Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
: The American National Red eros.
announced, on the 26th, that under the
powers conferred upon it under the
last congress it will at once begin ac-
tive work for the relief of those suf-
fering from famine in India. Head
quarters for this branch of relief
work were opened, on the 27th, in
New York city.
Mrs. D. L. Moore, ex-department
president of the W. r. G. of Kansas, is
being doomed for national president
of that organization. She was in
dorsed at the recent Kansas state
convention of the w. R. c., and the
candidates to the Chicago encamp-
ment will work for her election.
Application has been made for a
charter for the Hardee T~ransporta-
ton and Commission Co., of Tampa,
Fla, which Will run a line of steam
ers to Honduras and South American
ports. The line will handle fruits and
other commodities. The ~incorpora-
tors are Tampa men.
II AAuAhAN4Dd1 lCdS dC H
hold it's next annual meetings at Mil
waukee, on September 10, 20 and 81, as
announced in the programme issued
by Secretary Woodruff, of Philadel-
phia. The occasion will also mark the
eighth national conference for good
city government.
Charles a. Bullen, vice-president of
the Bullen Bridge Co., of Pueblo, Col,
died of heart disease at Glendive,
Mont, on the Goth. Mr.. Bullen was
one of the best-known bridge contrac-
tors in the west, and did c~onsidera-
BILE work in Alaska about a year ago.
A United States war ship arrived az
Tangier, Morocco, on the 9th, to sup
port the claim arising out of the muir
der, last June, of Marcos Essagin, a
n~aturalized American citizen, who was
the manager of the Fee branch of the
French firm of Braunsweig & Co.
Hailstones as large as walnuts fell
at Larned, Kas., for half an hour, on
the night of the 25th, beating fruit
and leaves off the trees and killing
many birds and small animals. The
ground was covered with a sheet of
ice.
Orders were received at Dunbar,
the Cambria Steel Co., at Johnstown,
shut down all their works at Dun
bar for an indefinite period.
DR.. Ernest Schmidt, for 80 years
head of the consulting staff of the
AIexian Brothers hospital, in Chicago,
died in that city, on the Goth, of
Bright's disease.
Kansas City, Mo-, was plunged into
darkness at midday, on the 9th, rem
artificial lights necessary in
stores and offices. The phenomenon
prevailed for half an hour, during
which time rain fell in torrents. At
the Union depot daylight signals could
be seen, and the train service was
stopped for 80 minutes. No damage
resulted.
A dispatch from Berlin, on the 27th,
During the last few days ter
rife thunderstorms have caused mucn
damage in the districts of Stuttgart,
Leipsic and Rostock. Near Rostock
the crops were destroyed by hail,
which lay four inches thick. In Sax
OHN anu 1huIIIiSld lISHtIlIS GduSCO
destructive fires"
The thirty-fourth annual encamp-
of the Grand Army of the Re
public was formally opened in Chica-
GO, on the 26ths by a monster meeting
in the Coliseum. 1t is estimated that
10000 persons, veterans and their
friends, from every quarter of the
country, visited Chicago during the
grand encampment.
In accord with the recent general
of the civil service commits
sion, Postmaster-General Smith, on
the 27th, issued an order regarding
political assessments, enjoining n
strict observance of regulations and
declaring that any disregard of them
will be promptly dealt with.
Four hobos insulted two young girls
in the outskirts of Marshalltown, Ia, |
the 27th. An old colored drayman
named Williams went to the rescue of
the girls, when I'VE of the tramps shot
him to death with revolvers. Williams
was an ~inoffensive citizen, and leaves
a family.
Miss Zeilinski, aged Is, of Ashton, |
Neb., was instantly Killed, on the 10Th, |
while picking plums in a thicket, by
John Schroll, a lad of Is years, who
something moving in the bushes
and fired, shooting her through the |
heart. Schroll surrendered to the
At a meeting of the peoples party |
national committee, in Chicago, on
27th, the declination of Charles |
Towne, as the vice-presidential
nominee of the party, was accepted, |
md the name of Adlai E. Stevenson
was substituted.
Sampson Wellman, a veteran from
Cast st. Louis, ILL.,, was run down by a
in Chicago, IN the 9th, and sus-
aimed injuries which will probably
prove fatal.