Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Sanitary conditions in Pekin are
said to be becoming serious. Since the
foreign occupation many Chinese have
died of smallpox and other infectious
diseases. Fearing that their funerals
would be interfered with, they have
kept most of the collins containing
their dead in the houses and court
yards. These, together with an ac-
emulation of garbage constitute an
imminent menace to the city's health.
Contracts for over two hundred
thousand tons of steel and iron were
taken during the week ended on the
nth, by Pittsburgh (Pa.) manufactur
ing concerns. They are for every kiEd
of finished material, and make the
best weeks business hat the iron end
steel firms have done since early in
the year.
a passenger train on the Wheeling
& Lake Erie railroad ran into an open
switch at GAINESVILLE, o., on the 18th,
badly wrecking the engine. The engi-
neer, John Somers, of GAINESVILLE,
jumped, but fell under the wheels and
was killed. -Four trainmen were hurt
by jumping.
Miss Edith Booth, % years old, all
actress, formerly attached to Marc
Burroughs company, died in a New
York city hospital, on the 18th, from
the effects of injuries received by be-
ing thrown from a carriage one week
earlier.
The tests of the lew 12-inch naval
gun just made have resulted in some
remarkable performances, emitting
the gun to rank ahead of any of the
12-inch guns thus far made in this
country Or abroad.
Martin L.. Irons, once leader of
union labor organizations and who
directed the great Missouri Pacific
strike in the eighties, died, on the
18th, at B~ruceville, 20 miles south of
Waco, Tex.
Railroad tickets sold this year on ac-
count of Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Years holidays will have longer
limits han nave heretofore been al
lowed III this class of transportation.
Fire broke out in the Valley hotel
at Phillippi, W. Va, on the nth, and
destroyed a large proportion of the
business area of the city. The loss
approximates 100000.
A French syndicate, with a capital
OF 100000 roubles, will supply the
capital for a Russian railway from
Avichala to Sakabo, in the Causasus.
Dr.. Leyds and Boer Delegates VOL
marans, Fischer and Vessels. reached
Paris on the 18th.
A party of IS Turks, wishing to
leave Russia secretly, sailed at dead
of night from Tschuruksu to o the
Black sea. A storm arose and the
boat filed. First baggage was thrown
overheard. Then the children and
finally the women were committed to
the sea; but this did not prevent b
vessel from laundering, and all per-
ished, save one lad, who chung to h
mast and was washed ashore.
In response to Bishop Potter's COM
m~unication to Mayor Van Wyck, and
the latter's instructions to the district
attorney, the police board, on the
10Th, notified the bishop of its inten-
ton to prosecute police officers
charged with neglect of duty and 9TH
er ~offenses and asked the bishop to be
represented by counsel. which in it
self will guarantee the g~enuiness of
the prosecution.
Among the callers on the president,
OF the 10Th, was Prof. Albert Bush
nell Hart, head of the division of his
tory and political science at Harvard
university. He was introduced by
Secretary Long, and his purpose was
to present plans of a committee
which had been organized to obtain
and publish facts relative to the Phil
ippines problem.
Capt. Peter Everett, who served as
captain under Gen. John Morgan in
the civil war, and rivalled that con
federate in deeds of daring and
bravery, is dying of erysipelas in the
insane asylum at Lexington, Ky. He
has been in the asylum since 1874. He
is a relative of S~enator-elect Black
burn.
The population of the state of Penn
sylvania, as officially announced by
the census bureau, is 6,3O2, lis, against
5,25S,O14 in 1890. This is an increase
of 1,044,101, or 1913 per cent. The
population in 1850 was 4,2S2,S 91, an in
crease of 975,123, or 22.7 per cent.
from 1880 to 1890.
The population of Minnesota, Off
cially announced on the 10Th, is l.
ISL, 1894, against 1901, 500 in 1890. This
is an increase of 44e,56s since 1890, or
S4.5 per cent. The population in 1880
was 7s0,733, showing an increase of
521, 053, or 66.7 per cent. from 1880 to
1890.
Prof NJ. a. AIdrich, an assistant in
the department of economics of Stand
ford university, rendered his reslgna-
ton to President Jordan, on the 10th,
as the result of the controversy over
the dismissal of Prof. Ross, head of
the economies department