Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Chilean minister of foreign at
fairs, Senior Nargara, and the Argen-
tine minister to Chile, Jose Antonio
Terry, are completing the details of
the agreement which limits Chilean
and Argentine ornaments, and which
provides for the general arbitration
of disputes between the two Il
tries. Owing to this favorable situa-
ton, securities and bonds in Chile are
very firm. Gold is falling.
Frank NJ. Sturgeon, one of the old
est mail carriers in the Kansas City
(Kas.) service, vas arrested by post
office inspectors, on the 25th, charged
with stealing a bundle of letters.
Sturgeon was caught in the act in
the post Office. He confessed, say
ing that his stealings had covered
a period of eight months. and that
debt had prompted the theft. He has
a family.
Mr.. Carol Norton, in a lecture de-
livercd before a large audience in the
Columbia theater at Washington, on
the 25th, asserted that 1000, 900 cases
of disease have been healed by Chris
tian science during the 35 years OF
it's history, and that in that time
about 700 Christian science churches
have been established and are now
fiourishing.
The failure of the efforts of a Ger
man firm to secure exclusive rights
of selling opium throughout the
Chinese empire, for which privilege
the firm in question offered to pay
the Chinese government $~15,OO0,OOO a
year, appears to be assured on ac.
count of the opposition of the min
listers and the palace officials in Pc
kin.
An anarchist conference. attended
by 20 delegates, was held at Mann
helm recently. The police got in
formation of the meeting before it
occurred, and sent two officers to at
tend the sittings. As the proceed,
ings of the conference were quite
tame, the anarchists were not modest
ed by the police officials.
The steamer Lifted, belonging to
the Guadeloupe Steamboat Co., ar
rived at Pointe-a-Pitre, Island OF
Guadelope, on the 25th, from Mar
Unique and reported the conditions
on that island to be unchanged. The
people at Fort de France were some
what q~uieter when the Lifjeld left
the island.
The cholera record in the Philip
pines, to the 25th, is as follows: Ma
Mia. LAG cases and 619 deaths. The
provices, 1922 cases and 2,774 deaths
In the senate, on the Goth, Mr.. Pat.
terson (Col.), one of the minority
members of the financial committee,
occupied the floor most of the day
in q discussion of the Philippine
question. Sixty-two private pension
bills were passed. LIN the house the
day was devoted to District of CO.
|lumbia business. Recess was taken
for one day, in order to complete the
bill amending the District code.
A dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, on
the Goth, said: "a report has reached
here that a whole battalion Of Turk
ish troops has been annihilatcd by
rebels near the seaport of Mocha in
the Turkish vilayet of Yemen, i'll the
southwestern part Of Arabia. The
governor of Mocha is said to have
been carried away by the rebels as a
hostage. The rebels are being joined
by numbers of Turkish troops who
arc deserving.
The following provisional govern
ment was constituted i'll port-au
Prince, Hayti, on the Goth; Presi
dent, Boiserond Canal; minister OF
foreign affairs, NJ. Jeremie; minister
of interior, M. Colin; minister of jus
| tice, NJ. Lalane; minister of war, Gen
Nerd; minister of public works, M
Cesarion; minister of finance, NJ
Dennery.
The British government has CRATE
fully accepted the offer by the Unite'
States of a war ship to carry HON
the body of Lord Pauncefote, lat
British ambassador at Washington
Deep appreciation was expressed a
the British foreign Office at this an
other signs of American sympathy.
f. d. Weed, formerly United State
district attorney for Montana, was
on the Goth, suspended by the su
preme court from practice in tn
courts of Montana for a period q
two years, having been found guilt
of malpractice and deceit as an a
torney and counsellor.
Congressman Babcock, chairma
of the republican congressional con
mittee, talked with the president, o
the Goth, regarding the fall campaign
The president, at an early day, wi
arrange a date for receiving the con
mittee, at which time plans will
mapped out.
The nomination of Andrew J. Hou
ton to be marshal for the eastern di
, trict of Texas was confirmed by til
: senate on the Goth.
{ Henri Greville (Alice Marie Celest
lDurand), the French authoress, die
g in Paris on the goth.