Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-30
TOPICS OF 4 DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

pi, II; Missouri, 3; Virginia, L; West
Virginia, z; Oklahoma, /. Of the vic
TINS 81 were negroes and % whites.
Jefferson D.. Hall, aged 43, well
known at Virginia, ILL.,, was adjudged
insane on the 23d. The intense heat
caused his insanity and made him
most violent. He whipped his wife
with a buggy whip and threatened to
shoot his relatives.
Harry Davis, an aeronaut, died at
Delphos, o., on the 23d, as the result
of a fall received in an ascension. His
parachute failed to open and he fell
1000 feet.
During a heavy thunder storm, on
the 23d, the ordnance building at Fort
Smelling, Mimi, was struck by light
ming and almost destroyed, but the
tone powder magazine, Is feet away,
containing $4,000 pounds of powder,
was uninjured.
William Pethwick, formerly of
Brooklyn, n. ", for many years Earl
Lis secretary and confidential ad-
wiser of the Chinese government,
says: Iii Hung Chang should be ig-
nored. He represents the hostile
minority, and will avert their just
punishment by disappearing u
position if he can"
The United States government has
taken the lead in replying to China
that there will be no temporizing ne
gotiations and there is every reason
to believe the powers will be united
in this same policy The answer of
the United States was promptly fol-
lowed by similar action on the part
of the Germans.
Gen. Roberts cabled the British war
Office, on the 23d, that Gen. De Wet
had crossed the Magliesburg, with a
few wounded, with the intention of
returning to the Orange River Col
Ony. His guns have mostly been
buried and his personal following
dwindled to not more than 300.
After considering the affidavits sub
mitted by both sides and hearing ar
guments, Judge Cantrill, at George
town, KY, overruled the motion for a
new trial in the case of former Sec
rotary of State Caleb Powers, con-
victed as an accomplice before the
fact in the murder of William Goebe1.
Mr.. NJ. S. N. Pierre, of 31S West For
ty-frst street, New York city, a negro
from British Guiana, and 200 of his
fellow British subjects, prepared a pc
tition to Hon. Percy Sanderson, Brit
ish consul, asking him to take the
necessary steps for their protection.
They alIege hat they were brutally
attacked by the mob in the recent
riots in that city, and that the police,
instead of giving them protection,
actually urged and melted the mob
to greater fury.
William Z. Cox, chief engineer at
the Muncie (Ind.) electric street light
works, was killed, on the night of the
oath, by falling on a live wire in the
power house. He was alone with his
~six-year-old baby girl at the time. The
child went to him, lay down in his
arms and fell asleep beside the dead
man.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $780, 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
oath, showed: Available cash bal
ance, s137,156,419; gold, SCI. 1852, 1876.
a Missouri Pacific passenger train
struck a wagon one mile west of Eff
fingham, Kas-, on the oath, killing
Alma and Closter Taylor, sisters, and
seriously injuring Mrs. John Black.
Bethel Baptist church at Fairview,
KY, built as a memorial on the site
of Jefferson Davis birthplace, was
by lightning, on the 24th, and
destroyed.
The japanese liner Futami Maru,
Thorn, bound from Australia to
Manila, with a cargo of stores for the
American government, went aground
broke in two on the Island of
There were no casualties, |
the cargo, baggage and vessel will
possibly prove a total loss.
r. 6. Dun & Co., on the oath, report
ed: Failures for the week were III
in the United States, against 1913 last
year, and % in Canada, against 16
last year"
Prof. Theodore Mommsen, the emil
German jurist and historian, has
an article in The Nation, urging the
abolition of the celebration of Sedan
day.
An organization having for its OBJ
ject the control of every electric plant
and system in Wisconsin has been in
corporated by Milwaukee capitalists.
The steamship Lucania, sailing from
New York for Europe, on the 25th,
took out 271 900 ounces of silver.
A special dispatch from Pretoria, on
the oath, said that Lieut.. Gordua had
been shot.
Incendiaries made an attempt to
burn down the big 100000 Marsden
cellulose factory at Linden, Ind. Five
ricks containing $500 tons of corn
stalks were totally destroyed, entail
ing a loss of $4,000. By hard work the
factory buildings yer saved.
After a terrific storm at Nome,
August z, out of IS steam
launches only five remained, and of
az barges only sever were left aloat, |
the others having been sunk or driven |
ashore. Thirty-eight bodies were
washed ashore at various points.
A life insurance company, on the |
paid Mrs. Anna L. Ingalls, $780,
$50, insurance upon the life of her
deceased husband, John j. Ingalls,. |
Ingalls, carried two policies |
of $4,000 each, which provided for re-
turn of premiums.
Lord Roberts, on the oath, con- |
firmed the death sentence of Lieut..
Hans Cordu, the German, who was
found guilty of breaking his parole |
and conspiracy to kidnap Lord Rob
erts, by a court-martial at Pretoria, |
and he was summarily shot.
Peck, the negro yer whom the
Akron (O.) riot occurred. was taken |