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

dedQ proving SfOuHuS, uAoCA ACS OAoA
service conditions, with excellent re-
suits.
Lieut.. Faramond, the French naval
attache at Washington, has been ad-
vised thai the training ship Duguay-
Trouin, with a large number of cadets
on board, viii visit American waters
next spring.
When travelling nowadays, Emperor
William usually takes with him a
specially-caryed pulpit, deliberately
ornamented with heraldic devices,
from which ne delivers his orations
and sermons.
Count De Toulouse Lautrec, who
was e~xtradited to Canada from Chica-
go, was sentenced, at Montreal, on the
27th, to five years in the penitentiary
on a charge of receiving bonds know
ing them to be forged.
Subscriptions in London, on the
both, to the new issue of e3,OOO,O 900
three per cent. e~xchequer bonds, re-
payable in 1905, ~totalled e6,263,5O0.
The tenders ranged from 95 to 100.
The average price was 9S 2-10.
Former mayor of Portsmouth, D.,
G. A. Waller, who was a delegate to
the convention that nominated Abra-
ham Lincoln, in loco, and who was a
Lincoln elector from Ohio, died at his
home in that city on the 27th.
Continuous rain for As hours pro-
J,aaI ,---aaa1o4fnl ao01S ~ tho
Guayandotte valley, West Virginia,the
river and its tributaries overlooking
their banks and bearing away. quanti-
ties of cross-ties, lumber and other
property.
Henry Russell, one of the most not
ed composers of sea songs, was re-
ported, OF the 29th, to be dangerously
i'll in Chicago. 1t is now some years
since he appeared in public, and, be-
ing 81 years of age, it is feared that
the outcome of the present illness may
be fatal.
The typhoon which caused the loss
of the auxiliary cruiser Yosemite
wrought great damage andlosst of life,
also, on the Island of Guam. Among
the worst sufferers was the town of
Moranjan, which was completely de-
molished, with a loss of 80 townspeo-
pie killed and many injured.
The proposition to levy a tax for
the support of a free public library
was carried at a special election held
in Dubuque, Ia, On the Goth. The re-
suit carried with it a gift of $4,000
from Andrew Carnegie, also the
Young Mems Library Associations 49,
COO volumes and other property worth
$4,000.
The annual report of Secretary Will
son of the agricultural department,
made public on the goth, begins with
a complimentary referenceto the work
of his predecessors, (which had
brought the department to its present
state of efficiency" The report shows
the affairs of the department to be in
. generally satisfactory condition.
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A recent German publication, re-
marking the growing American trade
in the Levant, says: lately two large
firms in Constantinople have, for the
uISU GtlllC CCCAfC
ments of American shoes. This shows
that the persistent efforts of the
Americans to gain a footing in the
Levantine markets have achieved sue
cess"
Postmaster Vancott of New York
city conferred with Postmaster-Gen-
cral Smith and others, on the Goth,
regarding the proposed new post of
fee building in New York MI. Van
colt afterwards expressed the opinion
that the bill now pending, appropriate
ing $2.500, 900 for this purpose, would
pass at the approaching session of
congress.
The president, in the first week of
the session of congress, will submit
to the senate for confirmation 60
nominations for presidential post Of
fees. This includes those appointed
during the recess, and postmasters
whose terms of Office expire previous
to Janutry 1, next. It is the smallest
list of recess nominees sent in for
some years.
Charged with obtaining money un-
der false pretenses, a man represent
ing himself as DIR. William A. Fergu-
son, formerly of Galveston, Tex, but
who is alleged by the New York po-
lice to be ex-Gov. Moses, of South
Carolina, was arraigned, on the 30th,
before United States Commissioner
Shields, and held in bail of $1,000 for
examination.
United States Senator Cushman Kel-
iogg Davis, chairman of the commit
tee on foreign relations in the senate,
died at his home in ST. Paul, Mimi,
OF the 27th, at s:4S p. M, after an Ill
ness of two months. He had suffered
greatly during his sickness, and grad
ually sank away, being unconscious
for several hours before death, and so
far as could be known, suffering no
pain.
During a severe typhoon, on Novem-
Der Is, the auxiliary cruiser Yosemite,
moored in the harbor of San Luis
d'Apia, Island of Guam, parted her
cables and went on a rect and then
struck on the rocks, receiving such
injuries as to cause her to sink. later,
after drifting 20 miles from theisland.
Her crew, with the exception of i've
men, sent out in a aunch to fno
shelter, and who were drowned by
the capsizing of their boat, were res
cued by the United States collier jus
tin.