Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-01
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

standing. Mrs. Bryan is accompanied
by her daughter.
The complete suppression of the
revolution in Santo Domingo is Off
cially announced. Gen. Garcia has
surrendered Internationally. Senator
Mota has been arrested on the charge
OF completely in the movement.
Financial circles in New York were
started, on the 23d, by the announce
ment that Cornelius L. Alvord, note
teller of the First national bank, was
a defaulter to the extent of $7OO, 900
and a fugitive. The defalcation is the
biggest IN the history of Wall street
and the defaulter the biggest, too
he weighs 300 pounds. He vas n reg
ular attendant at prayer meetings.
President Mitchelrs statement, in
his speech at Pottsville, Pa, on the
23d, that he believed the strike would
be ended by the goth, if all the opera
tors posted notices guaranteeing the
ten per cent. advance until April 1,
was received with much pleasure by
the mine workers and the mine Off
Gals.
DIR. and Mrs. S. ID. Meslove celebrat-
GU -l1CII SO1NNh "ttN4iA db
Ill, on the 23d. The afternoon was
given to q very elaborate reception to
lady friends, at which some 200 were
present.
A Paris dispatch says that Leopold
king of the Belgians, and Thomas F.
Walsh, of Colorado, have joined hands
and fortunes in the investment Of
money in mining and other ventures.
\ thief, caught by Father Andre,
of the Church of Notre Dame dies
Loudres, Minneapolis, on the sd,
robbing the poor box at the church,
was so Inundated over his arrest that
he hung himself in his cell at the city
lookup.
Paterson, N. J., has been the scene
of one of the most revolving crimes
imaginable. Miss Jennie Bossheiter,
whose body was found by the road
side, in the country, was the victim
of four young men of Paterson, hav-
ing been rendered unconscious by
the administration of Knockout"
drops, which proved fatal. The men
are all under arrest, and some of
them have confessed.
Secretary Hay, Secretary Gage, Jus
tice Harlan, of the supreme court;
Admiral Dewey, Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
ex-senator J. D. Cameron, Mr.. J.. A.
kasson, of the state department.;
Judge Bancroft Davis, Senator Haw-
ley and Myron NJ. Parker, of Wash
ington, were the honorary p%all-bear-
ers at the funeral of John Sherman.
The drug store of McCrory & Var
brough, at Mayfield, KY, caught fire,
and before the flames could be
checked, nearly the entire block in
which the store was located was con-
sumed. John Yarbrough, one of the
proprietors of the store, has been ar
rested charged with setting it on fire.
The citizens of Oklahoma and the
Indian territory want single state
hood for the two territories. The for
nation of leagues to promote this
end has been commenced. The first
league was organized at Wagner,
I. I.
The population of the state of Cali
fornia was announced by the census
bureau on the Gath. The population
of the state in 1900 is 1,4S5.O53, as
against 1,2Os,13O in 1890, representing
an increase OF 276,923, or 22.9 per cent.
DR.. Campos Sales, president OF
Brazil, has arrived at Buenos Ayres.
The object of his visit is a mystery,
but it IS supposed to be designed tic
check the aggressive policy of Chill:
toward other South American states.
Reliable persons who arrived at
Victoria, B. c., on the oath, from
'Ominika, confirm the report that the
parties working on the Dawson tele-
graph line failed to connect, ON ac-
count of an error in the survey, and
that it will be impossible to complete
the work before next
The Peruvian senate, in secret ses-
sion, On the 23d, approved the extradi-
ton treaty with the United States,
with a slight amendment, fixing 5000
as the minimum limit of the sum al
lowing eXtradition.
The entire business portion of Min
'neiska, Mimi, was burned, on the
oath, including the post Office The
Farmers elevator and several loaded
cars also were burned. The estimated
damage is $4,000.
OF 10000 bales of cotton in cars, on
wharves and otherwise involved in the
Galveston storm, 1 $1,000 have been re-
covered, and all but 600 of these iden-
tilted. This is considered remarkable
salvage.
A0stria-Hungary has given her as
oent to the Anglo-German agreement
1t has developed that Cornelius l..
Aivord, Jr-, the colossal looter OF the
First national bank of New York city,
took $4,000 the last day he worked.
He saw that his game was up, and
probably thought a few dollars in his
pocket might come handy.
Queen W~ilheimina, of the Neither
lands, who, with naive independence,
selected her husband for herself, has
now settled all doubtings and cues
tionings m to the date of her mar
rage with Duke Henry of Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin BY naming January II
Andrew Engelke, n clerk in the
transfer mail agents Office at Peoria,
H., has left the city mysteriously,
and with his departure several for
geries and thefts committed by him
that by his operations Engelke's
friends are short at Least $1,000.
Under the patronage of and for the
heneft of the American National Red
Cross, $4,000 watch meetings, to well
come the new century, viii be helu in
this country on the night of Decem-
Der 81 next.
william A. Paulsen, convicted of re-
a deposit in the Central Trust