Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-04-27
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| tween the United States and Germany
have been transferred to Berlin, where
Ambassador White is negotiating di-
rectIy with the Berlin foreign offico.
The Northern Ohio Steel Range Man
ufacturers' association decided, on the
goth, to advance the prices of finished
products 90 per cent. because of the in
! creased cost of raw materials.
Capt. Henry A. Bourne, president of
the Old Dominion Steamship Co., died
aged 70 years.
The army and navy league of Chi
caso will close it's affairs and disband
on May L.
The transport steamers Newport
and Warren sailed from San Francisco,
for Manila, via Honolulu, ON the Goth,
carrying reinforcementsf for both army
and navy.
The insurance compact in San Fran
cisco has announced big reduction in
insurance rates, ranging from Is to 25
per cent.
The Marquis of Salisbury, accom-
panied by the marchioness, arrived in
London, on the Goth, from the Riviera.
A terrible cyclone is reported to
have ravaged the coast of Queensland
during the month of March. The Off
cial report places the loss of life at
Ala, while 81 vessels, chiefly engaged
IN coral fishing, were wrecked and ST.
/ 600. 900 worth of other property de-
| stroyed.
| The officers of the Thirteenth Min
nesota volunteers having cabled Gov.
| Lind, from Manila, on the Goth, that
| the regiment must be ordered home
! and mustered out" Bucks Texas
rangers were at once offered to the
! president to replace the ''weak-kneed
| Minnesotans."
| The Kentucky vagrancy law, under
which many negroes have been put on
| the auction block and sold to the
/ highest bidder in various parts Of
! kentucky during the past two decades,
| has been declared unconstitutional by
| Circuit Judge Thomas j. Scott at
| Richmond.
Two well-known citizens of Decatur,
| H.. dropped dead on the Goth. The
| first was Patrick Welch, who died af-
| ter returning home from church serv-
| ices. He was rs year old. Lorenzo 2.
! BiXby died suddenly on his way home
| from business.
| Insurance adjusters for foreign COM
| panies are holding up payment of
| losses by a recent big fire at Little
Rock, Ark, on the ground that under
the antitrust law they are liable to
| criminal prosecution if they settle
the losses.
An American shell, fired last sum-
mer during the bombardment of Man
zanillo, Cuba, by the United States
warships, exploded while some work.
men were digging it out, killing three
persons and wounding many others.
The reception and banquet rendered
Gen. Powell Clayton, United States
ambassador to Mexico, by the Little
Rock (Ark.) board of trade. on the
goth, was the most elaborate function
ever attempted in Arkansas. 1t was
strictly a non-partisan affair.
Arthur Taylor and Baldwin S. Bre-
dell, engravers, who were arrested in
Philadelphia in connection with the
counterfeiting conspiracy unearthed
by the secret service department, We're
arraigned before United States Com
waived a hearing and were held in
$4,000 bail each for court.
The Mexican senate, on the Goth,
unanimously ratified the new eXtradi-
ton treaty with the United States.
At Phillips, Wis, on the 21st. Mich
acl Bartemus attempted to murder his
wife by shooting. He then turned the
weapon upon himself, inficting fatal
injuries. Mrs. Bartemus will recover.
Domestic trouble was the cause of the
tragedy.
The Third Nebraska will be mus
tered out May II.
In duel with pitchforks in an alley
in Chicago, on the 21st, Edward Ziek-
mond, white, stabbed Horace Scott,
colored, through the heart, and stood
over his PROSTATE form until he died.
Director of Posts Elliott, of Porto
Rico, has reported to the post office de-
partment that during last February
the total receipts of the island were
$5,772, and expenses $3.50.
1t is announced that Admiral Schley
will visit Omaha, Neb., about May l,
as the guest of ex-senator Henderson
The United States supreme court
will adjourn for the present term on
May %.
Over 100000 cigars were seized in
Chicago, on the 21st. made in an east |
ern factory, the packages containing
them bearing counterfeit revenue
stamps. The proprietors of the fac |
tory, in Lancaster county, Pa, are re-
ported to have been arrested. The OF |
ficials are on the track of 2,000, 900 of |
of the fraudulently labeled cigars.
The government is in possession of |
copies of messages, sent by prom |
inent persons. designed to foment dis |
content among the volunteers in the |
Philippines. The matter was dis |
cussed by the cabinet, on the 21st. |
and it is intimated that the laws COW
ering treason may be invoked.
An offer has been made to George
Fred Williams, of Dedham, Mass. of |
the democratic nomination for vice |
president. The offer comes from no |
less a person than William ]. Bryan.
Williams is considering it. That he
will accept is considered quite likely. |
II the face of the demands of some
of the western governors for the inn
mediate recall of the volunteers from
their states in the Philippines, the
president is receiving numerous let
tiers and kilograms from relatives and
friends of the soldiers declaring that |
the demands do not reflect their senti-
meDtS nor those of the men ar the