Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Mexican government has de-
cided to wage war on all gambling
houses, and Minister of War Reyes
will issue a circular order to all army
officers notifying them hat if they
are found in any gambling establish
| ment they will be dismissed from the
service and turned over to the civil
authorities. All the public employees
are to be warned that gambling will
involve their dismissal. Merchants
and bankers sustain this move heart
lily.
An explosion of ten IONS of molten
metal in the blast furnace depart
ment at the Ohio plant of the Nation
al Steel Co., at Youngstown, on the
18th, resulted in the death of three
workmen and the injury of IL others.
The machinery which controlled the
ladle containing the molten mass
broke and allowed the metal to drop
into a vat containing water.
Secretary Hay has appointed DR.. J.
J.. Rodriguez, of Washington city, as
secretary of the delegation to the In
ternational Conference of American
States to be held in the City of Mex
leo next October. Mr.. Rodriguez is
a lawyer and served as a special coun-
sci to the American peace commits
sioners in Paris.
A great forest fire is raging ON
North Pine and fish creeks, near
Baker City, Ore, and the destruction
of a vast amount Of timber is threat
ona1 rTln xraothnr Sc Gu Iru a11
warm in the mountains that it will
be- impossible to stop the fire, which
is likely to prove destructive to much
ranch property.
The Echo de Paris, on the 18th, pub
lished an alleged interview with Count
Won Waldersee in which he highly
praised the French soldiers and ex-
pressed a belief that war between
France and Germany was an impossi-
bility.
Over two thousand carriage work
ers were notified by seven shops in
Cincinnati, on the 18th, that their
services were needed no longer, and
hat the places would be opened Sep
TENDER 3 as shops.
James McCue, connected with Bar
ney S~chreiber's racing stable, of st.
Louis, was fatally injured at the
Saratoga On. " race track on the
18th.
The Winona Bible conference
opened it's seventh annual meeting at
Winona Lake, Ind, on the 18th.
While at target practice, on the
10Th, at Fort Riley reservation, in
Kansas, a seven-inch, 107-pound shell
exploded as it was being placed in the
breech of the third section gun of
siege battery o, Seventh artillery,
commanded by Capt. Van Dusen, kill
ing Private Watson, and fatally in
juring three others. Several men
were less seriously injured.
Little Wonder, the celebrated hack
ney stallion, owned by a. J.. Cassatt,
of Philadelphia, and imported by him
in 1882, died, on the 10Th, from peri
tonitis. Little Wonder was the first
hackney stallion imported to this
country. He had been exhibited at
all the principal horse shows in the
country, winning many first firizes.
The steamer Islander, sailing from
0hCS way "ACh hIdAAhS Xix SootAA
west end of Douglas island, at 2 p. m.
of the 18th, and running at full speed,
struck a floating iceberg, and in less
than 20 minutes went to the bottom
of the deep channel. From 60 to 20
persons and much treasure went
down with the vessel.
A monument to commemorate the
fifty-fifth anniversary of the peaceful
annexation of New Mexico to the
United States, was unveiled, On the
10Th, on the plaza at Santa Fe, in the
presence of a vast concourse. The
monument was erected by Sunshine
Chapter of the Daughters of the
American revolution.
1t was reported in Glasgow, or the
10th, that j.. r. Ellerman, of the Ley
land line, had purchased the old-es-
tablished City line of IA steamers, en-
gagged in the East India trade, the
price being nearly one million pounds
sterling. Mr.. Ellerman, according to
rumor, acted for J. Pierpont Morgan
and his associates.
The Corean government has forbid
den the expectation of rice, on ac-
count of the short crop. The Japan
csc government has instructed its
minister at Seoul to inquire whether
the measure is justifiable. japan has
an agreement with Corea forbidding
such action except in case of dire ne
cessity.
Adam Kest and Joseph Engine, two
of the workmen who were trapped in
the Cleveland (O.) waterworks tunnel
200 feet below the surface of Lake
Erie by the burning of Crib No. 2 re-
Gently, were rescued from their dam
gerous position, IN the 18th, after
five days imprisonment.