Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The entire plant of the Kelly AK
Manufacturing Co., at Alexandria,
Ind, valued at $4,000 was destroyed
by fire On the night of the 10Th. 1t
was the largest ak factory in the
world, employing some eight hundred
or a thousand men when running at
full force. The company had just en-
larged the factory, increasing the out
put fully one-third.
The wooden steamer Argonaut
sprung a leak, on the 10Th, after TAX
ing on a cargo of iron ore, and sunk
at her dock at Escanaba, Mich. One
Of the steamships boilers blew up un-
der pressure, and a. a. Mcfarland, a
fireman from Port Huron, was severe
ly scalded. The Argonaut was ready
to go to sea when the leak was dis
covered.
J. d. Besler, general superintendent
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad, was injured, on the 10Th, by
an explosion of escaping gas in the
company's Office building, caused by a
lighted match. Mr.. Besler was severe
ly burned, but was able to GO to his
home in a carriage, where his burns
on the hands and face were treated.
The order of commander of the
Legion of Honor has been bestowed
upon NJ. Pichon, French minister to
China. On the 10Th NJ. Delcasse, the
foreign minister, visited NJ. Pichon's
mother in Paris, announced to her the
safety of her son and handed to her
the decoration for him
The steamer Amur arrived at Vic
toria, B. c., on the 10Th, from Skaguay.
Advices we've brought hat Hon. Rich
ard Mansfield White, of New York, eX-
plorer and mine-owner, in an inter-
view given at Skaguay, contends that
the Klondike is in American territory.
George Cabot Lodge, o of Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts,
and Miss Matilda Frelinghuysen Davis,
daughter of Judge Davis, of the court
of claims, Washington, were married
at the Church of the Advent in Bos-
ton on the 18th.
At Philadelphia while frightening
a crowd of negroes, on the night of
the 10Th, by pretending she was a
ghost, Florence Almond, aged Is
years, was struck on the head with a
brick thrown by one of the negroes
and killed.
Geronimo, the noted Indian chief,
recently reported to have become in
sane, is, it is now said, about to marry
a young girl with a bank account of
10000. The old warrior is declared to
be in his usual health
James NJ. Morrison, state depart
ment commander of the G.. A. R., an
nounced, on the Goth, that but three
of the So posts in Philadelphia, with
a membership of 1000, will send dele
cations to the national e~ncampment
in Chicago. Commander Morrison
stated that this action is the result OF
the invitation extended to W. j. Bryan
to attend the encampment, which the
members regard as introducing poll
tics into the organization.
BY a decree time in Spain is hereaf-
ter to be counted from 1 to "a hours,
the order to go into effect January l.,
1901, the day to begin at midnight.
The interval between midnight and
one o'clock will be designated by a
cipher, and the number of minutes by
figures, as 0. 5. 0, 50. The officers of
telegraph, telephone, railroad, steam
ship lines and all public Offices are to
observe the new method.
The population of the city of Chi
cago, according to the official count of
the return of the twelfth census, is as
follows: In 1900, Chicago city, $685.
SIS: in 1890. 1.O99, $50. These figures
show for the city as a whole an in
crease in population of 59S,725, or
54.44 per cent, from 1890 to 1900. The
population in 1880 was 503,1S5, show
ing an increase of 596,655, or 11s.5s per
cent. from 1850 to 1890.
The Cuban teachers spent the day,
on the goth. at West Point military
academy. They were escorted by sol
diers detailed for the purpose to and
through all the buildings of interest.
Adjt. Rivers had a guide book printed
in Spanish for their enlightenment
They seemed interested and delighted
with everything they saw.
The cornerstone of the monument
to Sergeant Charles Floyd of the Lew
is and Clark expedition was laid at
Sioux City, Ia, On the Goth, with inn
posing ceremonies. Ex-Congressman
Perkins made the principal address.
Congress and the state legislature
both made appropriations for the
| monument.
Walter Wilkerson was, on the Goth,
convicted of participation in the
HUMPHREYS ~lynching, which occurred
in Henderson county, Texas, in May,
1899. He was sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for life. Three other men
have received life sentences for the
| offense.
An imperial ukase has been issued
from ST. Petersburg prohibiting the
deportation of arms or ammunition TO
China.