Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Sheng, the director general of rail-
ways and telegraphs, has just COM
according to a special dispatch to the
Paris Temps dated the 5th, an imperial
decree, dated the I'd, authorizing the
foreign ministers in Pekin to COM
municate without restriction with
their governments, and ordering their
departure for Tien Tsin under a good
escort.
Fred Hines, 10 years old, has o
fessed that he poisoned his father, who
is lying dangerously i'll at the county
hospital in Fresno, Cal. The boy said
that his father treated him cruelty and
had refused to allow him to drive his
team, and he concluded to kill him.
He and his younger brother bought
the poison which Fred put in his ia
theirs coffee.
Seven photographs of the n~ewly-dis-
covered comet were taken at Harvard
observatory, or the night of the 4th,
and at the same time Prof. Wendell
measured the light of the 1915 magni-
tude star in the comets path. The
passage of the comet only diminished
the stars brightness .O3 of the magni-
tude.
In his first rae in this country, Per-
cy F. Cavill, the champion swimmer of
England and Australia, easily defeated
VIII III. Smith, of Calias, at Eastport,
Me-, on the 5th. The time for the mile
was 29h minutes. Cavill will swim J. l..
McCuster for the American champion
ship at Boston on the 25th.
An anarchist riot occurred in Chi
cago, on the 5th, at the corner of
Twelfth and Halstead streets, in which
IS persons were bruised in a struggle
with As policemen, summoned to quell
the disturbance. The notorious Lucy
Parsons was one of the five anarchists
arrested.
The union machinists of Oil City,
Pa who had been ON strike for II
weeks, decided, on the 5th, to return
to work at the old scale of wages, and
without any concessions from the en-
ployers.
Mrs. Margaret Brown Oliver, mother
of George T. Oliver, proprietor of the
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, died
in that city, on the 5th, aged 81 years.
King Alexander of Servia welded
Madame Draga Maschin, on the 5th,
the ceremony being performed with
great pomp.
Four thousand cab drivers in Paris
went OF strike, on the 5th, demanding
a lower rat for renting vehicles.
Hon. JAS. o. Lyford, of Concord, N.
H., has been appointed guardian of
Charles Hoyt, the playwright. The APP
pointment was made at Mr.. Hoyt's re-
quest. Lyford will assume manage
ment of all Mr.. Hoyt's business affairs
and will endeavor to preserve as much
as possible of Mr.. Hoyt's personal es-
tate, the monetary value of which is
q matter of conjecture.
The population of the city of Buffa-
10, according to the official count of
the twelfth Isl is 352,219; in 1890
it was 255,646. There figures show for
the city as a whole an increase in
population of 96,555, or 37.77 per cent.
from 1890 to 1900. The population in
1880 was 155,134, showing an increase
of 100,530, or $3.50 per cent. from 1880
to 1890.
Alexander Jester, the aged preacher,
recently acquitted of the murder of
Gilbert W. Gates, has taken up his resi-
dence in Norman, Okla, with his son,
William Hill. He that he
will soon return to preaching, basing
his first sermon on the sixth COM
mandant, "Thou shalt not kill"
The provisioning of Germany's naval
forces for the China campaign has been
greatly interfered with by the search
ty of canned meats in the empire. The
government is compelled to buy meats
at a high price in foreign countries,
because of the inability of Germany to
supply home demands.
The new ecclesiastic marriage law In
Cuba, revoking the decree issued in
May of last year by Gov.-Gen. Brooke,
will go into effect on the 18th. The
Brooke edict prohibited ecclesiastical
marriages, recognizing only the civil
ceremony.
Chicago packers have been asked by
the government to furnish 100000 o
pounds of meats within 80 days for
the army. This is said to be the Iarg~
est requisition ever issued by the gov
eminent of the United States.
The 70-foot sloop Rainbow, owned
by Cornelius Vanderbilt, won the COM
modore's cup for sloops of that class,
on the 9th, in the New York Yacht
clubs race, sailing e a 21-mile
course ON Long Island sound.
About thirty persons were prostrat-
ed by the heat in Chicago, on the 9th,
of whom nine died. The maximum
temperature vas % degrees.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Slough
ton, of the United States gunboat Cas-
tine, was drowned at Shanghai on the
5th.