Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-19
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AdiiicJl, anu IHS american BufloOdt
which was waiting TO convey him en-
route to Fekin, sailed on the 18th.
The rioters responsible for the recent
anti-Semite disturbances in Buetow,
Prussia. we're, on the 18th, sentenced
to various short terms in Jail.
The italian chamber of deputies, on
the 18TH, approved the commercial
treaty between the United States and
Italy.
Hay, at Pretoria. is about to return to
The United States.
A report came by way of Berlin, or
the 18th, that the Chinese Boxers had
cut the grand canal. near Tien Tsin,
flooding the surrounding country. in
order to prevent the allies marching
on Pc!in.
The army transports plying between
san Francisco and the far east have
again been placed on a war basis, with
the result that no more passenger MOI
attached to the military can be car
ried on these vessels.
Gov.-Gen. Wood Of Cuba. on the 18th,
announced his intention 10 leave for
the United States on the 18th. 10 CON
suit President Mckinley with regard
to certain matters connected with Gu
ba.
After having been buried in a grave
in Woodland Park cemetery. at Lee
ington, KY. for three days. ~16-year-oid
Maud Matthews was. on the 18th. dis
Inferred in the presence of a thousand
persons and, recovering from what was
claimed to be q hypnotic sleep. stepped
from her casket with a CHEEKY "'Hello!"
to the gra~vedigoers.
Lord Roberts reported to the British
war office, on the 18th, hat the Beers
had succeeded in capturing NitraI's
Mex. IS miles from Pretoria. which was
garrisoned by i squadron of Scots
Greys, with two guns and a battery of
the Royal artillery, and five companies
Of the Lincolnshire regiment. The
British losses were heavy.
A report from Chinese sources, by
way of Shanghai, a y that the two re-
manning legations, the Russian and
British, were attacked on the evening
of the 9th, and by the morning of the
18th both legations were destroyed and
all the foreigners were dead. while the
streets around the legations were filed
with the dead of both foreigners and
Chinese.
President William Mckinley and
Gov. Roosevelt Of New York were
formally notified of their nomination
as the republican candidates for Dresi-
lent and vice-president of the United
States, the former at his home in Can
ton, o., and the latter at his country
seat, Sycamore" near Oyster Bay,
Long Island.
"Oid Hi" Pierce, known wherever
there are men who sit about green
covered tables, is dead. Outside the
craft he was known as Hiram Franklin
Pierce. In his calling he was an
aristocrat. He was known rs a
nephew of Franklin Pierce, once presi-
lent of the United States. "Old H.
0ied ut -, DOOR and homeless.
The announcement is made that,
after October 1, oil will be substituted
for coal as fuel on all engines Of the
Sante Fe system engaged in traffic on
the Pacific coast. If this can be done
economically, The advantages to- be
gained are too many to need enumera-
ton or comment.
Senior Silvela, the Spanish premier,
says that no Spanish war vessel will
go to China, Spain having no interests
to defend in the extreme orient.
Four hundred strikers paraded at
Belle Isle, on the 18th, carrying a black
flag. They declared themselves de-
terRined to do no work and to permit
none to be done while their leaders
were imprisoned. The strikers induced
all the men who had come to work to
throw down their tools, the non-strik-
ers being unable to obtain lodgings or
goods on the island.
Il. G.. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review, is
sued on the 18th, said: Failures for
the week nave been 1876 in the United
States, against 100 last year, and &c
in Canada, against "a last year"
1t was announced in London, on the
18th, that the queen had approved the
selection of the earl of Hopetoun as
governor general of the Australian
commonwealth.
A ST. Johns IN. FL dispatch Of the
18th. said: "a coast mail steamer
which has returned from Labrador re-
ports the Straits of Belle Isle are still
filed with ice"
Very heavy rains are reported
throughout Chile, washing away many
bridges and flooding several cities.
Reports f the treasury department
show hat thousands of people have
gone into the Cape Nome distcict who
nave no means of getting out, and that
while the steamship companies are of
fering them every inducement 10 90
into the country. no inquiry is being
made as to their ability to get out.
Capt. Joseph Coghlan and wife are
al Colorado Springs, Col. The captain
has been a sufferer from pleurisy. and
las been nine months in a hospital.
Since his arrival he has been closely
C MINED to his room at the hotel. and
has been attended by a local physician.
His condition, however. has improved,
il anything, since his arrival.
The First battalions of the Black
Watch, Scottish Rifles and Shropshire
light infantry, the Second battalion of
the Inniskilling f~usileers, the Tween
tieth Punjab infantry and the Sixth
Bengal regiment have been warned 10
D to proceed to China.
The immense plant of the Alabama
Bridge Co., which was located at De-.
catur by the purchase of the United
States rolling stock site about six
months ago, and upon which a large
fo-oo - -oacbanioS have heeu at work