Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-16

HO IdL VII
dams. Great restitution will ensue.
and aid will be required
to relieve the situation.
Rev. DIR. Edward P. Cowan. secre-
4arv of the Freedmen's Board of the
PRESBYTERIAN church, reported, on the
10th, that his board was out OF debt
The CHURCHES gave $4,000 to tht
cause last year, which was $4,000 more
than the year before.
The Nebraska Eankers' association
has decided to adopt plans to provide
protection for it's members against
burglars and forgers. An assessment
for the maintenance of a force of de
tectives will be called for. A numbe
of bank robberies have recently oc'
Cured in the state.
Former Judge John J. Hayden, OF
Indiana, died in Washington, on the
9th, aged 50 years Judge Hayden
was active in early republican poll
tics, but had been in the government
service at Washington for some years
He was said to be the oldest living
graduate of Harvard.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and his family
including his son, Lieut.. George r:
Lee. left Omaha, Neb., on the 9th, &c
return to their old Virginia home
where they have scarcely lived for IL
years, it being that long ago thai
Gen. Lee became governor OF Virginia
and moved to Richmond.
"
Jerome Fedeli, Italian consul II
Kansas City, Mo-, is quoted as saying
that the labor troubles in lola, kas.
that resulted, on the night of the 6th
in several Italians being driven from
that town after having been assault
ed nv American workmen, will b
made an international affair.
Miss Mary LORNA Cort, who speni
II years in Siam as a teacher ant
missionary, died at the home of hel
father, Simon Cort, in Denver, Col, or
the sth, aged 81 years. She was The
author of several publications CT
Siam, the most important of which
was .'The Heart of Farther India
Thomas J. Shelton, of Denver, Col.
publisher of The Christian, who claim!
close kirsbip to Jacob and Moses, ant
the power to cure disease by sending
vibrations to any distance, on The
18th, pleaded guilty to the improper
use of the mails and was fined $25 by
Judge HalIett In the United State:
court.
Orders have been received at the 1:
to Is factories of the National Starch
Co. to get ready to close down unit
the corn market becomes settled
again. Tn price of starch, it is said
has not kept pace with the price OF
corn, and there is no profit in buying
corn at the present price to make into
starch.
According to the returns of this
years census, the total population OF
England and Wales is $685. ZIG. This
is an increase over the population Of
1891 of 3.523,19f, or, in other words
an incres Sc of 1915 per cent. in the
last ten years. The increase for the
decade between 1881 and 1891 was
11.65 per cent.
A dispatch from Madrid says disor
ders were renewed at Barcelona, or
the Sth, and were vigorously represse6
by troops and gendarmes. The Span
ish government attributes the troub
lie to foreign and Spanish anarchist:
who have returned from exile anc
who are cooperating with the ex
IRENE socialists.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, of Boston
made an argument before the Indus
trial commission, in Washington, OF
the 10th, for what he called "Freel
trade He said that not more thar
five per cent. of the people of th'
country were benefited by a protect
i've tariff, while the other e5 per cent
of them pay the bill"
All the lumber camps in the north
ern part of the state of Wisconsin viii
probably be burned down this summeI
by order OF the state board of health
During the past two winters man,
camps have been the breeding places
of smallpox, and il is feared that thu
disease will develop in deadl,
form next winter unless heroic meas
ures are taken for its suppression.
A director of the American Walthan
Watch Co. said on the 9TH: THE of
6cers of the American Waltham Watcl
Co. have informed the promoters o
the proposed watch trust hat tina
company will not become a party t.
any consolidation ofwatch companies
Other companies have declined to g.
into any trust movement, SO the SIS,
100000 combination has been aban
doned."
Sir Alfred Miner, the British com
missioner, addressing a mass-meetin
at Cape Town, on the 7th. said thcr
was absolutely no reason for the anS
iety felt in some quarters lest an
change be introduced in South Afrie
that would in any way weaken the In
perial policy. Such a change was IN
possible. Great Britain had made u
her mind and would carry u tn
policy she had laid down.
Mariana lgnacio Prado. expires
dent of Peru, died In Paris on tn
9th. Mariana Ignacio Prado was Dor
in 1876. He participated in Gen. Ca:
tilla's revolution against Echenique'