Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-09-13
TOPICS OF Il DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

in his head that he was a bigger mar
than n of the commissioners, and
made himself SO offensive that his re.
moval became necessary.
A fraud order" has been issued by
the post Office department against
the American Teachers Agency, the
American Civil Service College, l.. D
Bass, manager; r. NJ. Hines, secre.
tary and treasurer; L. d. Bass and NJ
r. Hines, individually. all of Wash.
ington, d. c., directing the postmas.
ter at Washington to return to the
writer's, stamped fraudulent" all
mail matter addressed to those men
toned.
United States secret service officers
made an important capture of coun-
terfeiters in Chicago. They found
John William Keys and his wife, who
had a complete counterfeiting outfit.
The metal was still hot, showing that
they had been interrupted in their
work.
A Shanghai dispatch of the 18th
says: sixteen more Protestant mis-
sionaries, including the Hodges and
Smokes, of whose safety conflicting
stories have been circulated. have
been massacred at the CURIOUS, Fen
chow-Fu and Taiku stations in Shen-
ST province.
The census bureau has tabulated
the returns from "a cities. These
show a population of 1~4.644,711. This
is an average increase in population
per city of 27.9O per cent. The same
cities in 1890 had a population of H.
150,045, making a total gain of 81
1896.
A tropical hurricane which had
done considerable damage on the ISL
ands of Jamaica and Cuba, struck the
Florida coast, on the 5th, the wind at
one time reaching a velocity of nearly
one hundred miles an hour. 1t is
feared hat the crews of at least two
vessels were swept overheard, and
much damage to small craft and other
property was done,
In Liverpool, on the eth, a corpora
ton inspector condemned a large por-
ton of the beef and mutton, pre-
served by the new sterilized air proc
ess and shipped by the British steam
vi SAOSSs SdPb IipPSs 1Io1I
Buenos Ayres, August 5. The rest of
the cargo realized about half the
prices of American chilled beef.
Samuel Keister, a well-known min
ing maj of Terry, S. D., was danger
ously injured, on the 18th, in an acct
dent in the Sunset shaft. He was be-
ing lowered by a friend who did not
understand the machinery and the
got away and dashed to the bot
a distance of $50 feet.
During the Austrian military ma
~neHvers, on the 18th, on the borders of
and Bohemia, a big gun eX-
ploded, killing four men outright and
fatally w~Ounding is others.
The statement of the London board
of trade for the month of August
shows an increase of e1,4O3, 700 in i'm
ports and e2.726,1OO in exports.
Patrick Maggie, a miner at the Queen
Bee mine, near Hill City, S. D., shot
himself through the heart. His ia
Their and a brother shot themselves
in the same way. Maggie had been
drinking heavily.
Over a dozen white settlers of
have been murdered, sew
eral with great cruelty, by Queens
land blacks. At last accounts track
ers with bloodhounds We're pursuing
the murderers.
1.-THE Abbot" reduced the worlds
mile trotting-to-wagon record, on the
18th, at Charter Oak park, Hartford,
Conn.,, to 2:O5H. The former record
was 2:O9A, held by Lucille" made at
Cleveland in 1897.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $50, 900. 900 gold reserve in the
of redemption. issued on the
9th, showed: Available cash balance,
S134,373,268; gold, sos, 1866.
z. A. Runyan, a banker of Yates
Center, Kas., was arrested, on the
of the 18th, charged with en-
bezzling of $12, 900.
The Cape Town correspondent of
the Manchester Guardian says that
Gen. De Wet has informed friends he
will fight to the end. His sons have
been killed in the war, his wife has
died of a broken heart, and he is des-
perate.
Two fine compartment cars, the
property of the Mexican government
built for the use of President Diaz
and his cabinet, were held by the Gus
tom officials at Juarez, Mexico, for
the payment of duty on the steel used
in the manufacture of the cars.
Appeals for assistance ha-a been
sent to the military governor of the
portion of Cuba from suf-
ferers by the recent storm. 1t is
claimed that all the crops in the San
ia Clara district have been de-
stroyed. Fifteen inches of rain fell
Santiago.
Notwithstanding Germany has inti-
that she doesn't see her way
clear for the removal of her troops
from Pekin, in political circles at Ber-
lin it is thought that a compromise
viii be reached in regard to the evac-
uation, and that the main body Of
troops will be removed to Tien Tsin.
A rot has appeared in the orchards
of Clay county, ILL.,, which has al
ready resulted in the loss of thou
sands of dollars to the fruit growers.
Some orchards T already a total
loss, while others are more or less az
fected. The extremes of wet weather,
drought and intense heat are said to
he responsible for the condition.