Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

AhemdT ewfikPasha 0ttomah minis
ter of foreign affairs, has called upon
| the ambassadors and notified them OF
| Turkeys desire to r~e-establ1sh the
| status quo ante in the postal question
and her intention to send a high
f~unctionary, probably the foreign
minister himself, to apologize for the
violations of the foreign mail bags.
The British steamer Para, capt.
Stranger, which arrived at Kingston,
Jamaica, on the 10Th, from Colon, re-
| ported the suspension of hostllltles on
| the part of the Colombian rebels, and
that the Colombian government was
believed to be negotiating to end the
revolution.
The Oregon Christian Endeavor
union closed its state convention at
| Salem OF the 10Th. Francis Il. Clark,
of Boston, president of the National
Union of Christian Endeavor societies,
was present at the convention, and
delivered several addresses.
All rumors regarding the abdication
of King Alexander of Servia, the 'es-
ignation of the cabinet, and the ban
ishment of Queen Draga, growing out
of recent sensational experiences OF
the Servian royal family, are declared
to be without foundation.
The revolutionary groups of Paris
celebrated, as usual, on the 10th, the
anniversary of the Commune, march
ing in patches to the cemetery of Pere
IaChaise and depositing wreaths at
the foot Oh the wall where the COM
munists were shot.
The elections to the new chamber
of deputies were held in Spain on the
10Th. At Bilbao there was a quarrel
between a ministerialist and a social
ist. ard the latter was killed. Anoth-
err person was killed at Cuence, a
suburb of Bilbao.
A cabinet crisis in Peru is reported
to be imminent. 1t is said that the
minister of finance, Domingo Amen
ara, has threatened to resign as he
disagrees with his colleagues on the
details of the salt monopoly.
According to adyices from Seoul,
the Corear government has leased to
Japan 43O acres of land to form a set
Element at Ma San Pho. The lau
in question was formerly anxiously
sought by Russia.
Gen. Chaffee, at Midnight of the
18th, issued his farewell order ending
the American relief expedition in
China.
NJ. Pichon, the French minister, left
Pekin, on the 18th, for home.
Funeral services over the remains
of Mrs. Lyman j. Gage were held, oh
the Goth, at the secretary's residence
on Massachusetts, avenue in Washing
ton. Rev. DIR. N. D. Hills, of Ply
mouth church., Brooklyn, conducted
the services, which were exceedingly
simple. At ten O'Clock the body was
placed on the Pennsylvania limited
train for transportation to Chicago
for interment in Rose Hill cemetery.
Among the features of the dedica-
ton of the Pan-American exposition,
at Buffalo, n. Y, on the goth, was
The simultaneous release of several
thousand carrier pigeons. Confused
at first by their own numbers, they
) circled low in wild fight, and then
gradually scared upward on graceful
l wing. High up, where they got their
, bearings, they parted and took flight
/, to every quarter of the compass.
Mrs. Elmer Quimby, wife of a farm
= er living near ST. Louis, Mich, on the
night of the 10Th, gave morphine TO
I her two children, a boy aged seven
3 and a girl of nine. Both children died
3 next day. Mrs. Quimby then took the
drug herself, but she will recover
e Family trouble is said to have induced
] the woman to commit the crime. She
D is under arrest on the charge of muir
der.
In the presence of a vast concurse
e of people, with ceremonials both con
ventional and novel, the Pan-Ameri-
t can exposition at Buffalo, n. Y, was
2 formally dedicated on the Goth. The
i day was fair, and the industrious
n energetic men who planned the great
t enterprise rejoiced in fiattering sue
cess.
I'll Approximately fifty thousand ma
chinists throughout the country
IS struck, on the goth, for a nine-houI
Is day, a scale of wages equal to the
g present ten-hour per day scale ane
other demands. A large number o.
employees conceded the demands, ane
thus averred threatened trouble
The sovereign camp Woodmen o.
the World at Columbus, o., on tbs
goth, decided that in the future if
member engage in the liquor business
he shall be expelled, and camps refus
4 ing to take this action shall hav'
h their charters revoked.
,ei Esther Cleveland, the n~ine-year-ol'
It daughter of the former president, j
K suffering from diphtheria at her hom'
IN in Princeton, n. J. The physician il
attendance anticipates no serious de
svelopment in the case.