Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-22

n judgment OF custer against Noun
Hope college, at Rogers, was given b!
the Ohio supreme court, on the 18th
and the college loses its charter. TIL,
ground upon which it was asked wa
that the college had been selling di
plomas.
At a cabinet meeting at the White
House, on the 18th, President McKin
ley announced clearly and forcefullJ
to the members his desire that they
should all remain with him during
the four years of his coming admins
tration.
A report is current in Hazleton, Pa.
that negotiations are on o the sale
of all collieries and washeries of the
region owned by individual operators
and that the Lehigh Valley and Penn.
sylvania railroad companies are the
prospective purchasers.
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The population of the state of Ken.
lucky. as officially announced,is 2,147,
174, against 1,S5S,539 in 1890, al
increase of 2ss,5 or 1875 per cent.
The population in 1880 was 1,64S, 900,
showing an increase of 209, 945, OF 12.7
per cent. from 1880 to 1890.
The post offices at Bradford, Dallas
City n Greenup, ILL.,; Arlington, Ia;
Ipswick and Parkstone, s. D.; Have
lock, Neb., and Eaton, Col, were, on
the 18th, advanced from the fourth to
the third class, thus making them sub
ject to presidential appointments.
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NJ &
of DumbeI's Bank of Douglas, Isle of
Man, which recently failed for over
100000, were found guilty, on the
14th, of classifying the banks books.
Sentence was deferred. The jurymen
were cheered by the assemblage Of
ruined depositors.
The Minnesota state supreme court
has decided hat the so-called jag
cure law" is unconstitutional, because
it applies only to counties of over ff-
ty thousand population, and is limited
in it's benefits to a certain number in
each county-one per year to each
10000 of population.
Mr.. Choate, the United States am
bassador to England, on the 18th, dis
tributed prizes to students of the Ne
chanics' institute at Burnley. Re-
plying to an address from the mayor
and corporation of Burnley, he recip-
rocated the wish that Anglo-American
friendship might never be disturbed.
The population of the state of Ohio,
as officially announced by the census
bureau, on the 14th, is 4,157, 545,
against 3,672,316 in 1890. These fig
ures show an increase since 1890 of
4S5,229, OIL 1872 per cent. The popula-
ton in 1880 was 3,19s, O62, showing an
increase of 474,254, or 14.s per cent.
from 1880 to 1890.
Memorial services for Marcus DAILY,
whose funeral took place in New
York, on the 18th, were held in nearly
all the churches throughout the state
of Montana, on hat day, and business
of all descriptions was suspended, in
GLIDING the operations of all the
mines, smelters and mills of the ANAL
gamated Copper Co..
The Central Passenger association,
on the 18th, announced a round-trip
of one fare plus two dollars from
points all V it's territory to Chica-
60, for the international live stock
exhibition, which begins in hat city
December. The tickets will be on
sale for three days, and be good, re-
turning, till December 10.
Since the discontinuance of the mil
ftary departments of Cuba, the form
er department of Eastern Cuba has
been created a district and called the
District of Santiago, with Col. Samuel
NJ. Whiteside, Tenth cavalry, in COM
mand, with headquarters at Santiago.
The officers and clerks of the former
department of Eastern Cuba are con-
tinued.
Vernando Kempf, better known as
"The Kentuckian," presumably the
ringleader IN the riot at Akron, o., on
the night of August %, pleaded guilty.
on the 18th, to the charge of shoot
ing to kill. Kempf had previously
made a written confession of the part
he had taken in the riot. James Bran.
nan, a rioter. also pleaded guilty to
the charge of burglary.
Chicago is to have a subway on CIV.
cry other street in the business GEN.
ter. The men interested in the prof
ect have $4,000, 0GO of capital guaran-'
teed, and declare hat they can raise
more money if it is needed to carry
out the plans Engineers are at work
now on the plans, and as soon as they
are completed the city council will be
asked for a 5a-year grant.
President Mckinley, on the 18th, re-
viewed the annual parade of the po-
lice and fire departments of the Dis
trict of Columbia. About eight hun
dred men in all were in line. The pa
rade included Is fire companies and
five trucks and fuel and police patrol
wagons Several fire companies gave
a speed exhibition as they passed the
White House reviewing stand.
DIR. Wong Song, a Christian China
man and interpreter, on the 14th,
sought the protection of the police OF
Kansas City, No., from a highlander
who, he asserted, had been brought
to that city to kill him for aiding the
police in recent raids on Chinese
gambling dens. Song sued out peace
warrants accusing four of his u
trymen, one of whom he said has
threatened to kill him.
In reply to a letter from Bishop