Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-07-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


subject of the Alaskan boundary dis
pute.
On the Goth the report of Mai .-Gcn.
Thomas NJ. Anderson, commanding
the first division of the Enghth army
corps during the first battles with the
| insurgents in the Philippines, was
made public at the war department.
| 1t is dated February 16, and relates
mainly to the operations of February
/ 5.
| Statement of the condition of The
treasury June 30: Available cash bal
ance, S279, Isl, 46s. Gold reserve, $685.
149.4s7
! Daniel F. Tiemann, mayor of New
York in 1S55-5s, died. on the Goth.
aged o.. He was chosen mayor on 4
citizens ticket, defeating Fernando
| Wood.
| The British first-class cruiser In
| defatigable. one of the finest ships of
the British North American squadron,
will leave Halifax, y. s.. on the 9Th,
for Newfoundland. 1t is no doubt the
| intention of the naval authorities 10
attach her to the fleet performing fish
cry protection service on the French
treaty coast.
Mayor James BaIbirnie of Muske-
gon. Mich. was assassinated. on the
goth, by J. W. layer. a disappointed
office-seeker. layer shot Mayor Bal
birnie while the latter was standing
in the doorway of his store. The ball
entered his left breast above the nip
pie, and he expired Is minutes later.
Tayer committed suicide
The Bakers are leaving the Ken
lucky mountains. fearing assassina-
ton by the Whites and Towards. who
continue to harrass them. Since Bev-
erly Baker was shot at while sitting
with his family at home the Bakers
have awakened to the situation and.
seeing that they have no leader. they
have decided to vacate Clay county.
Tie president. on the goth, contra
dicted the published reports that he
had abandoned the idea of going west
this summer. He still intends to 90,
unless circumstances should intervene
tC prevent. but he has been unable as
vet to consider detailed plans, and
both the time and extent of lis trip
are matters for future determination.
The cruiser Brooklyn, which -y;Is in
jured off the Battery, at New FORK, on
Decoration day, was taken out of dry
dock at the Brooklyn navy yard, on
the Goth, thoroughly repaired.
Nine lives were lost in Lake Erie
during a storm, on the night of the 25th,
by the wreck of the steam barge Mar
garet Olwill. which was literally
pounded to pieces by the fury of the
gale. Capt. John Brown, his wife and
son were among the lost.
\ proposition is being agitated in
San francisco to give the cruiser Eos
ton, the first of the Asiatic squadron
to return to that port, great well
come. 1t is probable that a large feet
of bay craft will meet the warship
outside the heads and escort her into
the harbor to her anchorage.
A special from Victoria, B. c., says:
arrivals from Dawson bring news of
lynching at Cae Nome. 4 German,
whose name is not given. stole $4,000
in gold dust from a miners cabin. He
was arrested .,y number of miners,
and, confessiDg the robbery, the COM
mittee hanged him.
AT the
on the Both Mary Ann Ansen was
found guilty of numbering her sister,
an inmate Of an asylum for the in
sane, by sending her poisoned cake by
post. She was sentenced to death.
The condeIIned woman had previoH :ly
insured he- sisters life, giving a false
description.
Capt. Jas- A. Simpson, c. ). A, retir-
ed. died at Prescott. Ariz., on the 3)th,
after a short illness. He went through
many Indian campaigns in Arizona
with Gen. Crook. He was retired Oh
account of physical disability few
years ago.
Gov Scofield of Wisconsin issued On
order. on the 3Oth, constituting Mil
waukee a military poss of the ma
tional guard, and placing Col. Otto
Falk in command of all.the troops of
the state stationed there.
Mrs Emma ID. E. \. Southworth, the
authoress, died at her residence in
Washington, on the 3Oth, after an ill
ness of several weeks.
A Manila dispatch of the 1st says
that Gen. Quenshine is in the hospital
suffering with fever, and THAI Gen.
Fred Grant is in command of the
formers brigade on the line to the
south of Manila.
Capt. Dreyfus was landed from the
cruiser Sfax, at Quiberon, six miles
east of Brest, France. He was taken ON
a special train to Bruz and thence to
Rennes by carriage, accompanied by a
special guard.
Admiral Dewey's first lending in
Europe wall be at Trieste. II Is said
that his health has not greatly i'm
proved and that complete rest in the
Austrian Tyrol will be taken upon
recommendation of his physician.
Practically every tin-plate plan in
the United States closed down, on the
evening of the 3Oth, to wait settle
ment of the wage scale by the Anal
gamated association and the tin-plate
trust.
Eleven well-known citizens of North
vile, Mich, were arrested, on the S0th,
charged with attempting to lynch
Thomas Evans. who was charged with
improper conduct with his stepchil-
dren. After being actually hanged by
tie neck. Evans was cut down, and
he finally eluded the lynchers-