Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

OF supervisors has revealed the fact
that, between 1894 and 1900, mort
cages to the amount of SO, 200, 900 have
been discovered upon which no tax
has been paid. Settlements are being
effected.
Senator W. b. Eldredge, of Mem
phis, in open session of the Tennessee
senate, Oh the 18th, accused ex-Comp-
troller James a. Harris of an attempt
to bride and precipitated one of the
most sensational scenes ever enacted
IN the halls OF d Tennessee legisid-
ture.
Gen. John C.. Gilmore. colonel in the
adjutant generals department., was
placed on the retired list, on the 18th,
by operation of law on account of
age.
The sixth great oil gusher In the
Beaumont (TeX.) field was Developed
on the 18th, 1t is a fine we'll and fully
as great a producer as any Of the
others. 1t is owned by the Haywood
Oil Co., a Chicago concern.
The administration is Informed,
through official channels, that a
strong movement is setting in among
Cubans to make Tomas Estrada Pal
rna the first president OF the Cuban
republic. The suggestion is eminent
" satisfactory to h United States
government.
DIR. Alexander DOwie, of Chicago.
has retained counsel to contest in the
higher courts of Indiana the Wood
medical law, enacted by the last legis-
lature. The Wood law strikes vigor-
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practice of Oowieism an infraction of
the law.
A crowded house of commons, on
the 18th, heard Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, chancellor of the eXchequer.
till the cost of the war in South Afri-
ca. 1t was stunning in its effect. The
anti-war members declare that every
Boer killed has cost Great Britain
$1,000.
Lucy LITER, 100 years old, died, on
the 18th, at Hicks store, in Harlan
county, Ky, from a stroke of paraly-
sis. Her first marriage was contract
ed when she was 40, her third at 30,
and at 100 she tool a leading part in
one of the Harlan county feuds.
The engagement of Miss Vivian Sar-
toris. granddaughter of Gen. Ulysses
S. Grant, to Archibald Balfour, a bar
rister of London, was announced in
Washington on the 18th. Miss Sar-
ioris, who made her debut in Wash.
ingtcn, three years ago, is now i'll
London.
\ romance of the inaugural ball
and a proposal of marriage made on
board the Congressional limited eX-
press eliminated, on the 18th in the
marriage of Miss Matilda Agan, of
New York city, to former Senator J.
Frank Aldrich. of Chicago.
Jockey Head had a narrow escape
from being killed at Newport, Ky, on
the 10Th. He was riding Clipsetta, in
the second race. and the horse went
down as the field made the first turn.
CIipsetta was in front and the boy
fell right in the path of the fast flying
field. Six horses passed over his
form without leaving a mark on him.
The officials of the French foreign
office say that the French claim
against China for indemnity amounts
to 200, OOG, 900 francs.
| The great chess wen of the year
the sixth international cable match
between America and Great Britain
for the possession of the Newnes
trophy, was begun, on the 10Th, under
the auspices of the Brooklyn and Brit
ish Chess clubs.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
the students of the Great Kaluga SEM
mary, near Moscow, INDUCED in a
| series of excuses which eliminated,
on the 10Th, in shooting at the bishop
| of Kaluga and the rector of the semi
nary, neither of whom vas hit. Fiji
teen students were arrested.
Mrs. NJ. A. Radcliffe was eXonerated
at Denver, Col, on the 10Th, from the
suspicion of having voted illegally at
the city election on April 2. Justice
Haynes, after hearing all the evidence
in the case, dismissed the complaint.
The contamination of the project to
consolidate all the independent cereal
plants of the country is now assured.
The various properties, ten in num-
Der, will be turned over to the Great
Western Cereal Co, at Chicago, on the
25th. The new company will compete
with the American Cereal CO., better
known as the Oatmeal trust"
The list of officers accorded promo
tions and honors for services in South
Africa, prior to November 90, 1900,
when Lord Roberts gave up the COM
mand of the British forces in the
Boer war, fill 16 pages of the Gazette.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances IN the general fund, exclusive
of the S15O,000.O00 gold reserve in the
division OF redemption, issued on the
10th, showed: Available cash balance,
S152, 672, e1s; gold. sos, 6O1 ,95s.
Aguinaldo's manifesto to the peo-
pie of the Philippine islands was is
sued at Manila on the 10Th, in which
he ccunsels all to unite around the
glorious sovereign banner of the
United States, under which they will
gain all the promised liberties which
they have already begun to enjoy.
James H. Ardorn, of one of the
mining companies of Dawson, arrived
at Seattle, Wash, on the 10th, on be
way to England. He said hat the
cleanup this year in the Dawson
camp would, from a conservative es-
innate, amoun to $50, 1000, 900, max
ing it the biggest output in the his
tory of the Klondike.
A new high record for transactions
in securities was established on the
New York stock exchange on the 10Th.
Toko1 racOrlo6 sales Of STOOLS ron ,,p