Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


Newspaper reports received at
Kingston, Jamaica, from Panama as
sert that the insurgents are operating
in large numbers in the vicinity of the
city, and that an order had been is
sued by the government calling upon
the citizens to concentrate in order to
repel attacks and to protect property.
Panama is guarded from the sea by
a gunboat.
The 535 nailers and packers in the
% flour mills of Minneapolis have pre-
sented to their employers a demand
for $2.75 per day for packers n 1925
for ~nailers. % cents than they
are now receiving. They also de-
handed a contract for five years. The
employers agreed to raise the wages,
but refused to enter into any o N
tract.
keo Tux, a Sac Indian has given no.
tice at the land office at FL Reno of
his intention to file on the quarter
section of land adjoiningthe town site
of Lawton which will be the principal
town in the new country of the Kiowa
and Comanche reservation. This is
probably the most valuable tract in
the entire region of land to be opened.
Peter TiIlbury, an iron worker,
called at the home of Kate Phinney,
on the 2Sth, and threw the contents of
a small bottle of carbolic acid into the
face of Mrs. Mary Torry,a guest, burn
ing out the woman's eyes and injuring
her neck, arms and breast frightfully.
| The man had 1IoaSo1 with tho woman
for years to marry him.
"Buda-Pest papers are filed" says
a dispatch to the London Daily Ex-
press from the Hungarian capital,
with accounts of Il project said to be
promoted By American financiers, for
the creation Of another, but more
luxurious Monte Carlo on Magarethen
island, opposite the upper end of the
city in the Danube"
The News-Tribune, a naphtha
launch used to deliver Detroit (Mich.)
newspapers to residents of the Lake
St. Clair fats. capsized about two
miles north of the lightship, on the
2Sth, during a sudden squall. Miss
Maud Randall, of Detroit, one of the
four passengers, was drowned.
On the 2Sth Baron Mount-Stephe1
announced a gift of$40,OO0 to the Pres
byterian church of Scotland, the in
come to go to the ministers in his ma
tive district OF Aberdeenshire and
Banffshire.
Rt. Rev. Brook F'oss Westcott, bishop
of Durham, died in London on the
2Sth. He was born in 1925.
The North China Daily News an.
nounces that there has been d re-
crudescence Of the outbreaks by the
Boxers in the Province of Shan Tung,
in consequence OF the success of the
allied villagers in Chi Ii province
against the troops of Lii Hung Chang.
Civil Service Commissioner Roden-
bUrgh returned to Washington, on the
goth, from an official trip to Hawaii,
taken by himself and Chief Examiner
Server of the commission. MI. Rod
enburg says an excellent civil service
system is in operation in Hawaii.
An imperial German decree, issued
on the goth, announced hat an Ant
arctic scientific expedition, under the
leadership OF Dr.. Drygalski, viii leave
Kiel in August to establish observa-
ton stations at Kergulen island and
at the farthest attainable south.
The whaleback barge Sycamore,
loaded with iron ore, was sunk in a
collision with the Northern line
freight steamer Northern Queen, near
Point Iroquois, Mich, on the Goth. Of
the crew of eight men, two were
drowned and enc missing.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes has ruled that in case of es-
tates coming within the legacy tax
law, the assessment of the govern
ment tax must be made on the value
of the estate on the day of the testa-
tors death.
The first battle in the British naval
maneuvers took place, on the Goth,
when the cruiser squadrons of the OPP
posing fleets were engaged off the
SciIly islands with the theoretical re-
suit that the defending feet was an
initiated.
Wendell W. Michler, of Ohio, has
been appointed stenographer to Secre-
tary Root, to succeed Frederick d.
Squires, resigned. Mr.. Michler had
been discharging the duties of the
place under detail for some months.
Only two petty officers in the navy
have taken advantage of the provision
in the present naval appropriation act
which permits six petty officers each
year to apply for appointment as en-
signs in the navy.
A forest FIRE in the Province of
Jemtland, Sweden, has assumed gil
gantic proportions. Three thousand
troops have been ordered to assist the
men who are combating the flames.
The American steam yacht Nahama,
having on board Mrs. Robert Goelet.
the duchess of Luynes, and a party of
friends, arrived at Ch~ristiania, Nor
way, on the Goth.