Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-09-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS TENS.
A British signal officer reports q
sharp engagement between a com
pany of the Fourteenth United States
infantry and 1000 Boxers at Mo Tao,
on the road to Pekin. The Americans
made a gallant stand, and a detach-
ment of Bengal lancers, nea by, hear.
ing the firing, came to their rescue,
and charged the Boxers in the rear.
The Chinese were routed, leaving 200
dead. The Americans had no casual
ties.
The keeper of the ~life-saving sta
ton at the western extremity of Gal
weston island, got in on the 10th. He
reported that the station is gone and
that a frightful scene of d~esolation
exists. He says hat $50 bodies were
buried there; that the prairie and
marshes are strewn with the carcasses
stencil is terrible.
Driven to desperation by the fear
that he would be disgraced by finan-
cial troubles, the result of over-con-
fidence in a friend, George S. Forbes,
teller of the First national bank of
Chicago, sought seclusion in the
South Chicago hotel, on the night of
the 10th, and deliberately shot him.
self through the heart.
John b. Randolph, a well-known art
critic of New York city, was killed by
a fall down stairs in his residence on
West One Hundred and Twenty-first
street, on the 18th. Mr.. Randolph, for
several years, had been the purchas-
ing art critic for the Goulds, Hunting
tons, Mills and several other promi-
nent families.
A well-founded has been GO
ing the rounds of the large lumber
firms operating on Puget sound, late
ly, that a representative of the Rus
sian government was investigating the
cost and the probabilities of quick
delivery of 3O,OOO,O0 feet of lumber
at V~ladivostok.
A mob, on the 10th, drove Zion Ell
der Ephraim Bassinger, of Button,
Ind, and two converts out of Mans
field, o. They were subjected to cruel
indignities as they were dragged to
the depot, and afterwards placed
upon a passing express train and sent
out of town.
During the last eight months the
emigration from Hamburg and Bre-
men was 13S,41S, as compared with
1851 for the corresponding period
of last year.
Gen. Fukishima is arranging winter
quarters at Tien Tsin for the Japan
csc troops.
Six lives were lost, at least TWO per-
sons were fatally injured, and several
others were seriously burned in the
destruction of a Salvation Army
nursery in Cincinnati on h 18th.
The building was used for the care of
infants whose parents were compelled
to earn a living. One of those lost
was a father who arrived at the fire
in time to attempt the rescue of his
children. and persisted with them.
The steamer Valencia arrived at Sc
attic, Wash, on the 18th, from Nome,
with a large passenger list and $780,
900 in gold consigned by trading COM
panies. The Valencia brings news
hat a terrible gale ragged at Nome
from September 1 to 5, but that only
three persons are known TO have been
lost.
While working in the Hidden For
tune mine, owned by Otto Grant,,
north of Lead, S. d., Capt. Grant Todd,
of Lead, was accidentally struck in
the back of the neck by Il mining
hammer. The blow shattered the
nerves in such a wa that total blind
ness enSued.
A special from Dawson says: Re
liable miners who have returned to
Dawson from the Tanana district,
after thoroughly prospecting and
panning on all the different developed
creeks, say that the diggings are no
good.
a meeting of iron dealers from vari-
Gus parts of Germany held at Cologne,
on the 10th, appointed a special com
mittee to confer with the manufac
turers with a view of cou~nteractins
the present pressure for lower prices.
The imports of wheat into Liver
pool for the week ended on the 18th,
were $4,000 quarters from Allan
tic ports, and 5000 quarters from 9th
= II - VI WIN IL OlI
Atlantic ports were 46,400 quarters.
The comptroller of the currency, on
h nth, declared a dividend of ten
| per cent. in favor of the creditors of
the insolvent Union national bank OF
; Denver, Col.
At the meeting of the British privy
council at Balmoral, on the 18th, it
VAS decided that the dissolution OF
| parliament should take place Septem.
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The police guard which has been
maintained at the Chinese legation
| in Washington for several weeks, is to
be withdrawn as no longer necessary
National headquarters of the gold
! democratic party We're established, Oh
the 18th, at Indianapolis, Ind.