Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-09

al affairs.
The population of London, includ.
ing the city proper and % metropoli-
tan boroughs, the whole forming what
is termed the administrative county
of London, is now 4,536,O34. This is
an increase of $685. 1 since the last
census in 1891.
Reports from county clerks show
hat Kansas has $4,000 acres OF
school land, which may be bought at
SLIPS an acre. 1t lies mostly in the
western portion of the state, but
much of it is as good as the land in
the Kiowa country.
Jake Gaudaur, on the 30th, cabied
to George Towns, the English cham
pion, accepting his challenge for d
three-mile sculling race for $3.50 a
side and the championship of the
world. The race will take place at
Rat Portage in August.
Two important cablegrams were re-
ceived at the war department, on the
both, from Gen. Macarthur at Manila.
III LhS OpI1itOH u JnS OIlICIci1S Lax
news contained in them mark the al
most complete collapse of organized
rebellion in She Philippines.
The miners union of Lens, France,
issued a manifesto, on the 30th, de-
claring THAT, as $4,000 miners abb
stained from voting on the referen-
dunn question of a general strike, the
union had decided not to assume the
grave responsibility of ordering a
strike.
r. G.. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review,
on the 4th, said: 1.-THE mavelously
healthy condition of business is best
appreciated when il is discovered that
the failures last month were the
smallest in 81 months, with the ex-
ception of May to August, 1899, in
elusive"
Reports received by the Indiana
state board of health show that the
number of cases of smallpox through
out the state is constantly increasing.
instead of diminishing. There were
423 cases reported for the month OF
April, but it is not known how many
proved fatal.
1t is persistently reported in Pekin
that there has been fresh fighting be-
tween the Russians and Chinese liz
M~anchuria- No great credence is
placed in such rumors, however, as it
is believed they are circulated to show
the necessity for an increase in the
military strength of Russia.
A special from Athens, O., y
"From an authority which seems in
disputable there comes the informa-
ton that almost the entire "a indus
try of the Hooking and Sunday Creek
valleys will come under the manage
ment of the gigantic combination of
capital of which j. P. Morgan is the
head.
The statement that the total in.
demnity to be demanded of China
amounts to e65,0 0 900 has been Off
cially confirmed. This in
cludes all private claims. 1t is be-
lieved that if China will now I'M
dertake to pay this sum in indemni-
TIES lit evacuation Oh 16-Ill-L1 prov
ince can begin Immediately.
A dispatch received in Washington,
on the LIST, from Gen. Macarthur, at
Manila, stated that the hospital re-
ports showed 2,5SG sick in hospitals
in the Philippines and 613 sick in quar-
tiers. This is SIS per cent, a less per-
certage of sick thaI has been shown
at any time since United States troops
were sent to the archipelago.
j. V. FarweIl, of Chicago, closed q
$500. 900 deal, ON the 1st, with L.. L.
Halsell,of Vinita,I. T.,for grazing land
and cattle in western Texas. The sale
included $4,000 acres of land in Old
ham and Hartley counties at two dol
lars an acre, and 1000 white face
Hereford COWS at $50 a head. A cash
payment of $250,OO0 was made to bind
the bargain.
The London chamber of commerce
has selected q large committee, in
GLIDING Lords Rothschild, Avebury.
~I:evelstoke and l~Iillingdon, the lerd
MAYOR. MIR. Frank Green and Sir
Thomas Upton, to receive the visit
ing delegates of the New York cham.
Der of Besides a banquet,
a garden party will be given in honor
of the American visitors
Mrs. Nations crusade against the
saloon has resulted in a movement to
purify Kansas politics that promises
to be more farreaching than anything
of the kind ever before attempted II
the Sunfiower state. A permanent or
ganization of the grand chapter OF
the Law Enforcement League of Kan
ras has been effected whose object il
"to purify the politics of the state
and promote it's interests"
Jacksonville. Fla, was visited, on
the Sd, by the most disastrous confa'
grafton ever witnessed in that city on
state. Miles of territory, in the best
residence and business sections wers
laid waste, owe thousand build
ing. including hotels, churches ans
theaters, being burned, at a loss con
eervatiyely estimated at nine or tel
million dollars. 1t was reported tina
several negroes persisted in thi
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