Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-11


meat, the butchers of London have the
utmost difficulty in procuring sup
plies, and arr advancing prices two
pence and three pence per pound.
| LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Rev. c. G. Thomas, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, was stricken with apoplexy in
his pulpit on the eth. He had just fin
ished his sermon and raised his hands,
saying, LET us pray" when a panied
expression shot over his face, and he
fell to the floor of the pulpit. His con-
dition was pronounced by the ply
sicians as extremely precarious.
a dispatch from London, on the Sth,
said: 1.-THE British public is at last
face to face with critical moment in
the campaign. 1t may safely be said
that at no previous time have there
been such anxious hours of suspense
as will be passed through until the ar
rival of further news regarding the fate
of Ladysmith."
The supporters of Mayor Samuel II.
| campaign last fall, are organizing his
strength into a party or movement
which has for its object the control of
the congressional districts of Ohio next
fall, and if possible the election of Mr..
| Jones to the United States senate in
1902.
Brevet Brig.-Gen. VIM. Glenny died
| in New York city, on the 18th, aged SO
years. In the civil war he rose to be
colonel of the Sixty-fourth New York
| volunteers. He was breveted a briga
dier general for gallantry. He was Sc
| verely wounded at the battle of Fair
Oaks.
The reports sent out recently that
Rev. John G. Fee, the founder of Berea
(Ky.) college, and the noted abolition
list, was dead, were not correct. DIR.
Fee, who was quite i'll, is recovering.
Many floral offerings were sent to
BeTea, thinking the noted divine was
lead.
Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn, rector of
ST. Mary's church, Newburga, n. Y,
died, on the 18th, after an illness of sew
eral weeks, of heart failure, superin-
duced by Bright's disease. DR.. Nc
Glynn enjoyed the respect and esteem
of people of all denominations.
Dr. Franklin w. Fisk, president of
the Chicago Theological seminary, has
resigned and will retire from active
work next May. He will then have
completed his fortieth year of connec-
ton with the seminary, and will be so
years old.
The annual convention ofthe Nation
al Building Trades council opened N
Milwaukee on the Sth. Among other
matters steps will probably be taken
towards the organization of a confer
ence board, to prevent strikes.
In the senate, on the Sth, Mr.. Petit.
grew Is. d., in speech accused the
government of attacking its allies in
the Philippines, which charge was
warmly repealed by Mr.. Lodge (Mass.).
Mr.. Morgan (dem., Ala.) discussed at
length the race question in the south,
and defended the constitution of Louis
lana and North Carolina. In the
house Investigations We're ordered into
the charge that the president had APP
pointed two polygamists to offices in
Utah, and into the conduct of Gen.
Merriam and other United States army
officers during the Wardner Udaho)
riots and subsequent thereto. Adj
journed to the 10th.
Three million persons are working
on government relief works in India.
The sale of children by starving pa
rents is becoming common. Families
are breaking up, each member for him
self, searching for food. Abandoned
children are found with frequency. 1t
is famine of water as we'll as food.
Cattle are dying off by thousands. and
no rain is now expected until June.
All the defendants under indictment
in Philadelphia, charged with imper-
sonating election officers, making
fraudulent returns and stuffing the
ballot box in the Thirteenth division of
the Seventh ward at the election for
state treasurer last November, failed
to answer when their names were
called in court, on the sth, and their
bail was declared forfeited.
The Siamese government has given
another evidence of its friendliness to
the United States by offering to pre-
sent to this country a part or the
whole of the temple grounds at Bang
kok, on which the United States lega-
ton is located. The property is worth
$4,000, but will involve an outlay of
about $4,000 for improving the prem
ises.
AT a meeting of the board of trustees
of Columbia university, on the sth, it
was announced that John ID. Rookie
Teller had presented 100000 to the
university for the endowment of
chair of psychology.
The amount of bonds purchased by
the secretary of the treasury under the |
offer of November Is last, amounted to |
19,300,650, which, with interest and |
premium, made total expenditure of |
$21, III, S67.
The wages of $50 operatives in the |
lace mills of Wilkesbarre, Pa, were |
voluntarily raised IL per cent. ON the |