Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-17

In to stay in American waters thi
winter, and next summer she viii
probably be e in races On Long Isl
and sound and elsewhere.
DIR. Hiram P. futile, inventor o
thorite, a high explosive recommend
ed for adoption by the United States
navy, died suddenly at his home IL
Tacoma, Wash, on the 9TH.
On the 9th a cablegram was re
ceived by the state department from
Consul-General Dickinson, at Constan
tinople, saying that Miss Stone hae
been located in the mountains on the
Turkish frontier, and that she was
alive and well.
Severe seismic disturbances, prob
ably caused by volcanic activity in the
Pacific raising the level of the ocean
occurred in Nicaragua on the 7th. The
Pacific coast of Nicaragua was flood
ed to a depth of eight feet, and con
siderable damage was done.
At Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 9th
Arthur J. Van Kuran was sentenced
to two and a half years in the state
p~enitentiary for the crime of embez'
cling $4,000 from the Oregon Short
Line Railway Co. while in its employ
in the capacity of local treasurer.
The University Of G~oettengin re
Gently offered the newly-founded
chair of inorganic chemistry to Theo'
dore William Richards, of Harvard
university. Heretofore it has been
quite unheard of hat an American
should be called to a German univer.
sity.
The supreme court of Colorado has
cited the members of the state board
of assessors, which was created by the
new revenue law, to appear, on the
4th, to answer to the charge of con-
tempt in proceeding with the assess
ment in disregard of the courts or
der.
An official bulletin, dated from Bar
ranquilla, Colombia, makes the fol-
lowing statement, but gives no details
of the event referred to: "The French
steamer Fournel brings news that
Gen. Uribe-Uribe vas utterly routed
at Tachira and arrived at Maracaibo
on the morning of October g."
The committee that has been inves-
raised Mecklenburg-Strelitz Mort
gage bank of Berlin reports a deficit
of 10000, 900 marks upon a capital of
/ ,0OO.0 900 marks, and hat the annual
loss from interest on mortgages will
be 794 900 marks.
Mr.. Choate, the United States am
bassador, is going to take a holiday.
He intends sailing to the United
States, with his family, on board the
American line steamer Philadelphia.
1t is said at the embassy that some
thing might arise to prevent Mr..
Choate's departure, in which cas- his
family would sail without him.
A royal decree issued from Madrid,
on the 9th, orders the payment in gold
of all taxes or interest upon bonds,
shares or dividends, and on redemp-
tons by companies, who r to pay
their shareholders and bondholders in
gold. As there is no gold in Spain,
the taxes will be paid in pesetas, cal
culated on the basis of the official
quotation of the gold premium.
The German press, referring &c the
dispatches from Washington, giving
alleged information as to the new
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain regarding the Nicaragua
canal, points out that Great Britain's
remuneration of her rights under the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty without COM
pensation is a plain illustration of
the paralysis produced by the war in
south Africa.
Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of the
church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, better known as the Mormon
church, died unexpectedly at his
private residence, the historic Bee
Hive house, in Salt Lake City, Utah,
on the 10th, after an illness that had
been serious only one day. The inn
mediate cause of his death was n.y.
postatic congestion, superindueed by
aggravated bronchitis.
Laurent Tailhade, editor Of Liber,
taire, the anarchist sheet, vas, on the
10th, tried before the correctional po-
lice tribunal of Paris. for the article
he published in Libertaire, during the
VISIT of Emperor Nicholas to France,
melting to the murder of the car,
President Loubet and the French min.
listers as "Tyrants and oppressors OF
the people," He was sentenced to i'm,
prisonment for one year and to a fine
of 1000 francs.
The Berlin National Zeitung, dis
cussing the Washington dispatches
that purport TO summarize the con-
tents of the projected treaty between
the United States and Great Britain
regarding the isthmian canal, says:
Not only for Great Britain, but for
all commercial nations, it is a mat.
ter of extraordinary significance that
one of the most important routes OF
navigation of the future will be ex
clusively in the hands of the Ameri.
cans"
The gross. postal receipts for Sep
TENDER of so of the largest post of
ices were $4,225,752, a net increase oi
$323,S22, or So per cent. over last