Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-11
LATE r4EHS ITEE.S.

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According to the report of the SUI
perintendent of the Hot Springs res
ervation in Arkansas, there were So
900 visitors to the reservation during
the season. The income to the gov.
eminent from water and ground rents
amounted to S1S,670, while the fixed
charges were only about fourteen
thousand dollars, leaving q fair bal
ance, which, in accordance with the
liberal policy of the government, was
available for improvements on differ.
emit portions of the reservation.
The cash contributions by the citi-
zens of Philadelphia to the relief fund
of the Texas flood sufferers, on the
18th, exceeded 500, 900, and a consider.
able further increase was looked for
within the next few days. This was
exclusive of trainloads of
provisions, clothing, drugs and other
articles, and in addition to the con-
tribntions raised by the Red Cross S
ciety in that city.
Mrs. Alexander Davis, of ST. Joseph,
Mo-, dreamed that her husband had
died, and when he awoke, on the
morning of the 18th, she told him of
her dream. He heard the story
through, and then fell from the side
of the bed, where he vas sitting, to
the floor, dead. The coroner's jury
decided that death was due to heart
disease.
Capt. Frank West, of the Sixth cav
airy, acting superintendent of the Sc
quota and General Grant national
parks, in California, has submitted
his annual report to the secretary of
the interior. He makes a strong plea
for the protection By the government
of the giant Sequoia trees contained
in the reservation.
A archaeological examination in the
case of Seaman Garnett, who arrived
at New Castle, September IS, on a
vessel from the Rio de la Plata, and
went to LANDAU, Wales, where he
died, on the 4th, supposedly of fever,
showed Enthusiastically that the disease
was the bubonic plague.
The special commissioners appoint
ed by the governments of Nicaragua
and Honduras to fix the boundary be
tween the two states, a matter long in
dispute, have concluded their work
amicarly, the result being satisfac-
tory to both governments.
4 pension plan for old employees,
similar to the one adopted last Janu-
AIRY by the Pennsylvania road east of
Pittsburgh, will go into effect on the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh
on January 1. 1901.
The official preliminary estimates OF
the crop yield of Iowa for the current
year show: Corn, e ~S,61S.66O acres;
average, Al bushels per acre; total
product. 353.365, O6O bushels, which is
greater by $4,000, 900 than ever before
harvested in the state. The total of
all cereals will be 531 .349. O20, which is
100000 in ces of any previous
year, and 131. 100000 above the aver
age yearly output the past ten years.
Five thousand pilgrims assembled
at the st. Nikander monastry, in the
Porkhoff district of Russia, for a re-
Iigious festival. During the night one
of the upper floors collapsed, and
many of those sleeping there fell
upon those below. A panic was caused
by a false alarm of fire, and four men
and 36 women were crushed to death,
many others being seriously injured.
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers issued a call, on the
Sth, for Il convention of the striking
miners of the anthracite regions, to
meet in Scranton, Pa. on the 18th.
The call CAV great satisfaction to
miners and operators, all of whom eX-
pect the action of the convention on
the offer of a te~n-per-cent- increase
in wages to end the strike.
The United States has more than
fifty thousand tons of coal distribu-
ted at various points throughout the
world for the use of its warships. and
this amount will be increased by adj
ditions to be made by schooners now
en- route. The largest coal pile is. at
Manila, where there r $4,000 tons.
The Berlin Nossische Zeitung pub
fishes Il letter from Brisbane. assert
ing that the German meat inspection
law, especially the prohibition as to
canned meats, has already proved n
heavy blow to the Australian packing
industry in which German citizens are
heavily interested financially.
Andrew c. Armstrong, one OF the
founders of "Scribner'S Monthly" and
one of the oldest publishers in New
York city, died at his country home at
Stamford, Conn, on The night of the
sth, after a long illness from a com.
plication of disorders. He was Il
years old.
James Fitzharris, the Phoenix Park
murderer, known as "Skin-the-Goat,'
was rearrested in Liverpool, on the
18th, for failing to report himself un,
der the terms of his prison release
license.
An extensive survey of the south
| side of the Island of Cuba is to be
begun during the coming winter.