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MESSAGE FROM CEAFFEE.
Is Dated Tien Tsin Aug. 3 and Tells of %
Decision, to

Is Dated Gien Tsin Aug. 3 and Tells of %
Decision to Fighto
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.--The war de-
partment has received the following
cablesram from General Chafee:
"Iien Tsin, Aug. 3.-Conference to-
day decided battle Sunday. Chinese
intrenched east and west through Pei
Tsang. Chinese protected by flooded
ground practically unassailable. jar.
anese, English and American forces
about 10000 strong attacked Chinese
right, west Of river in flank. Other
forces, Russian, French, about 4,OOo
strong, opposite side between river and
railroad. Chinese position apparently
strong. Army reported $4,000 between
Pebang and Yang Tsung, or crossing
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AN ENORMOUS FORCE.
Chinese Well Prepared to Resist the Adj
vance of Allies.

vance of Allies.
New YORK, Aug. S.-A dispatch to
The Tribune from London says: The
correspondent of The Express at Tien
Tsln believes chat the advance of the
allied troops on the capital will be
strongly resisted, the time consumed in
international conferences having el.-
nbled the Chinese to concentrate an
ENORMOUS force. The Shanghai corre-
sponlent of The Daily Mail reports
that there has been great friction among
the allies as to the appointment of
commandment i'll chief. General MacAr.
thur has, it is stated, been put forward
for the place by che Americans, while
Ill unofficial Paris telegram says that
General Voyron, the commander of the
French expeditionary corps, has actually
been appointed.
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LABOR AMALGAAATION.



trail Bodies in New York.
New y DIRK, Aug. S.--One hundred
delegates, representing $4,000 building
worknen Ill New York clty and vicin-
ity, have brought about the amalgama-
ton OF the board OF delegates of the
United Building Trades and the Build
ing Trades council, who have been at
loggerheads 1or two years, at recent
conference in Central kali. The new
body was named the United Council of
the Building Trades OF New York and
Vicinity. General arbitration among
all building unions and the doing away
with general strikes caused by rival Or
ganizaticns is the purpose Of the ANAL
ganation- All unions refusing to ar
bltrate voluntarily will be forced to sub.
NIT to compulsory arbitration or be ex.
pelled.
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WAsH!NGToN, Aug. 8 The delega
ton OF Cuban school teachers now re.
ceiving instructions i'll the English
branch at Harvard university, Cam.
bridge, Mass, viii visit TIL. cliy Oh the
18th inst. for the purl @. paying
their respects to the pr@s.@aut OF the
United States and to inspect public in.
stitutlons and attractions of the ma.
tional capital.
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After Nebraska Grain Dealers.

OMAHA, Aug. 8.-Attorney General
Smith has brought criminal proceedings
against the Nebraska Grain Dealers
association, alleging that it is guilty of
conspiracy to control the price of
grain in Nebraska. The complaint is
divided into eight counts.
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Relatives of Brescj Dnt,irod

nome, Aug. 8.-The brother and
brother-in.law of Bresci, the assassin
OF hlng iiumbert, have been detained
,oy me police on the charge that they
mad 1oreknowIedgo Of the murdererjs
intention. The former says Bresci fre.
quently practiced with a revolver.
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HANNA MAY TAKE THE STUMP
Secretary Heath Wants the National
Chairman to Speak,

New YORK, Aug. S.-Chairman
Hanna OF the Repu ublican national COM
mittee may join the army of cam.
palgners to be heard in the West for
Mckinley and Roosevelt. Perry Heath,
secretary OF the national committee,
who arrived here from the national
headquarters, stated that there had
been many demands from the West to
hear Mr.. Hanna speak. He told Mr..
Hanna this and urged him to speak.
The chairman was inclined to consider
the proposition.
II think Mr.. Hanna will accept these
invitations, said Mr.. Heath. 81 hope
he Will, for it he does he will be Of great
assistance to the ticket"
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Three Killed and Several Injured,

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Aug S.--Three
persons were killed and number in.
jured by the collision OF a l0ssenger
train with q freight engine and caboose,
on the Monon railroad near South Raub,
10 miles south of this city. The freight
engine was awaiting the passage of
the passenger train Oh a side track.
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MUST BE ANNEXED.
Chamberlain's 0pin on Regarding Future
of South AfrteaN Repuh,ics.

Nt!6!t' oHIIHIHs FIIE'"H N"EFTHI!'g Il EI UTV
of south African Republics.
LONDON, Aug. 6.-~The secretary Of
state for the colonies Mr.. Chamber
lain, in reply to a question i'll the house
Of commons, said he had already made
himself acquainted with the views of
Canada and Australia, in the main, be-
fore the South African settlement.
They were, he added, perfectly in ac-
cord with her majesty's government as
to the necessity for the annexation of
the Orange Free State and the Trans.
vaal to the British empire, and the es-
tabllshment Of a government supported
by military force, with the ultimate
extension OF representative self govern.
meut
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CHICAGO, Aug, 8.--Nine persons dead
and score of prostrations is the result
of the days heat. The mercury reached
"3 degs. in the government office at
O'Clock. while on the street it was from
2 to 4 degs. hotter. The wind, which
blew from the southwest, was sitting.
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Democrats Elect Their Ticket.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 8.-The gen.
eral election for state and county Off
GERS and for members of the general
assembly was held i'll Alabama during
the day and large majority was re-
turned for the Democratic ticket,
headed by William j. Sanford of Lee
county, who will be inausurated gov
eruOr Dec l.
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Asks for Police Prote elton.

CHICAGO, Aug. s,--Countoss Enrica
Rozwadowski, wife Of the Italian con-
sui IN Chicago has asked that special
police protection be given her husband,
expressing fear chat anarchists might
in jure the count owing tc his connee'
said that Count Rozwadowski has re-
ceived several threatening letters re.
,nnl1,r
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Record Breaking Meat Order

CHICAGO, Aug. 8.-Chicago packers
have been notified by the government
to furnish 100000 pounds of meat
within 80 days for the American SOL
dler5 in the Orient. This is said to be
the largest reqqisition ever issued bv
the government OF the United States.
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AMERICANS In THE FIGHT,
Ninth and Fourteenth Regiments En-
papea at PEI Tsaur

.>1tttt1 "ffeR 2UtsFtVUHtH iit SEElIFntH LIZ
gagged at PEI Tsang.
TEN TsIN. Sunday, Aug. 5. via
Shanghai, Aug. S.-Ihis morning at
daylight 10000 allies attacked the Chi
nese at Pei Tsang and forced the enemy
from the trenches. The Americans
who participated were the Ninth and
Fourteenth regiments, Rellly's battery
and the marines. A heavy battle is
stall in progress.
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Say II Is Not yellow Fuyer.

TAMPA, Fla, Aug. S.-An official
statement signed by state Health OFF,
Ger J. Y. Porter and ]. H. White of the
marine hospital service, just issued, de-
clares two suspected cases to be not
yellow fever.
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PRICE: $500 A YEAR.
SILVER is NOT MENTIONED.

p RYAN'S "masterful' acceptance
~ speech is erhaps more notable for
it's omissions than for what it contains.
The silver question. in which Granite
county is SO much interested. dtd not
receive even as much as passing mem
ton, viii the democracy How admit
It's treachery to that cause?
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VICTORIA, B. c., Aug. SACK Dal-
ton is building a new trail to Porcupine
to be all American, at COS of 81, 900.
The new Dor ndary line threw the old
trail into British territory.
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Regular Cyclone in England.

LONDON, Aug. 8.--A regular cyclone
has prevailed throughout the United
Kingdom since early evening. Loss of
life on land and sea and the destruction
OF shipping aud other property is re-.
ported,
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load Pei Ao. lang Isun objective.
Our forces 1900 and battery. Cone
mauSh arrived. Sixth cavalry left at
Tien Tsin for guard of city aud await
mounts. Ministers safe Oh 2Sth of
July"
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Raisin Crop Smaller Than Expected.

FRESNO, Cal, Aug S.-Reports are
That the raisln crop will not be as large
as expected. Estimates place it at
5000 to 3,4Oo carloads. The red spider
is responsible for much of the DAMAGE.
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Bubonic Plague at Hamburr

HAMBURG, Aug. S.-A case of bubonio
plague has been discovered on a vessel
in the harbor. All proper precautions
have been taken to prevent the spread
Of the disease.
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New South Wales Marines.

SYDNEY, Aug. 6.-The New South
Wales naval contingent, consisting of
25U marines, sailed for China in the
transport Salamis. A large aad enthu.
slastlc crowd witnessed the departure
OF the men
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France Has No Adyjces.

PARIS, Aug. S.-At cabinet council
1t was announced that the French gov
ernment had received no advices tend.
ing to show that the advance of the
allied forces on Pekin had been decided
upon.
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For Sale at a Barrain.

Lot and building on Broadway: good
business legation, in same block as post
office. Will be sold at half its actual
value For particulars inquire at this
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
SHIPMENT of Dressed Fowls.

It is a saying that the mar
ket is never over-stocked with the best.
and this is probably correct. Whenever
the market is over-stocked ii begins at
the poorest quality to reject. If the
market does not reject the low quality,
it at once reduces the price to a point
below cost of production and market
ing. Therefore the only people that
stand a chance of making money are
those that send to market good prod
ucts in good shape. In a way markets
are always oyer-stocked, except in
times of special scarcity. But the mar
ket is never over-stocked with choice
fowls. Great loss to the producers re-
suits from the in which
fowls are dressed and shipped to mar
ket. One man says that the quantity of
fowls daily dressed and sent to market
in an unstable condition is enormous.
Farmers Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
Pleasures of Penal servitude.

A prisoner who lately anne out of
one of her majesty's convict prisons
Parkhurst, in the Isle of Wight-spoke
in the highest terms of the establish
ment, and appeared sorry to have left
it. He described it as a s%anitarium. He
said Mr.. Jabez Balfour is engaged in
making post Office bags, apparently as
happy as if he was addressing a Baptist
meeting. Victor Honor is also, with
Monsoon, at his sanitarium employed in
putting up weeds and gardening. My
informant" he adds, was of opinion
that if the doors were accidentally
opened. three-fourths of the prisoners
would decline to walk out."-Wakefield
(Eng.2 Sentinel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
po.Itrx Hou.e Di.tnfec,ant..

1t is we'll to keep the fact in mind
that pure air and sunshine are the best
of disinfectants. They discount every
thing in keeping the nursery coops in
condition. Turn these coops over FIRE.
quently so when the hens and their
broods are out on the range the sun
may shine on them all day. If this is
regularly attended to and their loca-
ton changed so as to occupy a fresh
spot of ground once a week you a re
lieve your mind of any fear of foulness
which will be injurious to the chicks.
This kind of disinfecting costs nothing
in the way of labor, and is one of the
cheap things which is thoroughly good.
Farmers Voice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23

The wild onion is the bane of the
pastures, but it a be eradicated en-
tirely if attention is given it. One
of the remedies suggested for the
wild onion odor in milk is to stable
the cows about three o'clock and give
hay, allowing their regular food as
usual. The odor will pass off in the
secretions in three or four hours.
Every season, however. the wild onion
regularly appears and increases. yet
the pests are easily destroyed by pull
ing them up or keeping them cut
down. This may be tedious for
awhile, but pays well in the end.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
HI HORSE
Those Who Raise the Right Sort OF
Animals Have Never Yet Made
l. Failure of 1t.

At the roundup institute in Wiscon-
sin last year, H. A. Briggs, an extensive
breeder of hat state. gave the fol-
lowing good advice in regard &c the
brood mare:
If you are going to raise draft horses
see what kind of brood mare you have.
Don't try to raise a draft horse from
q 1000 or 1,1O0-ponnd trotting mare.
Select your largest mares and eross
them with the breed you like best,
a pure-bred draft horse, whether he is
imported or American bred, you must
get size and quality. If you are going
to breed carriage or coach horses. Sc
lect your mare that have size and
quality, and cross them with the very
best carriage horse you can. | am not
going to point out the particular breed
you should Lave. Among our American
trotters we can get as good a type OF
coach horse as there is in the world, if
we look TO size and quality, but there
are not enough of them. If American
people had paid as much attention to
producing good carriage horses as they
have to producing speed. and speed
alone, we would have the best coach
and carriage horses of any nation in
the word. and we would have a ma
tional reputation for producing car
riage horses equal to the one we have
had for producing little trotters. That
has been the one great trouble with the
men who have been raising trotting
horses, they have lost sight of very
thing except the speed and the speed
pedigree, and the result in many cases
has been that not one in 25 has been
fit to put on the market to sell for any
kind of legitimate use. Get the idea
of trying to raise trotting horses out
of your head; if he can't do anything
but trot you do not want him. because
you would do more harm to yourself
and your family in a financial and a
moral way than anything you a do
on the farm. But if you nave a good
standard trotting mar and can ros
her with a good French or German
coach or standard bred horse you can
make money in raising coach or ar
rage horses. Such horses are SELL
ing all the way from $50 to $1,000.
They weigh from I,150 to 1850
pounds, and stand from 1872 to Is
hands high, with all of the style and
nice, easy action that you can get in
a horse. not a low shutting gait. but
one that gets his fee up and shows
nice knee action and nice hook action.
That will give you an idea of the kind
of horse that 1 think is advisable for
the farmer to raise. You may have
the very best breeds of either one of
these kinds, and if you neglect feed
you will have the veriest scrub that
ever grew on a Wisconsin farm.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
sheen as Farm FertiIfzer.-

Prof. Roberts, of Cornell university,
says the fertilizer produced by a sheep
in a year is worth S3.17. While the
most of this is left in the pasture. its
value to the farmer depends much
upon the condition of the grass there.
Many pastures are in such condition
that they need breaking up and re-
seeding as much as they do fertilizer,
and until something is done to remedy
this trouble the vaIue of the anu
made by the sheep would to some ex-
tent be wasted. We know that the
sheep improve the pasture by killing
many varieties of weeds, and thus give
the grass q better chance, but the
sheep should not be forced to live en-
tirely upon weeds and bushes. If they
are. it will be a question whether the
bushes or the flock of sheep will be
ki4led first,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
PRESERVING EGGS.
Formula Used by Spectators and
Dealers Engaged in the Business
ON a Large Scale.

Numerous methods of preserving
eggs are in use. The idea of all of them
is to keep air out of the eggs, as by
such absence of oxygen decay can be
arrested for a considerable length of
time. especially if the eggs are perfect
~ fresh at the start and are kept in
a cool. dark place. The standard meth
cd most used by spectators and deal
ers is to put eggs in lime water. The
process is as follows, this recipe having
been widely sold at five dollars under
pledge of secrecy: Take two gallons of
water, IL pounds of unsiaked lime and
four pounds of salt, or in that proper
ton according to the quantity of eggs
to be preserved. Stir several times
daily and then let stand until the liquid
has settled and is perfectly clear. Draw
or carefully dip off the clear liquid,
leaving the sediment at the bottom.
Take for the above amount of liquid
five ounces each of baking soda, ream
of tartar. saltpeter and boraI and an
ounce of alum. Pulverize and mix these
and dissolve in n gallon of boiling
water and add to the mixture about 20
gallons of pure lime water. This will
about fill a cider barrel. Put the eggs
in carefully SO as not to crack any of
the shells, letting the water always
stand an inch above the eggs. which
can be done by placing a barrel head a
little smaller upon them and weighing
it. This amount of liquid will preserve
$50 dozen of eggs. 1t is not necessary
to wait to get a full barrel or smaller
package of eggs, but they can be put
in at any time that they can be OBJ
tanned fresh. The same liquid should
be used only once.-Michigan Trades
man.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
safurn's Ninth Satellite.

PROF. Pickering, of the Harvard OBJ
seTvatory, has discovered a ninth sat
elite revolving around the planet Sat
urn. The eighth satellite was discoy-
cred at the Harvard observatory by
Prof. Bond in 1s4s. The new satellite
was found with the aid of photography,
its image appearing among the stars on
four plates exposed in the Bruce pho
Geographic telescope at the Harvard sta
ton nea Arequipa, Peru. 1t is exceed
ingly faint, being estimated at magni-
tude 1874. Its distance from the planet
is 3A times greater than hat of the
outermost satellite of Saturn hitherto
known, or about 7,7s7,O0O miles. This
is more than 80 times the distance of
our moon from the earth. Besides its
nine moons Saturn has an enormous
number of small attendant bodies
crowded together and forming its ia
nous rings.-Youth's Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
Invention of the boomerang.

OF all mans inventions, the boom
erang seems the strangest and least
likely kind of weapon for the natural
man. with no knowledge of mechanics,
to have hit upon; and yet ii becomes in
telligible enough when we hear that in
Australia, where the boomerang was
discovered, there grows a tree that
sheds a seedpod of such a shape that it
whirls away in the air and returns again
as il falls. But how many black fell
lows" had watched these seedpods whirl
and gyrate-our own ash throws down
things hat try to emulate the gyration
before one of them thought of imi-
tatirg the shape of the pod on a large
scale and so make the first boomerang?
We do not know the date of the first
boomerag, but we know when Newton
discovered g~ravitation; and it in likely
that the seedpods had been falling about
as long as apples.-Blackwood's Mag
aZiue.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
TIMELY SWINE NOTES
lie hogs are mortgage filters this

The hogs are mortgage filters this
year.
Converting corn into pork this sea-
son has been a paying business.
Do not let the harvest work or cuIti-
vation of the crops interfere with the
care of the pigs.
The wheat that did not pay to cut
can be harvested by the hogs to a de-
cided advantage. =
Let the hogs run in the orchard now
and they will destroy lots of worms
and insects by eating up the dropping
fruit.
a farmer who cannot lind pleasure
in handling the swill pail for the pigs
is not able to enjoy all the pleasures
of the farm.
Hogs are filthy animals only when
they are compelled to be filthy. They
enjoy clean quarters as much as any
other animal. and Will keep them so if
given a chance.-National Stockman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23

Ladies and gentlemen" said the
seedy-looking individual when he had
been prevailed upon to come to the
platform, 81 will confess that I was once
addicted to strong drink, but now"
How long ago was that?" called out
somebody from the audience.
The seedy individual gave one look at
the man who had interrupted him and
satisfied himself that he had been rec
ognized.
81 should judge" he said. with the
air of a man who was trying to stimu-
late his memory, that it was between
Is and 20 minutes ago."
Thus it happened his speech never
was made.-Chicago Post.
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Just Kitchen Fires.

Mrs. A. told her new man servant
"a colored youth from the country to
make a fire in the d~rawing-room the
other day. Coming in oon after, she
found him hopelessly contemplating
the andirons, tongs, etc, with a pile of
logs by his side large enough to warm
a regiment.
Have you never made a fire before,
William" she asked, somewhat sharp
ly.
"Well, ma'am, L amt neye made what
yo' call a refined fire-no, ma'am!" was
the puzzled reply.-Harper's Bazaar
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23

turned on its side, to make a level
floor, and nail two strips at the front,
as shown. Make a front of laths as
shown in the cut and place against
the strips. a nail at either side will
hold it in place. During the day let
the Slated part be at the bottom.
so the chicks can run in and out. At
night simply turn the front around
in it's place. so that the more solid
part may come at the bottom to keep
ont prowling enemies and to keep the
chicks in.-Orange JUDI Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-23
Varied Ration. for Hog,

I feed my hogs corn and oats princi-
paIly. Bulk of the feed, corn. Make
a swill using corn and oats ground to-
9ether one-third corn and two-thirds
oats, and add to that a little wheat
shorts. Hogs have run of pasture.
Have access to salt at all times; plen-
ty of water. Pumpkins are fed in the
fall, also small potatoes and waste ap-
pies and such stuff from the garden
not disable in the house. In fact any
and oil things raised on the farm that
will tempt their appetite and be con-
ducive to their healthy. G. Barfoct,
in Farmers Review.