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


LATE NEWS ITEMS.
A dispatch from Tacoma, Wash, on
the 9th, said: The steamship Glen
ogle brings news of human flesh being
freely sold in the famine district of
Shan ST, China. 1t brings $50 cash
per catty of one and one-third pounds.
Babes and young children are being
~butchered. The empress dowager has
commanded that the practice be
stopped, but is able to enforce her
orders only around Hsi an Flu. The
money collected by the Christian Her.
aid of New York has been distributed,
saving thousands from starvation"
A gang of highway robbers, on the
night of the 5th, successfully held up
and robbed the occupants of three
carriages, including several prominent
business men from Madison, S. D.,
while presumably en- route to Lake
Herman, three miles west of Madison.
A pitched battle was waged, but the
tourists were relieved of their valua-
bles, about five hundred dollars in
cash and all their %jewelry.
Four Panhandle trainmen met
death near Onward, Ind, on the 9th,
in a rear-end collision of freight
trains. The bodies of three were taken
out badly mutilated, and the fourth
was almost entirely consumed before
the wrecking crew could subdue the
flames of the burning wreck sufficient
" to permit work in that portion of
the debris.
Steamer advices, received on the
9Th, say hat the oast of Kazuza,
northern Japan, had been visited by
heavy gales, wrecking 400 fishing
boats. Twelve boats with total crews
of "a were missing. Heavy rains
caused an overflow of the rivers of
Hokkaido, washing away 600 houses
and submerging many villages.
The court of appeals of Kentucky
having granted eX-Secretary of State
Caleb Powers and James Howard new
trials, the case of the former was
called at Georgetown on the Sth. Pow
ers was convicted owe a year ago as
accessory to the murder of William
Goebel in January, 1900, and sentenced
to life imprisonment.
The semi-annual conference of Nor
mon missionaries in London came to
q close, on the 9th, with three services
in the Finsbury town hall, which was
crowded at each.
A dispatch from Sian Flu, on the
9th, announced that the imperial
Chinese court had started for kai
Feng Flu
William A. Heidecker, representing
Murray A.. Werner, of Pittsburg, Pa,
has presented to the municipal coun-
ell of ST. Petersburg a memorial Of
fering to take over the entire sur
face traction system of hat city, and
to form a company, under Russian
law, with a capital of 0 O,000,00
roubles to operate the same. The
lines will be largely extended and
electrified. The prospects of a favor
able answer are excellent.
Within sight almost of the home in
which she had grown to womanhood,
the body of Miss Helen Long, daugh-
ter of Secretary John ID. Long, was
laid at rest, on the nth, in the Did
bingham (Mass.) cemetery. The
grave was simply blanketed with flow
ers. The funeral was very simple in
its arrangements, and was attended
by immediate relatives and personal
friends and a few men in public life.
The county courthouse at AleXan-
dria, S. D., was burned, on the 9th, to-
gether with nearly all the county rec
ords. The loss on the building was
about thirty thousand dollars. The
lost records can not be replaced, in
many instances, and the damage will
be ~irreparable.
The supreme court of Colorado has
cited the members of the state board
of assessors, which was created by the
new revenu law, to appear, on the
18th, to answer to the charge of con-
tempt in proceeding with the assess
ment in disregard of the courts or
der.
The annual report Of Thomas
Fitchie, Inspector of immigration at
New York, has been transmitted to
the treasury department. The re-
port shows that the number of aliens
arrived during the fiscal year
June 80, 1901, was 453,496.
Emperor William left Roumentin,
on the nth, having killed p stays dur
ing the fortnight he spent there. He
went to Hubertusstock, the imperial
hunting lodge near Eberswalde, to
continue deer stalking for several
days.
The final figures as to the exports
frara oil Gar,,anu 70 tho limited
States during the third quarter of h
present year, show a total of $24,T22,-
767, or an increase of $s5S,9 62.
The next japanese budget, accord
ing to a dispatch from Toxic. viii
probably show a surplus of 100000
yen, which viii be applied to a re-
duction of the debt.