Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

It was reported, on the goth, that as
a result of negotiations between the
powers, an agreement had been ar
rived at which provides for the main
tenance of the statu quo in China as
regards spheres of influence and COM
merciaI agreements. and also respect
ing the nature of the guarantees and
compensations which will be demand
ed from China.
The California and Hawaiian dele
gates to the democratic national con
vention at. Kansas City, Mo-, started
east from San Francisco on the 18th.
The delegates were escorted to their
train by the Iroquois club of that city.
A large consignment of fruits and
wines had already been shipped to the
California headquarters in the CONVEX.
ton city.
The New. York Life Insurance Co
settled a claim of several thousand dol
lars apparently about to become due
IN the policy of Howard c. Benha1n, of
Batavia, n. Y, who had been convicted
of killing his wife and sentenced to die
in the electric char. Benham got. a
new trial. later, and was acquitted.
Senator Wolcott has received notice
from the national republican commit
tee of his appointment as chairman Of
the committee TO notify Gov. Roosevelt
of his nomination as vice-president.
The ceremony will take place at Oys-
ter Bay, at ten o'clock on the morn
ing of the 18th.
The steamer Zalindia, which arrived
at San Francisco, on the Goth, eight
days from Cape Nome, brought word
that smallpox had broken out on board
the steamers Santa Ana and Ohio, and
those vessels had been placed in quar-
antine at Egg island.
The statement of the treasury ball
ances in the general fund, exclusive Of
the $50, 900 reserve in the division
of redemption, issued on the Goth.
showed that the available cash balance
on hat day vas S152,424,2OO; gold.
$40, 1881, S43.
A landslide occurred at Hartsell hill,
IS miles below Decatur, Ala. on the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, on the
Goth. 1t is known that three men, n
negro and we whites, were killed, and
it is thought several others shared the
same fate.
Early delegates arriving at Kansas
City, Mo-, did not take kindly to the
proposition to nominate Mr.. Bryan on
the Fourth. They admitted the senti-
ment contained in the idea, but
thought the sentiment came too high.
An awful conflagration visited the
docks of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Co., in Hoboken, n. j., on
the 3Oth. The docks, with all the val
liable freight piled thereon, were COM.
pletely destroyed; several of the
palatial steamers OF the company and
more than a score of other craft were
destroyed O greatly damaged, causing
losses aggregating $4,000 900. The
horror of the catastrophe, however,
was found in a dreadful loss of life
200 persons being supposed to be
drowned or burned to death, while
hundreds of the rescued crowd all the
hospitals in the vicinity of the fire.
Scenes, horrible beyond description,
were witnessed during the conflagra-
ton.
In the competition for the Worlds
championship for professionals under
the auspices of the Racing club OF
France, in Paris, on h LIST, h Amerl-
can, ~Schoenfeld, won the weight-throw-
ing contest, covering 1881 metres. The
high Jump was won by Sweeny, OF
New Orleans, who cleared 1850 metres,
with S~choenfield second, clearing 1:75
metres. Sweeny also won the long
jump, with 500 metres; and Schoen.
field was second, with SOS meters.
~Rear-Admiral John W. Philip cem-
mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard,
who commanded the ~battleship Texas
in the famous battle with Cerv"ra's
feet off Santiago, a man beloved by
all who knew him, and especially by
the men who served with him, died,
on the evening of the 3Oth, of heart
failure.
At a meeting held in Providence, r.
L, on the 1st, of the 43 church societies
composing the Providence union of the
Y. P. S. C.. f. a special service on the
necessity for greater respect for the
a. as a preliminary for strict and
general enforcement was held.
The United States transport Short
Creek, from Cuba, on the 1st, landed
30S Cuban teachers at Boston, all men,
who are to study at Harvard this sum-
mer. They came mostly from Havana
and adjacent portions of the island.
They were taken at once to Cam
bridge.
The patent medicine plant of kilo-
more & Co., in Binghamton, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire, on the 1st; loss.
$150,O0O.
The imports of dry goods and mer-
chandise at the port of New York for
the week ended on the 30th, were 3d.
500, 100.