Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-07-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

United States Consul Smith. of Vic.
toria, b. c., is said to have forwarded
to the American government me-
mortal from K. f. l.. Brown. an Ameri-
can mining engineer, requesting the
government intervention to secure
Browns claim for damages arising out
of the well-knOwn Welfontaiae case,
in which Brown secure. Il Judgment
for S1.s12,OOO.
c. NJ. Foote, grand exalted lead;n.. !,
knight of the grand lodge Order of
Elks. died in Minneapolis, Mimi, on
the 10th, from heart failure, superin-
duced by a complication of diseases.
Mr.. FOote was one of the leading citi-
Zens of Minneapolis, and a few years
since was prominent candidate for
postmaster. He was so years old.
The Chicago Tribune's revised fig
ures, gathered from correspondents
throughout the country, show loss
of III lives resultant from the last
Fourth of July celebration. Some of
these died July +, others from IL
juries received then. Lockjaw caused
the death of SIS out of the 141.
Patrick Carney, Clarke county IS.
d. farmer, reports that Il strange in
sect is doing damage to wheat in his
locality. He had 10 acres entirely de-
stroyed, while a few other farmers
also suffered losses. The insect seems
to sap the life from the plant, causing
it to fall over and wilt.
| The next congress of the Whist
| league, it is expected, will be held at
Niagara Falls. the executive commit
teen having decided on that point if
proper accommodations can be Sc
cured there. The date is set for july
| 9 to IA. 1900.
Tin plate workers throughout the
country to the-number of nearly $4,000
| resumed work. on the 18th. after all
idleness of two weeks. The minimum
advance over last years scale is placed
at Is per cent, to prevail until July
| 30. 1900.
On June IA n great quantity of
gunpowder exploded in go-down of
the military division at Shinkei-Iei,
Japan. and over 300 houses surround
ing the place were destroyed and so
lives were lost.
Delegates and visitors to the Ep-
worth league convention at Indianapo-
lis will be entertained in families at
one dollar a day each. An attendance
of 10000 is expected.
Col. Charles II. Brown, assistant
chief of division of loans and currency
of the treasury department, died at
Pittsfield, Mass, on the 10th.
The steamer Laurada arrived at Sc
attic, Wash. on the 18th, from ST.
Michaels, with between 300 and 400
passengers. Among them were Is dis
charged soldiers from Rampant City.
No big amounts of gold dust were car
ried on the steamer. Some claim there
was a half million scattered among
the passengers, while others say most
of them were returning empty handed.
Mr.. Frank \. Nanderlip, assistant
secretary of the treasury, said, on the
18th: What appears to be a conserva-
tive estimate of the amout of gold
which will come out of the Klondike
this summer is $1S,OOO,OOO, large pro-
portion of which will go through the
government assay Office at Seattle"
1t is understood in Vienna that the
United States minister to Austria-Hun-
gary, Mr.. Addison c. Harris, and 9TH
ers connected with the Americon Legal
ton, as well as most of the United
States consuls in Austria-Hungary, are
going to Trieste to greet Admiral
Dewey.
The German ambassador. Baron Won
Helleben. on the 18th, presented to the
president. Herr Mumm Won SchwarZen-
stein. who had arrived from Germany,
and who is to act as ad interim ambas-
sador during the temporary absence
of the ambassador in Germany.
James MacGuire, cashier of the Ma |
tional States bank of Elizabeth, y. J., |
was, on the nth, appointed receiver |
for the MiddleseN County Bank of |
Perth Amboy, y. j., recently wrecked |
by it's cashier, George W. Valentine.
From John Sherman's closest friend |
and former law partner, Henry c. |
Hedges, is was learned, on the nth, |
that the venerable statesman is inn !
proving slowly from his recent illness,
and hopes to be about soon again.
The First and Third battalions of
the Nineteenth infantry left Camp
Meade. on the 18th, for the Philippines,
via San Francisco, over the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. There were five trains.
The city council of Columbus, o., on
the nth, by vote of Is to three, inn
peached and removed from Office Jo-
seph W. Dusenbury. director of public
safety.
The contributions, on the 18th, 10
the Dewey home fund, amounted to
STAG, making S14,4S0 in all.
Ex-Secretary Foster left Washing
ton, on the 18th, for his summer homo
OH Lake Ontario.
The war department has chartered
the steamer Siam to carry 800 cavalry
horses to Manila.