Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

I1Ons succeeding Odp6. 1mpl6s WHO Is
transferred to San Francisco.
The hospital ship Relief, which was
of such valuable assistance to the
army in China during the recent hos
t~ilities, left Nagasaki, on the 21st, for
Manila, her regular station.
Two old women, Violet Colley, ~
years old, and her niece, Jane Cath
CoIley, who lived alone, five miles
north of Charlotte, N. c., were muir
dered, robbed and their bodies
burned. The old women were re-
ported to be wealthy. There is no
clew to the perpetrators of the deed.
Sheriff Manion, at Mount Vernon,
Ill, was notified, on the 21st, that
Prof. Amos Harvey, with his young
sister-in-law, Sallie Gardner, with
whom he eloped, November s, were
under arrest at Black Rock, Ark.
Upwards of sixty persons were
killed and many scores injured dur
ing the progress of the tornado which
swept through portions of Tennessee
and Mississippi, on the evening of the
goth. The losses on property are i'm
mense.
Miss Theresa Heating, a highly re-
spectacle young woman, was found
murdered in a vacant lot off Davis
street, near the New York Central
railroad tracks, at Rochester, n. Y,
on the 21st. She had been robbed of
her money and maltreated.
It is announced by the ways and
means committee of the house of rep
resentatives that a reduction of the
wal taxes 10 the amount of about
S30,0O0,OOO will probably be made.
This is a much heavier reduction than
was recommended by Secretary Gage.
A movement is on foot among the
members of the New York chamber
of commerce to organize another
committee of seventy to fight Tam
many hall and vice. The movement
has been under way for several days,
and a meeting will soon be held at
the chamber of commerce rooms for
the purpose of effccting an organiza-
ton.
The duke and duchess of Manches-
ter, on arriving at Tanderagee castle,
Armagh, were received with great re-
joicings. Bonfres blazed and illumi-
nations were general. The crowds
cheered as the couple drove through
the town, and the duke thanked his
tenants for their reception of his
bride.
Frank Wilson, who was arrested
with a lawyer named Elmer and 9th
ers, in connection with the divorce
mill" conspiracy, in New York, plead
ed guilty before Recorder Golf to four
indictments for perjury found against
him in connection with these cases.
Six bandits held up the Iron
Mountain cannon ball near Malvern,
Ark, on the night of the 21st, and al
most wrecked the express a in their
attempts to open the big safe. All
the loot they secured was the local
express box, containing $500, and 500
in silver. Messenger r. S.. Avery, of
st. Louis, was badly hurt by a flying
splinter.
A cablegram has been received by
the family of Lieut.. f. w. A1lstaetter
of the United States engineer corps,
that he has been liberated
by the Filipinos, and will start for
home soon. Lieut.. Ailstaetter was cap
tured, about three months age, while
building railway near Manila.
A house IN Darmstadt collapsed, on
the ed, burying a score of workmen,
of whom IL were killed.
The Chilean government has invited
tenders for 10000 tons of rails for new
railroads.
The Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis
railroad, commonly called the Air
Line, was bought at public sale at
Huntingburg, Ind, on the 22d, by the
Railway Co., for $4,000
Craftsmen, on the night of the 22d,
blew open the safe of the Farmers
bank at Orlando, Okla, with nitro
and escaped with Sf,7GO in
currency, leaving no clue.
AT Rosedale, Kas., on the 22d, the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
switch engine left the track on a tres
tie, and, falling 80 feet to the bottom
of the r~avine, exploded. -Four men in
the cab of the engine at the time e
painfully hurt.
Germany's pig iron production for
October was 742,72O tons, the highest
figures eve reached, the output being
500 tons above that of h previous
month.
The population of the state of West
Virginia is 95S, 900, as against 762, 794
in 1890. This is an increase of 5000,
or $50 per cent.
Monitor No. 8, formerly known as
the Connecticut, building at Bath, Me-,
has been renamed the Nevada by Sec
Rotary Long.
The receipts from the war revenue
for the first four months of the
present fiscal year were 3 ,39s.956.
The annual meeting of the National
City Evangelization union opened in
Allegheny City, Pa, on the 22d, with
present from all the leading
cities of the country.
Dom Paul Kruger, former president
of the Transvaal Republic, landed at
France, on the 22d, and
was given an enthusiastic reception.
He declared, in response to welcom-
ing addresses, that fighting would
only stop with the last Boer.
It is announced that Major Page,
the midget, 81 years old and weigh
ing 40 pounds. will, On Thanksgiving
day, lead to the altar Miss Mary
weickle, a belle of Shamokin, Pa,
who is six feet tall and weighs 167
pounds. 1t is said to be a love match.
A. L. Waters, aged 60 years. who
has been posing as Atwe1 E. Yost, a
of the civil war, for over fif-
teen years, was found guilty, at Mil
waukee, on the 22d, of defrauding the
government by drawing Yost's pen
sion, and was sentenced to a term of