Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-29
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.
III the city of Manila there are now
less than one thousand effective SOL
diers, and it has been decided to in
crease this number by four companies
of infantry. The official reason given
for the increase. is that the guard
duty is too heavy for the present
force. As a matter of fact, however,
there is a feeling that, although there
is no apparent uprising in the future
such as is always possible among the
! Malays, it would be better to have a
sufficient body of troops available.
A telegram from Charlottesville, Va,
announces the death, on the oath, of
Miss Maude Coleman Woodsin that city.
Miss Woods was pronounced the most
beautiful woman in America by a
committee from the Pan-American eX-
position, and her profile adorns all of
the medals issued by the board of
awards.
Word was received in Manila, on the
25th, that the insurgents Col. Loreel,
with II officers and ID men, had sur
rendered to Capt. Brown, of the
Fourth infantry, at Talisay. The sur
render of numerous other smaller
contingents brought the total to more
than one hundred for the week.
Japan has lodged a protest at
Washington" says a dispatch to the
London Times from Toxic, dated the
23d, against the system of medical
inspection at Hawaii, declaring that
this is incompatible with friendly in
tercourse between the two peoples"
Henry L. Wilson, United States min
lister to Chile, on the 25th, formally
denied the report that he would soon
retire and devote his time to COM
merce, representing several American
firms. The papers of Santiago de
Chile publish his denial.
Prince Chun, brother of the en-
peror of China, and the members of
the Chinese mission now on the way
TO Berlin to apologize for the murder
Of Baron Won Ketteler, German min
lister in Pekin, arrived at Basel, Swift
erland, on the 25th.
The French sugar bounties having
occasioned a deficit of 100000
francs, the minister of finance, M.
Caillaux, has issued a decree reducing
them by So per cent. with a view of
covering the deficit.
The body of Albert Valincourte, one
of the victims of the crib No. 3 dis
aster, at Cleveland, o., was recovered,
on the 25th, by divers. The body was
found in the air shaft so feet below
the surface.
Coorn%n-r p0~L IN %hn CEfh ya.
ceived n letter from the chairman of
the committee on state and territor-
ial exhibits of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition, saying that the exposition
desired to make an exhibit of the re-
sources and products of the Philip
pines and Cuba. The letter was re-
ferred to the division of insular af-
fairs, which will take. the necessary
steps to assist the exposition in pro-
curing the exhibits asked.
Gov. Durbin of Indiana will inn
peach sheriffs who neglect to stop
prize fights. Gov. Durbin's new tack
is not to talk militia. but to exercise
bis executive power through sheriffs.
If he finds they wilfully fail to do
their duty it is understood to be his
scheme to have the attorney general
bring impeachment proceedings to re-
leve them from office.
Ii Hung Chang, on the Goth, in
formed the ministers at Pekin that
the bearer of the edicts necessary to
the signing of the settlement protocol
by the Chinese plenipotentiaries, who
was on his way from Sian-Fu, had
been delayed by floods, but that it was
anticipated he would reach Pekin
shortly.
The body of Britton H. Tabor, a
lawyer of New York city, was found
in the North river on the Goth. Mr..
Tabor had a reputation as a keen trial
lawyer. He was also a close student
of the Bible, and had written a de-
Tense of Christianity and the Bible,
entitled, 1.-The Guiding Star of Human
ity."
The navy department is to send an
other recruiting party to Kansas City,
No., in October to enlist young men
for service in the navy. \ party, sew
eral months ago, obtained more re-
cruits in tina city in the same length
of time than at any of the half dozen
cities touched by the naval officers.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York, on the 26th, per steam
CT Southwark, from Antwerp, vas
Gen. a. Brynk, of the Russian army,
who will attend the trial trip of the
Russian battleship Retvisan, at Phila-
delphia. Gen. Moeller accompanied
Gen. Brynk.
The formal charges preferred by
members of the Honolulu bar against
Judge Humphreys, who is now in this
country, were received at the depart
ment of justice, in Washington, on the
Goth, and forwarded at once to Attor- |
ney-General Knox, at Pittsburg.