Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
TOPICS OF Il DAY.
NEWS FROM
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


Der 1.
The depot battalion of the Eighth
infantry, U. S. A., started from Fort
Smelling, Mimi, IN the 18th, for China,
via San Francisco, under command of
Maj. W. l.. Pitcher. There were 500
men in line.
Forest fires are burning east of
Southfork, Col, in an area from five
to twenty-five miles wide, and de-
stroying valuable timber, mine ma
chinery and buildings. The monetary
damage will run into the millions of
dollars.
A dispatch from London, on the
nth, said: The ~onsensu of opinion
expressed by the morning papers
tends to the belief that the legations
at Pekin are now safe with the allies"
The steamer Monarch, with 1,150
horses for the British army in South
Africa. cleared from New Orleans,
on the 10Th. for Cape Town.
John Pritzlaff, of Milwaukee, one of
the largest wholesale hardware mer-
chants in the west and well-known
throughout Wisconsin,, died. on the
10th. of diabetes, aged so years.
The department of state has been
notified by Minister Buck, at Toxic,
that the japanese government has
given permission to the United States
government to establish a United
States hospital on Japanese territory
wherever the United States govern
'neRt may select a site
Ii Hung Chang made IN abject ap-
nnal 70 ITnShTnntnn for On holt or
T~ung-Chow and an armistice, pend
ing peaceful negotiation, in order to
save Chinese pride: but the indica-
lions were that the crisis had already
been reached.
Two thousand children accepted
the invitation of Russell Sage and
attended a picnic at Upton Lake park,
in Duchess county, y. Y, being car
ried there on a special train, pro-
vided by Mr.. Sage, on the Pough-
keepsie & Easton railroad. The chill
dren were happy and SO was their
~oenefactor.
Revenue officers, led by J. E. Alton,
after a desperate bush fight in the
mountains of Polk county, Tenn,
captured Moonshiners Riley Headon,
Gus Headon, Henry Norwood, Coot
Owens and Silas Goforth, A large
still was destroyed. Garrett Headon,
leader of the outlaws, escaped.
The recent murder of Express Mes
senger Lane by Rosslyn Terrell, in
Ohio, has called the attention of the
Adams Express Co. to violations of its
rules by messengers in carrying per-
sons on their cars, and the result is
becoming apparent in discharges and
suspensions.
Will Hays, a young man OF Wichita,
Kas., writes to friends from Cape
Nome under date of July 80, stating
that the gold finds there are mostly
Matched up in the minds of the trans
portation companies, and that the
alleged fabulous finds are all a fake.
He has to pay So per meal for his
grub.
Gen. DeWet, the Boer commander
whom the British have been unsuc-
c~essfully trying to capture for a long
R~ustenburg. Eighty prisoners who
escaped from him report that his
strength is now 1000
Former President Steyn of the
Orange Free State, according to a
dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Lourenzo Marquee, is reported
to have died, as the result of a severe
wound, while endeavoring to join
President Kruger at Machadodorp.
Samuel Amidon. a prominent bust
ness man of Ashtabula, o., while play
- ILL -, +hA 1Gth u-o StrTrol- ON
the head by a pitched ball and in
stantly killed.
Ex-senator John j. Ingalls,, of Kan
sas, died at East Las Vegas, n. NJ, on
the morning of the 10th. The direct
cause of his death was bronchitis,
complicated by heart troubles. The
remains were forwarded to his old
home in Atchison, Kas., for inter
ment.
Two Italians. Natalie Maresca and
Michil Guida, have been detained at
Quarantine. New York harbor, their
deportation to Naples, Italy, being
recommended to the secretary of the
treasury. They hal been reported
from Rome to be anarchists who
might attempt the life of the presi-
dent.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $3.50, OOO, 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
18th. showed: Available cash balance,
SI41, $50, 6s4: gold, $12 ,eO0.41S.
The allied army reached Pekin on
the night of the 14th and attacked on
the morning of the 18th. the Chinese
having opposed communication with
the ministers. One of the IA gates
was carried by assault and the enter
ing troops Immediately surrounded
the legations. The Japanese were the
heaviest losers in the assault.
The empress dowager of China IS
reported to have left Pekir. August
Z, for Hsien-Fu, together with all the
palace treasures, escorted by Prince
Tuan and the imperial household.
EMPEROR Kwang Hsu accompanied
the empress dowager much against
his will.
The American firemen, Chief Geo.
c. Hale of Kansas City and b men
of the Kansas City fire brigade, caused
great wonderment in Paris, on the
18th, by their quick Harvesting and
running, together with their method
of ~life-saving. They received an ova-
ton and by common consent were as
signed the first place in the prelim-
mary contests.
Ann Ingersoll, of gainesville, o., the
woman who, in May, 1898, kidnapped
Gerald Lapiner, aged 2A years, in Chi