Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LH II NE"S IiLhOs
Komours 1outaro, the Japanese
minister, accompanied by Gen. 1ama-
guchi, b japanese commander, re-
Gently called upon Prince Ching and
notified him that the return of EN-
peror Kwang Su to Pekin was urgent
ly desired. No reply having been re-
ccived to this communication, Ii
Hung Chang was, on the 14th, notified
to the same effect and told that En-
peror Kwang Su must give an imme-
diate answer.
The farmers of Saline county, Kas-
sas, have completed the preliminary
organization OF their association tc
fight the grain combine by building
or leasing their own elevators, and a
charter will be applied for at once.
An effort tt form similar organiza-
tions throughout the wheat belt of
Kansas and Oklahoma will be made
with a view to having representatives
at a state meeting to be held at Salina
on May 16.
The Mexican government has grant
ed a concession to Capt. Charles Sal
laber, of Chicago, an engineer and
capitalist, to open a waterway be-
tween the cities of Tampico and Tux
pan, on the gulf coast, for a distance
of 125 miles and establish a line of
fast modern steamboats, between
those cities.
Influenced by the protests of the
Evangelical church council and the
Catholic bishops, Emperor William
has withdrawn from the Great Hall
of the blind asylum at Wursterhausen
the mosaic paintings representing the
empress as st. Elizabeth and himself
as the saints husband.
A party of four persons, while
crossing the tracks of the Lehigh VAL
ley railroad, at South Wilkesbarre,
Pa, at an early hour on the morning
of the 18th, were run down by the
Buffalo express going north. Three
of the party were killed and one in
jured.
1t was reported at Bl~oemfontein, on
the 14th, that the health of former
President Stein has broker down. 1t
was also said that he had advised all
Beers on commando to surrender i'm
m~ediately.
According to the ST. Petersburg cor
respondent of the London Daily Mail
the Corean government has promul-
gated a law enforcing the penalty of
death for opium smoking.
Col. Daniel Butterfield, who is suf-
fering from an attack of paralysis, in
New York. was slightly better on the
14th.
The usual scenes attending the re-
opening of the Irving-Terry season in
London, were witnessed around the
doors of the Lyceum theater on tie
18th. AS early as seven o'clock in the
morning men and women collected,
armed with camp stools, novels, sand
witches and TASKS. The crowds rapid
ly increased until a special police
force was required to keep the first
nighters in line.
The president and members of the
cabinet were photographed, on the
18th, in the cabinet room. 1t is the
custom as soon as a change in h
cabinet occurs, to have a new set of
photographs of the cabinet taken.
The entry of Acknowledgement Knox
into the presidents official family
the occasion for the new cabinet
pictures.
DIR. Marth, editor of the London
The Nation, while discussing the Wall
street Doom, on the 18th, said he dis
agreed with the pessimistic utter
ances of the German press on the sub
ject. declaring hat he regarded the
boom as the result of solid business
achievements, like increased railroad
earnings and railroad consolidation.
Advices from Sian Flu to the local
mandarins assert that h court is
preparing to go to Hsian Yang, in the
Province OF HUI Pei. The permanent
officials of the six boards are de-
scribed as having quietly left Pekin
for Sian Flu in anticipation of the Sc
lection of a new capital.
Bv a vote of II to Z, the Arkansas
senate, on the 18th, passed a bill max
ing it unlawful for any person to
drink any Intoxicating liquors as q
beverage unless he shall have first OBJ
tanned Il license as a dram drlnker.
The license is fixed at five dollars per
annum.
Frank A. Vanderlip, eN-assistant
secretary of the United States treas
urv. is in ST. Petersburg, investigat-
ing conditions with the hope of pro-
noting business relations between the
United States and Russia.
Several suggestions have been made
to the Chinese minister concerning
the advisa bility of establishing perma,
nent legation quarters in Washington,
and he al given some consideration
to the matter of late.
Joseph Parish, for Is years chief Of
the District of Columbia fire depart"
ment and for IS years connected with
that service, will be retired, on his
own request, on May 1, with a pension
of S1C0 a month.