Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-06-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

DR.. H. M. MINER, a surgeon Of the
French army and professor in the
sanitary school of the military serv-
ice, arrived at New York, on the LIST,
from Havre, on his way to Washing
ton to represent his government in
the approaching congress of the
American Military association, at
which questions pertaining to SANTA
ton of field and permanent hospitals
of the military service will be dis
cussed.
The press dispatch conveying the
welcome news of the end of the south
African wal was sent to all the
churches in the city of Montreal,
Can, on the 1st, and it was read at
the evening service. The congrega-
tions sang God Save the King" and
the national anthem was also played
on the chimes of several churches.
An official cablegram from Lord
Kitchener, dated Pretoria, Saturday,
May 81, 11:15 p. M, said: "a docu-
ment containing terms of surrender
was signed here this evening at half
past ten O'Clock by all the Boer repre-
sentatives, as well as by Lord Miner
(the British high commissioner in
south Africa and myself"
The National Geographical society
mas scored a great triumph
through it's representative at Fort de
France, Island of Martinique. Prof.
Angelo Heilprin, who, on the 31st,
with three guides, assembled to the
top OF the crater on the summit of
Mont Pelee and made important ob-
~servations and discoveries.
The heaviest rain storm of the
year struck burlington, 1a., on the
LIST, damaging crops and residence
property. 1t is estimated that the
rainfall was six to eight inches. The
Mississippi river rose Il foot in -
hours and was still rising.
Henry N. Garland, for the last 20
years western passenger agent of the
Wabash railroad at Kansas City, Mo-,
rendered his resignation on the list,
lie Will be succeeded by L. S. McCIel-
lald, now district passenger agent Of
the Wabash at st. Louis.
Mrs. Di Cesnola, wife of Gen. Louis
Palma eli Cesnola, chief director of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York, died at her home in that
city, on the ist, of heart disease
She had been an invalid for NAV,
months.
a. u. Core, aged 81 years, president
n principal owner of the Grand
hotel and the Gibson house in Gin.
clnnatl, died, on the LIST, after an IN.
ness of three months.
In the senate, on the I'd, some
amendments were made to the Phil
ippine bill by the committee, the
most importi.nt of which related to
the disposition of public lands in the
islands. The debate on the bill, which
was participated in by quite a num-
Der of prominent senators, was
listened to with little apparent inter
est on the floor OF in the galleries..
In the house, by a vote of 129 to 46
the rules were suspended and a joint
resolution was adopted extending the
thanks of congress to Secretary OF
State Hay for his address on the oc-
casion of the Mckinley memorial ex'
e~rcises last February. Special orders
were adopted on the consideration Of
the anti-anarchy bill and the bill tt
transfer certain forest reserves tc
the agricultural department.
Charles NJ. Collard, postmaster OF
Kiowa, l. r., on the I'd, shot ant
killed ]. G. Railey, travelling repre-
sentative of a Cincinnati clothing
house. Railey had interviewed a.
peacemaker in a quarrel to which
Collard was a party, and his actor
incensed the postmaster, who left thu
scene of trouble, obtained a rife, re
turned and shot Railey through thu
body.
Edward P. Britt, a private of Com
pany NJ, Eighteenth infantry, wa'
! shot in the head and killed, early OF
the morning of the I'd, by Franz
Wagner, a Waterman in a saloon a
Sheridan, a suburb of Denver, Col
Britt enlisted at Boston, and serve,
three years in the Philippines. Capt
c. D. Hanks, of Company NJ, says tina
Britt was a model soldier.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt issued by the treasury de
partment, on the I'd, showed that 4
the close of business May 81, 1905
the debt, less cash in the treasury
amounted to $9s2, AGO, 573, a decrease
as compared with last month, O
$646, 403.
At the opening of the colonial par
lament, on the I'd, the governor o
Bermuda, Sir II. Leg Geary, official
communicated the news of peace, an
his announcement was received wit
ringing cheers. The whole town O
Hamilton was decorated.
The news Of the signing of term
of surrender in south Africa was r.
ceived throughout Australia thanl
fully, but sedately. Flags were raise
and bells were rung in general RI
joicing, but there were no boisterou
demonstrations.