on all their lines of railroad, sta
tons, terminal holdings, equipment,
etc.
The strike in Havana has assumed
serious proportions. 1t is now esti-
mated that there are i2,0RO striking
masons, painters, carpenters, cartmen
and laundry workers, and if, as is
threatened, the hacknen, stevedores
and cigar makers go out, they will add
another 1900.
Adjt.-Gen- Corbin says that the war
department will be able to trace all the
official mail that was dispatched to the
Philippines ON the wrecked Morgan
City, but there may be some difficulty
in finding out what was sent in the
way of private letters to soldiers in
the Philippines.
A dispatch from Rennes, France, on
the 10th, said that Capt. Dreyfus had
been pardoned by President Loubet
and was believed 90 have already lefc
the city The report of The pardon,
though bitterly denounced by the anti
Dreyfusard press, created no excite
ment in Paris.
Before 1000 people in Light Guard
armory, Detroit, on the 21st, Maj.-Gen.
J. R. Ellicott, of Chicago, conferred
the grand decoration of chivalry, the
highest step in Odd Fellowship, upon
nine candidates. Two cantons of
Patriarchs Militant assisted in the i'm
pressive ceremony.
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson, of
Kansas, attempted to make speech
before an audience of grand army
men at Wichita, Kas., on the 22d. He
began by extolling Aguinaldo and be-
lifting Otis. He was promptly Kissed
off the stage by his auditors who told
him to take his peroration to Agui-
naldo.
The war department, on the 21st, is
sued a general order in relation to
examination of officers of the volunteer
army, an important provision of which
is that vacancies of second ieutenants
are to be filed by promotion from the |
ranks of the regiments in which they
occur.
message from the Uintah Indian |
agent received in Washington, on the |
10Th, said that couriers sent out from !
the agency reported that none of the |
Uintah Indians had left their resera-
ton. He therefore expressed the opin- |
ion that if there are any Indians hunt |
ing in Colorado they must be from an |
other tribe.
The military authorities at San |
Francisco are taking every precau-
ton to prevent an outbreak of small
pox among the men of the Thirty-first |
infantry, one of IT'S members having |
been strickenf with Il suspicious sick |
ness. On the 10Th the entire regiment |
was transferred to the quarantine sta |
ton on Angel island.
Secretary Root received a telegram
from Cen Otis, On the 10th, that |
seemed to indicate IL weakening on the
part of the insurgents in LuZon. 1t |
contained a proposition 10 deliver the
American prisoners who have been fog
so many months in the hands of the
insurgents and also sought permission
to parley with Gen. Otis.
The estate of the late Emmons
Blaine, who died in Chicago in 1892,
was closed in the probate court OF
Cook county, on the 21st, and final set
Elements made. The estate amounted
to SS0,000,and WAS i'm stocks and bonds,
principally. One-third of the estate
went to the widow, Mrs. Anita McCor-
mick Blaine, and two-thir6s to her son.