Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-04

privy councillors.
Rev. J. W.. Morris, of Kalispel, Mont.
was, on the Goth, chosen president OF
the Montara Wesleyan university al
Helena, Mont, to succeed the late
Thomas Van Sery. There were five
candidates for the place.
The statement o: the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, issued on
the goth, exclusive of the $50, GO0, O0C
gold reserve in the division redemp-
ton, showed: Available cash balance,
s155, 162, 4O6; gold, $97, S3G.46S.
w. L. Stow & Co, brokers of New
York city, said, on the 2Sth, that they
had bought h control of the MeXl'
can Central railroad for important
interests in the southwest. They de-
cline to give the names of the princi-
pals.
Joseph A. Conlon, the New York
post Office clerk arrested in San Fran
cisco, recently, on the charge of steal
ing $4,000 in registered mail in that
city, was, On the goth, sentenced to
four years Imprisonment at Sing
Sing.
The Portuguese government has is
sued a decree closing the Jesuit
church on the Rua Quelhas and the
church of the Franciscan missionaries
on the Rua Patrocinio in Lisbon, and
also the church of the German Bene-
dictines at Aviro.
Th- --,,- mo do
partment reports hat 17,000,00 per
sons are now insured in hat country
Last year 454,451 accidents occurred
and the sum of 66,635,632 marks was
paid out for claims. as against rs,
6SO,632 marks in 1899.
Dispatches from Russia tell of the
spread of ~disaffection, especially at
Odessa, where 100 arrests have been
made; at Riga, where 800 persons are
in custody, and at Bieff, Kharkoff,
Derpat, Tomsk and Moscow, where
high officials are involved.
The British steamer King Bleddyn,
which sailed from New York, on
March 10, for Hull, put into Fayal,
Azores, on the 27th, with decks swept,
boats and bridge gone and other dam
age done. Capt. LiGdie and two mem
bers of the vessels crew were drown.
ed.
Director Merriam of the census bu.
reau said, on the Goth, that thus far
no arrests had been decided upon in
connection with the alleged census
frauds in Maryland in addition to
that of Enumeration Abel, but he in
Dictated that further investigations
would be made.
The American consul-general al
Tangier, Mr.. Gummere. says he in
tends to have a definite settlement
with the sultan Of Morocco concern
ing all American claims. and will de
mand an apology for the discourtesy
of the Moroccan grand vizier and min
lister Of foreign affairs.
The navy department has entered
or an entirely new policy by designat-
ing the first class battle ship Indiana
for the service of the cadets at the
United States naval academy. The
Indiana is now at the Philadelphia
navy yard, where she is to be put in
shape for the cadets to go aboard her
the latter part of May.
In the British house of commons. on
the 2Sth, answering a question, Lord
Cranborne, the under foreign secre-
tary, said Mr.. McLevy Brown, the di-
rector general of the Corean customs,
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There had been Il difficulty. he added,
which was engaging the close atten-
ton of the government.
d. r. Hanna. son of Senator Hanna,
al the Goth, denied the re-
Fort that the recent conference
between his father and !. Z. Morgan
IN New York was for the purpose of
placing the vessel ard mining proper
ties of the United States Steel Corpo-
ration under the management of the
firm of NJ A Hanna & Co.
Maurice barrymore, the actor, was
taken to the insane pavilion of Belle
vue hospital in New York, OF the 30th,
by his o John Barrymore. He went
TO the hospital willingly. He had
nothing at all to say, and acted like n
man who was dazed. John Barrymore
told the doctor that his fathers real
name is Blye, and that he was born in
the East Indies about so years ago.
A dispatch from Manila, on the 9th,
said: Gen. Frederick Funston's dar-
ing project for the capture of Agui-
naldo in his hiding place in the Prov
ince of Isabella, Island of Luzon, has
proved completely successful. Agui-
naldo was captured there on March
23. The United States gunboat Vicks-
burg, Commander f. X. Barry, with
Gen. Funston and Aguinaldo on board,
arrived here this morning."
The London morning papers, on the
goth, published long kilograms de-
scribing the capture of Aguinaldo,
with sketches of the insurgent lead
er's career and editorials congratulate
ing the United States upon the sue
cess of Gen. Funston's brilliant ruse.
All recognize that he risked his life
in the attempt, and all express the
opinion that the capture will have a
great effect in shortening the Filipino
resistance.
A cablegram received at the war de
partment, on the 2Sth, from Gen. Mac
Arthur. tells in a suScinct waY the his