Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-09-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

All cAIlOSlOn OcCuIEcu Ill inc IElScU
Gluck mine, at Dux, Bohemia, on the
10th. Thirty-ive persons were killed
and Is injured. Five others are miss
ing.
The Netherlands budget for 1901
shows a deficit of 5,25O.OOO forms.
At Shenandoah, Pa, on the 21st a
posse gathered by Sheriff Toole, OF
Schuylkill county, to meet the emer-
gency fired on a crowd of miners that
was a~ssaulting workmen on their way
home under escort. \ MAI and a lit
tie girl were instantly killed, and
seven others fell, more or less seri-
ously wounded.
Swelled by one of the heaviest rain
falls Texas has ever experienced,
Trinity river rose 90 feet, on the 21st,
drove 400 II 500 people from its bot
toms, washed away bridges, resi-
dences and household goods, and
caused other heavy damage in Fort
Worth. The rainfall during ten hours
was 7.22 inches.
The French warship Avalanche,
which has been investigating the kill
ing of Christians in the Samnoi dis
- - ~ lAAtAaA hS"l u DO1 10
that the crews of eight pirate junks,
by the c~onnivance of influential per-
SONS ashore, have sought to destroy
all the Christian villages on the Can
ton delta.
Gen. James III. Wilson, Gen. Chat
fees chief of staff, took Pei-Ta-Chu
on the 18th. No details of the affair
have been learned, but the British of
ficials at Pekin have received a dis
patch announcing hat 1.-THE temples
were taken according to arrange
ment."
In the attack by 5000 Germans and
Russians on the Pei Tang forts, on
the 10Th, 800 of the attacking force
were killed OF wounded, for the most
part by the explosion of mines in the
ground over which they advanced.
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers issued a statement, on
the 21st, in which he lays the blame
for the conditions causing the strike
on the coal carrying railroads. He
says that they produce approximately
~ per cent. of the coal, and place a
carrying charge against it three times
a great as is charged for the same
weight of bituminous coal, in order
to show small profit on their mining
operations.
Wilbert n. Hershberger, employed
by the Wabash Railroad Co. as an
hostler, at Decatur, ILL.,, has sued for
$500 for overtime. He says the COM
pany required him to work ~ and -
hours a day, and paid him for only
Ton hnurG nn1 ho x,a,fe r,,, e.. A.
overtime of several years past.
Miss Larissa Smaller celebrated her
one hundredth birthday anniversary
in Tylerville, Conn, on the 21st. She
is yet healthy and strong and looks
to be not owe 20. She is a descendant
of James Wells, one of the original rs
proprietors of the town of Haddam.
The census bureau announces that
the population of Dubuque. Ia, is &c.
297. as against 3O,311 in 1890. This is
an increase of 5,196, or 1915 per cent.
The veteran steamboat owner and
captain, John X. Booth, died, on the
21st. from the effects of a fall in the
cellar at his home in Wheeling, w. Va.
The body of Frank Keynes, who
died at Wauwatosa, Wis, arrived at
Decatur, ILL.,. on the 21st. He was one
of the oldest theater manager in the
west and was known by theatrical
people all over the country.
The National Municipal League con-
vention at Milwaukee closed, on the
21st, with a banquet at Light at the
Hotel Pfister. The place of the next
meeting will not be chosen for several
months.
The building of the temporary
bridge, 2H miles long, at Galveston,
Tex, completed at three o'clock on
the morning of the 21st, was one OF
the most remarkable achievements OF
constructive work in the history of
the world.
Following the cabinet meeting N
Washington, on the 21st, it was an
nounced that the troops of the United
States would be speedily withdrawn
from China and sent to the Philip
pines, and Minister Conger will open
the preliminaries to peace negotia-
tions with Prince Ching, who asked
the approval of this government for
such action.
The Kurutu and Tabuai islands were
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governor of Tahiti, August 21, at the
request of the natives.
Currency shipments from New York
to the agricultural districts. for the
week ended on the 22d, assumed large
proportions.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $4,000 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
21st, showed: Available cash balance,
$132. sS3 ,O4O; gold, $74,7ss,9S7
There was another death from bu-
bonic plague and an additional case
on the 21st.
A combined force of Russians,
French and Germans made an attack
on the Pei-Tang forts, On the banks
of the Pei-Ho, and after several I'M
successful assaults the Pei-Tang and
Lu-Tai forts were captured on the
goth. Both forts were well equipped
with heavy Krupp guns. The losses
on both sides were heavy.
Reports of the Goth, indicated con-
tinued accessions to the ranks of the
anthracite coal miners on strike, and
while reasonably good order had thus
far been maintained, there were not
lacking signs of trouble in the near
future, to meet which the operators
were making preparations.
Mayor Jones of Galveston, Tex, on
the evening of the Goth, proclaimed
that martial law would cease at noon
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