Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-06
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

sent a beautiful basket of flowers to
Letitia Tyler Semple, now an inmate
of the home for old women in Washing
ton. Mrs. Semple is the granddaugh-
ter of President Tyler.
THE receivers of the Superior Con-
solidated Land and Coal Co. of Mil
waukee petitioned Judge Jenkins, in
the United States court, on the 2Sth,
for permission to borrow 5000, 900, the
funds to be used in carrying on the
business of the company, making i'm
provements, etc.
FRED Z. FINsTER and William Muir,
deputy inspectors at Port Huron, Mich,
were removed from their positions, on
the 28th, for violations of the civil serv-
ice rules in soliciting campaign contri-
buttons.
The famous mechanical pipe-organ
in the rotunda of the Great Northern
hotel, Chicago. was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 2Sth. causing dam
age of $50, 900. OF this amount SIS, 900
was represented by the organ, and
$50, 600 was due to the destruction of
two Worlds fair paintings on either
side of the organ.
GEN. PANDO has returned to Santiago
de Cuba with the remnant of the force
used in the expedition to the Canto
river. 1t is estimated that over 1000
soldiers persisted in the three fights
with Garcia, and fully an equal num-
Der have disappeared.
SECRETARY ALGER, who had been
confined to his room by a severe cold,
was decidedly improved, on the Path,
and expected to be at the war deaFsEs.
ment in a few days.
The Orange Free State has ratified
the extradition treaty between that
country and the United States, recent
ly negotiated, and has returned the
document to Washington, where it
awaits the action of the United States
senate.
JAMES SwINBERGEB, of Yates Center,
Kas., was bitten on the leg by mad
dog on the 2Sth. A maidstone was APP
piled and it adhered to the bitten flesh
for eleven hours. The young man is
rapidly recovering.
ALEXANDER r. SHEPHERD, formerly
of Washington, d. c., is IN a serious
condition at Bato Pilas, in the Sierra
Madres mountains, Mexico, as the re-
suit of a stroke of paralysis. He is re-
puted to be worth several millions.
EMPRESS, an East india python, was
found in her quarters, at Boston, on
the 2Sth, witk litter of young. 1t is
impossible to say yet how many chill
dren there are, but there are probably
as many as 100.
JOHN PHILIP SoUsAs new comic
opera, THE ride-Elect" received its
first presentation on any stage at the
Hyperian theater. New Haven, Conn.,,
on the night of the 2sth. and scored an
instantaneous success.
The first annual meeting of the Ne
gro American academy was held in
Washington, D. c., on the 2Sth. The
organization was formed a year ago,
and numbers among its members some
of the most prominent negro educators
of Washington.
Mrs. ELIZABETH STANTON Wool
WORTH, wife of j. NJ. Woolworth, ex-
president of the American Bar associa-
ton, died at her home in Omaha, Neb.,
on the 2sth, at the age of 81 years.
Mrs. Woolworth was the daughter of
Moses Bradfield Butterfeld, and was
lineal desce ndant of William Bradford,
the first governor of Plymouth colony.
THEODORE BURLoCH and Ernestine
Burloch were arrested at Clinton, Ia.
on the 2Sth, charged with the murder
of Charles Selhausen, the woman's
former husband, in September. The
woman confessed, after arrest, that
she had killed Selhausen, and impli-
Gated BurIoch.
SIG. PRUZzATI, Italian minister of
finance, in a report to the chambers.
has recommended the establishment of
bank in New York city, to be under
the direct supervision of the Italian
government.
HALLA and Waldo Crem were as
phyxiated by coal gas from stove in
their home at Leipsic, O.. on the 2Sth,
during the absence of their mother.
Their bodies were found on the floor
by the mother on her return home.
j. w. HARRIS, q North Carolina ne
gro, was arraigned, in New York, on
the 2Sth, on the charge of sending
threatening letters to William K. Van
derbilt, Charles Broadway Rouss, John
Wanama1er and other prominent men.
He was committed as a vagrant.
STENoGRAPHERs employed by the de-
tense in the Luetgert case, at Chicago
nave STRUCK, anu Tie u0ISnS0 may nave
to depend upon the notes taken by the
states attorneys stenographers if it is
found necessary to take the case to the
supreme court.
The widow of Capt. Isaac Bassett,
late assistant doorkeepe per of the United
States senate, died, on the 2Sth, in
Washing ton.
MAYOR HARRISON of Chicago has is
sued an order prohibiting public box
ing exhibitions in that city. He said
his permission to hold six-round con-
tests had been abused and that fights
were taking place in the city every
night. He said he might rescind the
order after a time, but that it would
stand for many months
BY the order of the United States
district court, the remaining assets of
the defunct Maverick national bank of
Boston we're sold at auction, on the
29th. The securities, which were in
the nature of unpaid notes, executions
and judgments amounting to 81, 095, $50,
brought just S429.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the goth, show
Available cash balance. S245, 800, 02s;
gold reserve, Sl6O. $40, 995.
The American Folk Lore society
closed its ninth annual convention at
Johns Hopkins university, in Balti-
more. Md ON the 2oth