Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Sudden illness OF Mrs. Mckinley has
caused an unexpected change in the
itinerary of President Mckinley. He
arrived in San Francisco quietly, on
the 18th, several hours ahead of the
time scheduled, where the attending
rest for the invalid, which, he pre-
dicted, would result in her complete
r~ecuperation.
The Brussels Independence Beige
publishes afffdavits signed by Count
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy before
the French consul in London, admit
ting the authorship of the Dreyfus
bordereau and declaring hat the
bordereau was written with the con-
nivance of Col. Sandher, ex-chief of
the secret intelligence bureau.
A dispatch from Lima, Peru, on the
18th, said: 1.-The comet which was
first seen from South America about
a fortnight ago, and which had been
invisible from here for three nights,
Eeappeared last night. 1t apparently
has two tails, one of which is now
longer than when it was first SEEM"
The International Power Co., of
New York, has closed an order for a
number of locomotives for the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe railway, call
ing for the entire capacity of it's plant
for the remainder of this year. These
locomotives will be built in Provi-
dence, r. L, and Paterson, N. J.
"The sultan, I learn" says the Con-
Is~tantinopIe correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Chronicle, connected the
lplague scare, in order to enforce a
quarantine that would exclude a band
of anarchists who, he had been in
Iassassinate him."
The Hamburg marine board de-
clared, on the 18th, that the Hamburg
schooner Arina, Capt. Mack, had been
lost with her entire crew. The vessel
left Hamburg May 2, 1900, for Matupi,
on Henderson island, in Blanche bay,
German New Britain, and has not been
heard of since.
Tucker Woodson Taylor, aged 46,
was found dead in his room at Green
castle, Ind, IN the 18th. 1t is believed
to be a case of suicide. Mr.. Taylor
was for years confidential secretary
of John Clark Ridpath, the historian.
He was also e poet of some reputa-
ton.
NJ. Henri Francois Charles de Yer
In1nao, yice-president of the French
~Isenate, died in Paris OH the 18th. He
was born May IS, 1S41.
Prof. David Shepard Holman, of
Bangor. Me-, known throughout the
scientific world as the inventor of the
Holman life slides, so extensively
used by microscopists, died on the
18th. DR.. Holman was a member of
the Academy of Natural Science of
Philadelphia, and had been a member
of the faculty of Girard college and
of Franklin institute. He was born
in 1926.
Twelve men were indicted by the
New York city grand jury, on the
18th, for keeping gambling houses.
The grand jury took up, for the first
time, the evidence presented by the
committee of fifteen against the men
arrested and bound over through JUS
tice Jerome's personally-conducted
u IL Sf&A SNSS oA 80
dictment was quickly rendered.
AT the monthly meeting of the
| Methodist ministers in Worcester,
Mass, on the 18th, a clergyman said
that an eyewitness had told him that
President Mckinley drank a glass OF
champagne on board a battleshipD
Several of the clergymen present Wig
orously denounced the president for
the reputed act.
The representatives of Oxford and
Cambridge universities who will com
pete with the representatives of the
universities of Harvard and Yale in
the international games OF the Berkc-
ley oval, New York city, September
21, were chosen at a meeting held al
the Queens club, London, on the 18th
Prince Munster Won Derneburg, ac-
cording to the Berliner Tageblatt, is
going to his Dernehurg estate, where
he will complete his memoirs, which
will deal deliberately with the Dreyfus
affair, as he was German ambassador
in Paris during the Dreyfus period.
Superintendent Cherry of the trans
portation department. of the Pan
AiIIeFISdH ePOSieloA at DuAdlOs
announced, on the 18th, that so pei
cent. of the exhibits were in place
and that by the 18th 90 per cent
would be complete.
AT $3.50 p. m. of the 18th. a brilliant
meteor was seen at Lima, Peru, which
suddenly divided into two parts, onS
fiery red and the other a bright
blush white. They seemed to faf
into the ocean.
Vice-President Roosevelt has &C
cepted an invitation to make an ad
dress at Minneapolis, during the Min
nesota state fair. The address viii b.
. made September 2.