Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The population of Nebraska is l.
06S,5 $50, as against 1,O5S,910 in 1890.
This is an increase of 9,629, or g per
cent.
An imperial trade orders the imme-
date signature of a contract for the
construction of a fast cruiser with the
Cramps, of Philadelphia, says the
Constantinople correspondent of the
london Daily Chronicle. The price
agreed upon will give a sufficient sur
plus to settle the American indemni-
ties.
Rear-Admiral Frederick V. McNair,
who was succeeded in command of the
Asiatic station by Admiral (then com
modore) Dewey, shortly before the
outbreak of the var with Spain, died
in Washington, on the 28th, as the re-
suit of a stroke of apoplexy. He had
been in the naval service As years, and
was the ranking rear-admiral.
Gen. Roberts reports that the gar
rison at DeWetsdorp, consisting of
about 400 men, with two guns, was
compelled to surrender to a Boer
force said to be $500 strong, Oh No
vember %, after having suffered a loss
of Is killed and AZ wounded.
While watching a game of football
from the roof of the San Francisco &
Pacific glass works, at San Francisco,
on the 29th, the oof collapsed, pre-
cipitating more han 100 men and
boys on to the white hot furnaces be-
iow. Thirteen were instantly killed
or roasted to death and nearly 100
more or less seriously injured, some
of whom will die.
The auxiliary cruiser Yosemite,
the station ship at Guam island, was
blown from her anchorage during the
terrible typhoon of November - and,
after striking on a reef drifted 20
miles to sea, where she sank. Her
crew, with the exception of five men
who left the ship in a boat, to find
shelter, and were drowned, were res
cued by the collier Justin.
Cincinnati is shocked over the
knowledge hat George R. Grifiths,
for years clerk of the board of educa-
ton, was at the time of his death a
defaulter to the school fund, and to
the city of Cincinnati, in an
probably exceeding 100000.
The recent mine disaster at Berry
vile, w. Va, in which IA lives were
lost, proves to have been the result of
a conspiracy to kill the foreman of
the mine. The conspirators, after
lighting the fuse, stood at the n
trance of the mine, but the force OF
the explosion was greater than they
expected, and they were also killed.
Preston TODD, % years old, was
killed while taking part in a football
game at Chicago on the Goth. TODD
playing half back and was given
the ball to make a buck through the
of the opposing eleven. After
a lively scrimmage TODD was picked
up unconscious, and died three hours
later.
AS the result of a boiler explosion
at Davenport, Ia, on the night of the
goth, in the plant of the Glucose Sugar
Refining Co., two men were killed and
five seriously injured. The boiler
house was demolished by the force of
the explosion.
If an agreement concerning rates
to the G. A. r. encampment is not
arranged between western roads be-
fore the 18th, it is likely the encamp-
ment will not be held at Denver.
Joseph Manley, of Maine, will prob
ably be an applicant for the place OF
commissioner of internal revenue, vice
Wilson, deceased.
The statement of the treasury ba'-
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $50, 0OO, 600 gold reserve IN the
division of redemption, issued on the
30th, showed: Available cash balance,
S139, 800, 1877; gold, $685. 4 1873.
A dispatch from Paris, on the 30th,
says Oscar Wilde is dead, and adds
hat he expired in an obscure house
in the Latin quarter from meningitis,
and was received into the Catholic
church on his death bed.
Mrs. Emma Van Lew, who was
under Indictment at Van Vert, o.. for
numbering Alice HlImmell by throw
ing vitriol in her face, pleaded guilty
to manslaughter, on the 30th, and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years. She was taken to the peniten-
tiary at Columbus the same day.
At the meeting of the Royal society
in London, on the 30th, it VISA an
nounced that the projected national
Antarctic expedition would start next
autumn, and that the construction of
a vessel to be named the Discovery"
had already been commenced at Dun
dee.
The accounts of the operations of
the German expeditionary forces in
China are shocking. They show that
the spirit of revenge is being carried
to extremes which can not be coun-
tenanced by civilized nations.
Gen. Macarthur has confirmed the
sentences of hanging passed upon
four Filipinos recently convicted of
murder at Lingaueyen. The con-
demned were members of the Guardia
de Honor, a band of ~assassins, whose
victims were kidnapped and boloed.
They win be hanged December FL.
Finley Peter Dunno. author of the
.Dooley' papers and for many years
an active newspaper man OF Chicago,
il dangerously i'll with pneumonia at
st. Luke's hospital in that city.
Arndt Z. Housekeeper, of Narberth,
Pa, was discharged as a voluntary
bankrupt in the United States district
court at Philadelphia, on the 30th,
with liabilities of 81. s91 ,oos, and assets
$2S. He had been made the scapegoat
Of real estate spectators.