Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-25

ul2nD SCnOO1 y NATIVE DOSIdI CLL
ployes at Samolpec, where they may
study English.
Ten thousand Alabamans greeted
Gen Wheeler and Lieut.. Hobson in
Montgomery, on the 10Th, when Gen
Wheeler presented a loving cup to
Lieut.. Hobson, in behalf of the people
of Alabama.
Prof. Pickering, of Harvard, arrived
at Kingston, Jamaica, On the 10th, to
establish an astronomical observatory
at Vaudeville Immediately. He says
the surroundings there are favorable
for special researches.
A conservative estimate of F1orida's
orange crop this year places the yield
at 1000, 900 boxes. Phe groves are in
healthy condition. Fruit will begin to
be marketed about the 1st. The av-
erage price per box is two dollars.
Prof. Wilhelm Oncken, OF the Uni
versity of Giessen (Hesse), who was
intimately acquainted with the late
Prince Bismarck, writes to a Dresden
journal that Bismarck's last prayer
was: Lord, 1 believe. Help Thou
mine unbelief."
S. L. Morris was arrested in Chica-
go, on the 10Th, for an alleged attempt
upon the life of John W.. Gates, ex-
president of the American Steel and
Wire Co. When searched at the po-
lice station, two large revOlvers were
found concealed in his pockets.
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1t is regarded in Pekin as certain
that the alleged imperial edict order
ing the punishment of high officials
was forged, and was concOcted with
the object of preventing the advance
of the allies on Pao Ting Flu. Both
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang deny
its authenticity.
Nicholas Scalp, a Swedish naval
cook, who was on the battleship
Maine when she was blown up in Ha-
vana harbor, shot and killed himself
in Brooklyn on the 10Th. His jaw
was shattered by flying iron in the
Maine explosion, and he had been un-
able to eat solid food since.
The comptroller of the currency
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ceived under the act of March Il, 1900,
for the organization of 1876 new ma
tional banks, with a total capacity of
So, 500, 900. Of this number 373 will
have a capacity of less than 5000
each, and 1913 of $4,000 or MORE.
The report that the Dowager En-
press Frederick was married, last
A-r.I y Doc, ConJo,I4rF ,-lo x-oe
hofmeister under Emperor Frederick,
although widely circulated abroad,
had always been strenuously denied in
Berlin, until the present crisis in her
disease. Now, however, it is being
circulated again and accepted as true.
Former cabinet officer and senator,
John Sherman, is dangerously i'll at
his residence, on K street, in Wash
ington city. The attack has taker
the form of a general collapse, in
part due to the debility incident to
old age and to the effects of the seri-
Gus illness which he suffered while
on a trip to the West Indies two years
ago.
The bazaar for the benefit of the
homeless Galveston orphans, which
began in New York city, on the night
of the 18th, in the Waldrof-Astoria,
was closed, on the 18th, by Mark
Twain, who spoke for about ten min
utes. The management of the bazaar
estimated the net receipts for the
three nights at between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Gov. Savers of Texas was among the
presidents callers on the 18th. He
was on his way back to Texas from
New York, where ne went to attend
the charity bazaar for the benefit of
the orphans of the Galveston disaster,
and stopped in Washington to pay his
respects to the president and to thank
him for the aid the government had
extended the victims OF the storm.
Secretary Long has ordered hat
there be no further proceedings in
the case of Capt. Wilde of the Ore
gon, who was being investigated by a
court of inquiry to determine the re-
%sponsibility for the grounding of the
battleshipin the Gulf of Pc Chi Lii, last
summer, while hurrying to Taku
from Shanghai. This action finally
disposes of the case.
Gen. j. w. Fisher died at his homt
in Cheyenne, Wyo., on the 18th, at the
age of Sc years. He was one of Wy
oming's pioneers, going to Cheyenne
in 1871 as associate justice of the ter
~ritorial court, appointed by President
Grant. He was afterward chief JUS
tice of the supreme court for owe
eight years. His war record was par
ticuIarly brilliant, rising from the
ranks of the volunteers to be a briga-
der general.
Gov. Mount of Indiana, on the 18th
received a deed to the 10 acres of land
in Spencer county, Indiana, surround
ing the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
the mother of Abraham Lincoln. The
deed V the land from h coun-
w commissioners of Spencer county
to the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial
association, of which the governor is
president. The work on the monu-
Jnent has begun, and will, it is be-
Iieved, be completed this fall, when
d~edicatory services will be held.
Seven masked men wrecked the safe
of the Farmers bank at Bronaugh'
Mo-, at about half-past one O'Clock on
the morning of the 10th. Dynamite
was used. and the report was heard