Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-04
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A dispatch from Manila, on the 31st
said: Interest in the capture and
fate of Aguinaldo is wellnigh over.
Swallowed in Manila by sensational de-
velopnents, present ard prospective.
OF frauds in the comlnissary depart
ment. How widely these extend has
not yet beer ascertained, but enough
is already known 10 justify the belief
that they are f~ar-reaching." AdviCes
from Washington of the same date
say that nothing on the subject had
been reported to the government.
The president, on the 3Oth, an
nounced the Louisiana Purchase
worlds fair commission as follows:
~EX-Sentators Thurston, of Nebraska;
Carter, of Montana; Lindsay, of Ken
lucky, and Mcbride, of Oregon; ex-
Representatives Allen, of Mississippi.
and Martin II. Glynn, of New York;
P. D. Scott, of Arkansas John F. Mil
Ter, of Indiana, and F. A. Belts, OF
Connecticut. Joseph Flory, of Mis-
souri,, will probably be chosen secre-
t1ry.
At seven o'clock, on the morning OF
the 31st, a fire was discovered in the
sail of the United States gun
boat Petrol, acknowledgements
Jesse Minis Roper commanding, lying
al Cavite, P. [. In attempts to eXtiI.'
guish the flames and efforts to safe
the imperilled, acknowledgements
Roper lost his life, and many of his
crew were seriously overcome.
The president, on the evening OF
the 3Oth, announced the promotion oil
Gen. Fred Funston to be brigadier
general in the regular army, in rec.
ognition of his gallant service in the
capture of Aguinaldo. He also an.
nounced the promotion of Brighten
Lloyd Wheaton to be m~ajor-generai
and Col. Jacob Smith to be brigadier.
general.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
$1,000 TO the city of Portland, Ore
for a free public library building, pro.
vided the city will guarantee 4 site
ard an annual income sufficient for its
maintenance. The Portland Library
association now mas a building and Ii.
brary valued at 100000, and the Two
will probable be consolidated.
The St. Petersburg Novosti, unlike
most Russian journals, processes to
see no occasion for rivalry between
Great Britain and Russia for China.
1.-The legend of AnglO-Russian enmi-
ty," it says, "rests upon a crude mis-
understanding. Russia's natural
spheres do not touch England's in the
Yangtse valley"
For tho Grct fsnon in Tho hicfnrv ~
Havana the month of April began
without a single ease of yellow fever
in the city. Maj. W. &. Gorgas, chief
sanitary officer, is confident that, with
sanitary measures now being in
and the valuable information
during the recent investiga-
of the yellow fever commission.
will be but few cases during the
coming season.
a heavy SnOwstorm prevailed all
V e Kansas, on the 1st, beginning III
the western part of the state in the
morning and travelling east. At
the heaviest fall of the
was reported. General good
to wheat will doubtless result, but in
the southeastern corner of the state
damage to peaches is feared.
Hon. ID. r. Woodward. assistant
commissioner general of the United
States at the Paris exposition who, re-
home last December, broke
leg on board the steamship St.
has recovered and took passage
the same ship, on the Sd, for Paris
close up the work of the American
commission.
The st. Petersburg correspondent
the Lokal Anzeiger that
an examination of the accounts of the
Russian imperial controller general
shows what are believed to have been
systematic defalcations between the
years 1893 and 1898. The sums not
accounted for aggregate 1000, 600
Recent Filipino surrenders include
Gen. Gonzales, IL officers and Al men,
with 45 rifles, at Malabon, and Col.
Herrara, three officers and 25 men,
with rifles, at Laguna, n Colonies
Tecson and Sibul, at Bulucan.
With a view to bringing about a uni
form German photography a confer
ence will be held in Berlin next sum-
.er of experts sent by each German
state. The conference is chiefly pro-
NOTED by the king of Wurtemburg.
Herr Carl Laeisz, the chairman of
the board of directors of the Ham
burg-American steamship line, who
died in Hamburg, March %, left that
city 1000, 900 marks for the construc-
finn 0f n oonoarf h0nco |
The National City Bank of New
York, on the I'd, exported 100000 in
gold to Europe.
DR.. Schlichter, the African traveller
and geographer, died in Berlin on the
1st.