Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-19
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Prescott, Ariz., was visited by a de-
s~tructive conflagration, on the after
noon of the 18th, which was only
brought under control at 3 a. M, OF
the 18th, by blowing up buildings IN
the track of the fire. The principal
business portion of the town was de-
stroyed, the loss being c~onservatively
estimated at from 81, 900, 900 to 81, $780,
900. At daylight, on the morning of
the 18th, wagons were unloading lum-
Der at the plaza, from which tenn
porary structures were erected, and
many business houses and banks re-
sumed business the X day. The peo-
pie of the town declared themselves
able to take care of the hundreds of
homeless citizens, declining offers of
outside aid.
The dreadful truth is known at last.
Reliable information was received from
China, on the 18th, that in the early
morning of the 18th, after a defense
that would have excited the admira-
ton and protection of savages, the de-
voted guard and foreign residents at
the legations in Pekin, beset by untold
numbers, their buildings battered down
about their ears, their ammunition ex-
hausted and themselves almost starved
were overcome by the relentless ne
my, and to a soul put to the sword.
Fire, on the 18th, destroyed all the
fruit stores and leading business
houses of Newcastle, Cal. The total
loss exceeded one hundred thousand
dollars. Over ten thousand boxes of
fruit were burned. The Southern Pa
cifc Railway Co. was the heaviest
loser. Their loss on fruit in cars and
rolling stock is estimated at $4,000.
C. V. EskE5ge, editor of the En-
poria, (Kas.) Republican and former
lieutenant governor of Kansas, died at
his home in Emporia, on the 18th, from
the effects of self-inf1icted wounds.
Before he died Mr.. Eskridge, who had
been i'll for several months, said he
knew he could not live and that he
was tired of life.
kilograms from many points in
northern Texas, on the 18th, indicated
that that entire section had been del
uged with plentiful rains, which were
still falling. High winds had done
damage TO buildings and other prop
erty at some points.
A Rock Island passenger train, on
the 18th, pushed a freight train off the
track at st. Joseph, Mo-, and through
a building 10 feet square, owned by the
ST. Joseph Pillow Co., completely de-
stroYing the structure.
A severe storm of wind and rain
passed over the city of Chicago, on
the 10th, doing considerable damage
by blowing down signs and trees in
the western and southwestern parts OF
the city. At Forty-seventh street and
Ashland avenue one man was killed
and two girls were injured by a piece
of wooden sidewalk, which was carried
fully a hundred feet by the wind.
a letter from Atrato, Colombia, says
Bocas del Toro had been visited by a
terrible gale, which destroyed many
buildings and banana plantations. I'm
mediately after the gale a fearful fire
swept the town, destroying its finest
buildings. The people are demoralized
over the dual catastrophe. The fire
originated through carelessness in the
Chinese quarter.
Northern Kansas, from the Missouri
river half way across the state, was
drenched with heavy rains, on the
night of the 18th, and farther west and
southwest to the Colorado line good
showers fell on the 10th. This down
fall, which ended I drought of from
four TO five weeks duration, came none
too oon to save the corn crop.
\ serious split is reported in the Co
lombian government. Certain minis
ters have taken a position antagonistic
to their colleagues. The former have
the confidence of the public and sol
diery, and should the split become
more acute the rebels, it is said, will
be largely reinforced by government
troops.
The quartcrmaster general, on the
10th, increased the feet of transports
to be used in the transportation of
about four thousand horses and mules
to the Philippines and China, by the
charter Of the transports Phryra and
AtheDian.
Mrs. Mary Lawton, widow of the
late Gen. Lawton, on the 10th, pur-
chased 500 worth of books to be sent
to Mrs. Liscum, at Manila, when she
heard Of Col. Liscum's death in China,
at which she was greatly shocked.
Twenty-one championship athletic
contests in connection with the Paris
deposition had been decided, up to the
10th, in which Americans won 16 first,
I13 second and IL third prizes.
The steamer LangtOn Grange cleared
from New Orleans, on the 10th, for
lCape Town, Africa, with $50 horses
for the British army.
Manuel Alvarez Calderon has been
appointed Peruvian minister to the
United States.