Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-09-20
TOPICS OF Il DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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The Transvaal republic will hence
forth be known as the Naal River col
ohy.
The steamer City of Seattle arrived
at Seattle, Wash, On the 18th, from
Skagway, with III passengers and
SG5O,OOO in gold.
1t is reported from Norwich hat
the Standard Oil Co. is trying to OBJ
tain control of the Cheshire salt
trade.
Latest estimates of the property
losses by the great Texas storm, place
the aggregate amount at $40, O00, 900.
The total area involved in the an
thracite miners strike is 472 square
miles, with an annual output of 49,
100000 tons, employing 14S,O00 miners
and breaker hands. Hundreds of train
crews will be forced into idleness.
The anthracite miners have issued
a statement of their grievances,
which, on its face, shows them to be
the victims of gross injustice at the
hands of h operators. Some of the
abuses complained of r violations
of the laws of Pennsylvania.
Owing to the utter impossibility of
giving proper burial to the dead at
Galveston, hundreds of bodies have
been burned in pyres formed of the
debris of wrecked buildings. This
course was rendered necessary by
reason of the rapid decomposition of
the unrecognized remains.
Lord Roberts is making a concen-
trated movement on Komatepoort,
and has left Pretoria in order to di-
rect it personally. L~ydenburg IA
apparently abandoned as soon as cap
tured, the British forces going in hot
pursuit of the remnant of the Boer
army, eastward toward the Portu-
guese frontier.
Fire, on the 18th, destroyed the en-
tire plant owned by the McMorran
Milling Co., the Port Huron and
Northwestern Elevator Co. and D.. Nc
Moran & Co, at Por Huron. Mich.
The loss will reach S%225,O 900; covered
by insurance. One hundred and fifty
thousand bushels of grain is a total
loss.
Returns received from all but two
of the 521 cities, towns and planta-
tions in Maine show the following
vote for governor: Hill (rep.). 73,-
156; Lord (dem.), 39,911: Rogers
(pro.), 3.107; Lermond (sociaIist),
455; republican plurality, 1926.
A conservative estimate places the
devastated district of Galveston at
1900 acres, which was swept almost
clean of h~abitations, and the finan-
cial loss to the city and surrounding
towns is estimated at $40, OOO.O O0
ApropOs of looting at Galveston
the best evidence tends to show that
between fifty and sixty men were.
killed by the regulars and militia. I'M
der the citizens committee, within As
hours. One sergeant in Capt. Raj
ferty's Battery O, First artillery,
killed three men whom he caught in
the act of taking rings from the
bodies of m
If Dom Paul Kruger leaves his
refuge at Lorenzo MARQUEE for Eu-
rope he will have to go without his
wife, as the latter has responded to ii
request to join him hat her health
would not permit it.
George L. Gregory. superintendent
of the San Jose correctional school,.
at Havana, is dead of yellow fever.
He had been there since July IA, in
the employ of the state. He was n
native of Whittier, Cal. His widow
and four children are in Havana.
According to the correspondent of
the London Daily Telegraph, Mr..
Kruger is virtually a prisoner in the
residence of the district governor at
Lourenzo Marquee. This is at the in
stance of the British consul, who pro-
tested against Mr.. Kruger using
Portuguese territory as a base for
directing his executive.
The German Methodist conference
of the ST. Louis district, composed of
adjacent portions of Iowa, Missouri
and Illinois, in session at Burlington,
Ia, on the 18th, decided to hold the
next conference in ST. Louis.
The statement of the treasury hal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $500 OO, 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, on the 14th,
showed: Available cash balance,
S135, 562, 767; gold, $~73,694,654.
Walter NJ. Davis, assistant postmas-
ter of Kansas City, Mo-, has been re-
moved by the postmaster there. No
reason is assigned, but the action will
be confirmed by the postmaster gen.
eral.
Failures for the week ended the
18th, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co.,
were 1875 in the United States against
149 last year, and 80 in Canada against
80 last year.
Gen. James S. Martin, of Salem, ILL.,,
was, on the 14th, reelected, for the
twelfth time, commander at the
reunion.
The post office department is ar
ranging for an efficient mail service
for the army in China.
The National Association of Mexi-
can Veterans will meet at Cleveland,
o., next year.
Some of the Pennsylvania anthra-
cite coal operators declare hat they
will not attempt to fill the strikers
places. but will shut down the col
lieries and wait for the men to re-
turn. They say they have no desire
to foment disorder, and will not en-
courage it by bringing in new men.
The Italian government willlimitits
claim against China for indemnity to
G1,5O0,OOO, but the pope's bill for the
destruction of the Catholic missions
will amount to e2,400.0O0
Frank Brown, William Brown ana
David Moore, negroes, under iRdic5-
ment for murder, were lynched at