Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-10

Shanghai on board the United States
g%unboat Wilmington. He will begin
negotiations for n new commercial
treaty between the United States and
China"
The Rome Corrier Della Sera as
serts that King Edward abandoned
his proposed visit to the Riviera be-
cause of the discovery of an an
archist plot against his life. The an
archists purposed giving the APP
pearance of Boer revenge to their
operations.
Gen. Leonard Wood, military gov
ernor of Cuba, informed the var de-
partment, on the Sd, that he would
pardon Lieut.. Oscar IL. Durfee, now
IN prison in Cuba, to take effect on
the Goth instant. Lieut.. Durfee is
serving q ten years sentence for al
legged de~falcation of $1,000.
The post Office department. has all
der consideration the question OF
placing on one of the postage stamps
of the new issue the head of some
woman who is connected with the
history of the country. There is no
doubt that Martha Washington will
be the woman so honorel.
The statement was made at Enid,
Okla. on the 4th, upon credible au-
thority, that Judge John L. McAtee
had forwarded his resignation as as
sociatc justice of Oklahoma to Wash
ington. An inspector was sent to
Enid. recently, to investigate charges
preferred against Judge McAtee.
Representative jenkins, of WiScon-
sin, on the list. introduced a bill spc-
cifying the manner in which the Span
ish claims commission shall pass on
claims growing out of the blowing up
of the Maine. The bill is intended to
overcome some technical difficulties
which have arisen in prosecuting the
cases.
Senator Martin. from the commit
tee on the District of Columbia, on
the 3lst, reported favorably the
amendment authorizing The construc-
ton of a Mckinley memorial bridge
across the Potomac at Washington.
1t fixes the cost at $1,000, 900, and
makes u present appropriation of
500, 900.
Herr Schlechter, the German botan-
list, declares he has discovered IN
abundance of rubber and gutta per-
cha trees in German New Guinea. By
this discovery Herr SchIechter wins
the 3,OO0-mark prize offered by the
Colonial society of Berlin for the
first person to find such trees in the
German colonies.
The Elder-Dempster Co., of Liver.
pool, that they are willing
to carry sugar from Kingston, Jamai-
ca, to Avonmouth, England, free of
charge, in order to help the West In
dian planters tide over the period I'M
III tllS otSdl b''AllNlto ! "'''hiHflN'
and to cultivate trade between Ja.
maica and England.
The handsome new parliament
buildings at lierne, Switzerland, con.
structed at u cost of 100000 francs,
were opened, on the list, with con
siderable ceremonial, by the federal
council and federal assembly. Adj
dresses were made by President
Zeemp and others. The streets were
lined with cheering crowds.
The secret service department OF
the Dominion customs, on the I'd,
made a seizure of from ten to fifteen
thousand dollars worth of false
teeth, which had from time to time
been consigned from New York to "A
~well-known dental manufacturing
firm in Montreal, and, through an al
legged conspiracy, passed through the
customhouse free.
Senior VALDEZ. the editor of n Span.
ish weekly paper in Manila, convicted
of libelling two Filipino members of
the Philippine commission, Benito Le-
garda and DR.. Pardo de Tayera, form
er president of the liberal party. has
been fined 1000 pesetas. The judge
said that the offer to prove the truth
of the assertions made more aggra-
waited the original otfeEse.
Atlantic City, n. j., was visited, on
the Cd, by the most destructive con
flagration in its history. Twelve no.
tells and more than a score of smaller
buildings adjoining the Board Walk,
the fashionable promenade, were de-
stroyed, the loss aggregating three
quarters of a million. Fire fighters
from Philadelphia and Camden, N. j.,
assisted in quelling the flames.
After prolonged experiments in
sending four Geographic messages
each way simultaneously over a sin
gle wire, the German postal depart
ment has accepted the octuple trans
mitter invented by the late Prof
Henry A. Rowland, of Baltimore. The
experiments were conducted between
Berlin and Hamburg. Between SOC
and $50 words were transmitted pei
minute.
The first social event Of the post
Lenten season at the White House
took place, on the night of the Sd
when President and Mrs. Roosevelt
entertained q large number Of guests
at a musicale, Mt which Mr.. Ignact
Jan Paderewski rendered q select
programme. The White House wa.