Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| Unofficial reports published in the
| London Daily Mail say that in the
Boer assault on Ladysmith. on the
| 9th, the British lost II officers killed
! and a wounded. and over 500 nom
commissioned officers and men killed
| CT wounded. The Boer losses are es-
| timated at between 1000 and 5000.
| Col. Billiards. movement southwark
| from Manila has been very successful.
| He started in pursuit of the rebels and
| stl uck several large forces. His men
| captured the strongly fortified town of
San Tomas, where the rebels left Sc
| dead in the trenches. Fifty-four insur-
gents, with their Mausers, were cap
tured, and the enemy abandoned four
| smooth-bore cannon.
A. X. Ward, the famous alleged for
ger, was given a sentence, at Memphis,
Tenn, of three years IN the peniten-
tiary, after a trial lasting a week.
This is Wards eighth trial. Twice
before he was convicted, but he Sc
cured a reversal in the supreme court.
Ward was indicted 90 times.
\ report was current in London, on
the 18th, that Queen Victoria was the
victim of slight attack of influenza.
II is known that she has taken the
war very much at heart, and it is sup
posed that worry helped her contract
the disease more than anything else.
The house committee on territories,
on the 18th, continued its investigation
of the conditions in Alaska. Gov.
Brady, ]. C.. Price and John p. Hart
man were heard. Mr.. Price advocated
a law allowing taxes collected in the
territory to be expended there instead
of being paid into the treasury.
AT a meeting of the Boston Clearing
house association, on the 18th, it was
voted to sell the collateral held as Sc
cUrity for the S3,50O,O00 in clearing
house certificates issued to the Globe
national bank before it's collapse.
The senate committee on relations
with Cuba, on the 18th, informally dis
cussed the conditions in the island and
considered reports of officers in the
different provinces.
The opening sale of seats, on the
18th, for the engagement of Henry r.
wing at the Alvin theater, in Pitts
burgh, Pa. was the largest eyer held
more than block from the theater,
and in the first IL hours $s,4OO was
taken in at the box office.
Ferdinand Peck, commissioner gen.
eral of the United States to the Paris
exposition, has secured from the French
government the remission of duties on
printed matter dealing with our ex-
hibits. He has also secured space for
Cuban, Puerto Rican and Hawaiian
products as an Independent exhibit.
Renewed buying of silver by the
Indian government" the London Stat
list says, ''can not be much longer de-
layed. in consequence of rupee coinage
requirements, and this will lead, doubt
less, to marked improvement in the
price of silver
Lieut.. Gilmore, formerly of the York
town. and for many months prisoner
in the hands of the Tagalos, was, on
the 5th, assigned to duty on the
Glacier.
The British casualty list of the Lady
smith battle, on the 9Th, is now COM
plete, with Is officers killed, &c wound
ed. and 1873 killed and 244 wounded of
the rank and file. The aggregate of
the casualties is 42O, or about five per
cent. of the probable strength of the
garrison fit for duty.
The list of killed officers at Lady
smith includes two names familiar to
all England-the earl OF Ava and
Lieut.-Col. Dick Cunningham of the
Gordon Highlauders. The former was
the eldest son of the marquis of Duff
ferin. He had gained distinction in the
Bechuanaland expedition of 1855.
Oliver H. P. Belmont, on the 18th, is
sued invitations to dinner he will
give in honor of William j. Bryan up
on the occasion of the Nebraska lead
er's visit to New York city. The din
ner will take place on Monday evening,
January %. in Mr.. Belmont's home.
The wreck of a two-masted steamer,
name unknown. is reported from st. |
Marys bay, Newfoundland. From the |
size of the vessel-about 5000 tons-she
must have carried at least 60 persons,
and perhaps some passengers, but not |
one lives to tell the story.
The British foreign Office officials /
say emphatically that the question of |
the Newfoundland fishing rights has |
been settled for at least year through |
the acceptance by Great Britain of a |
French proposition that the modus /
vivendi be extended Tor another year.