Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-09-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
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It is believed in official circles in
Shanghai that Prince Tuan has been
or will be promoted to membership
in the grand council, and that the tao
tai of Shanghai will be appointed
provincial judge, with the notorious
Boxer, Kang vi, as his deputy. The
foreign officials are understood to be
protesting to the Yang Use viceroys
against these appointments.
Porto RicC's demand on Cuba for
the repayment of more than two
million five hundred thousand dollars,
advanced to Spain to conduct military
operations against Cuba, has been the
source of considerable amusement in
Havana. Cubans are asking why they
should repay funds lent to the enemy
for the express purpose of subduing
them.
Zion Elders Ephraim Bassinger, of
Button, and Silas Moot, of Lima,
were set upon by a mob at Mansfield,
o., on the 23d, carried to a buggy fac
tory, stripped, and painted with
smokestack vaTnish, a tar-like sub
stance, which it required persistent
applications of lard and benzine to re-
move.
An article in a Los Angeles (Cal.)
paper advocating the annexation of
Mexico to the United States caused
the Herald OF Mexico City to deny
that Americans in hat country are
conspiring against the political in
tegrity of Mexico.
The Amalgamated wage schedule at
$4.75 per ton, based on a one-cent card
rate, was signed, on the 23d, by both
committees. Fires were ordered by
wire in the mills everywhere. All that
were ready started up on the cath.
The Greek colony in New York gave
a hearty welcome to the officers of
The Greekwar ship Navarchos Miauoles,
which arrived there on the cath. The
vessel is the first war ship of hat
nation to visit America.
The American colony in Mexico
City and sy~mpathizers had, up to The
Esd. subscribed over nine thousand
dollars for the Galveston flood suffer-
ers and the lists were still open.
An expedition under the auspices of
the German colonial society will leave
Berlin, on November 10, for Togo,
West Africa, to make experiments in
cotton growing in that region.
A dispatch from Lourenzo MARQUEE,
on the 23d, said: THE British have
occupied Koomatipoort without oppo-
sitiOn."
Marshal Arseno Martinez de Cam
pos died, on the Esd, at Zaraus, near
San Sebastian, Spain.
Gov. Sayers of Texas, on the oath,
sent out Geographic and telephone
warnings to all points possible on the
Colorado river of the approach of the
worst food, probably, ever expert
enced in that valley. At Goldwaithe,
at dark, the rise had reached SO feet
and the waters were still advancing.
Other rivers in northern Texas were
also reported rising rapidly, and I'M
told damage if not loss of life were
feared.
The detectives who had been on
duty at the Chinese legation in Wash
ington for about two months, re-
turned to headquarters, on the gath,
there being no further necessity, in
the judgment of Maj. Sylvester, chief
of police, and Nh. WI, for their pres
ence at the minister's residence.
\ dispatch from ST. Johns, n. F., on
the oath, said: more than fifty
French vessels from st. Pierre are
still missing, as the result of the re-
cent gale, and much alarm is felt for
their safety. Many, doubtless, are dis
abIed. but it is almost certain that
others have foundered."
Carl Melchers, an American painter,
whose special collection of paintings
is a feature of the Berlin art exhibit
ton this year, has sold Utmost all his
canvases, thus rendering his project
ed Chicago exhibition out of the ques-
ton. Large prices were realized.
Phil A. Julian, o of Silver Bow
county, Mont, and one of the best
known of the old-time newspaper men
of the country, died suddenly at
Butte, on the oath, of heart disease.
He was a native of Washington, D.. c.,
and Sc years of age.
The August statement of the collec-
tions of internal revenue shows that
in thai month the receipts from all
sources amounted to $25. 595, 716, an
increase over the month of August
last year of $~f,174,751.
DIR. Nansen and the duke of Abruzzi,
according to a dispatch from Christi
ania, have agreed to undertake a joint
expedition into North Polar regions.
Mr.. S. W. Hanauer, United States
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT at Frankfort, Ger
many, has opened a subscription for
the Galveston sufferers.
The torpedo boat O'Brien was sue
| cessfully launched at the Nixon ship
yard, at Elizabethtown, n. j., on the
Gath.
The German anthropological society
| convened at Halle, on the oath. for it's
annual session, Prof. Rudolphe Vir-