Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-04-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

he house OF bishops of the Protest
ant Episcopal church, in session in
New York, on the 10Th, accepted the
resignation of Bishop Henry Jackson,
former coadjutor bishop of the die
cese of Alabama. Bishop Jackson re-
sigred early this year. There was no
DISCUSSION as to his successor.
Great finds of copper are reported
by deputy Consul Adams, at Dawson
city, as having been made in the Ia
nan district, northeast Of Prince Will
iamtown, huge masses of nearly pure
copper from hundreds to thousands Of
pounds in weight being scattered over
the country at accessible points.
Clara Barton, president of the Amer
lean Red Cross society, who vouched
Tcr the Chicago ambulance corps
which went to the Transvaal, says of
their action at Pretoria, in taking up
arms against the British: IF the re-
port be true these men have practiced
gross deception and violated conf,
dence which they sought, and the
world will moi hold them guiltless.''
If Convention hall at Kansas City is
not ready 20 receive the National DEM
ocraTic convention July t it will prob
nhly De tiyee TO tho action of the labor
unions represented on the work OF re-
building. 1t is claimed that the work
men show a disposition to make I'M
reasonable demands on the con-
tractors.
Eighty Russian and Galician labor
ers have been expelled from northern
Schleswig, Prussia.
Miss Marie Dinse, aged about thirty
two years. dispossessed of her board
ing house for non-payment of rent,
and respondent, leaped from Brooklyn
bridge, with suicidal intent. on the
Goth. Her body floated, and she was
rescued by a tugboat and sent to the
Hudson Street hospital. where it was
said she was not seriously injured.
Senator Hale, on the Goth, intro
duced q bill authorizing the purchase
of 1,sOO acres of land in the vicinity
&c Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for naval
purposes. One hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars is proposed to be appro-
priated for the purpose specified.
German officers in Woo Chang, Prov
inee of Hoo Pee, have induced the
Chinese governor general of the prov
ince to engage other German officers
as army instructors in lien of those
dismissed.
The amount of bonds exchanged at
the treasury for the new two-per
cents, up to the goth, was $780,
oO1, 800, of which 4O,346,70O were re-
ceiyed from individuals and institu-
tions other than national banks.
The grand jury at Frankfort, KY,
composed of ten democrats and two
republicans, returned an Indictment
against Gov. Taylor, on the goth, for
completely in the assassination of Sem
ator Goebel, and a bench warrant for
Lis arrest was issued. The vote TO in
Gict was strictly partisan.
The return of the prince of Wales
to London, on the Goth, was made the
occasion for spontaneous demonstra-
ton of enthusiasm by thousands OF
persons who thronged the Cha;ing
Gross station and its approaches, wait
ing patiently to show their eladneSs
at the heir apparent's escape from the
aSsassin's bullets.
Lord Roberts has placed an enl-
barge on all dispatches from Bloeui-
fontein calculated to throw light on
the movements of the British forces
This is taken to indicate that an ad-
vance has begun.
Fire wiped out the entire business
portion of Edinburgh, n. D.. on the
Goth. Property to the extent OF $780,
0O0 was burned, and two women per-
ished in the flames. Smoldaring ruins
and burnt debris are all that remain
20 mark the location of this hereto
fore prosperous village.
A train bearing the American For
'estry building, in sections, and the
worlxmen to put it together was sent
out from Chicago, on the Goth, on
the way to the Paris exposition. 1t
is the first structure in the history of
the country ever shipped across tbs
ocean In its entirety.