Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-06-28
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


CO." was the subject of discussion at a
Western Society of Engineers. The
chief speakers were James A. Seldom
and L. E. Cooley.
The Republican national convention,
at Philadelphia, on the 21st, placed
in nomination, without Il dissenting
vote, William Mckinley for president,
and Theodore Roosevelt for vice-presi-
cent of the United States.
Harmony over rates for the forth
coming encampment of the G. A. r.
PREVAILS. At meeting of executive of
fiicials held in Chicago, the Wisconsin
Central renewed its promis.. to adhere
strictly to regulations prescribed by
the Western Passenger association
lines with reference to rates for the
veterans gathering in Chicago-a Hat
one-fare rate.
A Buenos Ayres (Argentinal dis
patch. of the 21st, says: AN English
gentleman just arrived here says he is
charged by numerous Boer families to
Obtain from the gov eminent $40 square
miles in Patagonia FOR colonization by
the Beers"
Friends of Gov. Roosevelt who have
seen him since his nomination for the
vice-presidency declare that he is go
ing tc suspend Mayor Van Wyck of
New York, pending all Investigation
by special grand jury. as provided
by law.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Hack
EFT received cablegram from ADMIRAL
Kempff, dated Che Foo. June 81, say
barded, and that the American consu
late, as well as the foreign concessions,
were being destroyed.
Gen. Buffers advance to Sandspruit
is almost the only fresh point in the
military situation in South Africa. His
march is in the direction of Stander
ton, which commands the railroad
northward.
The Northern Grain Cos elevator at
Mondovi, Wis, was burned, on the
night of the 21st, together with 10000
bushels of wheat, 1000 bushels of rye
and much oats and barley. Loss esti-
mated at about 100000; partly insured.
The jury at Salt Lake. Utah, in the
case of b. HI. Roberts, on trial for I'M
lawful cohabitation, returned verdict
of guilty Roberts, in an agreed state
ment of facts put before the jury, adj
mitted that he entered into polyga-
nous marriage with Maggie B. Ship
and lived with her and his legal wife.
Sarah Louisa.
Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay, of White Hall,
KY, has purchased from J. II. Yarnell,
of Pinkard, Woodford county, and
decided to his former child-wife, now
Mrs. Riley Brock, a house and three
acres of land adjoining Mrs. Brooks
present home.
Close confinement within the shops
and cells of the penitentiary of Fort
Leavenworth has proved too much for
Oberlin NJ. Carter. former captain of
engineers, United States army, and he
is broken in health and spirit. He
showed signs of giving way complete
ly, and Warden McClaughey has found
it necessary to change his employ
ment.
An international column, consisting
of British, Russian and Japanese
troops, left Taku, on the 22d, for Tien
Tsin. An Italian detachment, COM
manded by an ensign, remained be-
hind to guard the Italian flag, which,
with the flags of the other powers, had
been hoisted over the forts.
Judge L. H. Thompson, of the Yer
mont supreme court, died at his home
at Irasburg, on the 22d, of pneumonia.
He was So years of age, and had been
supreme court judge since 1886.
The Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union opened its annual meet
ing in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the
22d, under the presidency of Mrs. L. NJ.
N. Stevens, of Maine. Lady Henry
Somerset presided at the afternoon ses-
sion.
During labor row at the Ogden Gas
Co.'s plant in Chicago, on the 22d, Gus
contractor, was shot and
seriously wounded by James w. Col
Inns, a negro. Collins, non-union
man, was set upon by strikers, and
began shooting at his assailants.
Ponokomin, who happened to be pass
ing and had no hand in the trouble, re-
ceived bullet intended for one of the
strikers.
Augustus Lowell, A. NJ, died at his
home in Brookline, Mass, on the 22d.
He was a vice-president of the Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Sciences.
President Kruger's sons, who sur
rendered to Gen. Baden-Powell, are
back on their farms, and working
peacefully.
1t was announced, on the 22d, that
the British war Office had bought 40
batteries of Krupp field artillery.
President Kruger's principal condi-
ton for immediate peace is that he be
allowed to stay in the Transvaal.
The meat inspection bill passed the
German bundesrath on the 22d.
Bill Taylor, the leader of the band
of train robbers who held up and
robbed a passenger train on the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe railroad, about
two years ago, has escaped by saving
his way out of the Coleman county
(Tex.) jail, where he was confined.
Taylor had been tried and sentenced
to Is years Imprisonment.
A jackson (Neb.) dispatch of the
22d says that an armed band of 30
men from South Dakota cut a chan
mel through Rininger's Neck, or, as it
is known on the maps, Bruigher's Bend,
in the Missouri river, thus throwing
thousands of acres of Nebraska land
into South Dakota
During a severe thunder storm at
Dillingham;, Wis, on the 22d, lightning