Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS TENS.
The department of agriculture an
nounces that the three most import
ant estimates of the worlds wheat
crop is larger than that of either of
the two preceding years. The esti-
mates are: Hungarian ministry of
agriculture, 1871, 800, 900 bushels of 60
pounds; Beerbohm's corn list, of Lon
don, ALL, 5000 0 bushels of 60 pounds,
and Bulletin des Halles, of Paris, D.
790,S10,000 Winchester bushels.
On the White Star liner Celtic,
which arrived at New York, on the
18th, was a party of English railroad
men who come over to spend a month
studying American railroad methods
and inspecting systems. They are
George S. Glib, general manager of
the Northwestern railroad; Norman
d. Macdonald, T. NJ. Newell and Will
son Worsdell, directors of the line.
Up to the 18th there had been no
fresh developments in the case of Miss
Ellen M. Stone, the abducted Ameri-
can missionary. Spencer Eddy, secre-
tary of the United States legation in
Constantinople, on the 18th, received
notification from Washington, hat
the funds for ransom had been for
warded.
As a result of the annua mission
airy sermon preached, on the 18th, in
the Gospel tabernacle, New York city,
by DR.. A. B. Simpson, the missionary
fund solicitor, the sum of 100000 was
COLLECTED during the day. This is an
increase of 1000 over the collections
of last year on a similar occasion.
Edwin Longenecker, aged 81 years,
quarterback on the football team of
the Brown preparatory school, of
Philadelphia, died, on the 18th, in a
hospital as a result of injuries re-
ceived in a game a few days before.
Longenecker was heavily thrown and
fractured his spinal column.
The Manila railway authorities have
received word that Gen. MIGUEL NAL
var, the insurgent leader, is believed
to have left the Province of Batangas,
Luzon, and to be planning operations
in the Province of Bulacan, where in
surgent CONSUMPTION has been pre-
dressing recently.
Burglars made an unsuccessful at
ItN1AipC " wv G1Ic u oShIIIc W. Hd-
Itional bank on the night of the 18th.
The inner safe was blown, but the
noise aroused the inhabitants, and
the burglars were forced to flee with
out having secured any booty.
Capt. Pitcher has practically
stamped out insurrection in the ISL
and of Mindcro
Chas. w. Fritz, auditor of Richland
county, Ohio, has placed on the tax
duplicate against w. S. Kerr and M.
NJ. Parker, as executors of h es-
tate of the late Senator John Sher-
man, 1868 1928 on back taxes. The
amount is said to cover bonds on
which no return vas made. Treasurer
Brumfield will likely bring suit to
collect the amount.
A run was started on the Fidelity
Trust Co., of Buffalo, N. Y, a state
banking institution, on the 18th, prin-
cipally, it was said, by small depos-
itors, but all checks were promptly
paid. President George F. Foreman
said hat the company twas never in
a better condition than right now.
We will pay dollar for dollar"
H. c. Henderson, who had been in
the Dallas (Tex.) Jail for a year and
a half, and who claims he assisted in
the kidnapping of Eddie Cudahy at
Omaha, Neb., in December, 1900, was
sent, on the 14th, to the state peni-
tertiary. Henderson was, a year ago,
convicted of swindling, for which he
gets IS years.
Gov.-Gen. Wood, on the 18th, pro-
mulgated the Cuban election law. Sew
eral changes have been made in the
draft that was adopted by the consti-
tutional convention. The presidential
and senatorial electors will assemble
in the capitals of the provinces to
elect the president, vice-president and
senator's.
The result of the French coal mi
ners' referendum on the question of
a general strike was hat 10000 voted
in favor of a general strike and TO-
900 cast their votes against it. About
10000 men did not vote. This proba-
bly, means that there will be no strike.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York. on the 14th, per steam
er Minnehaha, from London, were Sir
Henry Irving, Miss Ellen Terry, Law
renee Irving and the whole of Sir
Henry Irving's company, 6s persons in
all.
A dispatch from Constantinople, on
the 14th, said: Neither Mr.. Baird
nor Nh. Haskell, the missionaries, has
yet been able to get in touch with the
brigands in order to arrange as to the
amount of ransom for Miss Stone.'
The japanese ship Tsuruhiko was,
on the 18th, reported wrecked of
Mejima. Only one person of those on
board survived.
No passengers are now allowed to
sail from Cape ports without military
! permits.