Iron County register., 1899-08-31

lroit County Register.
By ELI D. AXE.
MISSOURI
The Hawaiian government has given
consent to the Importation of nearly
10000 laborers from Japan during the
next quarter.
Owing to the prevalence Of the bH-
bonic plague in Oporto, Portugal, the
prefect of police of that city has issued
an order closing the public schools
The Spanish steamer Alfonso XIII,
which sailed from Havana, for Spain,
on the 22d, had on board 432 Span
iards, who are being repatriated at the
The International Fire Chiefs asso-
citation met in Syracuse, n. Y, in
twenty-seventh annual convention on
the 22d- There were present $50 chiefs,
representing cities in every part of the
country and Canada.
The Union Veterans un5on closed its
annual convention at Des Moines, Ia,
on the 25th. The final reports showed
the order prosperous financially and
Increasing rapidly in membership. The
next meeting will be held in Washing
ton in 1900
The date has finally been set for the
reburial of the bodies of the follow
ers of John Brown, who met death
with their intrepid leader at Harper's
Ferry, Va, in 1859. The ceremony Will
take place August 2S, at 2 p. m, at
North Elba, y. Y.
1t is reported in Havana that Gen.
Jiminez, the revolutionary aspirant to
the presidency of Santo Domingo, who
is now in Manzanillo, has hundreds OF
applications to join his forces. The
applicants include many Cuban Off
GERS who served under the late Gen.
Garcia.
The establishment of blockade OF
the ports of the Philippine islands,
and especially those of LCZon, is IL
subject which is receiving attention at
the war department, although Secre-
tary Root says he has notyet sufficient
information to warrant definite action
in the matter.
The National Union Veterans union.
in session at Des Moines, Ia, on the
oath. adopted resolutions denOuncing
Gov. Shaw for appointing j. Rush Lin
coin, an ex-confederate, as brigadier
general of Iowa troops when they were
called into service at the opening of
the war with Spain.
The Rio Janeiro Noticia, in an Off.
cial article, classes as baseless the
rumors of a projected alliance of South
American republics against their best
customer for coffee, the United States,
and bitterly censures its circulation,
which, it says, is having depressing
effect upon business.
The Florida end of the Miama-Ha-
vana cable was successfully landed at
Mama, Fla, on the 25th. The mer-
chants closed their stores, and hun
dreds of persons, with a brass band.
gathered at the terminal station to
witness the landing and accorded z
hearty welcome to the new enter
prise.
Reports from southern Russia say
that a current belief in the approach
ing end of the world is causing panic
among the uneducated classes. At
Kharkuv, the capital of the govern
ment of that name, workmen are leav-
ing in large numbers wishing to spend
what they consider their last days at
their village homes.
The Jamaican government has Of
fered a contingent of 500 native militia
for the support of the white troops or
dered from that island for service in
the Transvaal. Wonderful enthusiasm
has been manifested in regard to the
enlistment for service in South Africa.
When volunteers were called for, an
entire regiment at once responded
The United States transport Nc
Clelland sailed from Brooklyn. on the
Esd, for San Juan, with relief cargo
for suffering Porto Ricans. The cargo
consisted Cf $4,000 wOmen's vests, 4,S0C
calico wrappers, 4,200 mems under
shirts, 600 pairs of mems trousers, End
varied assortment of other clothing
food, medicines and building materi-
als.
Prof. Edward Charles Pickering, o1
the Harvard observatory, is in Kings
ton, Jamaica, seeking a suitable loca
ton for the largest telescope in the
world, which is being constructed al
Cambridge especially for observing the
new planet which is due to pass very
close to the earth IS months hence
He rs favorably impressed with ia
maiea;s advantages.
The state department has been in
Eormed through a diplomatic channe
that Gen. Otis has applied the Chinese
exclusion laws to the Philippines. The
information was a surprise to the au
fhorities, both state and military, a:
the matter had been under eOnsidera
ton for some time, and it was no