Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-07
TOPICS OF Il DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Col. Zach Mulhall, of Mulhall, Okla,
will be appointed governor of Oklaho
ma by President Roosevelt. Col. Null
hall is very popular in the territory
The port of Liverpool, England, ha
been declared infected with buboni
plague, and France and Italy hav'
declared quarantine against all yes
sells hailing from that port.
President Roosevelt and Secretar,
Cortelyou will leave Washington, OIL
the 4th, to vote at home. The presi
dent will vote at Oyster Bay, L. L.
and Secretary Cortelyou at Hemp
stead, l.. /.
When the criminal court at Omaha
Neb., convened, on the 31st, it was dis
covered hat a ton of silver bullion
brought into court as an exhibit in {
understanding Ease, had mysteriously
disappeared. The j~anitor said foul
men, with a dray, carted it away.
The war department has decided tc
send to Manila the Eleventh cavalry
including the four troops now at JEFF.
ferson Barracks, ST. Louis, and the
Twenty-eighth infantry, now in the
states of Idaho and Washington.
Ellis II. Roberts, treasurer of the
United States, in his report of the
transaction of his Office during the
last fiscal year, says that the treasury
was V stronger than at the close
of that period.
Earl Russell and Mollie Somerville
were remarked in London,o ON the 31st.
the earl having served his three
months sentence for bigamy and his
first wife having secured an absolute
divorce, thus leaving the way clear.
Gen. Masso has issued a manifesto
to the country, saying that the un-
avoidable duties of patriotism oblige
him to present himself as a candidate
for the presidency of the Cuban re-
public.
The federal grand jury at Jackson,
Tenn, has returned an indict1ner.f
against Census Enumeration James J..
Gooch, containing SIS counts, each
count charging the putting of a fcti-
tious name on the census returns OF
McNairy county.
The jury, at Helena, Ark. in the
case of Frank Cannon and William
Kelly, tried for the murde- of Isaac
Lane and his wife, last summer, 20
turned a verdict of murder i'll the
first degree, on the 31st, after being
out just four minutes.
The monthly circulation statement
issued on the 1st, by the comptroller
of the currency showed that at the
close of business October 81, 1901, the
total circulation of national bank
notes was 1859, 911, 6S3, an increase for
the year of $2s,21s,27O and for the
month of $1,OS1, 135.
The monthly coinage statement, is
sued on the 1st, of the coinage eX-
ecuted at the mints of the United
States, shows that for the month of
October. 1901, the total coinage was
IS, TBS. SOS, as follows: Gold, $5,75O,O00;
silver, 50, 791,4SS; miner coins, $751;
$50.
1t was announced at the New York
s~ubtreasury, at the close of business
on the 1st, that the total bono pur-
chases by the government for the first
day amounted to $1,272, ITO, par value,
and with premiums, S1,~5S6,SS7.63.
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener,
dated Pretoria, and received in Lon
don, on the 1st, said hat Col. Keke-
witch, during a night surprise of Van
Albert's lager, northeast of Rusten-
burg (about sixty miles west of Pre-
toria), captured rs Beers.
The navy department, IN the list,
ordered the gunboat Marietta to CO.
lon to relieve the gunboat Machias,
which had been watching owe affairs
at that point for some months past.
The transport Fitzpatrick sailed from
San Francisco, on the LIST, for Manila,
with 14O recruits and casuals and a
large number of cabin passengers.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $15O,ooO 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
LIST, showed: Available cash balance,
SITS, 6 55.697; gold, $109, 6,493.
No additional cases of the plague
had been reported in Glasgow up to
the 1st. Two hundred employees of
the Central Station hotel were con-
fined to the hotel precincts for obser-
walton.
Lord Kitchener reports to the Brit
ish war Office n serious engagement
near Bethel, eastern Transvaal, in
which two guns were lost, several Of
fcers killed, including Col. Benson. a
number wounded, and 81 enlisted men
killed and 100 wounded.
The i%mpudent persistence of cam
era fiends is responsible for an order
closing the grounds in the rear of
the White House, in Washington, to
the public, except on each Saturday
during the summer, when the Marine
band gives its concerts.
Ten years ago John White, a re-
tired farmer, aged 20, was sen by his
wife, to the store. at GAINESVILLE, Ill.
for a package of soda. A few days
since he returned, carrying the sod:
Meanwhile ne had been in Texas and
North Dakota, but is reticent as to
the cause of his absence.
Much excitement exists in the
third district of Lake county, Tenn,
on account of whitecaps. Good, sub
stantial negro renters have been
notified to gather their crops as soon
as possible and leave. White men have
also been notified to hasten the har-
vesting of cotton in order that the
negroes may leave.