Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-03-28
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The members OF the American en-
bassay staff, headed by Charge DAT
flares Fenton McGreery, called upon
President DiaZ at the National Pal
ace, on the oath, and congratulated
him on his complete restoration to his
usual health. The president was in
excellent spirits and much gratified at
this manifestation of good will, and
cordially thanked the members of the
embassy.
A Japanese squadron, Admiral
Tsushima'commanding, left Nagasaki.
on h 23d, for Corea. The general
opinion i'll Yokohama is that the sit
uation is serious. Urgent instructions
have been issued by the minister of
war, Cen. katSOura, to the command
ers of forts to attend g conference i'll
Toxic to consider questions of home
defense.
The political situation in Russia is
so serious that Emperor Nicholas held
a meeting of the ministers, on the
gath, to consider the state of pubic
affairs. Threatening letters have
been received by Lieut.-Gen. Kouropt-
kline, minister of war; NJ. Nv. MoEra-
rieff, minister of justice, and II.
Sipiagnine, minister of the interior.
Twelve men assaulted in Chicago
each day for no other reason thar
that they + Jews, with the average
of ten deaths a year growing out Of
these assaults, were figures presented
on the Gath, at an indignation meet
ing in that city of Jewish peddIars.
LOrin Blodgett, an eminent statisti-
clan and n of the foremost authori-
ties on the higher economies, died in
Philadelphia, on the 24th, aged 70
years. He vas born in jamestown. y.
y, and was a graduate of the Geneva,
now Hobart college.
Judge Jos. NJ. Bartholomew, for len
years justice of the supreme court Of
North Dakota, dropped dead on the
24th, in Bismarck. He was recog-
nized as an able lawyer and iurist and
was one of the best public speakers in
the state.
Gen. Weyler, Spanish minister of
war; is preparing extensive army re-
forms, a number of which will be car
ried out by royal decree. The food of
the soldiers will be improved and
economics will be realized in the war
budget.
y dispatch from Manila, on the 24th
said: The attendance at the serv-
ices of the Evangelical church in Ma
Mia is not diminished. Professionalism
is spreading rapidly in the Province
of Pampanga.
The announcements that the First
National Bank of Niles, Mich, is short
1896, 200 and that stockholders will be
assessed 100 per cent. on their hold
ings has greatly agitated the people
OF thai town. Men who were wealthy
a few weeks ago will be impoverished.
Stockholders are talking OF joining
depositors who have a movement on
foot to take legal action against the
board of bank directors.
The city of Birmingham, Ala, was
visited by a cyclone, on the 25th,
which destroyed property to the value
of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
killed and fatally injured a of
persons, mostly negroes, and serious
ly injured a much larger number. The
storm occurred about 10 a. m, and
by night the citizens had made ample
provision for temporary relief of the
1t was announced, or the 25th, that
Prof. HI. r. Gaylord, of the University
of Buffalo, who has been conducting
the New York State Pathological lab
oratory for the last two years, with
the object of discovering the cause of
cancer, has succeeded in his object.
will not make a public statement.
however. until his report has been
sent to Albany.
c. j. G~arrolson, Il poor tailor of
Muncie, Ind, departed for New York,
the 25th, to lay claim to the estate
of 81, 100000 left by the late million
aire Rice, who, Garrolson says, was
grandfather. Garrolson's mother,
he says, visited her father, Mr..
died suddenly.
Thomas G. Barker, who shot Rev.
John Keller in Arlington, n. J.. several
weeks ago., wounding him so that the
of one eye was destroyed, was
arraigned in court in Jersey City on
the 18th. Barker pleaded not guilty.
His bail was fixed at $4,000, which was
furnished
The negotiations between the Ger
and British foreign Office, with
reference to the payment of damages
Germans expelled from the Trans
vaaI, are partly completed. The
claimants viii be paid during April,
the amounts ranging from 5000 marks
down.
Senator Michael Russell, of the Thir-
tieth senatorial district of New York, |
was stricken with paralysis in the
senate lobby at Albany on the night
of the 25th. One side was affected,
and his condition was pronounced