Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-25
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The board of naaaI bureau chiefs, a
their meeting, or the 18th, decides
against the use of double turrets TO
the new battleships.
The German papers take cognizanc,
OF the Utilities extended to the OH
GERS of the training ship Moltke, a
New Orleans and comment appreci
atively.
Mr.. De Almond, of Missouri, intro
duced bill in the house, on the 18th
for the repeal of the bankruptcy Law
with reservation that proceeding:
now begun may be closed up.
Consul Skinner, at Marseilles, re
ports to the state department that the
olive crop in Italy. France and Spain
is practically failure, and will hardly
reach 80 per cent. of the average.
Rev DR.. Francis T. Clark, founder
and president of the Young Peoples
Society of Christian Endeavor, left
Boston, on the 10th, accompanied by
his wife, for his third missionary tour
of the world.
The agrarian members of the Ger
man reichstag have formally resolved
to press the meat inspection bill to a
second reading, Notwithstanding the
urgently-expressed wish of Count Won
Bueiow that the measure should be de-
ferred.
The transport Sheridan sailed from
Tacoma, Wash, for Manila, on the
18th, with an immense cargo of hay,
meats and army supplies. She also
carried heavy mails for the soldiers
and materials for building an addition
al ice plant at Manila.
The German bark Marie, from Aus
tralia, with Il cargo of flour for the
Ira nsvaal government, has been taken
as a prize by the British third-class
cruiser Pelorus, near the Island of In
yak. Delagoa bay, andh as been sent to
Durham with prize crew on board
The navy department, On the 18th,
formally initiated its policy of procur-
ing typewriting machines in large
numbers by advertising, instead of
making purchases in the open market
as heretofore. 1t is expected that a
saving of so per cent. will be effected.
The local army and health officers of
San Francisco are preparing to receive
800 bodies of deceased soldiers from
Manila, due to arrive there within the
next three or four weeks. The army
officials have also been notified that rs
sick soldiers and 135 prisoners will
arrive shortly.
The Spanish transatlantic steamer
Leo XIII. arrived at Barcelona, on the
10th, from the Philippines, with former
Spanish prisoners and their families.
4 majority of them were in a lamenta-
bic plight. The town authorities and
REQ Cross agents met them and gave
EceGcd assistance to the sufferers.
1t is stated that ''old man. Slower,
who recently died in California, made
a death-bed confession to the effect
that he killed Moses Lufkins, in Mime
sofa, some IL years ago, for which
crime William Rose, whose attentions
To Grace Lufkins had been forbidden
by he1 father, was hanged, protesting
his innocence.
The officers of the Grain Growers
Mutual Hail Insurance Co.. at Omaha
Neb., on the 18th, asked that j. j.
FTeringham, deputy state insurance
be appointed receiver of
the company, and the court made the
The company was or
gained only one year ago. and had !
been in trouble for some time.
In the breach of promise suit of Il. |
Kirk against Mrs. Mary Eggleston. at |
Larned, Kas., the jury returned a YER |
dict, on the 10Th, in favor of Kirk for |
81 $50. Kirk boarded with Mrs. Eggles- |
ton. and claimed that she borrowed |
money from him leadinghini to believe |
she loved and would marry him. At !
ter getting the money Mrs. EgglesIon |
refI sed to marry him.
The urgent deficiency appropriation |
bill. the first of the important bills for |
the government, reported to the |
house by Chairman Cannon of the |
ways and means committee, on the |
18th, carries $50, 127, SAL, of which S47,-
COZ, 1892 is re-appropriations for the mill |
itary and naval establishments, and |
direct appropriations
The bear-trap dam separating the !
drainage canal from the Des PLANES |
river. at Lockport, ILL.,, was lowered by |
the sanitary district trustees. with the |
consent OF the canal commissioners |
ana Gov. Tanner, on the 18th. at I'LL |
a. M. and 1000 cubic feet of water |
per minute rushed, with roar, into |
the Des PLANES river on its way to the |
Gulf of Mexico.
Chief Justice Fuller, in the United |
States district court, for the district of |
Massachusetts,, on the 18th, made per-
mauent the preliminary injunction,
granted some time ago, restricting
cigar or tobacco manufacturers from
selling or offering for sale any stogies
bearing the word: wheeling" except
such as are actually manufactured in
thu CITY of Wheeling W. Va