Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-18
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cardinalate at the next conSistory.
\ very serious view is taken at Field
Marshal Count Won Waldersee's head
quarters, in Tien Tsin, of the revOlu-
tionary movement at Canton. a false
alarm, on the eth, caused the Chinese
officials there to protest against any
occupation of Chinese territory. The
Yang Use viceroys, the dispatch adds,
openly, affirm that they will oppose
any advance of the Germans into
Shang Tung province.
1t is understood that the final dis
position of the silver-some $275,00 0
in amount-tallen by the American
marines at the capture OF Tien TSin,
may be determined by congress. In
the meantime the silver is being treat
ed as a trust fund, of which the gov
eminent is the custodian, until a de-
termination is reached as to its right
full disposition.
Patrick Murphy, THE Father OF
Joplin Mo-, died at his home in hat
city on the 18th. He was born in Ire
land in 1S49. During the civil val he
was 4 government freighter, and,
later, became interested in Colorado
HllIIlHS- ut WIS JhS AISG SCILIC1 III
what is now Joplin.
Rear-AdmiraI Silas Casey, at pres
ent c~ommandant at League Island
navy yard, has been selected to suc-
ceed Rear-Admiral Albert Kautz as
commander of the Pacific station
upon the latter's retirement in the
near future.
William Zeigler, a well-known and
wealthy citizen of New York, has an
nounced hat he will purchase two
vessels, fully equip and man them, and
send them in quest of the north pole
during the summer of 1901.
Albert r. Green, of the general land
office, has been selected as chief of
the new division of forestry of the
interior department authorized by
the asst congress.
4 dispatch from Hong Kong, dated
the 18th, says: admiral Ho is pur-
suing the rebels in an easterly direc-
ton from San Chun."
The Modern Brotherhood of Ameri-
ca will hold its mex convention at
Sioux Falls, S. D., in 1901.
Failures for the week ended on the
18th, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co.,
were 233 in the United States, against
1854 last year, and 30 in Canada, against
% last year.
A Shanghai dispatch, dated the 18th,
says the Chinese Customs bank has
RENTED 100000 taels to the imperial
treasury, and is preparing to send
more.
William j. Bryan addressed an au-
dience at Ann Arbor, during his tour
of Michigan, on the 18th, and was
compelled to submit to considerable
jollying by the university students,
who were out in force, before being
permitted to GO on with his speech.
Two desperate convicts at the Ten
nessee p~enitentiary made a daring
and move escape from that institu-
ton, on the evening of the 18th, by
sliding down telephone wires from
the top of a three-stOry building to
a point outside of the walls by means
of improvised trolley cycles. They
were recaptured.
Reports from Georgetown, Ky, in
dictate that Henry Youtsey may never
again appear in court. His physicians
fear brain fever, which in the pa
tents present condition, they say,
would surely prove fatal.
The members of the Taft commits
sion are disguised with the corrupt
condition of the native courts of Ma
Mia, and intend to substitute honest
Americans from the United States
for the native magistrates. Americans
having a knowledge of Spanish are
preferred. but they are the hardest to
secure.
An official order has been issued by
Secretary of Var Bernardo Reyes of
Mexico eXpelling from the army Maj.
Carlos Glass, the grounds for the eX-
pulsion being that the officer made
public statements in the presence of
his superiors derogatory to the insti-
buttons of Mexico.
Eleven spectators connected with
the open board of trade, in Chicago,
were arrested, on the 18th, in a room
known as ''last call court the gen.
eral charge being gambling in grain.
The raid was made at the instigation
of several members of the regular
board of trade.
It was announced at Summit, N. J.,
on the night of the 18th, by the chief
of police that William Schneider, the
absconding clerk of the Elizabethport
Banking Co., whose populations reach
ed the sum of nearly S11O,0O had been
arrested at New Providence, N. j.
Judge George Gray,a former United
States senator from Delaware, and a
democrat, has been selected by Presi-
dent Mckinley to represent h Unit
ed States, with eN-President Harrison,
on The Hague permanent arbitration
tribunal.
It is announced that the Chicago &
Alton company will, within one year,
eXpend $500, 900 upon the reconstruc-
ton, enlargement and refitting of the
general machine shops in Blooming
ton, Ill. The work is to begin imme-
diately.
Eight hundred and fifty-seven min
ers, who hold in their hands the power
to end or to continue the anthracite
coal miners strike, at Scranton, Pa,
on the 18th, met in convention for the
purpose of considering the ten per
cent. net advance in wages offered by
the operators.
Among 113 new cases OF yellow fe-
yer reported at Havana, since October
1, are Maj. Peterson, chief commits
sary; Mr.. Frank Hayes, general man.
ager of the Havana branch of the
NORTH American Trust Co., and Miss
Natalie Brown, a ~stenographer en-
ployed by the Trust company.