Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-05
OF 4 DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

is being Swallowed by the police.
Louis Granotti, an accomplice of Bres-
CT, the assassin of King Humbert, was
recently sentenced to life imprlson-
ment
Authoritative reports have been re-
ceived in Washington, showing that
the various arsenals in China are
working overtime to turn out arms,
field and great guns and mmunltlon
for the use IF Chinese troops. In addl-
ton China is importing large quanti-
ties of arms and munitions of val.
George NJ. Pullman, Jr., son of the
late millionaire car builder, died at
his country home in San Mateo, Cal,
on the 2sth, aged 26 years. He had
been ill several weeks with pneumo-
MO. He was married, about two
months ago, to Mrs. Sarah Brazell,
one of the three beautiful West SIS
tiers.
DR.. William Rainey Harper, presi-
dent of the University of Chicago, has
accepted the offer to become director
of universal educational congresses IN
CONNIE ction with the Louisiana Pur-
chase centennial exposition at st.
Louis in 1903.
Fire which started in the plant Of
W. E. Uptegrove & Bros, box manu-
facturers, in New York, on the night
of the 26th, was not brought under
control until property valued at ST.
coo, 900 had been destroyed.
It transpires that the purchaser #
the historic Battle Abbey, in England,
recently sold at auction for $1,Ooo,Oo' },
is Sir Augustus Frederick Webster,
bart, a descendant of Sir thomas
Webster, whose family formerly held
the property for $50 years.
Having received official notice from
the Turkish minister at Washington
that the 2Sth was the anniversary OF
the birth of the sultan, President
Roosevelt sent hat monarch a per-
sonal telegram of congratulations.
The works of the National Enamel
ing and Stamping Co., in Brooklyn
we're entirely destroyed by fire on the
2Sth, and George Koch, a Waterman
was burned to death. The loss VII
be more than 100000.
Paul D~eschanel, former councillor
of the French embassy at Washing
ton. where he married a daughter Of
Gen. George B. Mcclellan, has beer
appointed French ministed 20 1ayti
William Franklin Willoughby, the
newly-appointed treasurer of tn
island of Porto Rico, succeeding ia
cob Hollander, resigned, arrived a
San Juan on the goth.
The estimates for Germanys ex
penditure in China for the year 100:
are 50. 500. 900 marks, as against 123,
SOC. 900 marks expended in China IL
1901. The pensions for widows ant
orphans, resulting from the China eX
petition, amount to 491 900 marks an
nually.
William Hemmings, aged nine, lv
ing near Williamsburg, Neb., shot ant
killed his eight-year-old brother, o
the 29th, while playing with an oil
revolver. The ball passed througI
the base of the child's skull, and h
lived but a few minutes.
J. w. McRae, president of the Ca
madam Railway Accident 1nsuranc
Co.. and vice-president of a numbe
of companies, accidentally shot an
killed himself in his Office at Ottar'a
Ont. on the goth, while engaged /
cleaning his revolver.
The statement of the treasury ba
ances in the general fund, eXciusiV
of the $3.50, 00O, 900 gold reserve in tn
division of redemption, issued on tn
goth, showed: Available cash balanc
S16T, S41, 164. Gold, $106,679,340.
On the Goth r. G.. Dun & Co. Tt
ported: Failures for the week nun
E bered 1s2 in the United States, again'
17s last year, and 25 in Canad
against 81 last year
e The duke of Teck was throw
t from his horse, on the Goth, while q
= hunting near Nantwich, England, su
c tanning a conclusion of the brain al
o an injury to his hip.
3 Private Albert Francis, Fourth ca
airy. was killed at Fort Leavenwort
Kas., on the goth, by his horse fallir
: on him. His home is in IndianapoE
Il He was 20 years old and enlisted tv
- years ago.
+ Barney Conway, who claimed to
- LOG years old, died at his home ne
= New Albany, Ind, on the 29th.
!. cast his first vote for Gen. Jacksonf
"A president.
President Roosevelt, on the 30
sent a large floral tribute to be Is
n on the grave of Joseph Armlste
;. Carr, late lieutenant of Troop ID,
the rough riders, whose remain we
an inferred at Arlington.
As Peter Fallo, an e~ight-year-old neN
It bow from Brooklyn, owes his life a
he the use of his limbs to the generos
of Miss Helen Miller Gould, who
ip expended a large sum of money
have him cured of ~infantile paraly'
Theodore Duddleston, confident
he clerk at the National Stock va
III bank, East st. Louis, H., has c
ir. fessed to C. G.. Knox, president of
I'm bank. that his books showed a she
&C. age of between $1,000 and S12,t
he The money, he said. was lost IN spe
tor lating. Acquaintance say he II
ng beyond his income.
ng S. C. Smiley, one of the best-kno
Gu republican leaders in St. Clair couI
ne Ill. and an ex-representative, SUITE
I'M a stroke of paralysis, on the goth,
. at last accounts was in d serious c
inc ditiou at his home in 0'Fallon.