Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-18
OF TIE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


New York, with Eear-Admiral Rodg-
ers en- board, arrived at Port Said, on
the 18th, on the way to Manila.
The Winnebago Indians, in Wiscon-
sin, on the 18th, elected striking
Tree" (John L~ittlesoIdier) as success
sor to Chief John Thunder, deceased.
The decision of the Japanese min
lister of finance, NiscOunt Natanabe,
10 postpone the railroad, telegraph
and telephone undertakings, although
the budget provided Expenditures for
this purpose. has created much public
dissatisfaction in Japan.
The congress of French miners
opened in Lens on the 18th. Unless
the French government agrees to
bring in an ~eight-hour day bill, the
delegates will probably vote for a
general strike,
\ Manila dispatch says hat Agui-
naldo lives in dread, fearing tbs
vengeance of the friends of Gen.
Luna, whom he (Aguinaldo) caused
to be aS~sassinated. Col. Nellia and
DR.. Barcelona, members of Aguinal-
dos staff, have been liberated.
The remains of Abraham Lincoln,
which have been resting in a tempo
rary vault during h reconstruction
of the Lincoln monument, at Spring
field, ILL.,, will be removed to the new
monument in a few days. The re-
moval will be private, and the exact
date will not be made known.
Somebody is responsible for d
blunder in the design equestrian
ctofno IF Con T0hr A T0~an aoo-+
ly unveiled in Washington with inn
pressive ceremonies. One of the tab
lets on the base is said to be fiagranr-
ly inaccurate historically.
The movement toward erecting a
monument to the memory of Gen.
Harrison in Indianapolis has been re-
vived by Senator Fairbanks, who will
head the subscription list with a con-
tributiOn of $1,000, eGn. John w. Fos-
ter will contribute a like amount.
Vandals did serious damage to the
Thomas A.. Hendricks monument, 1T
Indianapolis. on the night of the 10th.
One of the large granite ornaments,
weighing ABOUT one hundred pounds.
was broken from the base, a bronze
shieId was carried away and the
scales which the figure of Justice
held in her hand were stolen.
hobert N. McNVaGe, United States
consul at Canton, China, reports thai
10000 deaths from the plague have oc-
CURED there during the past six
weeks, and that there are Is cases of
smallpox on board the United States
monitor Monterey. Only one death
has resulted.
Over four hundred gamblers have
left Hot Springs, Ark, the last few
days on account of the anti-gambling
law passed by the Legislature. The
city police force has spared no pairs
in carrying out h law, and every
gambling den has been watched day
and night.
The department of agriculture has
received a dispatch from a prominent
packing company of Chicago
ing that they have been advised hat
the British government will exclude
all beef except home-bred from the
British army contracts after June 1.
An oil discovery has been made in
the vicinity of Deming, n. NJ, which
promises to equal hat of Beaumont,
Tex. There is much enthusiasm man
ifested over the discovery.
The Marion state bank, at Marion
Junction, S. D., was wrecked by rob-
bers early on the morning of the 18th.
Owing to an o~verchange of powder,
the money chest was wedged and the
robbers secured nothing. The bank
was fully insured.
Four counterfeiters were sentenced,
on the 18th, by Judge Hangord in the
federal court at Spokane, Wash.
James Moriarity was given ten years,
and Mike Williams and McCleary.
eight years each, at hard labor in the
United States p~enitentiary. Mrs. Ethel
Waco, the female member of the gang,
was sentenced to n year.
The HanIburg-American liner Pre-
toria, which sailed from Hoboken, on
the 18th, for Hamburg, carried 80
tons of supplies ordered for the mem
bers of the Baldwin-Zeigler polar ex-
petition. The supplies will be Tor
warded to Tromsoe and Sandjford,
Norway.
Gen. Butler will be offered the COM
mand of the British troops in North
America, which command is now va
can't.
Superintendent Bull of the Buffalo
IN. W police department., has issued
orders to clear the city of all crooks
and suspicious characters between
now and May /, and Wholesale arrests
are being made in consequence.
A military commission of eleven
members, presided over by Col. Nc
Crea, will sit at Manila, to try, by
court-martial, the soldiers ana civil
ians who are accused of being impli-
Gated in the thefts or frauds in re-
gard to the government commisary
stores in the Philippines.
The well-known Mormon elder,
George Q. Cannon, died at Monterey,
Cal, on the morning of the 18th, aged
rs years. His remains were taken to
San Francisco and embalmed and
then forwarded to Salt Lake City,
Utah.
1t has been found necessary to
close a district school near Decatur.
Ill, owing to its having become in
fected with vermin through tramps
using it as a sleeping place. 1t was
found necessary to burn the clothing
of the children.