Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
TOPICS OF Il DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

lie OF the American colony
were present, as were also Victor A.
Drummond, the British minister resi-.
dent in bavaria; Prof. Hommel, of the
Munich university, and a number OF
prominent American visitors.
The National NegroD Democratic league,
at its biennial convention in Kansas
City, Mo-, On the 9Th, elected George
E. Taylor. of Iowa, president, and
James A Ross, of Buffalo, y. Y, gen,
eral secretary. A committee of five was
appointed on an address to the coun-
Try, with Hon. +. l.. MCGEE, of Mime
,ota, as chairman.
A special from Laharpe, Ia, says
that Noble Prentice, editor-in-chief of
me Kansas City Star, was stricken
With paralysis while visiting his sister
1t that place on the 9Th. His recovery
a said TO be doubtful.
The Democratic national convention,
ut Kansas City, on the evening of the
;th, unanimously nominated William
jennings bryan us the democratic can
iidate for president of the United
states amiu intense enthusiasm on the
.art CT delegates and spectators.
The platform adopted by the Dem
:cratic convention makes anti-irnpe-
rialism the paramount; declares for
The free coinage of silver and gold at
The ratio of 16 TO 1; denounces trusts
md monopolies; favors a Nicaraguan
canal under United States ownership;
lenounces the Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
and expresses sympathy with the Boer
republics.
The executive committee of the
American Anti-Imperialistic league
has sen ont notifications that the
first national convention of that or
~yaniZation will be held at indianapolis.
Ind. August Is and I6. Speeches will
lie delivered by BouIke Cochran, of
New York; ex-Gov. Boutwell,. of Mas
sacbusetts; Bishop S~paldirg, of Pc
oria: Carl Schurz, and Andrew Car
negie.
In lear of punishment for a crime
for which she had been held without
bail to the grand jury, Mrs. Martha
fIeisig, a Chicago midwife, drank car
band and children, on the 5th, and died
Immediately.
Lord Roberts reports from Pretoria.
under date Of July ), that Lieut.. Run
die, of the Corbineers, with a patrol,
was captured by the Biers near Pre-
toria on July 4. He also says that
trains are running to Greylingstadt,
Natal: that several respectable Beers
have surrendered recently; hat Il sol
dicrs' home has been opened at Hell
deIberg. the inhabitants subscribing
the initial expenses, and that a total
of 2,631 stands Of arms have been de-
livered TO Gen. Barton at KlerksdOrp,
Krugersdorp and Potchefstrom, all in
the Transvaal.
The fire in the Standard Oil Co.'S
plant at Constable Hook, BayOnne, n.
j., which was started early On the
morning of the 5th, by a stroke of
lightning, continued until 80 of the
oil tanks had been destroyed. The
loss is ~variously placed at 81 900, 900 to
$1,000, 900.
After the resignation of IL senator's,
the Finnish senate, on the 9Th, promul-
gated an imperial rescript regarding
the official use of the Russian Ian
guage.
The Paris Aurore learns from q good
source that a young attache of the
United States embassy disappeared re-
Gently. The police are making an ac-
tive search for the young man, who, it
is feared. has been murdered.
A small cyclone passed over the
northern part of Hardin county. Ia,
on the 9Th. Trees were uprooted and
many buildings upset. The loss to
crops is enormous No loss of life has
been reported.
Chester Mccarthy, aged eight. and
Reuben Hester, aged nine, were
drowned at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
9Th, while on an improvised raft watch
ing men dragging the river for the
body of Clarence Lutz, who was
drowned the previous day. Their
bodies were soon recovered.
The Northwestern Scandinavian
Sangers' society began it's annual sing
ing festival in st. Paul, MIMI, on the
9Th, with a grand concert.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, was, on
the 9th, reelected chairman of the
Democratic national committee.
Brig.-Gen. Thomas Barry passed
through Chicago, on the 9th, on his
way to the Philippines, where he is
to be chief of staff under Gen. Mac
Arthur.
The London Chronicle says that
United States Ambassador Choate is III
constant communication with Lord
Salisbury regarding the Chinese crisis.
An official dispatch from Nikolrky,
Russia. dated July 1, says that so per-
IONS were killed by an explosion OF
stores of powder at Mukden.
The fire at the Standard Oil Co.'s
works at Constable Hook, n. j.. was
finally got under control on the even
ing of the 9th, after after it had de-
stroyed property officially estimated
at 81, 400, 900 in value.
United States Consul Hughes, at
Coburg, reports to the state depart
ment that an Italian electrician has
invented an electric cartridge which
he offers as a substitute for dynamite
and smckeless powder in mines, rock
blasting and for heavy ordnance.
To consistent reports of the mas
sacre of the whites in Pekin are now
added the additional horrors that the
savage soldiery butchered al the CAPT
tai 5000 Chinese, Roman Catholic con
verts,