Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-19

sided over by Leader Snow, son of the
head of the Mormon church.
Vermont gave welcome to Admiral
Dewey.on the 18th, at Montpelier, with
a parade and 4 reception at the state
house, The weather was perfect, and
3n.OOe visitors joined with the hero s
tcwnsmen in the celebration. Never be-
fore has there been such massing OF
people and so elaborate a demonstra-
ton in the history of Vermont.
William j. Bryan, on the night of
the 18th, at Angus, Ia, received tele-
gram from New York notifying him of
the resolutions passed by the demo
cratic state committee of the Empire
state recognizing him as the leader of
the national democracy and the logical
stanGard-bearer in 1900.
Thousands of Tennesseeans attend
ed the presentation of handsome
sword to Lieut.. Valentine Sewer Mel
son of Knoxville. Tenn. on the 18th,
who was with Dewey on the Olympia
at the battle of Manila bay.
Pearl Hart. the female stage robber,
incarcerated at Tucson, Ariz.. awaiting
trial on an Indictment in the United
States court. broke Jail. on the morn
ing of the 18th, by cutting a 15-incl
opening through the wall ten feet
above the level of her cell floor. 1t is
supposed she had a confederate, anu
is attired in male attire.
On the morning of the 14th the
Scotsman of Edinburgh, asserted that Il
battle had taken place between Gen.
Sir George Stewart White, command
ing the forces in Natal, and tie Beers,
who entered Natal by way of Reenan's
PASS. Gen. White, the report added,
was very sanguine of success
James Bish, popular young man of
tort Scott. Kas., on the 18th, shot his
a.; she fell, Bish sent a bullet into his
oNr brain. killing himself. che youEo
woman will recover. They had quar-
relied over the date of their wedding.
Tho sixth annual convention of
American Railway Surgeons opened at
Omaha, Neb., on the 18th.
y train on the Northwestern. limit
Ell. out of Chicago, on the night of the
18th, was held up at Dekalb. ILL.,, the
engineer shot and severely wounded,
the express car and safe dynamited.
and the latter rifled of its contents.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
London Daily Mail. telegraphing. on
TIE 18th. said: Il learn on good au-
thority that the Beers are attacking
tlafeking. They are reported to have
suffered severe repulses.
Rural free delivery service will be
established, on the Esd, at Davenport
Ia. covering 30 square miles of terri
tory.
The ocean steamer Porto Rico was
launced at Toledo, o.. on the 14th, ar
Craig's ship yard, and at once started
for New York to enter the coast trade
was built for the Porto Rico Steamship
c..
\ threshing engine belonging 10
FeIer Anderson, II miles southeast of
Edition., S. d., blew up, on the 18TH.
killing four men and seriously injur-
ing one more. Two of the dead mCn
were negroes
The British ship st. Enoch, frocl
Panama, for San Francisco, was quot
eC:. en- the 18th, as overdue, Il per cent.
reinsurance being offered on the risl,.
The Forty-eighth United States in
fantry (coloreO, mObilizin:y at Fort
7 homas, Ky. was filled to its maxi
mum on the 18th.
W. c. Hamilton, a millionaire lum
herman of Fond du Lac, Wis, died, on
tie 18th. of apoplexy.
Six men blew open the vaults at the
Schell City (Mo.) bank, early on the
of the 18th, and stole $4,000.
AT Sevierville, Tenn, the same night.
three masked men attempted to rob Il
bank. One was killed, one was wound
ed and the other committed suicide.
Beers derailed an armored train
south of MafeIing. on the 18th. shelled
the wreckage and killed Is British sol
diers, taking many prisoners and Sc
curing several big guns. This was the
first blood in tie war.
The headquarters of the Dominican
friars in Manila were searched and 81
number of Ma1fserS and some ammuni-
ton secured. The friars protested the
guns were not kept for unlawful pur
poses.
German offieialdom seems in no
haste to clear the mystery surround
ing the African agreement with En-
gland. The Agrarian and Pan-Ger
manic press do not conceal their sus-
picions that the government is keeping
the agreement secret because it made
a bad bargain. undertaking apparently
that it has effectually tied Germany's
hands.
NiedriDghaus Bros, of St. Louis.
have closed a deal by which they sell
$50, 900 acres of minera I and timber
land to the Tennessee Central Railroad
Co. The land lies along the line of the
road in Fentress, Cumberland and
other counties. The consideration is
aot announced.
Serious doubt has been entertained
by officials whether the ship yards, in
view of the rapid advance in steel, |
could bid within the limit of the APP
for the six new cruisers. |
for which proposals are to 5e opened |
or November 1. Assurances have az
ready been received however, indicai-
ng that n number OF the firms will |
contract to build the vessels for the
money available,