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

The central committee Of Berlin
shoe dealers has presented a petition
against the increase of duties on
shoes proposed in the new tariff bill.
The hat makers organizations will
send a deputation to Herr Moeller.
PruSsian minister of commerce,
against the proposed duty on felt
hats.
1.-The United States government has
replied in a sympathetic and friend
ly tone," says a dispatch to the Lon-
don Times, from Toxic, dated the
31st, ST. Japan's remonstrance regard
ing medical inspection of japanese in
Hawaii, promising that investigation
shall be followed by suitable meas
ures.'
By the explosion of a naphtha
launch on the Hudson river, at 1.-THE
Abbey a mile and a half below AL
bany, N. Y, on the LIST, the owner,
Wilbur Alexander and his son Wilbur,
Jr, were horribly burned, and Mrs.
Alexander and her little daughter
were killed.
The Ottoman government is said to
be sounding Germany with a view to
inducing her to arbitrate on the
Franco-Turkish controversy. 1t is not
considered likely, however, hat Ger
many will accede to the proposal or
hat France would accept arbitration.
A dispatch from Caracas asserts
that the memorandum, issued on the
LIST, by the Venezuelan government to
foreign powers in explanation of the
Observation-Disclosures difficulty, de-
clares that hostilities between the two
states are imminent.
Lord Kitchener reported, on the 1st,
to the British war office that nine per-
sons were killed and IL others wound
ed in the blowing up and derailing of
the train which the Boers destroyed,
on the 31st, between Waterfall and
Hamman's kraal.
M. De Blowitz, advance colonization
agent for Roumanian immigrants,
states that 1000 Roumanians are now
en- route for Mexico. Considerable
doubt exists as to the date of their
arrival in Mexico.
The Nicaraguan congress-, on the
LIST, approved the Merri-Sanson COM
mercial treaty with the United States,
and adjourned. It will probably re-
assemble in the latter part of Janu-
airy next.
The Paris Eclair says it is not un-
likely that a couple of italian war
ships will go to Dunkirk during the
visit of the car.
A private dispatch from Colon, CO.
lombia, says many laborers are being
discharged from the coal mines and
industrial establishments there, owing
to declining business. The men dis
charged are mostly Italians and Poles.
who are returning home in troops.
The weekly decrease in the miners
wages, owing to cut-downs, amounts
to 400, 1000 marks.
M. De Laressar, French minister OF
marine, received a dispatch from
Pekin, on the I'd. announcing that the
French had formally handed over the
Palace of Ancestors and the Imperial
City to the Chinese plenipotentiaries,
and that only one French battalion
remained in the old French quarter.
Wheat that tests 60 pounds to the
bushel, one pound heavier than the
worlds record, will be shown by Okla
homa al the ST. Louis exposition. The
Oklahoma commissioners met in
Guthrie, on the I'd, and decided to
erect at the fair a large building of
native material.
Andrew Carnegie has given e10O
each to Sheldon, Law, Jones and
J Dick, the four miners who displayed
conspicuous bravery in the rescue of
their comrades at the time of the
recent Donibristle (Perthshire, Eng
land,) colliery, disaster.
A masked cyclist, on the night of
the 1st, held up the White Cliffs-Hil-
cania mail coach, in New South Wales,
wounded a passenger, secured the
mails and opals valued at e1,400, and
escaped.
Emperor William and the foreign
military attaches, on the I'd, wit
messed a sham fight of the garde du
corps regiment, near Berlin, in lieu
of the customary autumn parade.
Banker James NJ. Key, of Andrews
Ind, against whom many charges OF
forgery and fraud have been made,
pleaded guilty, on the I'd, in the Hunt
ington circuit court.
Count Won Buelow, German chancel
Tor, is formulating proposals, which
he will soon submit to the German
states, for the formation of the co
lonial army.
The prohibitionists of Massachu
sets met in Boston, on the ID, and
nominated John B. Lewis, Jr., o.
Reading, for governor, with a full
state ticket.
;. George A. Nickerson, director of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
J died at his home in Dedham, Mass.
On the I'd.