Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Capt. Wilson Chase, with a detach.
ment of the Twenty-frst infantry, on
the Goth, surprised and captured the
| camp of the insurGent Gen. Cables, ut
Dugot, nine miles northeast of c.
sinti, in the Province of Laguna.
the American attack, but managed to
escape. Capt. Chase's force captured
his a%djutant general, five others of his
staff officers, IA men, 90 rifles, a large
amount of ammunition and stores and
all the papers and personal effects CT
the Filipino general.
In the case of James Callahan, on
trial at Omaha, Neb., on a charge OF
kidnapping young Eddie Cuhady, the
| jury brought in a verdict, on
the 2sth, finding the prisoner not
guilty. In place of the usual thanks
and compliments, the judge scored
the jury in unmeasured terms, ending
as follows: 81 do not know what mo-
tive actrated you in reaching this de-
cision, but 1 hope none of you will
ever appear again in this jury box"
In a fire at Houston, Tex, which de-
stroyed a livery stable and three res
licences, on the 2Sth, five persons were
burned to death and several others
were injured. The dead are Job Cop
ping, a florist, his wife and three chill
dren. A negro has been arrested on
the charge of having started the fire
to get revenge on his employer for
having discharged him.
The London Daily Chronicle says it
learns that DR.. Ludwig Mond has dis
covered a method of producing illumi-
mating gas at two pence per 1000 feet,
which will effect a revolution by
cheapening electric power and also as
bearing upon the production of open
hearth steel.
Carefully compiled statistics by the
Colorado Springs (Col.) Gazette show
that the gold production of the Grip
pie Creek district up to the close of
the April, makes 4 total of over one
hundred million dollars. Guild dust
was first discovered in hat amp I'D
I1o59.
The department of agriculture has
received no information bearing on
the reports that have been circulated
in England, charging Boer emissaries
with inoculating horses shipped IRON
this country to South Africa with
Iglanders and other maladies.
1t is reported from Belgrade that
the Albanians in old Servia are COM
hitting wholesale atrocities.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
| Yerkes has held that express receipts
| for goods and merchandise to be
transported from the United States to
a foreign country are not exempt
from tax md decisions of b Unit
ed States supreme court in the mat
tel of export bills of lading-
At a meeting off the board of over
seers of Harvard university, held in
Boston, OFT the 2ethy the question of
granting the degree of doctor OF laws
to. President Mckinley was taken up
informally, and the sentiment ex-
pressed was, unanimously in favor OF
the STEP
The American ship r. d. Rice, OF
San Francisco, Capt W1nny which ar
river at Hioga, Japan, April IL, from
Philadelphia, was burned, on the 29th-
and is a total loss. The Rice sailed
froEa Philadelphia ON November 90
1909, making the voyage to Hioga in
142 days.
James ~Leataernan, deputy game
warden for Wyoming, has found a wa
terfall BOG feet high in Yellowstone
National park, which he named Lost
Falls" The Calls are in Box canyon,
two and a half miles northwest ut
Hen's Half Acre.
After announcing various opinions
and hearing a number of motions, on
: the 29th, the United States supreme
/ court tooE an adjournment till the
18th The meeting then Will be only
for he announcement of opinions.
The notorious Jack the Ripper
who has assaulted and mutilated Is
: women, has beef caught at Ludwigs'
! hafen, Baden, r~ed-handed, by two de-
J tectives attired as m
The steamer Ophir, bearing the
duke and duchess of Cornwall an6
York, was sighted, on the Goth, of
Cape Lecuwin, the most southwestern
. point of Australia.
: The board of directors of the Pan
american exposition at Buffalo, n. Y.
have reconsidered their action in re
ducing the price of admission to Q
e cents on Sundays.
State Senator Lemuel r. Bolter,
prominent politician, died at his hom'
: in Logan, Ia, On the Goth, after
o brief illness.
s. The British rave enlisted a numbe
5. of Chinese at Tien Tsin for the Wei
r Hai-Wei regiment.
d Up to March 81, 1901, the war reve
niue act of june 13, 1898, had produces
$3.50, 504,A47.