Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Senior Cancio, Cuban secretary OF
finance, in the course cf a pamphlet
just issued on the financial condition
of the municipalities of the island
urges better business management,
pointing out that a municipality
should be as carefully conducted on
its financial side as a business cor
poration.
The state department., on h 21st,
received a copy of the Anglo-German
agreement regarding China from
Count De Quadt, the German charge
d'atfaires, who, earlier in the day, had
received it by telegraph from Count
Won Buelow, the German chancellor
at Berlin.
The Vremdenblatt and the Neue
Freie Presse, of Vienna, approve the
agreement between England and Ger
many, and express themselves as con
fdent that all the powers will adhere
to it, because any power declining to
do so would excite distrust."
Baroness Won Ketteler, the widow
of the murdered German ambassador
to China, arrived in Detroit, Mich, on
the 21st, and was Immediately driven
to the residence of her father, Henry
B. Ledyard, president of the michigan
Central railroad.
All the London morning papers di-
late upon the high Importance of the
Anglo-German agreement. The Daily
Telegraph describes it as 1.-THE most
remarkable success scored by British
diplomacy since the Berlin treaty."
A. D. Price, of Palestine, Ten, a
student at the Bingham (N.C.) school,
died, on the 21st, from injuries sus-
tanned in a practice game of football
the day before. His spinal column
was broken between the shoulders.
Mr.. Robert Buchanan, the novelist,
had a cerebral hemorrhage in Lon
don. on the 21st, which was followed
by paralysis of the right side and
complete loss of speech. His condi-
ton is very critical.
Advices received from Hayti, on the
21st, assert that the revolution in
Santo Domingo is not ended, and that
fighting was proceeding in the in
terror, although the revolutionists
were weak.
Maj-Gen. Leonard Wood, military
governor general of Cuba, arrived in
Washington on the 21st. During the
afternoon he called at the White
House and had a conference with the
president.
The new British minister to China,
Sir Ernest Mason Satow, arrived at
Pekin on the 21st.
Reliable advices from Copenhagen,
on the 22d, asserted that the sale of
the Danish Antilles to the United
States will soon be effected. The
Danish minister to the United States,
DR.. Constantine Bruin, will start for
Washington, after completing his
home congo, bearing the formal terms
of sale.
Currency shipments by the sub
treasury at New York to various
points west and southwest, from the
latter part of August up to the Goth,
amounted to S14,726,0O0. Of this
amount Chicago got $2,75O,OOO; st.
Louis, $3,3OO,00O; Kansas City, $780,
900, and New Orleans, Ss,467, 900.
Gen. Leonard Wood. governor-gen-
eral of Cuba, saw Secretary Long, on
the 22d, and recommended that steps
be taken to remove the wreck of the
battleship Maine from the harbor, as
it occupies a great deal of space which
could be utilized to advantage.
President Mitchell, in an interview,
on the 22d, practically admitted that
the anthracite coal miners strike
mould ord nc co@~ ae I'll 49, Nv
orators posted notices guaranteeing
the payment of a ten per cent. ad-
vance in wages until April 1.
Gen. Andree, French minister of
war, has almost concluded, according
to La France Militaire ct Religieuse,
the draftingof a bill to reform courts
martial by the substitution, at least
in time of peace, of civil magistrates
for military judges.
The Spanish under secretary of the
interior, the project of Madrid and
the mayor of Madrid, as well as sever
al projects of departments, have re-
signed as the result of the appoint
ment of Gen. Weyler as captain-gen-
era1 of Madrid.
Hon. John Sherman, former repre-
sentative in the house, for a long time
a member of the senate, and twice
holding cabinet positions, died at his
residence in Washington city, on the
ed, in the seventy-eighth year of his
age.
Count Won Buelow, by formal let.
tiers, on the 22d, apprised the bundles
rath of Prince Hohenlohe's retire.
ment and of his own appointment as
imperial chancellor of Germany and
president of the Prussian cabinet.
The steamship City of Seattle ar.
rived at Vancouver, B. c., on the 22d
from Skagway, with 27s passengers on
board and a case of smallpox. She
was anchored in mid-stream, flying
! the yellow flag.