Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DIR. Campos SALES, the president OF
Brazil, who bad been visiting Gen.
Roca, president of Argentina, Lett
Buenos Ayres, on the 1st, OIL his re-
turn trip to Rio de Janiero.
A Chinese official telegram from
Sisnan Flu states that Prince Tuan
has fed to Mongolia, with his head
shaved, and disguised as a Buddhist
priest. 1t is reported that he intends
to join the Lamas.
The verdict of Partisan society is
that Nine. Castellane, like other
American heiresses who. choose to
marry French titles, should pay the
piper" especially as the expenditures
in this instance were all made in
Paris.
Prince Prosper Arenberg has been
sentenced to Is years Imprisonment
for numbering a mulatto servant in
southwest Africa. This is the long
est sentence allowed by the German
law for the offense. The sentence in
wolves the prisoners treatment as an
ordinary criminal.
The monthly comparative state
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures issued at the treasury
department, on the LIST, shows that
the total receipts for the month of
October were. S51, 626,067, and the ex-
penditures SAT, 1898 ,637, leaving a sur
plus for the month of S3,632,430.
The monthly circulation statement
issued by the comptroller of the cur
rency shows that at the close of bust
ness October 81, 1900, the total circu-
lation of national bank notes was
1891, 1885, 500, an increase for the year
of SIS, 640, 500, and an increase for the
month of $3,2s9,5 $50.
Charles F. Jones, who was valet for
William NJ. Rice, the millionaire who
died so mysteriously in New York,
made a confession, in which he
charged Lawyer Patrick with causing,
the death of Rice by administering
poison. After making his statement
Jones attempted suicide in the Tombs
prison by cutting his throat.
o. E. Atkinson, first assistant CASH
Ter of the Albany Gnd-) state bank,
is reported missing, and Pinkerton
1t is claimed that he has been gone
several days and hat there is a big
~defalcation.,
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close OF
business on October 81, 1900, the debt.
less cash in the treasury, amounted
to $1,1O4,4O2, 800, a decrease as COM
pared with last month, of $1,754.351.
The residence of Rev. j. B. Wheat
ley, at Wheatley, KY, was destroyed
by fire on the 1st. Mrs. Wheatley's
aged mother, Mrs. A. j. Alexander,
persisted. Mr.. and Mrs. Wheatley were
seriously injured while escaping from
the burning building.
David Davis, one of the Akron (O.)
rioters indicted by the special grand
jury, was convicted of burglary on
the I'd. Davis wasone of the men who
broke into the store of the Standard
Hardware Co., from which the mob
secured the guns that were used in
the assault on the city building on the
night of August %.
John Sanborn, of Yankton, one of
South Dakota's Oldest and most prom
inent settlers, died, on the I'd, of pa
ralysis.
Secretary Hay, on the LIST. cabled
Commissioner Rockhill an appoint
ment as councillor of the American
legation at Pekin. He has been di-
rected to proceed at once from Shang-
hal to Pekin to assist Minister Conger
in hat capacity in the negotiations
for a final settlement.
A motion for a new trial was filed
at Marysville, O., on the I'd, by Ross
- " E----Is- A.,
ground that one of the jurors said
Terrell was guilty, and his life was no
better than Lanes, his victim. 1t is
also charged that Joseph Rolf, anotk.
er juror, is not an eiector.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $3.50, 200, 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
I'd, showed: Available. cash balance,
$13T, 2O5.s SIS; gold, S92, 346,077.
Count Won Buelow, the imperial
German chancellor, has received a tel
egram from the German merchants In
Tien Tsin congratulating him upon
the conclusion of the Anglo-German
agreement.
William r. Upton was arrested at
Colorado Springs, Col, charged with
forging checks on the First national
bank of Colorado Springs. Upton
went there last May from Missouri.
He is 81 years old. He had been EN-
ployed as a carpenter most of the
time.
Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., the de-
faulting note teller of the First ma
tional bank of New York city, was
discharged by City Magistrate Flam-
mer, on the I'd, for want of jurisdic-
ton. but was Immediately rearrested
by United States officers and taken
before Commissioner Shields, who
held him in s150,O0O bonds. Alvord
was remanded to Jail.
Edward Herman, principal of the
high school in Weehawken, Y. j., is
to be tried for caressing and kissing
his girl pupils. He is said to have
shown especial affection for the pref
ty girls from IL to Is years of age.
William L. Strong, the last mayor
of old New York city. died suddenly
at three o'clock on the morning OF
the I'd, at his residence in New York
city. He was 70 years of age, and had
always taken an active interest in
politics.