Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Joseph Schwartz, 4 New York cloak
| maker. SAYS he would rot have cared
/ IL he had not been out of work just al
J present. but he is a little sorry the
! stork came the other night and pre-
! scented him with three new babies,
! just doubling his family at one visit.
| The body of William Galloway, fire
| boss at the Kaska William mine, of
| the Dodson Coal Co. at Pottsville, Pa
WHO was entombed by fall of coal on
/ December IS last, was recovered on
the 18th inst 1t is believed he lived
| but three days.
The situation existing in the Indian
territory is acute. The indians are
unable to secure possession of their
allotments, owing to the resistance OF
the whites. who now hold occupancy
of the lands. Some of the Indians are
in az ugly mood and trouble is antici-
psteG-
Smallpox continues to spread at
Leavenworth, Kas. Six new cases de-
veIoped near Lansing on the 18th. 1t
broke out in two families where chill
dren attended the city central and
high schools, and both schools have
been closed for an indefinite period
The penitentiary is closed to outsid-
erS.
The colossal statue of Daniel Web
ster, presented to the United States by
Mr.. Stilson Hutchins, and erected in
Scott circle, Washington, was I'M
yelled, on the 18th, with appropriate
ceremonies. President Mckinley. the
members of his cvbinet and many
other distinguished persons in public
and private life participated.
The trustees of the Western theo-
logical Summaries of Chicago have
conferred the degree of doctor of sa-
cred theology upon Rt. Rev. Samuel
Edsall, bishop of North Dakota, and
RI. Rev. Arthur L. Williams, bishop
coadiut of Nebraska.
Maj--Cen. Wood, governor of Cuba,
expresses himself as we'll pleased with
the result of his recent visit to the
province of Finar del Rio. Gen. Wood
congratulated Gen. Lee on the mag
nificent showing made by the section
of the island under his administra-
ton.
The palatial suburban home of
Charles II. Harris, the inventor, near
Williamsport, Pa, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire, late on the night of
the 18th, entailing a loss of $4,000.
Senator Wellington, on the 10Th, in
tro6uced a bill in the senate exempt
ing veterans of the war with Spain
from the age disqualification for APP
poiI tment to offices in the army.
Leroy W. Secor, charged with hav-
ing committed an enlightenment of
$4,000 from the Goodrich Transporta-
ton Co., of Milwaukee. was arrested in
New York city on the 10th.
1t is stated on authority that the
new million dollar clearinghouse plant
Of the Cudahy Brothers in Kansas City,
NJ. will be in full operation by the
first of May.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury issued on the 10Th showed:
Available cash balance, S2s6, 14O,7 25;
gold reserve, 1921, SS4 200.
Osman Digna, principal general of
the late Khalifa Abdullah, has been
captured. 1t has been known that he
was in the neighborhood of Tokar,
and several expeditions were organ
ized from Suakim, under Capt. Burgess,
with the result that Osman Digna was
taken, unhurt, in the hills.
Otto Won Schaezler, of Davenport,
Ia-,h as renounced his claim to
baronetcy in Germany and title to the
great fortunes that are attached to it
in order to continue his residence in
this country. he having married an
American girl and become naturalized.
dispatch from Spearman's Camp,
Natal. of the 10Th, says that Lord Dun
dorald, with his cavalry command, on
the 18th, surrounded a detachment of
Beers near Acton Homes, killing 20 of
them and taking Is prisoners; This
move interrupts the Beers communi-
cation with the Orange Free State.
Amos Phillips, the Bates county
(Mo.) farmer who was tried at Fort
Scott, HAS, for completely in the muir
der CT Leopold Edlinger, last Novem-
Der, was convicted, on the 18th, of
murder in the first degree. The jury
was out all night.
The foreign commerce of the United
States in 1899 amounted to over ST.
100000, 900, and of this enormous sum
more than three-fifths was exports
and less than two-fifths imports.