Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-23
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

named johnson. The case attracted
widespread attention as the result of
an order issued by Judge Young pro-
aibiting the publication of testimony.
Ex-Congressman HI. F. Bartine, of
Nevada, who was associate editor of
the Anaconda (Mont.) Standard for
two years. has gon to Washington to
take editorial charge of the Washing
ton Times.
The Cleve & Cliffs Mining Co., of
Ashland, Wis, has purchased the Ash
land mine from the Haynes Bros, the
consideration being S2,500,O00.
Strike riots have occurred in the
cotton mills on the viboy side of the
Neva in Russia. 1t is reported that
many have been killed.
Louis Gallott, a United States pris-
oner in the Ohio p~enitentiary, was re-
leased, by pardon from President Nc
Kinley, on the 10th. Gallott was sent
up from New Orleans for embezzle-
ment.
After a day of intense anxiety, on
the 10th, during which, at n time, it
was reported that Mrs. Mckinley was
dead, a private dispatch was sent out
stating that the patients condition
was unchanged; that while critically
i'll, she was not suffering, but was
very weak.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has been ten
dered the position of volunteer in
spector of streets and alleys in her
precinct o. the Twenty-first ward of
Chicago, and Alderman Honore Pal
mer says he thinks his mother will
accept.
The London Telegraph of the 18th,
commenting on the serious illness of
Mr.. Mckinley, says that 'the most
sincere and most heartfelt sympathy
of the AngIo-SaNon world is with
President Mckinley, who, by the most
tragic irony of fate, is Swallowed by
the approach of the saddest bereave-
ment to which life is exposed at the
very m when he has reached
something like the apotheosis of his
career"
In the police court at Wichita, Kas.,
Miss Jassimine Without, Anna PEBBLES
and Winona Kilgrove, who, in imita-
ton Of their elders, smashed the sa-
loon of Fred Wolf, were found guilty
of the charges and fined 500 each,
EnG Iull GStSuI u Lie law.
Gen. Fitzjohn Porter, who for three
years has been suffering from chronic
diabetes, is very i'll at MOrristown, n.
J., his disease having taken such a
serious turn that it is feared he may
die at any time. The general is SO
years of age.
Hardin W. Johnson, a farmer, near
Mansfield, H., committed suicide, on
the 10th, by cutting his throat, be-
cause of his inability to plant crops
as early as he desired.
1t is estimated that at least 10000
men from outside the state will bt
needed in Kansas to ecure the enor
nous wheat crop. Wages will range
from $3.50 to $3.50 n day and found.
Harvest will begin about June 10.
Three men fatally wounded. hun
dreds of others with broken head,
and cut faces, cars running merely as
arsenals. with no patrons, and the
city under martial rule, was the stu
alton at Albany, n. V, at the close d
the day on The 10th, with no settle
ment in sigh.
Gov. Nash of Ohio was poisoned by
poison oak while participating in the
dedication of a big tree named in hi,
honor at Santa Cruz, Cal. He wa.
partially blinded and is under the
constant care of a physician.
In the superior court at Chicago
on the 10th, Judge Baker, decided
that it is legal for employers II
maintain a blacklist. The ruling wa
in the case OF Annie Condor agains
Libby, Mcneil & Libby, Armour 6
Co., and other stock yards packin:
+ firms.
. At Bemidji, Mimi, the Norwegian
{ national festivities, on the 18th
lot of fireworks in the steamer Sjaa
dow exploded. and put of about thirt,
people on board five small boys ant
several men received perhaps fata
burns, while of those who jumped int
: boys were drowned.
f The strike riots which occurred il
: the cotton mills on the Mibog, or Gin
t nish side of the River Neva, durin:
e which it was reported hat many hat
t been killed, were a result of a strlk
of workmen from four of the teXtil
factories for an increase of wages
The strikers held several noisy meet
ings and threw stones at the window
: of the factories.
Mrs. Gage, wife of Secretary Lyma
: J.. Gage of the treasury department
died at her residence, in Washington
city, on the 18th, at $3.50 P. m.
!. President Nick Young, of the M
tional Baseball league, has ruled tina
the time within which the clubs c
IS that organization shall reduce tn
number of their players to 16 may b
= extended to June Is.
1, Failures for the week ended on tn
ie 18th numbered LIT in the Unite
y States, against 1T last year, and 10 j
.e Canada, against 80 last year..
n The post office at H~oldenvillye, Il
II dian territory, will be raised to tn
ii presidential grade on July L.
't Joseph Busert committed suicide {
Waterloo, Wis, on the nth, by fllin
IN his mouth with powder, compresse
"a in packages, placing a fuse beswee
=, his lips and lighting it. In a momel
his head was blown off.
l. The transport Sheridan arrived
re San Francisco, from Manila, via n
n gasaki, on the 18th, with Genera
IS John T. Bates and Fred ID. Grant,
officers and 1928 enlisted men of Il