Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-29

MISSOURI
IT. J. Phillips, of Ottumwa, was nom
mated for governor of Iowa by tn
the democratic state convention he'll
In Des Moines ON the 21st.
A pro-Armenian sheet, issued il
Paris, asserts that the Turks hav
been ~looting and numbering in tn
Sassoun district since the beginning
of July, and that several Armenian
villages have been wiped out.
Apparently there is a movement OF
FOOT on the part of Great Britain, ia
pan and the United States" says
dispatch to the london Morning Post
from Che Foo, dated the 22d, ito force
Russia to evacuate Niuh-Chwang."
The work of reconstructing the
American line steamer Philadelphia
formerly the Paris) was completed
1t Belfast, on the 22d, and the vessel
sailed for Southampton, from which
port she will sail for New York on
khe 31st.
Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia,
On the 18th, opened bids for the S9,-
BOO, 900 balance of the S12, 000, 900 loan
authorized last March, by an ordi-
nance of council, for the construction
and installation of the city's improved
water supply.
Mai.-Gen. Arthur Macarthur, on the
Goth, wired from San Francisco his &C
eeptance of the tender of a reception
by the citizens of Milwaukee through
the Merchants and Manufacturers
association. The date set by Gen.
Macarthur is August 90.
President Lindblom, of the Chicago
civil service commission, announced,
on the Goth, hat the entire police
force of that city is to be investigated.
The sessions are to be open to the
public, and all charges brought
against the police will be inquired
into.
Sir Thomas Upton, owner of Sham
rock H., challenger for the Americas
cup, arrived in New York on the 21st.
He met with the most cordial Ameri-
can reception-indeed, the steamship
Teutonic, on which he was a passen-
ger, received one continuous ovation
from Sandy Hook to her dock.
Secretary of State John Hay
reached Canton, O., shortly before IL
o'clock, on the 21st, to confer with the
president on a number of matters de-
handing consideration in the state de-
partment. After a few hours spent in
close consultation, the secretary took
bis departure for Washington.
Financial men of New York, named
In connection with the formation of
n worldwide copper combination,
deny all knowledge of such a combi-
nation. They say that it would be inn
possible to harmonic and organize all
the conflicting interests in copper,
and hat nobody is trying to do so.
The officers and passengers of the
steamship Orizaba. which arrived at
New York, on the goth, from Colon.
said that the reports of trouble be-
tween Venezuela and Colombia were
greatly exaggerated. "We neither
saw nor heard anything of any troub-
lie while in the harbor," said Capt,
Smith.
It was reported in Glasgow. on the
18th, hat j. r. Ellerman, of the Ley
land line, had purchased the old-es-
tablished City line of IA steamers, en-
gagged in the East India trade, the
price being nearly one million pounds
sterling. Mr.. Ellerman, according tt
rumor, acted for j. Pierpont Morgan
and his associates.
A monument TO commemorate the
ffty-fifth anniversary of the peaceful
annexation of New Mexico to the
United States, was unveiled, on the
10th, on the plaza at Santa Fe, in the
presence of a vast The
monument was erected by Sunshine
chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
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President Mckinley, on the 2fst, is,
med his proclamation announcing
hat a Worlds exposition will be held
at St. Louis, opening not later than
May /, 1903, and to close not later
than December 1, 1903, in common.
Grafton of the purchase Of the Louisi.
ana territory from France, in 1903
and inviting the nations of the world
to participate.
The London Daily Chronicle ha,
opened it's columns to a discussion OF
the relative merits of American and
Australian hardwoods for paving. Mr..
LEROY, agent general for western
Australia in London, pleads for a full
inquiry into the matter. His appeal
is Endorsed by the Chronicle, which
declares that, in the interest of Lon.
don's streets, the matter should be
definitely settled
Lord Kitchener's weekly repor,
from Pretoria, dated the 10Th, shows
that "a Beers were killed, 2O were
wounded, 248 were made prisoners,
and 95 surrendered during the
week. The prisoners include Land
rost Steyn, of V~redefort, and Com
mandant DeVilliers, father of Mrs
Schalkburger, wife of the acting
president, and Commandant Breyten
Rooh - Ts1fcennfain