Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ton of the tow:a of Livermore Falls,
bfe. Thirty families lost everything
but their night clothes.
Il was announced at Cairo, Egypt,
on the 22d, that the khalifa had been
defeated, with heavy loss, by the ma
tives friendly to the British. 1t was
added that he had fed to the woods
with a few followers and that his cap
ture was imminent.
Prof. j. B. Bully, a prominent musi-
clan and choir leader at Toledo, O.,
penitentiary, on the 22d, for rif1ing
the mails while clerk in the Toledo
post Office.
The secretary of state, on the 22d,
received a dispatch from Hon. Bart
lett Trip, United States commissioner
at Samoa, saying that peace had been
restored in the islands.
The town marshal of Avoca, Wis,
was fatally shot, on the night of the
22d, by tramp whom he attempted
to arrest. The officer in turn killed
the tramp.
Gen. Otis has notified the war de-
partment that the hospital ship Relief
has left Manila for San Francisco with
$50 sick aboard.
Two fishing smacks were capsized
off Brest, France, on the 22d, and II
persons were drowned.
A thief calmly took $4,000 from a
Pile on the paying tellers's desk of the
Metropolitan national bank of Boston,
oil the 22d, and disappeared. The
thief proved to be Philip Lambele,
tured as he stepped from train in
New Ior city, the same evening, with
the money intact.
South birmingham, Mass, is great
~ excited over the DISAPPEARANCE of
Helen Games, the 11-year-old daughter
of Alfred NJ. Eames, wealthy wheel
manufacturer of that town. She was
last seen leaving her fathers office a
few hours before she was missed. Mr..
LANES fears that the child has been
kidnapped.
A terrific wind and rain storm broke
over Oelwein, Ia, and vicinity, on the
night OF the 21st, and carried with it
To destruction $4,000 worth of prop
erty. There is not farm within a
radius of ten miles on which more or
less damage was not lnne. Most of the
windmills are down, and many barns
and other outhouses are totally de-
stroyed
Thomas O'Grady, of Chicago, was
about to put dipper of water to his
lips, on the 22d, when he observed
an object squirming in the wafer. and
found be had drawn from the hydrant
an animal an inch and a half long,
with two horns and 90 legs. He post
poned MS drink.
The Filipino insurgents have learned
that the American volunteers are re-
turning to the United States. and the
Filipino newspapers show that they
construe this to mean that the Ameri-
cans are abandoning the war and are
encouraged thereby.
A Washington dispatch of the I'D
says that President Mckinley will au-
thorize the enlistment of additional
men for the Philippines when he re-
turns to Washington.
The officials of the London foreign
office, on the 23d, sent the United
<AhlhdSSdOOIs ooSSD II. lOdic,
a formal memorandum embodying the
temporary agreement reached on the
Alaskan boundary question.
On the 24th, r. G. Dun q Co. re-
ported: Failures for the week have
been IT'S in the United States, against
2S5 last year, and IS in Canada, against
IL last year"
Admiral Schley is to be the guest of
the city of Chester, Pa, on July 4, and
has consented to make an address to
the citizens on that date.
The supreme council of the United
Commercial Travellers began its elev-
enth annual session in Columbus, o.
on the Esd. Supreme Counsellor
Charles W. Rice, of st. Paul, presided.
Emperor William has conferred the
rank of count upon the minister of for
eign affairs, Baron Won Buelow.
Wilbur F. Hawkes., a visiting Elk
from Covington, Ky, was FRUSTRATED
by heat in ST. Louis, on the Esd, and
died before he could be taken to the
dispensary.
The navy department has advertised
for bids for the erection OF the dry
dock at the League Island navy yard
which was authorized by the act of
May 4, 1898.
1t is reported in New York, that P.
D. Armour, of Chicago, is at the head
of a movement to attempt to control
the fruit and vegetable trade.
The United States cable ship Hooker,
from New York, May 1, for Manila,
arrived at Singapore on the I'D.
ID - 4 L
Plant Steamship Co., died at his home
in New York city on the Esd.
Gen. Leonard Wood, military gov
ernor of Santiago, Cuba, says: Il will
lot leave the military service of the
United States so long as my services
are wanted, not for $4,000 a year, or
twice that amount. Money is not the
only thing in this world"
OF the 81 head of dairy cattle supply
ing milk for the soldiers orphans
home, at Normal, ILL.,, IS have been
found, by the tuberculine test, to be
afflicted with tuberculosis. They will
be killed.
Rev. DR.. W. Oliver, rector of st.
Luke's Episcopal church at Kearney,
Neb., died at the Episcopal hospital,
Philadelphia, on the Esd. DIR. Oliver
was the first chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Kansas. He held a majors
commission during the civil war. He
was IS years old.
Cain Stephens, one of the murderers
o. Marshal Osborne, at Chancey, Ga,
last January, was hanged at Eastman
on the 23d. Will Wilson, his accom-
plice in the crime, was respited for
20 DAYS by Gov Gambler an hour before