Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The International exposition Of
1901 at Glasgow, Scotland, has en-
gagged John rh1np Sousa and his band
to play at the exhibition for four
weeks next October. After his Glas-
gov season, Sousa will take his band
to London for a series of concerts, af-
ter which he will make a tour of the
principal cities of Great Britain and
Ireland, returning to America about
Christmas time.
The Berlin National Zeitung devoted
its first page, on the eth, to a care
f~ully-prepared editorial dealing with
the United States as a world power.
After pointing out the enormous
progress, economically and politically,
of America in The worlds affairs, the
editorial declares that in both re-
spects the United States is arrayed
against Europe.
During an almost unprecedented
gale on Lake Erie, on the 9th, the
ore barge S. Fl. Foster, in tow of the
Iron Duke, plunged into an awful sea
and went head-foremost to the bot
tom, carrying with her every soul of
her of eight men. She sank in
nearly one hundred feet of water.
John McAulitfe, a well-known artist,
aged 20 years, was accidentally killed,
on the 9th, by falling from a window
of his residence in New York. De-
ceased was especially well known in
connection with his pictures of horses.
Mrs. Mary L. Mclean, the mother
of John r. Mclean, of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, and of Mrs. Dewey, died in
Washington, at 1880 a. m. of the 9th,
of acute heart affection, after two
days illness.
According to a dispatch from
Bucharest, the Russian government
has broken off negotiations with
the Standard Oil Co. for a lease of
the petroleum helds.
c.. Alfred Scharsch, head bookkeeper
of the Fourth national bank at Grand
Rapids, Mich, has been arrested,
charged with d~efalcations to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
A German sample room has been
formally opened at Constantinople.
The exhibits embrace All extensive
line of Germany's manufactured arti-
cles.
A fire at Borlange, neal Falun,
Sweden, on the Sth, rendered $50 per-
sons homeless, and caused damage to
the amount of half a million kroner.
The duke and duchess of York will
visit the United States on their return
journey from Australia, via Canada
In the senate, on the 10th, Hon.
Charles A. TowEe, recently appointed
by the governor of Minnesota to sue
coed the late Senator Davis, took ti.e
oath of office. No business of import
ance was transacted in open session,
the senate going into secret session
on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty as soon
as the routine business had been dis
posed of....In the house, the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial %appropria-
ton bill was passed, after a reading
hat occupied three hour and ten
minutes debate. The bill carries S24,-
1885, OS. No other business was trans
acted.
Col. Picquardt, who was SO promi-
nently identified with the Dreyfus
case, has addressed a memorial to the
French chamber of deputies, protest
ing against the amnesty bill, which,
he says will include him among the
forgers and utterers of forgeries who
will profit by amnesty"
Walter d. Glenn, formerly cashier
of the Traders Loan and Building as
ISOLATION of Chicago, who disappeared
last summer with a charge OF being
over twenty thousand dollars short in
his accounts hanging over him, was
placed in the Cook county Jail, on the
10th, pending trial.
Gov. Roosevelt of New York, on the
10th, appointed as delegates-at-large
to represent the state of New York
at the meeting of the National Live
Stock association to be held in Salt
Lake City, Utah, January Is to Is,
Isaac v. Baker, Jr., JOIN Dwight and
Carl S. Burr, Jr.
The president, on the 10th, trans
to congress extended reports
on the agricultural of Por-
TO Rico, with special reference to the
establishment there of an agricultural
experiment station.
The Lorain CO., Steel Co. resumed
work, on the 10th, at its blooming.
converting, finishing and shaping
mills, with more than three thousand
men employed in the entire plant
The statistician of the agricultural
department reports &c, 900 bales as
the probable cotton production of the
United States for 1900-1901.
AT the Presbyterian hospital in New
York, on the 10th, Lieut.. Hobson was
reported to be greatly improved and
out of all danger.
1.-THE condition of the king OF
Sweden says a Copenhagen CORE
spondent, "has improved lately, but it
is still serious"