Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22

unc0an2eu To-Day.
The North Creek and Blue Noun
tain stage was held up by a lone high
wayman, near North river, Warren
county, N. Y, on the 14th. The horses
were shot, the passengers robbed and
the United States mail looted. The
desperate escaped.
Seven hundred and four exiled per-
sons, many of them being women,
started from Constantinople for
Yemen, Arabia, on the 18th. The
prisoners include those who were inn
plicated in the recent fire at the
harem of the Yildiz palace.
Three additions to the United
States navy were christened and
launched at the shipyards of the
Maryland Steel Co., at Baltimore, on
She 18th. They are torpedo boat de-
stroyers, and will be known as the
Whipple, Truxton and Worden.
A pamphlet was published broad
cast in Manila, on the 18th, contain
ing an attack on the United States
Philippine commission, signed by the
SenITO SdJnOIlCO. All TIC IlSI1oCIS
of hat body Indignantly deny hav-
ing any connection with the publica-
ton.
Favorable crop reports throughout
italy indicate the wheat prospect as
slightly in excess of last seasons
harvest of 1000, 900 hectolitres. For
the first time in several seasons the
olive crop will be good, and the pros
poets for hemp, corn and rice are uni
formly bright.
The Danish government, having de-
termined to return the visit of the
United States training ship Hartford,
the cruiser Valkyrien, in command of
Prince Waldemar, the kings young
est son, will sail for New York in
January, and afterwards visit other
American ports.
The ~fve-year-old daughter of Sam
uel McPrease, of Hanston, Kas., APP
parently died on the 18th. Funeral
services were held on the 18th. On
the way to the graveyard a bolt of
lightning struck h metallic coffin
and opened it, w~hereupon the child
sat up and called for her mother.
There was filed in the Hudson coun-
ty courthouse in Jersey City, n. j., on
the 18th, a mortgage for $3.50, 900, 900,
made by the Consolidated Tobacco
Co.. of America to the Morgan Trust
Co., to secure. an issue of four-per-
cent. bonds not to exceed $3.50, 0O0,-
600, which bore revenue stamps to the
amount of $4,000.
Preliminary steps LAY been taken
looking to the erection of a perma-
nent building by the Republic of Mex
leo on the st. Louis Worlds fair
grounds, in which, after the close of
the exposition an exhibit of the re-
sources of our sister republic may be
maintained. The project has the in
dorsement of Mexican business men
of st. Louis.
Gin court circles" says the Berlin
correspondent of the Fr~ankfurter
Zeitung, sit is said that Emperor Will
lam is little pleased with the new tar
if bill. He regards as the chief task
of Count Won Buelow the duty of Sc
curing a renewal of the commercial
treaties. Count Won Buelow's fate as
chancellor depends upon his success
in that direction"
The official Handelsblad, of Amster-
dam, while incredulous regarding the
story that an attempt is being made
to persuade Mr.. Kruger to sign a doc
ument authorizing priyateering
against Great Britain, on the 18th,
warned the Boer leaders that mo CIV
ilized power would approve of the
adoption by the republics of a medic
val system of warfare like privateer
ing.
Ex-senator Thos. Carter, of Mon
tana, president of the st. Louis Ma
tional Worlds Fair commission,
and ex-Gov. Francis, of Mis-
souri,, chairman of the board
of directors, arrived at Canton,
o., on the 18th, and called on the
president. La response to their earn
est request, the president promised,
in a few days, to issue his proclama-
ton inviting the nations of the world
to participate in the exposition.
One ana tnlrIy cases VI
beer were publicly destroyed, in To-
peka, Kas., on the 14th, by smashing,
through the orders of the board of
health. The liquor had been taken
from joints on official raids, and was
stored in the city prison. The owners
were about to regain possession by
court proceedings, when the chief OF
police had the board of health declare
it a menace to the health of that por-
ton of the city, and order it de-
stroyed.
B. Mollison, inspector of agricul-
ture for the British Indian govern
ment, is in this country Investigating
the methods of the agricultural de-
partment and its work among the
farmers, with a view to applying q
similar system to India He is espe-
cially interested in the cultivation OF
cotton, tobacco and sugar ane Mr..
Mollison, after completing his in
auiries in Washington, will inspect
the agricultural experiment stations
In SONS of the states.