Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

1t is generally admitted in Buenos
Ayres that the difficulties between Ar
gentina and Chile have been ended.
1t is true that a word in the proto-
col was changed before the text OF
the document was made public at
Santiago, but Senior Portela, the Ar
gentine minister, protested against
the alteration, and the Chilean for
eign minister ordered a rectification
to be made.
Under date of the 4th, United States
Consul Atwell, at RobaiX, France, in
formed the state department that an
international exposition will be held
at Lille, France. between the months
of May and September, 1902, which
will embrace works of art, machinery,
agricultural products and a number
of other subjects.
levi Saunders, convict 2471 at the
federal prison, Leavenworth, has.,
escaped on the Goth. He was a team
ster, and about three o'clock put his
team in the corral at the prison and
walked away. Saunders was sent up
from Arkansas for a violation of the
postal laws. He had four months left
to serve.
Six hundred employees of the Pitts
burg, Bessemer 6 Lake Erie railroad
were notified, on the 9th, of an in
crease of 10 per cent. in wages, COM
mencing January 1. The raise applies
to conductors, brakemen, switchmen,
engineers and firemen, and was vol
untary on the part of the company,
John +. Keller, aged so, the wealth.
est resident of Pana, ILL.,, and Mrs.
Sarah Garfield, aged Go, were to have
married on the 27th. but when they
went before the minister they decided
that they were too old. Mr.. Keller
gave Mrs. Garfield s. 1000 cash and
they parted good friends.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund exclusive
of the $3.50, 000, 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued OF the
27th, showed: Available cash balance,
$173, 906 ,91S. Gold, Sis, 703 1913.
Oklahoma farmers say that recent
high dry winds have done a greater
damage to the wheat crop than all
the cold waves combined. Wheat on
the uplands has suffered greatly.
The Bulgarian cabinet resigned on
the :7th. 1t is understood the new
cabiret will include two members OF
the Stambuloff party.
The Brazilian senate has approved
an agreement to define the boundary
between British Guinea and Brazil
1t is expected that efforts will be
renewed before long for the settle
ment of the numerous controversies
which haye long existed between the
United States and Great Britain
growing out of relations along thu
Canadian border, the Atlantic fisher
les, war ships on the great lakes, thu
Alaskan boundary, and other ques
lions.
A waterspout burst over the tow
of Saffee, Morocco, on the 29th. 1
inundated the lower part OF the tow
for the space of IL hours, sweeping
everything into the sea. Two hun
dred persons are reported to hav
5 been drowned. There were no Euro
. peans among the dead. The damag
. to the town was enormous.
Two freight wrecks occurred on tn
Western railway of Alabama, on tn
; night of the goth, within 30 miles
i; each other, on account OF the heaV
rains which flooded the track, eau
l. ing two entertainments to give wa,
n One man was killed, three injured an
Ne the property loss was heavy.
o. The British war office, OH the BOT
a. received a dispatch from Lord Kite
l. ener, dated Johannesburg, sayir
U that the British prisoners capture
when the Beers successfully rush'
u Col. Firman's camp at Zeefontei
December "a, have been liberated al
returned to Bethlehem.
Masked robbers entered the hor
- of Thomas Y. Inglind, a butcher,
~ Martins Ferry, o., on the goth, a
"a forced him, at the point of a revolv'
to give up 5000. Later the police b
a battle with two of the robbers, W
were captured after a lively exchan
of shots at close range.
:. Madame Lillian Blauvelt, the c.
~ cert singer, arrived at New York,
the goth, from Europe on the steam
y, st. Paul. She opens her Ameri'
tour at Carnegie hall, January
and for two months will sing in
principal cities Of the country, go
- west as far as Denver.
John Pinover, a young wholes
liquor dealer of Middletown, N.
~. on the goth jumped from the Bro
Ign Bridge. He was still alive W
taken to a hospital. Pinover told
ar doctors he simply wanted to SCI
,bv he could make the jump and live.
ali 1t can be said upon reliable in
200 nation that the president Of the
dor ruvian senate, Manuel Candamo,
be a candidate for the %presidenc.
the next election.