Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
TOPICS OF The DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

it. The bodies were recovered.
The seventeenth annual convention
of the American Seed Trade associa-
ton convened in Cincinnati, on the
18th, with 60 members present. The
annual reports were presented ard
some interesting papers read.
Fred. Thompson, coiorcd, vile
beaten, was taken from his home in
Winton place, Cincinnati suburb, by
40 masked men,at midnight Of the12Ih,
and severely whipped.
Gov. Richards of Wyoming, on the
18th, ordered a detachment of the
state militia, stationed at Buffalo, to
take part in the pursuit of the Union
Pacific train robbers.
Nine Sarah Bernhardt has arranged
to play Hamlet on the 21st, in the
famous theater at Stratford-on-ATu
the town where Shakespeare was born.
DIR. Lawson TAFT, the pioneer of alb
doininal surgery, died in Lonlon, on
the 18th, in his fifty-frst ycar.
On May IS. Joe Juneau, one of the
pioneers of the Yukon, after whom
the town of Juneau was named, died
at Dawson, of pneumonia. He had
made and lost several fortunes in
Alaska.
The artillery manning the coast for
tifcations will, after July 1, have a
larger allowance of ammunition for
practice. ranging from five rounds for
the ten-inch guns to eight rounds for
the eiGht-inch guns. The new order is
issued from the war department with
the purpose of improving the marks
manship of the gunners.
The Italian government has demand
ed satisfaction from France for the ar
bitrary arrest, at Nice, of the Italian
Gen. Gilleta, taken into custody there
on the charge of espionage.
On the 18th both chambers of the
Transvaal volksraad adjourned to en-
able the members to consult them
constituents on the franchise propo-
sails of President Kruger.
On the 18th an irresponsible news
sheet in London published an alleged
dispatch from Sartow, Russia, assert
ing that the Niagara, an American
built steamer, was wrecked in the
River Nolga during a storm, with
loss of 100 lives. There was no confir-
n
from any source.
On the 18th Rear-Admiral Watson
arrived at Hong Kong. and took com
mand of the Asiatic station. relieving
Capt. Barker of the Oregon, who had
been in charge since Admiral Dewey
sailed from Manila.
At Glace Bay, Cape Breton, a mine
explosion, accompanied by terrible
loss of life, occurred on the 10th. More
than 40 men were in the pit when the
explosion occurred, IL of whom per-
ished.
On the 10th the Standard Oil Co.
fled a certificate with the secretary of
state of New Jersey, increasing its cap
ital stock from S1O,O0O,OOO to $11O,OOG,-
0OO. Of the latter amount S1O,000,O00
is to be preferred stock, paying IA
per cent. quarterly dividends.
On the 10th the steamer City of
Seattle passed Port Townsend, Wash,
bound for Tacoma, with 200 Klondill-
ers and 100000 in gold dust and $780,
900 in drafts as the first installment
of the spring cleanup.
United States Consul johnson, at
Annoy, Fukien province, China, re-
ports that the bubonic plague has
broken out there,
On the 10th representatives of the
Carnegie and Bethlehem iron concerns
were at the navy department to make
final arrangements for the delivery of
the 2.271 tons of side armor for the
battleships Alabama, Illinois and Wis
consin, recently ordered by Secretary
Long.
4 workman named Montag, living in
Mannheim, Germany, has succeeded in
manufacturing artificial coal from
earth and mineral substances.
Congressman David 3. Henderson,
speaking at a G. a. r. campfire at
Waterloo, Ia, on the 18th, said: Here
in my home state, in my home district,
in the city [ love to well, and among u
people l love so well, from this plat
from which | have spoken to you SO
often, 1 want to publicly acknowledge
the great wrong l have done II. Clay
Evans. Boys, he is your friend, and
the friend of the soldiers everywhere.
Let us give him at least Justice
Julius Wallwork, individual book
neeper of the Union national bank of
Louisville, Ky, has been missing since
the Sth inst. His books show short
age of $4,179.SO. His bond covers the
loss.
About eighty foreign insurance COM
panies, recently indicted and fined
heavily in the Franklin Cky.i circuit
court on the charge of conspiring to-
gether to fix insurace rates. won in
the court of appeals in decision re-
versing the judgment of the court
below. The fines assessed against
the companies in Franklin county
alone aggregated over $4,000.
George Laurie and wife, who lived
on a farm at the edge of Huntington
Ind, were crushed to death by a Zero
cious bull, in his stall, on the 18th.
Mrs. Laurie is presumed to have gone
to her husbands assistance when at
tackled.
According to advices from st. Pc
tersburg, there are at this moment,
when the car is talking about abolish
ing eXiles to Siberia. no less than g.
600 students from the various univer-
stiles in European Russia now on
their way to the furthest confines of
trial or hearing.
Gen. Otis has sent a dispatch con-
frmipg the report of the assassination
of Ger. Luna at Aguinaldo's headquar-
tiers. Gen. Otis regards the death of
Luna as important because of the
prominence of the man and the fol-