Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-31

Earthquake shocks were felt at st.
Thomas, d. w. l., and throughout the
island of Porto Rico on the ed. The
shocks were the severest felt in many
years, but no loss of life OF damage
to property is reported.
The board of directors of the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo, n. "
on the 22d. adopted the following:
Resolved, That Saturday, November
2, at midnight, be fixed as the time
of the final closing of the exposition"
The London Daily News says il
hears from a quarter usually we'll
informed that the government con.
templates a general election in 1902
and that the conservative election
agents have received instructions to
be prepared for eventualities.
sit is reported from Sofia." says the
Vienna correspondent of the London
Daily Mail, that United States Con
sul-General Dickinson has received in
telligence from shepherds that Miss
Stone was seen at Jakoouda, on Turk
ish territory about two hours jour-
ney from the Bulgarian frontier.
Victor O'Brien, a graduate student
of the University of Chicago and a
son of f. w. O'Brien, a leading law.
yer in San Francisco, was placed in
the detention hospital in Chicago, on
the 22d, apparently suffering from
acute mania. Young O'Brien is said
to have become insane over a love at
fair.
The torpedo boat Thornton, built
bv the William r. Trigg Co., of Rich.
mond, Va, made another run, on the
22d, to complete her official speed trial.
tut the result was unsatisfactory. The
Thornton ran along very smoothly
but failed to develop the necessary
20 knots an hour for two consecutive
hours.
DIR. Cameron Mann, pastor of Grac,
church, Kansas City, on the Esd, de-
cided to accept the call to the bishop
ric of North Dakota, rendered him by
the national convention of the Epis-
copal church, at San Francisco. Octo-
Der Is. DR.. Mann will request that
the ceremony consecrating him a
bishop take place in Kansas City.
Booker T. Washington, while at.
tending the Yale b~icentennial celebra-
ton at New Haven, Conn.,, was a
guest of Morris F. Tyler, treasurer of
the university. at a dinner at Mr.. Ty-
ler's residence. Former Postmaster
General Bissell also accepted an in
~vitation to dine with Mr.. Tyler hat
evening and met Mr.. Washington.
Former Gov. Jas. S. Hogg, of Texas.
and Jas. w. Swayne, are in New York
city to interest capital in the forma-
tion of a big combination of all the
independent oil producers of the
Beaumont field who have not the
means of handling the oil as individ-
ual concerns. The capitalization of
those independent companies approx
innate $780, 0O, 900.
The Prussian cabinet has resolved
to investigate, through the various
provincial governors regarding the
number of persons out of employ
ment. the causes of recent industrial
embarrassment, and measures neces-
sary to improve conditions. The gov
eminent of Baden had taken the lead
in such Investigations, followed by
the Bavarian government.
A siX-inch plate from the Bethle-
hem iron works, representing group
No. / of the armor plate for the new
battleship Ohio, was tested at the In
dian Head proving grounds, on the
9th, under the auspices of the navy
bureau of ordnance. The test was
most satisfactory. AS a result 400
tons of Kruppized armor will be ac-
cepted by the government.
The comptroller of the currency has
appointed Elmer Eames, of Norton.
Kas., and James T. Bradley, of Sedan,
Kas., as bank examiners for the State
of Kansas, vice Charles S. Jobes, who
recently resigned to become president
of the American National Bank of
Kansas City, Mo. The plan to divide
the territory covered by Mr.. Jobes
had been in contemplation some time.
In the menagerie of Frank c. Bos-
took, the wild animal trainer, who
has the concession for a wild animal
show at the Pan-American expositlo
and who is an applicant for the sam,
concession at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition, three little lion ubs were
born several weeks ago. One of them
is named David r.. Francis, another
Thomas Jefferson and the third
Louisiana Purchase.
A special dispatch from Rome says
that the official report on the inquiry
into the administration of Naples and
the southern provinces of Italy, sets
forth that the Camorra secret society
now permeates all branches of public
life, and that no business, political or
otherwise, is possible without the in
reference of the Camorra agents
The names of many persons well
known in Naples are involved.
The missionaries who are operating
from Samakov, Bulgaria, are at last
in touch with the brigands who alb
Quoted Miss Ellen NJ. Stone and her
companion, Mime. K. S. Tsilka, &C
cording to dispatches received in Con-
stantinople, on the oath, though
whether negotiations for the ransom
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