Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


Mail advices from Australia state
that the volcano on Beach island, in
the New Britain group, has again be-
come active, causing a great upheava1
tives who went out to fish were either
killed by the shocks or were drowned.
There were 81 successive tremors.
The population of Wisconsin, as Off
cially announced, is 2,O69, O42, against
i,6S6,SS0 in 1890. This is an increase,
since 1890. of 382,162, or 22.6 per cent.
The population in 1880 was 1,315,497,
showing an increase of 371,3S3, or
2S.2 per cent, from 1880 to 1890.
The two houses of con-
vened, on The Sd, listened to the read
ing of the presidents message and,
upon the announcement of the death
of members of both houses during the
recess, adjourned without t~ransacting
any public business.
The jury in the case of Editor Nc
Bride, who sued 40 citizens of Mitchell,
S. D., for $4,000 damages for the de-
struction of his newspaper plant near
ly five years ago, returned a verdict,
on the I'd, awarding Mcbride $500 dam
ages.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad has notified all railroads in
the Western Passenger association
THAT, until the 9TH, it will sell round
trip tickets to Chicago, to the Nation
al Live Stock exposition, for one fare.
The steamers Tom Dodsworth and
Volunteer, both Pittsburgh (Pa.) tow
boats, collided 20 miles above Hunt
ington, W. Va, on the I'd. Almost
thirty coal barges, containing 0 10000
bushels of coal, sank; loss, 100000.
Archbishop Martinelli, the apostolic
delegate, will participate in services
to be held at st. Patrick's church. in
Washington city, at midnight of the
l31st, to consecrate the new century
to God.
The new public bath for women,
built by the sanitary department, was
opened at Santiago de Cuba, on the
LIST, and 800 girls and women took adj
vantage of the opportunity offered.
The Turko-German difficulty re-
Igarding a coallng station in h Red
sea has been settled, Germany init
mating that she only wants a station
during the Chinese crisis.
After serving as postmaster and as
~sistant postmaster continuously for 80
years, John Pynn, of ST. George, Utah,
has resigned. He is IS years old.
Lieut.. Ryan, of the signal corps, has
been ordered to Porto Rico to reor-
|ganize the signal corps there.
In the senate, on the Sd, the work Of
the Fifty-sixth session was successful
ly launched by the reading of the
message from the president. No other
business was transacted, but the oath
of office was administered to William
B. Dillingham;, of Vermont, who sue
ceeds the late Justin S. Morrill,, and
the death of Cushman X. Davis, of
Minnesota, and the late Senator Gear,
of Iowa, being announced, the senate
adjourned out of respect to their
memory....In the house, aside from
the reading OF the presidents mes
sage, no business of Importance was
transacted. The death of the late
Representatives DAILY, of New Jersey,
and Hoffecker, of Delaware, were an
nounced, and the house adjourned.
The Pacific Gable Co. has accepted,
on behalf of the governments of
Great Britain, New South Wales,
Queensland and New Zealand, the bid
of the Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Co. to make and lay a
cable from Vancouver to Queensland
and New Zealand, via Tanning, FIJI
and Norfolk islands, for 81, 795, 600,
the work to be finished by the end of
1902.
At Akron, O., on the Sd, Judge
Kohler sentenced three more of the
convicted rioters, John Roden and
Richard Hullett being sent to the
p~enitentiary for one year each, and
| Claude Bender to the workhouSe for
80 days. William Dewitt was also con
victed of participating in the riot,
making the tenth conviction.
III. L. Weber and f. Holmes were
sentenced al Emporia, Kas., on the
Sd, to ten years each in the peniten-
tiary for robbery. On the way to the
-penitentiary Weber confessed that he
had been cracking safes for ten years,
and that he belonged to one of the
best organized gangs that ever oper-
ated in Kansas.
While several mechanics were at
work on the roof of the new engi-
neering building at the navy yard at
Brooklyn, on the Sd, a piece of tim
Der fell. striking Lieutenant-Com-
mander Reynold T. Hall. assistant en-
gineer of the yard, fracturing his
skull. His injuries probably Will
prove fatal.
Mrs. Charles 81. Blow, of Chicago,
wife of a former state game warden,
swore out warrants, on the Sd, charg-
ing her husband with attempting to
~chloroform her and her three children
| and then turning on the gas so that
s~uffocation would finish the work.