Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-30

IRoNToN. MISSOURI
The United States battleships Iowa
and Wisconsin received orders, on
the 23d, to leave Valparaiso, Chilli
for the Atlantic station.
Representative Dick, of Ohio, Oh
the 23d, introduced in congress the
bill agreed upon by the militia officers
of the several states, to increase the
efficiency of the militia.
The cabinet meeting, on the 2ist
was devoted largely to discussion NJ
pending appointments in the several
departments and the coming visit OF
Prince Henry of Prussia.
Mrs. Frederic Luere, who, as Ca.
milla Urso, was famous for so years
in America and Europe as a yiohnlst
died in New York on the Goth, She
was born in Nantes, June 10, 1884.
Orders have been issued by the
war department assigning the Fourth
regiment of infantry, which recently
arrived at San Francisco from the
Philippines, to the Department OF
Texas.
The state board of regents OF the
University of Minnesota, on the 23d
elected Prof. L. Washburn, OF the
Ore O state university, to succeed
the late Otto Lugger, as state en-
tomologist.
Representative Wiley, OF ->la
bama, on the 21st, introduced a bill
designed to prevent the holding VI
of trains for purposes of robbery
1t provides a penalty of death or life
Imprisonment for the guilty parties
Ernest Gutschow, manager of the
American Tobacco Co.'S works at San
Francisco; Judge Bernard Phillips
and Rufus Patterson, are in st. Pe-
tersburg investigating the tobacco in
dustry for the American Tobacco Co.
The steamship Ping Suey, which
sailed from Tacoma, Wash, on the
21st, for the orient, carried a cargo
valued at $7O7 ,957. This is greater
in value than n other cargo pre-
viously sent from Puget Sound to the
orient.
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The syndicate of New York bank.
ers who have been floating the new
German three-per-cent. loan, amount
ing to 300, 900 900 marks, have received
subscriptions from the United States
nearly covering the entire amount
of the issue.
The first blizzard in Seattle, WASH,
for several years occurred, on the
Gath, and completely tied up all street
car traffic and generally interfered
with business. Snow, the first this
year, fell heavily. No snow fell in
Seattle last winter.
Gov. Geer of Oregon issued a proc
%lamation, on the Esd, urging that
January 20 be observed in the schools
as mckinley day" by special exer-
cises, and that the school children
be given an opportunity to contrib
ute to the memorial fund.
One of the interesting features OF
the programme for the National Con-
gress of Mothers, which meets In
Washington next month, will be "a
Model Nursery" under the direction
of Mrs. Fred II. Dubois, wife of the
United States senator from Idaho.
A French priest named Julien and
two Chinese converts were murdered,
on the Goth, at a village in the north
of Wang-Si province. Chinese officials
assert that the murders were COM
mitted by robbers, and were not a re-
suit of an anti Christian demonstra-
ton.
Honorary Vice-Admiral Van Eli.
sendecher, the Prussian minister at
Carlsruhe, Baden, formerly an at
tache of the German embassy at
Washington, has been added by En-
peror William to the suite of Prince
Henry for the latter's visit to the
United States.
The National Building Trades
council closed it's fifth annual con-
vention at Worcester, Mass, on the
21st." Resolutions were adopted o n
demning the action of the Central
Trades and Labor union of st. Louis
for issuing a boycott against the Lou
isiana Purchase exposition.
A dispatch from Constantinople
asserts that an American syndicate
has submitted an offer to the porte
to build the Bagdad railroad. The
syndicate does not ask for a mileage
guarantee, but desires that the sur
plus tithes from the districts to be
traversed by the railroad be applied
to the work of construction.
At Cheyenne, Wyo., on the goth,
Peter Bergerson, a member of the
Cheyenne Rifle club, broke the
worlds record for 100 consecutive
shots, off-hand, 200 yards range,
standard American target. Berger
sons average was s9H. PAat of the
previous champion, Kelly, of the Wal
nut Hill club, of Massachusetts, was
So 9-10.
Luther r. Marsh, the well-known