Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-02
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

ing at indianapolis, Ind, August s,
will be called off and other arrange
ments made
The postmaster general, on h 10th,
ordered the establishment Of rural de-
livery service at Jacksonville, H., Gil
rard, Kas., and Onalaska, Wis.,, ON Au-
gust IS.
Judge c. ID. Clark, of the United
States district court for the eastern
district of Tennessee, made an order,
on the Goth, which disposes of the cases
against the six large pipe companies
under Indictment for violation of the
antitrust law. They were allowed 10
enter a joint plea OF guilty and were
fined $500 and thu costs of the pros
ecution.
Ellis Glenn, the notorious male i'm
pcrsonator and foreer, we're called in
the federal court, al Parkersburg, W.
Va. on the Goth. and, after an cx-
halIstive argument, based entirely up
OH tec%Inicalities, Judge jackson re-
leased the prisoner on 800 bond,
which was promptly furnished by her
ccunsel.
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United States geological bureau, was
arrested on a Vermont Central train,
OH the Goth. and placed in Jail Mt Bur
'ington. 1t is alleged that he is S4O.-
600 short. There is said to be a
woman in the case.
The Sycamore III canrery is meet
ing with a heavy loss this year in los
ing large fields of pease. An insect
calico tie pea lous. has put i'll its APP
prarance here and will destroy all the
crop. The insect is very small and
cred by the offspring of a single fe-
male within a day.
The Otoe Indians, living on a reser-
yaticn about 100 miles south of W'"hi-
tn. Has, have been having "a splendid
time since they received an annuity
payment of $50 each. Most of them are
row without h money, but they
have had plenty of sport.
Mrs. Mary Crump, who owns Il 300
acre farm near Calumet, Kas. and has
six daughters, takes the cake for
thrift. Four or five years g her hus-
land died. The farm was then mort
gagged to pay his funeral expenses. The
debt amounted to over $500. but she
raid that off within two years, and
now has So, 900 in bank.
The German foreign Office points out
that the conditions for mediation de-
handed by President Mckinley, places
the United States II substantially the
III position as Germany and France.
a firm of American contractors is
advertising for 1000 laborers to De-
gin work on the Central Railroad of
Cuba On November L.
Joseph Mayer. for many years the
Christus of the Passion play, has been
elected mayor of Oberammergau. Up
per Bavaria.
A woman about twenty-five years old
walked into the Presbyterian hospital
in New York city, on the 27th, and be-
fore the attendants could prevent it Sc
cured and swallowed o Il ounces of
carboIic acid. She died in IS minutes
The woman had a card containing the
name and address of Nellie Blair, 1850
Caroline street, st. Louis"
To avoid threatened seizure by the
United States authorities for violat-
Ing Inc american HIchSuEl 2hldliOISs
in Illegally landing freight at Nome,
in May last, the owners of the Cana
dian steamer Alpha will keep the ship
out of American waters. She will be
put in the Canadian coasting trade.
Twelve persons killed, including one
woman. and IS wounded, including a
woman and a girl, some so seriously
that death is possible. was the casualty
list up tc the 2sth, in New Orleans,
which began with the attempt of Po-
licemen Day and Lamb to arrest the
negroes Charles and Pierce.
X. G.. Dun q Co.'S Trade Review, on
the 9th, reported: Failures for the
week were 231 in the United States.
against Isl last year, n % in Cana
da, against 20 last year"
The United States transport Warren,
from Manila, via Nagasaki, arrived at
San Francisco, on the 27th, after IA
fast trip. The vessel left Japan on the
10th.
The Central Passenger association
has granted a rate of one fare for the
round trip from all points in Indiana,
Ohio. Michigan and Illinois, to the
Bryan notification meeting in Indian
apolis. Tickets will be sold on ali
trains on August Z. limited for return
to August 9.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the S150,OO0.0 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued On the
27th. showed: Available cash balance,
$751;. $50, 74s; gold, $72, 4O6,0 91.
Berlin button, feather and hosiery
manufacturers complain of a loss of
business, owing to the Chinese situa-
ton.
The desperate negro Robert Charles,
whose crimes caused the recent reign
of terror in New Orleans. was located
in a negro's dwelling on Saratoga
street. on the eth, and before he was
dispatched the lives of o u white men
two police officers and two citizens
were sacrificed.
While continuing to maintain the
theory that the Chinese government is
not implicated in the anti-foreign up
rising in China, the administration al
Washington is prepared at any mo
ment to abandon this position and re-
gard the Chinese emperor as an enemy.
Ii Hung Chang cabled to the New
York Tribune, on the morning of the
18th, saying: "Pekin reports ministers
alive. Safety assured. Allied forces
entrance into Pekin unnecessary" If
Ii can get direct communication with
Pekin, why can not the foreign pow
ers and their ministers?