Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-05-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

women and four children nave been
recovered from the ruins, and it is
feared there are other victims.
Aguinaldo has ordered his men to
economic their powder, which is q
significant sign of shortage of ammu-
milton.
Ex-Prem;er Gerlachstein of Austria
died in Vienna on the goth.
Commissioner Wilson of the internal
revenue bureau, has decided that base
ball games by college and amateur or
local clubs for which an admission fee
is charged, are not subject to the spe-
ciaI tax under the act of June IS, 1892.
Rev. DR.. Alex. H. Clapp, editorial see
rotary of the Congregational Home
Missionary society, died in New York
city, on the 9th, aged 81 years. He
had been connected with the society
for 80 years.
Nirulent smallpox has appeared stimuli
taneously in various parts of Germany,
notably at Iserlohn, Hanover and Moe
zadlo. The Prussian authorities are
taking prompt steps to prevent its
spread.
The president, on the 27th, issued a
tlAC lSSbC "
the new eXtradition treaty between the
United States and Mexico, and the con-
ventiOn is now in force.
y terrific windstorm, followed by
rain and hail, swept the Soldier valley,
in Nebraska, on the night of the 2Ith,
leaving death and ruin in its path.
y heavy rain fell throughout the
state of Wisconsin, on the night of the
9th. Reports from different parts of
the state tell of cloud-bursts, with
damaging results.
Nearly 100 survivors of the Sultana
disaster gathered at Cleveland, o., on
the 2!th, in annual convention, the oc-
casion being the thirty-fifth anniver-
sary of the event.
One of the strangest occurrences of
the Kirksville (Mo.) cyclone was the
finding of grooming baby out in a
field far from any house. The child
was scarcely scratched. Another baby
was found where it had been bruised
t. death by the violence of the wind.
Neither had been identified or claimed
"a hours after the storm.
The main part of the business por-
ton Of San Francis, Has, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 2Sth. Thirteen
business buildings were burned. There
was no loss of life, but County Attorney
Finlay was badly burned.
Adit.-Gen. Corbin says the Filipino
peace overtures will not bring about
any change of plan in this country as
to forwarding ships, supplies and
troops to the Philippines.
of
shot and killed by his wife, Mary E.
Ross, in the course of quarrel at their
home. She says she acted in self-de-
ferse, as her husband was choking
her at the time. The pair had been
married about year.
At Birmingham, Ala, 5000 employees
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co.
were given notice that on May L their
salaries would be advanced on a basis
ct ten per cent.
\ statement prepared by the war
department shows that 19S were killed
III the Philippines from February +
to April IS, and I'LL wounded. Total,
1909.
Col. Hugh D. Greer, well-known
ev-confederate soldier, who served
through the civil war under Gen. For
rests command, was accidentally run
over and instantly killed by a South
ern railway train at Buntyn Station,
near Memphis, Tenn.
Fifty Americans were overcome by
the heat, and Col. Funston dropped
utterly exhausted after the battle, at
Calumpit. The men of the Kansas
regiment cheered him when he went
among them.
Secretary Hay was notified by the
Ere nch ambassador that Spain would
accept through him the s2O,OOO,OOO to
be paid, under the treaty of peace, for
the Philippines. The payment will be
made to the ambassador as soon as
the president returns to Washington.
The trial of the famous Mccormick
conspiracy case, growing out of the
Phoenix election riot and lynching in
Greenwood county last November, end
ed in the federal court at Greenville,
s. c., with a verdict of not guilty. The
jury was composed entirely of white
men.
Three thousand recruits ond 90 Of
ficers will be concentrated at the Pre-
sidio. The large post will be con-
verified into a regular recruiting and
receiving rendezvous for troops. There
arr 1000 men here now under COM
n;and of Col. Harbach, Third infantry,
and Capt. Hadrin, Eighteenth infan-
try, adjutant.
Justice Slower, of the New York SUI
preme court, granted decree of alb
solute divorce to Henry T. Sloane
from Mrs. Jessie A. Sloane. Thirty
minutes later Mrs. Sloane met Perry
Belmont, and journeyed together to
Greenwich, Conn.,. where they were
married. Mr.. Sloane received the Gus
tody and control of his two children
until they reach the age Of 81.
Wireless telegraphy was first put to
practical use at London. The Goodwin
Sands lightship was struck by pass
ing vessel and the crew, utilizing the
wireless telegraphy apparatus, noti-
fed South Foreland that their shipwas
il. a sinking condition. Tugs were
thereupon dispatched to the assistance
of the lightship.
Mrs. Mary Sweeney Curwin, OK
Jacksonville, ILL.,, the oldest resident
of Morgan county, and perhaps in
Illinois, died at Waverly. She was 113
years. 9 months and % days old. The
deceased was born in Ireland