Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-04
OF The DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Al the meeting of the Rapid Trans
it commissioners of New York, on the
27th, a resolution was passed for a
tunnel to Brooklyn, to follow a route
favored by Comptroller Coler, who es-
Inmates that the cost of construction
will be about six million dollars.
A New York dispatch of the &th
said hat negotiations were under
way for the settlement of the anthra-
cite coal miners strike, Cardinal Glib
bons having consented to act as me-
diator between the miners and the
operators.
Every days labor at Galveston only
shows that the first estimates of the
loss of life during the great storm
were far below the actual count. Be
meath the debris at the Garden Nerein
it is estimated that fully 500 bodies
are confined in a pile of driftwOod
which is twenty feet high at some
points.
Frank Deyereaux, property MAI of
a theatrical company, who lost every
thing he had in the Galveston hurri-
cane, while trying to beat his way
north, was arrested by the sheriff at
Evergreen, Ala, and sentenced by a
magistrate at Greenville to the Pratt
City mines until December Is, as a
vagrant, in default of S. fine and S23
costs.
The health of Secretary of Staue
Hay has improved rapidly of late, and
it is eXpecteI that he will return TO
Washington in a few days and resume
the duties of his office. relieving DIR.
Hill, the acting secretary. who has
been suffering from a nalaziaI at
tack.
Iwenfy-three men and won.e1
pledging themselves to eat no food
that has been cooked, have organized
the Chicago Raw Food society with
Il. Tyler as president. 1t was decided
to try to bring about the organiza-
ton of kindred societies throughout
the United States.
The Russian naval staff announces
that it is proposed to blockade all
Chinese naval ports, in consequence
of the hostile attitude of the Chinese
feet at Shanghai, and to send fast
cruisers from the allied squadrons to
protect their transports.
~ vi H. Q =
States to withdraw her troops from
China, while al the same time ~increas-
ing the strength of her fleet in Chin
csc waters, is rather disconcerting TO
the European powers. But the inter.
probation put on it in official circles is
; that the United States is resolved t.
protect the policy of the open door ta
the extremity.
The American line steamship New
! York arrived at Southampton. on the
evening of the 27th, 17% hours late.
Her delay was caused by the fracture
of her starboard thrust shaft, which
was, fortunately, discovered before
an actual break occurred.
While a woman was engaged in
cleaning a suit of clothes in Pitts.
burgh. Pa, on the 2Sth, a blaze, gen
Grated by the brisk rubbing of gaso-
line, communicated to a tub of the
liquid standing near by, causing an
explosion and fire that resulted in the
death of two persons and serious in
jury to two Others.
The census bureau that
the population of Spokane, Wash, rs
36,S4S, as against 1922 in 1890. This
is an increase of 1926, or s4.96 pei
cent.
One customs inspector is under sus.
pension in New York and a deputy
surveyor of the port has been accuse
of collision with smugglers in pass
ing dutiable goods into this country
The accusation is based on an auto
graph confession made by Mrs. NJ
Shanahan, a dressmaker.
Reports received, on the night OF
the 27th, indicated hat the Trinity
and Colorado rivers in Texas were
again rapidly rising and compelling
people on the bottom lands to seel
safety IN higher ground. Much cot
ton and live stock is reported lost.
Randes Abrahamson, the 19-year
old boy who was accused of setting
13 fires in Duluth, Mimi, last spring
was sentenced, on the 2Sth. to tel
years at hard labor in the state peni
Tertiary. He was convicted of settins
fire to a stable in which a human lif,
was lost. On that same night, accord
ing to his own confession, he set foul
other fires.
1t is reported in Shanghai that Rus
STA has offered to advance money Il
China to repay the British loan.
Reports of the 2Sth, from the seen,
of the anthracite coal miners strik,
would seem to indicate hat som
sort of settlement, in which the min
ers would get at least a portion o
their demands granted, was not IA
off.
Following the disclosure hat a ma
jority of the powers have followed
the United States cad in rejectin:
the kaiser's latest Chinese proposal
comes the report hat Germany ha
already arranged TO recede from tn,
more radical features of it's position
Representatives of foreign nations
notably Japan, China, Italy and Ger
many, are, by the courtesy of tn
census bureau, studying our method
of enumeration and compilation OF in
dustrial statistics.
The oldest editor in the Unite,
States, G. G. Galloway, is lying at tn
point of death at his daughters HON
in Denver, Col. He was struck by
framway car, and sustained a dislo
Gated shoulder and severe internal in
5uries. His great age, 50 years, make
the chance strong against his reco,
cry.