Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-02
BY ELI D. AXE

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IRoNToN. MISSOURI.
Rainfall Sufficient for agricultural
purposes is reported from most of the
provinces of British India. The death
rate at Gujarat has decreased nearly
one-half a compared with that OF
Msy.
Statistics published regarding Ger.
nEIny's foreign trade last month, show
tliat the imports reached 4,050.O6' tons,
an increase of 1885, 15 tons, and the TX
ports reached 2,600,5s tons, a decrease
of JO,y05 tons.
Representative George NJ. Curtis, Oh
Iowa, has declined the Office of first
assistant postmaster general. Post
master-General Smith said, after the
close of office hours, on the oath. that
no one else had been offered the Office.
Gen. Dorward, the British command
er at the battle of Tien Tsin, has sent
the American officers a letter in which
he compliments the Americans on their
splendid courage shown in the fight
and says he was proud 10 have them
under his command.
A terrible engagement was fought
between the government troops and
Colombian insurgents around Panama
on the 25th. Many were killed and
wounded. and a four-hours' armistice
was agreed upon to attend the wound
ed and bury the dead.
Thcpresident has signifedh his willing
ness to mediate between the imperial
Chinese government and the powers,
Tut only upon conditions which first
must ne met by the Chinese govern
ment. These include the safety and
liberation of the foreigners in Pekin.
Gen. S~ternbcrg SAYS that 100 addi-
tinnsl medical officers are wanted by
the surgeon general for duly in the
Philippines and China. He says that
only graduates of reputable medical
colleges, with some experience and rn-
der 40 years of age, will be accepted.
The steamer Cottage City arrived at
Victoria. b. C., on the 26t1l. bringing
about 100000 in gold. She had a
number of Klondikers on board. News
WAS brought by her that the miners
had found rich placer diggings at the
headwaters of the Yukon. over five
hundred miners had staInpeded to
finds in Glacier bay.
The sensational reports alleging the
imminence of q massacre of Chinese la
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have had no foundation in fact. The
adjutant general wired from Rock
Springs on the cath: mo trouble and
no cause for alarm. Citizens indig-
nant on account of sensational and
mischievous newspaper reports"
Commissioners ?ittman, for the
United States, and King, for Canada,
have completed the location of the
provisional boundary line on White
Tass summit, and gone to- the ChilkoOt
summit to perforTu the same service
there. No change in existing condi
tiOBs will result on White Pass. as the
line was clearly defined there.
Brighten. Patrick Henry Jones died
at his home at Port Richmond, S. l., on
LhC NTihs dSCo ~ SCdIos ~ was OOIh
in Ireland, and came to America in
1870. At the outbreak of the civil war
he entered the Thirty-seventh New
York volunteers as second lieutenant.
He was postmaster of New York city
during President Grants first term.
At the negro race conference az
Montgomery, Ala, on the 27th, a pa
Rz~- C.-o. A-NIDn, r.,ag raaI
by the secretary. She appealed to the
conference to petition congress for Il
sixteenth amendment. which shall pro-
hibit the Acknowledgement of citizens
on account of sex, and declared the
condition of negro women was no inn.
proved by emancipation.
At M~anagua, Nicaragua, on the 27th,
President ZeIaya presented to Gen. f.
=. Alexander, of Savannah, Ga, arbi-
traitor in the boundary dispute be-
tween Nicaragua and Costa Rica, a
gold medal, in recognition of his serv-
ices in connection with the arbitra-
ton. The presentation was accom-
panied by an expression of the hearty
thanks of the government of Mica
ragua.
A letter has been received by Capt
Mccoy, at Tacoma, Wash. from Adj
jutant-General Willer, of the Spanish
American Veterans association head
quarters at Chattanooga. Tenn, ask
ing how many of the First Washing
ton regiment will volunteer in case of
a declaration of war with China. Capt.
Mccoy reports that individual express
sions are that all will go if the regi-
ment goes.
The streets of San Juan de Porto
Rico, on the 25th, were Il labyrinth of
glittering Spanish flags in honor of st.
Jago. the patron saint of Spain. Ban
ners and bunting, suspended from
house to house, covered the thorough
fares, and everywhere the balconies
were richly dressed. There WIS no at
tempt whatever to display the Ameri.
can colors.
Regarding the suit brought against
COL. Kimball, quartermaster at New
York, it was stated by Secretary Root