Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PCd4 EONFC4S Il hOE WI OSNtl1G
as tremendously as could be wished
in the Chinese matter. Practically
every one of them, except the United
States, is looking forward to the time
of final settlement, and is anxious t.
take the course that will secure it the
most advantage at hat time.
The constitutional amendment, hav-
ing in view the elimination of the ne
gro as a voter in North CaroliRa, has
been carried by a majority of $4,000,
The entire democratic state ticket is
elected by majorities considerably in
advance of that given fer the amend
ment.
Gamblers of all kinds secured n foot,
ing Of Kerr's park, Kansas City, Kas..
when the Modern WoodnIen of north.
west Kansas had their annual log
rolling. Failing to get police assistance
to drive away the instances, TIE Wood
men got together and raided all the
outfits, smashing thu various gambling
devices to pieces.
Edward Leonard Dwyer, a former
millionaire, who, five years ago., mar
1ied the rich countess de Castellucia
and inherited much of her wealth, is
now penniless and a recruit in the
marine corps at the League Island
navy yard, Philadelphia.
The Louisiana board of health has
proclaimed a quarantine of five days
against all fruit vessels from Central
America carrying passengers. Il few
days g the board ~quarantined
against Costa Rica, because of the APP
pearance of yellow fever at Port Ii
Announcement was made in Phila-
de1phia, on the I'd, that an agreement
lad been lee ched between the city OF
Philadelphia and the heirs OF the late
DIR. Thomas w. Evans, the American
dentist, who died in Paris. France. sew
eral years ago, by which the contro-
versy will be abandoned.
Authentic reports received at Arco-
la, ILL.,, by men who have covered the
brcOmcorn district, say that the storm
of the 1st did over a million dollars
damage to the growing corn crop.
From one end of the district to the
ether the corn is lying fat OH the
ground.
A coroner's inquest held, on the I'd.
on the body of Carl Schurz, Jr., the
secoEd son of ~ex-Secretary of the In
terror Carl SchurZ, CT New York, who
died alone in his boarding house in
Nc ntague street, London, July 26, re-
suited in a verdict that death was
caused by heart disease.
Robert Dunlap, a leading merchant
of New York city, who was the founder
of the Dunlap News agency, now no
longer in existence, died in that city
on the Sd.
Henry Hillary, of Yorkshire, Eng
land, was, on the Sd, held in $4,000 bail
by United States Commissioner Craig,
at Philadelphia, for a further hearing,
charged with ~embezzling $1,000 from
the Graggleston Coal Co., of Wake
field, Yorkshire.
Capt. Rust, of the German navy, has
published a pamphlet in which he as
serts that two German financial
groups are negotiating with local
Malay p~otentates for the purchase of
the fertile island of PooIo Lontar, off
the west coast of the Peninsula of
Malacca.
DIR. Eddy, veterinary surgeon of
Stockton, CAL, left, on the Sd, for Ne
vada, Utah and Montana, on a horse
buying trip. He has been employed
to purchase 1000 cavalry and light bat
terry horses for the German army.
Some of the animals will be sent to
China and some to South Africa.
II was officially announced in Lon
don, on the Sd, that, in consequence
of the death of the duke of Saxe-Co-
burg and Gotha, the shah of Persia
had abandoned his visit to England.
Fire at Sopp's Arm, White Bay, N.
F., destroyed a large saw mill, sew
eral million feet of lumber and o set
Element of 120 houses. The whole
place was wiped out. A schooner that
happened to be landing coal for the
use of mail steamers, took the resi-
dents to a place of safety.
When the Spanish cruiser Infanta
Isabel was about to leave San Sebas-
tian, Spain, for Archacon, on the Sd,
one of her boilers gave way, and the
escaping steam scalded 81 sailors, kill
ing one and seriously injuring six
others.
The cleanup for the season is prac-
tically ended at all the gold workings
in the Klondike, and the result of the
seasons work makes the output about
$25, O0O, GOO, which is the largest out
put in the history Of the region.
A forward movement toward Pekin
is in progress, and one of the allies
advance guards IFS reported to have
penetrated to a point IS miles out
from Tien Tsin. There is indication,
too, that the Americans are exercising
every energy toward forcing the adj
vance.
Ii Hung Chang is reported to have
received telegram from Pekin stating
that Hsa Ching Cheng, former minis
ter 10 Russia, and another official were
publicly beheaded by order of the
dowager empress, on the advice of Ii
Ping Heng, for having recommended
that an effort should be made 10 con-
cilliate the powers.
Liu Kun vi, viceroy of Marking, and
Sheng, administrator of telegraphs and
of railways, and taotai of Shanghai,
have both declared, officially, that the
foreign ministers are held by the Chi
nese government as hostages, and that
If the allies march TO Pekin they will
be killed.