Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Senator j. K. Jones, according to re-
PORTS in democratic circles, soon will
call a meeting of the Democratic ma
tional committee in Washington for
the purpose of resigning as chairman.
1t is said that Jones' friends are in
favor of Mayor Taggart, of Indian
6polis, the Indiana committeeman, as
his successor"
Charles A. Carter, a merchant of
N~attoon, Ill, was bound over, on the
10Th, OF a charge of receiving stolen
goods. Arthur Baker, a 16-year-old
boy, testified that Carter had hired
him and several other lads to steal
articles which he would buy from
them.
G. L.. Mason, a Dowie elder of Chi
cago, was mobbed, on the night of
the 10th, while delivering a lecture
at the opera house in Gainesville, c.
The speaker made a bitter attack
upon the masonic and other secret
orders, and was assailed with rotten
eggs, vegetables and other missiles.
Mrs. Elisha Dashiel1 died in Wash
ington, on the 10Th, at the age of 1O2
years, at the residence of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Caroline Blackiston. She
quietly passed her one hundred and
second mile stone the 10th instant.
Two years g her centennial birth
day anniversary was celebrated with
much eclat.
The 1~5-year-old son of Edward
Cudahy, the millionaire Omaha pack
er, who was abducted, on the evening
of the 18th, was secretly returned to
his home early on the morning of the
goth. A demand for $4,000 had been
made, but it is not known yet whether
Cudahy put up or the abductors got
scared.
Lord Lansdowne, British secretary
of state for foreign affair, has con-
clrded negotiations, according TO the
London Daily Mail, by which Russia
will, January L, give Great Britain en-
tire control of the railway from Pc
kin to Shan Hal Kwan.
The legislative council of Victoria
has, for the sixth time, rejected the
woman's suffrage bill. 1t has also re-
jected a proposal to submit the ques-
ton to a referendum.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty, as
amended, was ratified by the senate,
on the goth, by a vote of SIS to is.
The Knechtel Co.'S plant at Han
over, Ont, the largest furniture fac
tory in the Dominion of Canada, was
destroyed by fire on the goth. The
fire spread to adjoining buildings,
causing a total loss of between $780,
600 and 100000.
The Bank of Russia, according to a
dispatch to the London Daily Express
from ST. Petersburg, is ~endeavoring to
| raise a loan in New York for rebuild
ing the Manchuria railway.
The Cuban constitutional
ton has decided that the qualifica-
tons for the presidency shall be citi-
zenship at the time of the promulga-
ton of the constitution.
The government of New Zealand
has decided to dispatch another con-
tingent to South Africa.
"A somewhat stormy meeting Of the
foreign representatives at PeIin oc-
Cured over an attempt to discover
who discloses to the Chinese what
every minister has pledged to keep
secret. Ii Hung Chang invariably
knows within two hours of the close
of a meeting what has happened.
The public of Manila is deeply agi-
tated over the approaching departure
of the volunteers. Is is feared that
the withdrawal or weakening of the
present inadequate garrisons will be
suicidal, and it is anticipated that the
peaceful natives will suffer from Ia
galog vengeance.
The London Daily News (hberal),
cation of the amended Hay-Paunce-
commenting editorially on the ratif-
fote treaty, says that the senate has
struck a serious blow at the funda-
mental principle of good faith among
nations, at its own reputation and at
the very constitution of the republic.
DIR. PetersM. Wise, of New York city,
was. on the Goth, removed from his
Office as president of the state COM
mission in hlnacy by Gov. Roosevelt,
because theIgovernor thought he had
used his o&Sce to help his private
business q atuEes