Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Inc N~1caraguan minister OF foreign
relations, Senior Sanchez, and VIM
L. Merry, United States minister tx
Nicaragua, Salvador and Costa Rica
have signed a protocol for a treaty
which provides for the admission OF
-four, wines under IA degrees, fresh
and dried fruits and preserved prod,
ucts, from the United States into Mic
aragua free of duty.
On the 14th r. G.. Dun d Co., of New
York, reported failures for the week
numbering 273 in the United States
against 24O last year, and II in Can.
ada, against 26 last year.
The United Metals Selling Co.
which disposes of the products of the
copper mines controlled by the Anal.
gamated Copper Co., announced a re
duction of ~ cents in the price OF
copper on the 18th.
Maj. George i. Scott, Tenth cavalry.
has been detailed by Secretary Root
as acting Indian agent at the Leech
Lake agency, Walker, Mimi, relieving
Capt. William A. Mercer, Seventh cav
airy.
The appellate division of the su
preme court of New York announced
a decision, on the 18th, refusing to
advance on the court calendar the
case of Dittmar against the Gould
trustees-the De Castellane case.
Secretary Root has submitted to
the house an estimate of $500, 900 for A
permanent military post in the vi
cinity of Manila, to accommodate
two full regiments of infantry, two
squadrons of cavalry and two bat
teries of artillery. He says that Gen.
Chaffee strongly recommends this
permanent establishment.
1t appears that Mr.. Carnegie's $1O,-
100000 offer for the extension of
higher education is in bonds of the
United States Steel corporation, and
the acceptance of the trust by the
government in that shape would, in
effect, make it a party to a system
which it is desired to curtail.
Riotous scenes occurred at North
ampton, England, on the 18th, when
hundreds of shoe operatives demon
strated against the use of the new
shoe lasting machines. The operatives
threw mud and stones at the house of
one of the leading manufacturers.
The fire in the Lowry-Goebel store
in Cincinnati, on the 18th, DESTROYED
all ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS collected by
Arthur Goebel in the GoebeI murder
cases.
It is probable that when the Chi
nese exclusion act comes up for re-
enactment IN congress it will have an
amendment attachedproviding for the
deportation of all known members of
highbinders' socities.
The executive committee of the ma
tional council of the Grand Army of
the Republic, at it's meeting in Chi
cago, on the 18th, decided to hold the
next annual encampment in Washing
tom. Dedication of the Sherman
monument will be one of the fea-
lures.
Under a ruling of the interior de-
partment those who drew home
steads in the Kiowa-Comanche land
drawing can not transfer them until
complying with all the requirements
after an occupation of I've years and
of the homestead Jaw.
hcQuy hOdCu, Iuc StTccU car pOSls
writer of the "Spotless Town"
rhymes, is dead. News of his death
comes from Montreal, where he had
gone to make a contract for supply
ing Canadian advertisers with rhyme.
The Baltimore Herald says that
Capt. James Parker, who was one of
Admiral Schley's counsel before the
court of inquiry, is engaged in the
collection of materialfor a biography
of Admiral Schley, which he proposes
to write.
James A. Harris, aged 81 years,
who went TO sleep, at Peoria, Ill, on
the morning of November z and had
been unconscious almost continually
eve since, died ON the 18th. He was
unconscious for five weeks.
The Amsterdam correspondent Of
the London Daily Express says that
Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry
of the Netherlands, her husband,
drove in an open carriage through
Appledorn on the 18th.
AS a result of a thorough canvass
of dwellings and places of public re-
sort in Madison, H., DIR. r. H. Baker,
n member of the Illinois state board
of health, announced the discovery of
IS cases of smallpox in that city.