Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-05
OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

mOur has probably saved him, but the
news had not, up to the 9th, reached
Che Foo, the nearest telegraph point.
Persons going into the Kiowah-Co.
manche and Apache Indian reserva-
ton for the purpose of acquiring
mineral lands will be elected as "Soon-
it is formally declared open to settle
ment by presidential proclamation.
Seventy-one millions of silver dol.
lars, coined to represent the last issue
of silver certificates, have just been
transferred from the old mint, in Phil.
adelphia, to the new bullion building
in that city, the vaults of which have
a capacity of 10. 900, 900 silver dollars
General heavy rains were reported
on the 27th, as having fallen in Wiscon.
sin, Minnesota and North and South
Dakota. The rain came at an oppor.
tune time in the last-named states, and
it is believed the wheat crop can o
be saved.
Ex-Gov. Taylor and wife, of Kentuc-
ky, reached indianapolis, Ind, from
the east, on the 27th. Taylor had
shaved off his moustache, and his ap-
pearance was much changed. He
looked i'll.
A severe storm swept over southern
Indiana, on the 27th, and creeks were
swollen and many bridges swept away.
The wheat rOp was almost totally de-
stroyed and other crops were dam
aged.
A spark entered a dust collector in
the factory of the Standard Starch
Co., at Kankakee, ILL.,, on the 27th. and
caused al explosion that injured six
girls employed in the packing depart.
ment and a boy, who was blown from
a second-story window.
Miles Ogle, the celebrated counter.
feiter, died, on the 27th, at Mount
Carmel hospital, Columbus, o., aged &c
years. A wife and several children re-
side at ST. Louis. but they have been
estranged for many years.
The navy department received a ca
blegram from Rear-Admiral Kempff,
on the 27th, at che Foo, saying:
"Pekin force and ministers reported
with Pekin eliefexpedition, intrenched
eight miles from lien Tsin."
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tally, and the house of Ed Billiard, a
farmer, wrecked by a most peculiar
and destructive freak of a storm, two
miles south of Whiting, Ia, on the
27th. Lightning struck the house, and
it wa demolished as if blown up by
dynamite.
A terrific wind storm struck Fender,
Neb., ON the 27th, doing considerable
damage. One large barn was wrecked,
the railroad depot was partially UNI
rcofed and telegraphic wires were
blown down. Several houses were part
ly unroofed. Other towns in the path
of the wind suffered also.
Horace Sedger, a well-known the
atrical manager, and his wife, Ethel,
an actress, were arraigned and remand
ed at the Bow Street Uondon) police
court, on the 2Sth, on the charge of
traudulently obtaining goods by means
of worthless checks.
The New York board of health has
decided to thoroughly disinfect the
Chinese quarters in Manhattan, Brook
lyn and Coney Island, as a measure of
precaution against the plague.
The Colorado state board of health
advises the maintenance of the quaran-
tine against Chinese and japanese on
account of bubonic plague at San
Francisco.
Prof. Ferdinand Won Ritchoffen has
been appointed director of the newly
established Museum of Oceanography
at Berlin.
H. MOUNTAINEERING ntfnn1nhIln n~-
position in Berlin. applications for
space have been so numerous that an
enlargement of the original area was
necessary.
When the British ship Hudson leaves
the port of Philadelphia, for Japan.
within a few days, she will carry am oil
plant, the first ever shipped to that
country.
Queen Victoria will present to the
municipality of Dublin, in memory of
her recent visit, a gold loving cup,
weighing 100 ounces.
A masked robber started through a
Pullman car on the Omaha-Billings
train on the Burlington after leaving
York, Neb., soon after midnight on the
morning of the 2sth. He got two
watches and $40, but became alarmed,
pulled the air brake and left the train
before completing his work.
president of the United States.
The committee which was appointed
some time ago for the purpose of rails
ing a fund for the benefit of Mrs. Guy
V. Henry. the widow of. Gen. Henry,
of the United States army, met in New
York, on the 2Sth, and the treasu;er's
report showed hat there was on land
about S1s,5
". S. Stratton, the Bonanza king,
has donated $4,000 cash toward Sc
curing the location at Colorado
Springs of the national home of the
b. p. o. of Elks, which will soon be
erected at a cost of 100000. A suitable
site and additional cash will be offered
by Colorado Springs citizens.
Oklahoma is shipping several trou-
sand bushels of peaches a day to
northern cities, and the people of the
territory are reveling in the luscious
fruit from six to ten inches in circum-
ference at from so cents to so cents a
bushel. Peaches have been ripe since
June 10.