Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-11
OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

through an aperture in the tent di-
rectly over the speakers stand. 1t did
not miss Hanna's head over two
inches. and had it struck him would
have probably fractured his skull
Albert T. Patrick and Charles F.
Jones were arrested in New York, on
the 4th, on charges of having forged
the name of William Marsh Rice to
checks aggregating 100000. Patrick
was arrested in the vaults of the New
York Safe Deposit Co. Jones was ar
rested at No. 500 Madison avenu
An Indictment has been returned,
at Lincoln, Ill, against four men,
charging raud in the award of the
contract for plumbing on the new
building at the Illinois asylum for
feeble-minded children.
it has been decided in Kingston to
make immediate arrangements to en-
able Jamaica to take part in the ex-
position at Buffalo. n. Y.
1t is announced that Melbourne will
be the capital of confederated Aus
tralia.
A Wausau (Wis.) dispatch of the
4th said: THE Wisconsin river is rag
ing as the resul of heavy rains and
has exceeded the food mark of last
spring. The damage so far will reach
thousands of dollars and a little
greater rise, which is expected before
morning, will result in immense loss"
Anton March,, aged ~ years,
dropped dead at the Broadway hotel,
C~entralia, ILL.,, on the 4th. while eat
ing dinner, owing to apopleXy. Mr..
march, was a native of Switzerland.
nd had no relatives in this country.
He was a soldier in the Second ILL
nois artillery.
John E. Glover, OF New Richmond,
Wis, and John A. Humbird. of ST.
Paul, MIMI, have purchased of Fred
*. Weyerhauser, $4,000 acres of stump
age, located along the headwaters of
the Clearwater. The tract contains
1000 900 feet of high grade white
pine, and over 1000, 900, 900 feet of
white and red cedar, fir, etc.
Herr Brinkmann. who was inaugu-
rated as second burgomaster of the
city of Berlin, on the 5th, came out
strongly in his inaugural address in
favor of municipal Ownership of trans
~portation facilities, better dwellings
for the poor and various social re.
forms.
At the Minera Fair. Is miles east of
Canton, o., on the 5th, Sid Scott and
NicOl, owned by C.. 4. Mcmahon, of
Garfield, broke the worlds record for
a pacing team on Il half-mile track,
doing it in 2:13. The former record
was 2:13A.
From its correspondent at Shang-
hal, the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger re-
ceived a dispatch, on the 5th, saying
that Count Won Waldersee had begun
Systematically to clear the country
between Tien Tsin and Pekin of Box
ers.
An accredited representative of an
English syndicate, on the 5th, con-
tracted for 100000 tons of Alabama
coal to be delivered at some point on
the gulf of Mexico, the deliveries to
extend ove a period of two years.
The carnival parade, esteemed by
many to be the most interesting event
of Kansas City's week of festivity,
the largest crowd that ever visited
IndG Guy Oh d SlnlIIdF OCCASION.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg
says: The Russian government as
sents to the proposals in Count Won
Buelow's note of October 1. NJ. De
Giers (the Russian minister at Pekinl
has been instructed IN that sense"
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $l5O,OOO,OOO gold reserve in the
division Of redemption, issued on the
5th, showed: Available cash balance,
S135,45s,979; gold, $S4,s34.951.
The officials of Dawson City, acting
upon instructions from the admins
tration at Ottawa, have decided that
gambling and kindred evils must be
closed down at once
r. g. Dun & Co. reported on the 5th:
Failures for the week were POS in the
United States, against I34 last year,
and % in Canada, against 20 last
year"
The Vermont Legislature assembled
in joint session at Montpelier, on the
4th, and Gov.-Elect W. w. Stickney
was inaugurated.
Buel A. Fuller, a lawyer and a we'll
known Illinois newspaper man, died
at Joliet, ILL.,, on the 5th, aged IS
years.
Willard Fillmore Dryden was shot
through the heart and instantly
killed by Thomas Workman, mis- IA
ther-in-law, at his home in Wheeling,
W. Va, on the 5th. Dryden had been
drinking. and had his wife on her
knees and was choking her to death.
Impelled by a homicidal mania, Mrs.
Lillian Smith. the wife of Walter NJ.
Smith, at their country home, at In
wood-on-the-Hudson, n. Y, shot and
killed their ~siX-year-old son, Andrew,
and three-year-old daughter, Mabel,
wounded a ~12-year-old daughter and
then killed herself.
Cabell Whitehead, assayer of the
mint, and at present acting as expert
special agent of the mint bureau at
Nome City, Alaska, in n report, dated
September 3, to George f. Roberts
director of the mint, a V hat the
Nome beach has been worked out.
The Kansas wheat crop this year is
larger than was ever before grown
in one state in a single year. The
crop will aggregate 5000, 900 bushels
and is worth on the farms not less
than $39, 100000.