Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LAIE NEWS LEW
The Manila & Dagupan Railroad G"
has presented a claim to the United
States authorities at Manila for p
100000 for damages sustained during
the instruction.
The Pretoria correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says that Gen.
Louis Botha has asked Gen. DeWet
to meet him to discuss the situation.
A Washington dispatch says that
Aguilaldo is likely to come to the
United States neXt fall and spend the
winter at the national capital.
Ernest D~uJton, colored, who plead
ed guilty to administering poison to
VIM. Elgood, his father-in-1aw, with
murderous intent, was sentenced, at
Wilmington, Del, or the 25th, to re-
ceive 60 lashes, to stand one hour in
the pillory, be imprisoned four years
and pay a fine of $4,000.
Switzerland has awarded a con-
tract to Herr Krrpp for the equip
ping of the entire Swiss field artillery
with Krupp guns
The anniversary of the birth of
Queen Victoria was observed at
Kingston. Jamaica, on the oath, as
p public holiday. Special Victorian
services were attended by large
crowds.
A statement by the internal rev.
enue bureau shows that the total re-
ceipts under the war revenu act up
to April 80, 1901, were $500, 1877 1884, of
which $105, 7O2, JAP came from docu-
mentary stamps; 1914, 1861 ,12S from
beer, and $45, 264, 714 from tobacco.
Moses T. Hale, for eight years city
treasurer of Colorado Springs, Col,
and Charles f. Smith, formerly city
and accessory, for the alleged embez-
element of $4,000.
The published report that the pope
intended to abolish the apostolic del
egation in Canda and annex it to that
in the United States is denied in a dis
patch from Rome.
The Mark Lane Express expresses
the belief that the British wheat har-
vest can not begin until August, ow-
ing W IiIC OdChNdAu "CdC11CA'
Lewis W. Stone, a wealthy Chicago
real estate owner, was beaten and
checked into insensibility, in his barn,
on the evening of the Gath, and robbed
of S11. The robbers evidently expect
ed to secure his days rem collections,
estimated at $1,000, but he had banked
them
Five persons were killed outright
and &C others were seriously injured,
on the goth, in a collision between
trolley cars moving at 40 miles per
hour, two miles from Greenbush, N
Y. Both motormen were among the
victims. The scene presented after
the wreck was awful t. behold. The
kinglingwcod to which the two cars
were reduced was mixed with blood
and margled bodies.
A great strike of oil was made at
Sour Lake. 20 miles northwest ot
Beaumont, Tex, on the Goth. A well
was struck in the rear of the Sour
Lake hotel, and at once became a
gusher, Towing $4,000 barrels a day.
This new strike so far from the Beau
mont field has caused renewed excite
ment all over Texas, and a rush to
the new district commenced immedi-
ately.
A commission from the state of
Wisconsin arrived at San Francisco.
on the Goth, with a $4,000 silver ban
quet service to be presented to the
battleship Wisconsin by the state
whose name she bears. In addition
to the silver service there was also a
bronze badger four feet high cast
from a Spanish cannon captured dur
ing the recent war.
Up to the Goth 80 bodies, some "f
them terribly mutilated, had been re-
covered from the Universal c~olliery in
Senghenydd, in the Rhonda valley, in
Wales, where the recent explosion oc-
Cured. The gruesome worked pro-
ceeded very slowly, and many painful
| scenes Nere witnessed at the pits
mouth.
A Sunday-school class of over i've
thousand people was a spectacle pre-
scented at the Dunkard national con-
ference in Lincoln, Neb., on the goth.
] The meeting was an inspiring one
The international Sunday-school les
son of the Dunkard quarterlies was
used.
Chief Examiner A. &. Servon, of the
| civil service commission, left Wash
ington, on the Goth, via New York, for
Honolulu, where he and Civil Service
! Commissioner Rodenberg, who will
join him en- route to Kansas City, will
look into the civil service in Hawaii.
Thomas Morris Avery, founder or
Elgin National Watch Co., died in Chi
cago, on the 10th, from a stroke of
paralysis. Mr.. Avery, who had been
i'll for the last two years, was born
70 years ago in Madison county, Ne"
] York.