Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-21
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

and arrangements are, DelnS IhduS "
provide them with shelter. Their ra-
tons are identical with the scanty fare
served out to the barghers-
The Minnesota grand lodge of Odd |
Fellows, on the 14th, voted to exclude
druggists and hotel keepers from the
order in that state. William McGregor,
of Minneapolis, was elected grand
warden.
Mrs. L. n. VI. Stevens, national pres |
ident of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union, read a paper, on the
.14th. before the temperance congress
in London on Prohibition in Maine.
Mr.. Wolmarans, cousin of the
TransvaaI envoy of the same name,
has arrived at Lourenzo Marquee, and
declares that he intends to take no
further part in the fighting.
An agent from Colon is at Kingston,
Jamaica, making arrangements to re-
cruit laborers to work on the Panama
canal.
a terrible accident occurred, on the
l4th. at the Hale mine, three miles
from Giwabik, Mimi, in which five men
were instantly killed, by an explosion
of dynamite.
Richard Croker. leader of Tammany
Hall, sailed from England for New
York on the steamer Lucania, June 10.
Mrs. Catherine Gladstone, widow of
England's Grand Old Man." William
Ewart Gladstone, died at Hawarden,
Wales, the family residence, on the
18th, aged is years. The funeral will
I1o hold in q hhPV
Gen. Methuens success in restoring
the communications with Pretoria has
not altered the fact that the Free
State raiders have taken more than
1000 prisoners at Lindley and Roode-
val, and have retreated with them and
their guns, and that the raids may be
repeated. The Boer commanders are
still intact.
Ry the action of the democratic
state conventions in California, Mis-
souri,, Kentucky, Georgia and Vermont.
on the 14th, w. J. Bryan is assured o!
the nomination for president on the
democratic ticket, considerably overtime
two thirds necessary to nominate him
being is sight.
The REIMBURSEMENT of postmasters'
salaries, just completed, shows that
the wonderful increase in the business
at offices of the presidential class
shown last year has been eclipsed this
year, making the present year in this
respect the banner year in the history
of the postal service.
Within six hours ending at noon on
the 14th, the rainfall at Memphis,
hn f.
est ON record. The rain has covered
all of West Tennessee and Mississippi.
Cotton throughout Mississippi was Sc
riously damaged.
Judge Belcher, at San Francisco, on
the 18th, filed an opinion, in which ne
holds that marriages of persons di-
vorced in California, consummated
| within IL months after the decree of
| the divorce has been made, are invalid,
and that, in the eyes of the law, such
persons are unmarried.
The Kentucky state offices were, on
| the 14th. formally turned over to the
| democratic officers, and the records re-
moved from the Capitol hotel to the
statehouse. at Frankfort, and the dual
| governments in Kentucky ceased.
A miniature riot occurred, on the
| 18th, at the institute for feeble-mind-
ed at Beatrice, Neb., when the gov
ernor's appointee for superintendent,
DR.. Deering, and constables armed
with replevin papers, attempted TIC
gain possession. of the institute, books
and records
A new mahdi has appeared at Wady-
| Gnu1an 9phlnU this
proclamation, that Christ would soon
be seen upon earth. lie was arrested
| by the government, together with 4;
adherents.
r. G.. Dun & Co. reported, on the
18th: Failures for the week have
been 1872 in the United States, against
1876 last year, and % in Canada, agains1
g last year."
Twenty additional congregation:
were admitted to membership in The
general conference: at Minneapolis
Mimi. of the United Norwegian church
on the 18th.
Admiral Dewey is satisfied to remain
admiral. He says the people evidentl,
do not want him for president or, a
least, those who fix up the states ii
advance OF, the conventions don't seen
to want him, and he is satisfied to lie
it go at that.
Ri. Rev. Richard Hooker Wilmer
Episcopal bishop of the diocese OF Ala
banAa, died at Mobile, on the 14th
AGED s4 years Bishop Wilmer wa
horn in Alexandria, Va, March l.
1916. He is remember ed nationally TO
his recommendation to the clergy O
the diocese to omit the prayer, r"
the President of>the United States ~
all the others in authority.
The report of the signal defeat OF tn
Columbian revolutionistss in the Stat
of Santander is confirmed. The rep'
general Tribe escaped alone, and
now fugitive.
The municipality of Bremen has al
2ropriated an additional 5,oOO,oo
marks for deepening the Weser.
The introduction of the centigrao
thermometer into Prussia has been o
: ficiaIly decreed.
Kentucky has suffered severely fro
the recent heavy rains, the like !
which has not been known at this SCI
son for years. Wheat has been altno'
irretrievably ruined, the hay crop
;. about worthless, and thousands
: acres of corn and tobacco have bee
drowned out.
= Gen. Macabulos. with eight officer
124 enlisted men and 124 rifles, surre
dered to Col. Z. III. Ljscum of the Mini
| infantry at Tarlac, IuZon, on the f5t