Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-22
OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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France, asserts that Ii Hung Chang
and his colleagues ''can do nothing
but intrigue and lie and attempt to
save their heads. If they sign the
treaty it will be a mere formality and
will not afford a solution of the
trouble" and that no princes would
be put to death except by telegraph
H. c. Chubb, a Red Cross man who
recently went to Luzon on a tour of
investigation, is authority for the
statement that Red Cross supplies, in
stead of being given to the soldiers
are sold to the st~orekeepers, and that
the cots sent by Miss Helen Gould are
being sold for $3.50 each.
A rumor is current in Rome that the
illness of the car of Russia is due to
poisoning, and it is asserted that
cipher kilograms have been received
at the vatican saying that an attempt
was made to poison both the emperor
and empress, but hat the latter was
not affected.
Miss Louise E. Pierpont Morgan,
daughter OF J. Pierpont Morgan, and
Herbert Livingstone aterlee were mar
married, on the 18th, at St. Georges
church, in ~Stuyvesant square, New
York city.
The preliminary estimate of the av-
erage yield per acre of corn in 1900, as
published in the forthcoming month
ly report of the statistician of the de-
partment of agriculture, is 25.3 bush
els, as compared with an average yield
of 1881 bushels in 1899; of 24.76 bush
els in 1898, and a ten-year average of
Al bushels.
A report comes from Kalamazoo,
Mich, hat at least nine bodies AVE
beer disinterred by body-snatchers in
Springbrook cemetery, Newaygo III
ty. One body, that was too far de-
composed to be of use, was left in a
fence corner a quarter of a mile from
the cemetery.
George K. Crosthwaite, a physician
of Hamilton, Ont, blew out his brains,
on the 18th, in the Railroad Mems
Christian Association hotel, Chicago.
Dependency, due to being stranded
in a strange city, is thought to have
been the cause.
If the city of Pittsburgh, Pa, will
furnish a site, Andrew Carnegie offers
to build a technical school, in connec-
ton with the Carnegie institute. and
endow it with $1,000 900 in five per
cent. gold bonds.
"Mogy' Bernstein, liking of the
newsboys'' of Omaha, was married, on
the 18th, in the parlors of the Coates
Mogy's bride is Miss Blanche Sunfeld,
of Perry, Okla.
One hundred thousand dollars worth
of city waterworks bonds, bearing
five per cent. interest, were sold at a
special session of the Muscatine 0a.)
city council, ON the 16th,t to a Cleveland
firm. After January 1 the city will
own and operate the waterworks.
A believed to be insane,
hurled a Ratchet at Emperor William,
on the 10th, as he was driving in an
open carriage, in Breslau, with the
hereditary prince of SaXe-Meiningen.
The weapon missed the intended vic
tim, but struck the rapidly moving
carriage. The woman was rescued
from the indignant populace and ar
rested by the police.
Preston Porter, Jr., colored, who
assaulted and murdered little Louise
Frost, on her lonely ride home from
school, was burned at a stake, on the
exact spot, at Lake Station, near
Limon, Col, where he had committed
his awful crime.
The international committee of the
Y. NJ. C. a. sat down'to it's annual din
ner at the Hotel Savoy, New York
city, on the 10th. Some two hundred
representative men from various
walks of life were there to hear ad-
dresses and reports upon the world
wide interests of the organization.
Frederick W. Royce, widely known
as an inventor, electrician and veteran
telegraph operator, dropped dead
from apoplexy, On the 10th, in Wash
ington.
With the advent of winter, which
has now begun in earnest, a majority
of the sawmills throughout the north
west have closed for the season., and
nearly five thousand men have been
thrown out of work in consequence.
All of them can find plenty to do in
the woods, however, and no suffering
is anticipated.
Thomas 3. Reynolds, a salesman en-
ployed by the Whiting Paper Co., of
New York city, on the 10th, filed n
petition III bankruptcy with liabili-
ties, incurred in various parts of the
United States, amounting to $449,O zoos,
and no assets.
Failures for the week ended on the
10th, as reported by r. G.. Dun & Co.,
were PIT in the United States, against
PIG last year, and SO in Canada.
against 20 last year.
A severe earthquake shock was felt,
on the 10th, in the Island of Curacao.
Only slight damage, however, was
done.
An anarchist named Bagards, from
New York, has been arrested in Stock
holm, Sweden.
The annual report of the commits
sioner of internal revenue for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1900, shows
a collection exceeded but once in the
history of the bureau. The receipts
were S295, 1916, 107, being S1O,316,1O in
excess of the estimated amount and
S21,S31,534 more than during the
previous year.
Matthias Glassen, aged 50, one of
the oldest citizens of Waterloo, H.,
died, on the 10th, as the result of self
inflicted wounds. The only cause as
signed for his suicide is mental aber-
ration.
The Beers, according to the Cape
Tovvu o~orreSuondent of the london