Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-09
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Seven persons were burned to death
while asleep, three were fatally, and
several severely burned, early on the
morning of the 9Th, in a tenement
house in South Chicago. A freight
train Of five cars, which was standing
i n frot of the building, and which the
crew failed to move, blocked the fire.
men, who were unable to get near the
burning building with their engines
until it was too late to save the in
mates.
The Gardo house, known as
"Amelia's Mansion built in Salt Lake
City, Utah, by Brigham Young for his
favorite wife, Amelia Folsom Young,
and for years occupied by her, has
passed out of the hands of the church,
the property being sold in the name
of President Snow, as trustee of the
church, to Col. f. E. C. Holmes, of
that city.
The United States cavalry and ar
tillery left Pekin, on the 5th, to
march to Ton-Ku. Imposing farewell
ceremonies attended their departure.
Sir Alfred Gaselee and the other Brit
ish generals, with their stats, were
present, and the British commander
sent a detachment of Beluchis, who
escorted the Americans outside the
city wall.
The Ohio special, bearing Gov. Nash
and staff and about one hundred citi-
zens of Ohio to San Francisco for the
launching of the battleship Ohio,
| passed through Kansas City, Mo-, soon
after noon on the 5th. Religious serv-
ices were held on board the train at
II o'clock.
1t is reported in Shanghai that fam
inc will make it impossible for the
Chinese court to remain longer in Sian
Fu, and that the court is now only
waiting for the astrologers to fix an
suspicious day for beginning the jour-
ney to Kai Feng Flu, in the Province
of Ho Nan.
After a careful consideration of the
lists to-day. the administration has de-
cided to reduce the army in the archi-
pelagc to 10000.
The P1ussian government has
bought the coal mines in the Ruhr dis
trict known as ''The Minister Achen-
BACH and the Altrop," for %, 0 900
marks.
The Geneva correspondent of the
London Daily Mail asserts that Presi-
dent Mckinley has informed Mr.. Kru-
ger that he can not receive him either
officially or unoftcially.
Mariana 1gnacfo Prado, eX-presi.
dent of Peru, died in Paris on the
9th. Mariana Ignacio Prado was born
in 1926 He participated in Gen. Cas-
tilla's revolution against Echenique's
government in 1854. He marched
against Lima in 1865, and entered the
capital. November 6, at the head of a
victorious army. On November 70 he
declared himself dictator and was
subsequently, elected constitutional
president by the Peruvian congress.
He was again elected president in
1876.
The late Count St. Quen de Pierr-
court, whose family date back to Will
lam the ~Conqueror, ~bequeathed to the
city of Rouen, France, his fortune of
ten million francs on the novel con-
dition that the city annually give a
marriage gift of 100000 francs to q
couple of giants, i'll order to regener-
ate the human species. The candidates
are to be medically examined and the
heaIthiest couple will be chosen.
Milton Z. Arnold, aged Al years,
died at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 9th.
of heart disease. Arnold was the son
of a wealthy cotton broker living
near Atlanta, Ga. He was graduated
from the University of Georgia and
later studied law, being admitted to
the bar oil the same day as Hoke
Smith, who was his classmate. For
several years he had been a curbstone
vender.
The British war office, on the 9th,
officially gave out the total number of
deaths in the South African war al
TIA officers and 14,264 men. Four Off
GERS and S14 men have been invalided
home and subsequently died. Two
thousand four hundred and ninety
three non-conlmissioned officers and
men have left the service unfit for
/ duty.
With her hull gaily decorated with
flags and her deck well filed with
sailors the yacht Constitution was
christened, at Bristol, r. l., on the
9th, by Mrs. W. Butler Duncan, who
broke the traditional bottle of wine
on her ~glistening bow just as she
started slowly down the ways into the
sea.
The determination of the joint
smashing colleagues of Mrs. Nation
to stay in Jail at Wichita, Kas., till
their trial commences was broken. ON
the 9th, by Mrs. Julia Evans giving
bond for her appearance The other
women, except Mrs. Nation. also i'm
: dicated their purpose of giving bond.