Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Nearly four million dollars in gold
arrived at San Francisco, on the 18th,
IRON Australia, on the steamer Ala
media.
There was no material change in
Mr.. Sherman's condition, on the 18th,
except that he showed signs of in
creasing weakness. The patient was
partially unconscious much of the
time, rallying and Frightening at in
tervals. He has a disagreeable cough,
which irritates him a great deal in his
debilitated condition.
The state department, on the 18th,
received a report from the consul at
Nagasaki, Japan, of the death at that
place, on September 13, of Bertrand
W. Ragsdale, ~vice-consul and marshal
of the consular court at Tien Tsin,
China. He had gone from Tien Tsin
to Nagasaki in July for the benefit of
his health.
Prof. Joseph Whitley, principal of
the Salt Lake City (Utah) school of
law, dropped dead out of his chair in
a restaurant, on the 18th, from hem
orrhage of the brain. He had taken a
degree at Oxford university, and, be-
fore coming to America, was a clergy
Ear in the Church of England.
The Ohio Society of California has
received information of a definite ma
ture to the effect hat President Me-
Kinley will visit San Francisco next
April to witness the launching of the
b~attleship Ohio, which is now nearing
completion at the Union iron works in
that city.
The department Of education in the
Philippines has decided to place some
natives in United States schools so
that they may come in contact with
American social and political usages.
The first lot of students probably will
not be sent over until next summer.
The duke of Tetuan, Marquis Villa
verd, Senior b. Olivier, director gener-
al of the civil register, and Senior Tor
res Campos, have been appointed
members, On the part of Spain, of The
Hague international arbitration
board.
1t is announced that the immedi-
ate danger attaching to the illness of
King Oscar has passed, but that he
will require a long rest.
Rabbi Heyman Schwarz, a we'll
known Jewish litterateur, died at
Houston, Tex, on the 18th, aged &c.
He had an international reputation as
a writer on the Jewish religion.
A home for women students at the
Berlin university will be erected. fol-
lowing the general plan of college
dormitories in the United States.
Hard coal prices will never be re.
duced to the point where they were
before the Pennsylvania strike in the
opinion of retail coal dealers. They
say that the strike has permanently
raised the price of Goa at least so
cents on the ton.
William Millham, of Solomon City.
Kas.. a veteran of the civil war. ami 4
furloughcd inmate of the national
military home at Leavenworth. kas..
was killed, on the 18th, at St. Louis.
by the Kinloch special on the Wa
bash railroad.
United States Marshal Hammac<, at
Eureka, Springs, Ark, has just com
pleted the capture of an entire band
of counterfeiters, who have been op-
Grating III IHd1 HclShDOI IlJOu Ipi
many years. Their headquarters were
in a cavern known as Bennetss cave,
four miles from Eureka Springs.
Mai. Mott r. Peterson, chief com
missary of Cuba, died of yellow fever.
at Las Animas, on the 18th. An hour
later his wife shot herself fatally
The remains we're inferred the same
day with military honOrs. The Gags
at Ell MORO and on all the public
buildings were half-masted.
The town of Guadalupe, Mexico, was
swep away by a cloudburst, on the
night of the 18th. The water swept
through the little town in a torrent
five feet deep, leveling everything in
it's way. An old man and two children
are missing.
Paul Kruger, former president of
the Transvaal Republic, embarked, Sc
cretly, early on the morning of the
10Th on board the Dutch cruiser Gel
derland, at Lorenzo Marquee. 1t is
said he feared the Beers would attack
him if they saw him departing.
Rev. A. Nelson Hollifield, retiring
moderator of the New Jersey Presby-
terrain synod, dropped dead at Haddon
hall, Atlantic City, n. j., of heart dis
-ase. DIR. Hollifeld was about sixty
gears of age, and apparently in good
health.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Bristow received a dispatch
from Havana, on the 10Th, informing
him that Oxar Feyt, a clerk in the
registry department of the Havana
post Office, had been apprehended by
post Office inspectors for tampering
with international registered mail.
The settlement of the anthracite
coal miners strike is temporarily
blocked by the powder question, the
operators insisting on figuring On the
reduction in the price of powder in
adjusting the ten per cent. increase
in wages.
John Scruggs the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Co.'S agent at Escelon, Mexico,
has disappeared, together with a
package of Mexican currency contain
ing $4,000. The company offers a re-
ward for Scruggs' apprehension.
Whiting a few feet of his wife, and
in the same room where she was sew
ing and singing, John Pfeiffer, of b
cago, hanged himself to a hook in the
decreasing. So quiet was the man in
his act and so busy was the woman
with her work and her song that she
did not see him procure the clothes
line and deliberately hang himself.
The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon
of Kedleston, in a speech before the
council at Simla. on the 18th, said