Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

! Lord Strathcona, Canadian high com.
missioner i'll London, has offered to
provide, distinct from the Canadian
contingents, a force of at least 400
mounted men from Manitoba, North
west territory and British Columbia,
and to arm, equip and convey them to
South Africa at his own expense, esti-
mated at $1,OOO,OOO. All will be expert
marksmen, rough riders and scouts.
His offer has been accepted.
In a speech in Chicago, on the 14th,
i'll behalf of fraternal insurance or
| ganization for colored people, Prof.
Booker L. Washington said: THE
negro in the north, as elsewhere, will
| prosper in proportion as he learns to
do some one thing well-learns to do
! it better than any one else; in proper
ton as he learns to put brains, skill
and dignity into the common occupa-
tions of life"
In order to secure better protection
| against cattle swindlers and workers of
frauds, several representatives of Chi
| cago livestock commission firms en-
route to the Fort Worth (TeX.) cattle
convention, stopped off at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 14th, long enough to
form what will be known as the Live
Stock Commission Merchants Protect
i've association.
John Barrett, eX-United States min
lister to Siam, in a speech in Chicago,
on the 18th, for the first time publicly
named Senator Hoar as the United
States senator whose anti-eXpansion
speech was cabled to Hong Kong and
subsequently put in the hands of the
Filipino soldiers, causing, as Mr.. Bar
rett believed, the open instruction.
Plans for the expenditure of $685.
OO0,O00 in improving the physical con-
dition of the Baltimore &, Ohio railroad
have been completed, and within the
next three years that vast amount of
money will have been expended I'm
provement of roadbeds, bridges, tracks
and equipment will be made ON all
lines of the system.
Joe Melivich and Joseph Maxwell,
working in the Colsua-Parrott mine,
at Butte, Mont, were instantly killed,
on the 14th, by the explosion Vi
blast that had hung fire. A round of
holes had been fired, and the men had
returned to clear up the debris when a
missed hole went off.
The health authorities of Adelaide,
South Australia, report two cases of
bubonic plague, one being fatal. The
victim was a runaway sailor from the
British bark Forma.
In the senate, on the 18th, nearly
three hours was taken up with a spir-
tied debate on the Philippine question.
Mr.. Rawlings (dem., Utah) spoke in
opposition to the proposed financial
legislation. Mr.. Mason introduced
bill to prevent the adulteration of food
and drugs. In the house the session
was devoted mainly to consideration of
District of Columbia business. Repre-
sentative June w. Gayle (Ky.) was
sworn in, and Mr.. Cannon reported the
urgent deficiency bill.
1t was announced by interested part
les in Boston, on the 18th, that $50, 200
hal been pledged by one person, whose
name is withheld, to the fund which
is being raised to carry on the work
of Dwight L. Moody. Other large
sums are expected by the committee to
whom has been committed the contin-
uation of the educational institutions
founded by the evangelist.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill, the first of the important bills for
the government, reported to the
house by Chairman Cannon of the
ways and means committee, on the
18th, carries $50, 27,S41, of which Sat-,
Coz, 1892 is re-appropriations for the mil
itary and naval establishments, and
S,525, 500 direct appropriations
The statement of the treasurer Of |
Harvard university, which will soon be
issued, shows that gifts which were |
1895, to July 81, 1899, aggregated ST. |
544 ,S29. OF this amount 81 1888, AGO was |
to form new funds or increase old |
ones, and S161, 1868 was available for inn |
mediate use.
The next United States transport to |
leave Santiago de Cuba for Manila will |
carry 1000 collins. One of these con- |
tains the body of soldier. AS it was |
not marked the coffin was mislaid, and |
it is now impossible to discover which |
one it is, as each box contains three |
collins.
By order of the directors the pay of |
the operatives in the employ of the
Nonatum & Newton Worsted Co., of |
Washington, was advanced ten per ]
cent. on the 18th. This means an
actual increase and not a restoration,
and affects about 600 hands.
Every effort is making by the census
bureau to tabulate the returns as rap
idly as possible of the census of Cuba
and Puerto Rico, and it is probable
that the full result of the work may be
ready for public announcement in
three or four weeks.