Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-14

President Roosevelt has purchased
In London, the original drawing o
BERNARD P~artridge's recent Punch car
toon, representing him as a rough
rider.
As a result of a difference with tn
budget committee of the Spanish
chamber of deputies, Senior UrzaiZ
minister of finance, resigned his port
folio on the 7th. A cabinet crisis il
threatened.
According TO statistics of the Inter
national ~societ.y of London the sugar
production of Europe for 1901 is es
timated at 5,92s,264 tons, which is al
increase of 212,341 tons upon las
years output.
Admiral Schley has accepted the
invitation of the Knights Templars
and Retail Merchants association to
visit Nashville, Tenn, and will prob
ably do SO in January. The admiral
will be accompanied by Mrs. Schley
Gen. Greedy received a %cablegram
from Manila, on the sth, announcing
hat the islands of Masbat and Panay
had been connected by cable. 1t is
said hat this cable will materially
assist the army operations now in
progress.
The Commercial Pacific Cable Co.
recently incorporated to operate a
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the Philippine islands, on the 5tb, filed
with the secretary of state at Albany,
N. Y, a certificate of increase of cap
ital from $4,000 to S%3,O00,0O0.
The Japanese government has de-
cided to institute economies, and to
effect other measures in order to Off
set the failure to sell bonds in the
United States. The issue of e~xchequsS
bonds of the value of 100000 yen
has been only a partial success.
a dispatch from Constantinople, OF
date the It'll, said: ''There is absolute
" no foundation for the report.
which originated with the Echo de
Paris, that the porte had demanded
that Great Britain should protect
Asiatic Turkey from French attack.
United States Consul-General Dick
inson of Constantinople, returned tc
Sofia, Bulgaria, on the 5th, from Sa'
makov. He authorized the statement
that he was satisfied that both Miss
Ellen NJ. Stone and her companion.
Nine. Tsilka, were alive and well
treated.
The st. Petersburg Rossiya, discuss
ing the Russo-Chinese negotiations
says it thinks Germany desires to tie
Russia's hands in Manchuria, so as to
block a Russo-Japanese understand
ing, which would insure peace and
make Russia and Japan dominant iT
the far east.
The statistics of growth of the ruraI
free delivery service show hat on De.
cember 2 next there will be 5000 car
riers throughout the country, travel
ing a total mileage approximatine
1920 miles daily, or 24A miles each
on an average. There have been 12,00G
applications for routes.
Great activity is reported in naval
circles at Toulon, where the French
government is preparing for eventu-
alities which may grow out of the
seizure of the Turkish island of Nifty
iene, in the Ageon sea, and appropri-
alton of the customs receipts in Il
quotation of o~ft-promised ~indemnities
to French citizens.
The election in Create New York,
on the 5th, resulted in the choice of
Seth Low, candidate of the fusion
lists, over Shepherd, Tammany candi-
date, by a plurality estimated at be-
tween 10000 and 10000. The entire
fusion ticket vas elected. The re-
publicans also carried the day
throughout the state.
The honor of being governor of Ok
lahoma fell, for one day, on the 5th,
to Miss Gertrude Fazel, stenographer
in the office of Gov. Jenkins. The gov
ernor was absent in Indian territory,
and his private secretary was called
to Lawton on territorial business,
thus leaving Miss Fazel the sole in
cumbent of the high office.
%NO
few fur seal skins which were brought
directly to San Francisco, the total
catch in the north this season was
24,127. The Bering sea catch was TO-
314, the Copper Island catch 3,s2s, the
coast catch s,9s5, and the approximate
Indian catch 1000 skins, The worlds
catch for this season is approximately
$4,000 skins.
Maj.-Gen. Henry C. Corbin, adjutant
general of the army, and Miss Edyth
f. Agnes Patten were married in
Washington, on the 9th, in the pres
ence of a notable assemblage which
included the president and Mrs. Roose-
welt. Miss Alice Roosevelt, officers OF
the army and navy, and representa-
tives of official, diplomatic and resi-
dent society.
The climax of the Schiey court
of inquiry came, on the 9th, when Mr.,
Rayner. the chief counsel for Admiral
Schley, concluded a brilliant argu'
ment of over three hours with q
peroration so eloquent and impas
stoned that all within the sound Of
his voice were profoundly touched
Women tainted with emotion, and ths
whole audience was moved to tears.
The Vienna Neue Freie Presse, or
the Sth, published the contents of 6
~ll-oSead hu tho Otto