Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-20
LATE fiEWS ITEMS.


On the 10th Lord Kitchener cabled
from Pretoria as follows: Near We'll
mansrust, 20 miles south of MiddeI-
burg, $50 Victorian mounted rifles
from Gen. B~easton's column were sur
prised in camp at Steenkoolspruit by
a superior force OF Beers at 1880 p.
m, June IL. The enemy crept up 20
within short range and poured a
deadly fire into the camp, killing two
officers and 16 men, and wounding
four officers and 50 men, of whom %
were slightly wounded. Only two Of
ficerS and so men escaped to Gen.
Beaston's camp. The remainder were
taken prisoners and released. Two
pompons were captured by the enc
my"
Colonies Infant and Guivara, repre-
s%entatives of Gen. Cables, at Manila,
or the 18th, signed the name of their
principal to an agreement to sur
render. Under the terms of this agree
nlent Gen. Cables is to assemble his
men at Santa Cruz, Laguna province,
as quickly as possible, and there sur-
render himself and his command 10
the American authorities. The exact
number Of his force is uncertain, but
there will probably be more than FIVE
hundred.
AT Roswell, n. NJ, on the 10th, Ar
thur Kline. a well-known stockmah,
shot and killed his wife, Beatrice
Kline, dangerously wounded Marshal
Maddox and probably fatally wound
ed the laEdlady with whom Mrs. Kline
was living, who attempted to inter
fere, and then committed suicide.
Kline was crazed by jealousy, his wife
having deserted him.
The Mexican government has COM
pleted plans for a new post Office
eGifice in the City of Mexico which
will be built near the School OF
Mines, in what is now the center Of
the city. The building will be wholly
OF steel frame work, and fireproOf. \
Chicago firm of architects received
pat of the contract.
Gen. William Montgomery Gardner,
a veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars, died at Memphis, Tenn, On the
10th, aged rs. Gen. Gardner gradu-
ated from. the military academy at
West Point in the class of 1916.
The steamer Lucania, the first of
the Cunard vessels to be fitted with
the Marconi system of wireless tele-
graphy, made communication with
the shore, on the 10th, when 20 miles
out from Liverpool.
William Fitzgerald, q farmer, 40
years old, living five miles southwest
of Oshkosh, Wis, vas struck by
lightning while standing in the door
of his barn, on the night of the 18th.
and instantly killed. A COW in the
barn was hit by the bolt and James
Fitzgerald, father of William, en-
gagged in milking, was pinned d
the animal when it fell over. He was
not seriously injured.
4 cablegram received at the state
on the 18th, from United
Minister Ryan, at ~Petropolis,
announced that the Brazilian govern
ment had paid the indemnity request
ed for the destruction by a mob of a
Baptist chapel in the province of
Nictheroy, maintained by the Ameri-
can Baptist mission.
Ambassador Cambon, of France, left
Washington, on the 18th, for Chicago,
to receive the degree of Ii. D. from
the University of Chicago. This is the
American university to give
this high degree to the French am
bassador, Harvard having bestowed
the doctorate upon him two years
ago.
Charles Belts, 13 years old, who was
charged with the murder of a farmer
near Winfield, Has, was put upon the
stand, on the nth, for cross-eXami-
nation. The boy was cool n was
not mixed in his answers. His recital
of all the details of the story had a
good effect on the jury.
Asa, eight years old, and Carl, aged
IL, sons of Adam Roger, of Laketon,
Ind, were drowned in Eel river on the
10th. They, with several companions,
were bathing. when the younger boy
got beyond his depth, and in attempt
ing to rescue him the elder was
dragged down.
A. n. Townsend, agent in New York
city for the Hong Kong and Shanghai
banking corporation, received a cable
message, on the 18th, saying that
100000 Mexican dollars, stolen from
the company on May PA, at Singapore,
had been recovered in Ceylon.
Miss May Hossmer, the actress, and
George Russ Fiske, actor and singer, |
were married in Chicago on the 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. W. Fiske, of Salem, |
Mass, parents of the groom, came
west to witness the ceremony.
A fishing schooner named the Lady
Clare was lost, on the 18th, by being
crushed in the ice in the Strait of
Bene Isle. Forty-seyen persons on
board were rescued.