Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-04
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Inc AdHSdS C1tS Quar-, Oh the
| forwarded to Gen. Corbin, at Washing
ton, $1,000, the net result of a weeks
soliciting for the general fund for the
widow and children of the late Maj
Gen. Lawton.
The open door in China is guaran-
teed. The United States government
is informed that the European powers
have decided to give the written as
surances asked in Secretary Hays cir.
cular note. This is regarded as one of
the greatest diplomatic triumphs of
the age.
The news of the appearance of the
bubonic plague at Honolulu, brought
by the transport Centennial, has Great
ed some alarm among the state and
city health officials in California, and
every precaution is being taken to
prevent a possible admission of the
disease into San Francisco and other
coast cities.
AT Arlington cemetery, on the 2Sth,
the Maine dead-brought from Ha-
vana by the battleship TeXas-were
laid away in their final resting places
with simple religious services, and
the impressive honors of war, in
the presence of the president, men,
bers of his cabinet, officers of the
army and navy, and other representa-
tives of the government.
A dispatch from Chiveley Camp, Ma
tai, says that rains there have caused
a rise in the Tugela and weakened the
Beers positions south of the river,
and that Gen. Butler should be en-
abled to capture most of the burghers
remaining to the south of the stream.
Hon. Ferd w. Peck, commissioner
general of the United States to the
Paris exposition of 1900, has named
Sousa'S band as the official American
band to play at the exposition. The
engagement will cover eight to ten
weeks.
Mary Beck, AZ years old, was found
by one of her four children dead in
her rocking chair at her home in FL
lenwood, kas., her throat cut and her
forehead bruised. One of the children
said he heard his mother say during
the night that she had killed some one
and would kill herself.
W. j. AIilsap, a prominent stocllman,
was seized by two men when about to
enter the Klein hotel at Walsenburg
Col, and robbed of $4,000. No trace
of the criminals has been found. Mr..
Milsap was on his way to Mexico TO
buy cattle.
Saleru Mason, colored, who was born
near Richmond, Va, 1O6 years ago, and
was the oldest man in Tennessee, died
at Nashville on the 2sth. He was
purchased with other slaves for
the corporation of Nashville in 1924.
He spent 70 years of his life as an en-
ploye of the city.
The total catch of seals by Canadian
sealing vessels during the past season
was 1894 compared with a total for
the preceding year of 1852.
The Transvaal government, accord
ing to information supplied by Boer
sympathizers in London, threatens to
reduce the ration of British prisoners
if Great Britain stops the entry of food
by Delagoa Bay"
Maj. Hammer, chief paymaster of the
department of the Missouri, received
telegraphic orders from Washington,
on the 29th, to proceed to Manila for
duty. He expects to sail from Seattle,
Wash, January s. The major only
lacks two years of the retiring age,
and the order, for this reason, came az
a surprise, as heretofore officers of
that age have not generally been or
dered to the Philippines.
Corporal Fair and Private Jockens,
of the regular army, who shot and
killed Private Morgan, deserter, were
arraigned at Papillion, Neb., on the
goth, on the charge of murder. before
Judge Edgar Howard. The defendants
plead not guilty, and the preliminary
examination was set for the I'd.
Smallpox has broken out among the
Indians on the south half of the Col
vile reservation in Washington.
A British reconnaissance from Kim
berley on December "a, developed the
fact that the besiegers' guns remain ia
advantageous coigns and that the in
vesting force has not diminished in
strength or mobility. The reconnoit.
ering force was compelled to retire.
A manufacturer of cartridge belts in
Worcester, Mass, received an order
from the British government, Oh the
goth, for 45,o00 double bandelier cart
ridge belts. The order was a rush one,
and the belts will be shipped to South
Africa in lots of several thousand each
as soon as manufactured.
Julius II. McAfee, a page in the
house of representatives, is held by
the police at Washington, charged with
the larceny of $500 from Congressmaa
Stevens and another member of con-
gress. The young man admitted the
theft, but said he had taken but $3.50
and would be able to return $247 of
that amount.
a Berlin dispatch says that Kaiser
Wilhelm enacted the role of HSanta
Claus" incognito on Christmas eve, TAX
ing a long walk in Sansouci Park and
Potsdam city, presenting every child
or poor person whom ne met with q
shining silver or gold piece, according
10 their apparent needs.
One man was killed and ii persons
injured by the Cheyenne flyer running
into a freight train on the Union Pa
ciic, at Brighton, COL, on the 10Th. !
The conductor of the flyer was crazed !
by the accident.