Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


At the reunion of the Rough Riders,
at Las Vegas, \. NJ. on the 25th, Col.
Roosevelt was taken by surprise and
presented with medal, the gift of the
rough westerners who idoliZe him as
their gallant leader in war. The col
onel was visibly affected, and his re-
Spouse was more eloquent of feeling
than of words.
The bubonic plague has come half
way across the Pacific ocean. The
Nippen Maru, arriving at Honolulu,
on the 18th, was put in quarantine by
the board of health, on the report CT
psychologists that a death which had
occurred three days before the vessel
arrived there, was due to the bubonic
scourge.
Joshua Gray, an inventor, died at
Medford, Mass, on the 25th, aged IS
years. He invented system of quick
steaming boiler tubes; rubber tipped
lead pencil; breechloading seven-shot
repeating rife; a sewing machine shut
tie, railroad signal and an automobile,
all of which are in practical use.
Up to the 25th So cases of yellow fe-
yer, with five deaths, had been Off
cially reported since the beginning of
the present outbreak in Santiago de
Cuba. One of the deaths occurred in
the Fifth infantry. The other four
cases were among civilians.
Germany has officially Endorsed the
international commercial congress
project to be held under the auspices
of the Philadelphia Commercial mu-
seums. and will have an official dele
gate present at the opening of the con-
gress on October 10.
Frank Lewis, Chicago civil engi-
necr, says the Chinese government con-
templates the destruction of the an
cient Chinese wall that separates China
proper from Chinese Tartary. He is
en- route to assist in tearing down the
famous structure.
Richard O'Neill, manager of the
North Side Carette Co., of Chicago,
made the announcement, on the 25th,
that he carettes would be replaced by
automobiles about September l. The
company has purchased 80 automo-
biles in Paris.
The first trial trip of the new Amer
ica's cup defender Columbia, which
took place in Narragansett bay, on the
25th. was more successful than either
her builders of her owners had reason
to hope.
1t is now said that Admiral Dewey
will visit Boston and be entertained
there before going to New York.
Commander Ballington Booth, of the
Volunteers of America, in an address
at Lincoln, Neb., on the Goth, declared
himself in favor of expansion and the
policy of the government. He said the
war with Spain was righteous, and the
people of the territory acquired by
the United States would in time APP
preciate the change. The Bible should
accompany the torch of liberty.
The secretary of the interior, on the
Goth, promulgated rules in relation 10
the selection of reservoir sites by cat
tie grazerS in the western states to go
into immediate effect. All applications
for such sites now on file, will, ac-
cording to the ruling, have to be with
drawn and made to conform to the
requirements of the new regulations.
A violent demonstration against the
budgetary proposals of the Spanish
government took place in Saragossa
on the Goth. The mob pillaged the
building of the Saragossa council gem
eral and stoned the gendarmes on
guard, several of whom were severely
injured. Troops dispersed the mob
and martial law was proclaimed.
The privincial council of Callao has
presented a petition asking the Pc
ruvian government to reconsider IT'S
recent decree relating TO non-Catholic
considering it to be con-
trary to the law, to the ideals of mod
ern society and highly prejudicial to !
the foreign colonies.
Gen. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, |
governor general of the Soudan, has |
received $500 from the earl of Min
to, governor general of Canada, on be-
half of the people of Canada, for the
fund of the Gordon me-
mortal college at Khartoum.
The second trial of Capt. Alfred |
Dreyfus by court-martial on the
charge of communicating documents !
with the national defense
to the agents of foreign power, will
take place in the army service build
ing at Rennes, France.
After conference, among the own
ers of the new cup defender Columbia,
Col. Oliver Iselin, the managing owner,
notified the Herreshoff company, on
the Goth, that the yacht would be ac-
copied without a further builders
trial.
Mrs. E. d. E. n. Southworth, the
novelist, is quite i'll at
her residence in West Washington,
D. C. Her weakness is due mainly to
Inc infirmities of age, she being in her
eightieth year.