Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


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The total reduction of Great
Britain's military forces in south
Africa from the beginning of the wal
to December, including deaths from
disease, men reported missing, etc.
amounted to 24,299 men. Of tbs
number 19,430 were actually killed or
died. A total of 1880 men were in
valided home, the majority of whom
recovered and rejoined their com
mands.
DR.. +. E. Downey, president of the
Illinois Medical Association of H".
m%eopathy, died, on the 5th, at Hahne'
mann hospital, in Chicago. DR..
Downey's home had been for many
years in Clinton, Ill, whittier his re-
mains were sem for interment. The
deceased had heen a sufferer from
liver trouble for several years.
A Swedish captain named Rossan.
der had been missing at Antwerp
since new years eve, when he left a
dinner party n a cab to return to his
ship. The retreating tide, on the 9Th
revealed the cab in the river with the
horse dead and the drowned body OF
Capt. Rossander inside the vehicle.
Statistics just issued showing that
of the local trade with her colonies
Great Britain only possesses AZ per
cent, while the United States has 10
per cent, and that the latter is rap
idly increasing her trade not only
with Canada, but with Australia.
caused some disquiet in London.
The police have discovered traces
of anarchist plots in the town o.
Jerez de la Frantera, in the province
of Cadiz, Spain. Forty-nine arrests
were made and the prisoners have
been conveyed to Barcelona, where
they will be tried by the military
courts.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.
says that Capt. Richmond p. Hobson
will soon resign from the navy AMI
enter politics. 1t is said he will op.
pose Hon. John H. Banhead as con-.
gresham from the SIXTH Alabama
district.
Anton Chauves, his wife and two.
year-oid boy, Joseph, and Miss Mary
Devida, aged IS, were asphyXiated, o
the 5th, at their home in Hartford
Conn. The gas had been escaping
from a defective meter.
Robert Samuel Houston, the oldes,i
cheesemaker in Wisconsin and a third
cousin of Gen. Sam Houston, of Tex
as fame, died of dropsy at his home
in milwaukee on the 9Th. He was 81
years of age.
In the senate, on the 9th, Chaplain
Milburn, in the opening prayer, made
u touching reference to the deaUh
of the late Senator Sewell, Of New
Jersey. Mr.. Keen IN. J.) formally
announced the death of his colleague.
Senator Sewell, and offered the Gus
tomary resolutions, which were unan-
imously adopted, and as a mark If
respect to the late senator the senate
adjourned. In the house nc bust
| ness was transacted, that body TAX
ing recess Immediately upon the IT.
nouncement of the death of Senator
Sewell and the adoption of the GUS
tomary resolutions.
Another Schley resolution was in
PRODUCED in the house, on the 9th, ny
Representative Schirm, of Maryland
1t provides an appropriation of ST.,
900 for bronze tablets commemora
ting six great naval victories, begin
ming with that of John Paul Jone'
in 1897, and closing with the battle o.
Santiago Bay, Commodore Winfield
Scott Schley, commanding" in 1898.
Att'y.-Gen. Knox and Secretar,
Gage, on the 9Th, had a conferenc,
with the president in regard to hi
Japanese silk differentiation case
in New York city. 1t is understood
that the department of justice vii
take the matter in hand and institut,
criminal proceedings against certai'
parties thought to be implicated il
case the facts warrant them.
| The creation of another assistan
postmaster general, to have chare
of the free city and rural deliver
service, is contemplated in a bi
shortly to be introduced in the hous
by Representative Watson, of {.
diana. The new officer, if the bi
. should pass, will be the fifth assistan
postmaster general.
= Representative Grosvenor, of Obi,
: on the 9th, introduced an anti-al
' archist bill. 1t is similar to othe
measures or this subject except tn,
the death penalty is provided fl
y criminal assaults on an officer of til
government, without specifically de-
= ignating the president as the n a
= saulted.
Silas Boardman, one of the olde,
lumbermen of Lacrosse, Wis, die
7 on the 9th, aged 81. He was one
the first to engage in the loggir
business on the Mississippi.
!, King Edward, on the 9th, conferrt
"a the order of Knight, Grand Cross
the Bath, upon Marquis Ito, the ia
anes statesman.