Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The Improvement in Mrs. Mckln-
Iey's condition enables the president
to spend more time in his office. On
the 18th he saw quite a number OF
people.
NJ. De Aspire. Mexican ambassador,
and Jose Godoy, arrived at Buffalo,
N. Y, on the 18th, from Washing
ton. The Mexican building was dedi-
Gated on the 14th.
President Loubet of France re-
ceived Mr.. Henderson, speaker of the
United States house of representa-
tives, and Representative Gillet on
the 18th.
Sir Claude MacDould, British min
lister to Japan, arrived at San Francis
co. on the 18th, On the steamer Hong
Kong Maru, en- route to London.
John W. Booge. a prominent citi-
zen of Pocahontas county, Ia, said
to be worth $4,000, was convicted in
the United States court at Fort
Dodge, on the 18th, of fraudulently
receiving pension money under the
name OF john NJ. Brown.
Multi-Millionaire Henry NJ. Flagler
has made application, under the new
dINOICC Id" Vi IIO1Iuds IOI OAfOlSS
from his insane wife, who is in a san
itarium in Westchester county, n. Y.
After July 1 all clergymen east Of
the Mississippi river and west of
Pittsburgh and Buffalo must pay 25
cents for permits to buy railroad
tickets at half fare. This was agreed
upon by general passenger agents of
all roads in the territory named, at
a meeting in Chicago.
Charles b. Wilson, of Kansas City,
Mo-. was placed under $4,000 bonds
at Galesburg, Ill, charged with at
tempting to swindle Pleasant Marks,
a Knox county farmer, out of $4,000
on a fake lard game. The officers are
searching for his companion.
The Cuban constitutional conven
ton, having accepted the Plat
amendment, will now proceed to for
mulate an election law and prepare
for the election of an independent
government.
DIR. San Yet Sen, the Chinese re
former. left Honolulu, June 5, for
China, fer the purpose of starting a
revolution. His intention is to over
throw the empress dowager and the
mandarins. His idea is to have China
ruled by a government on the Amer
lear plan.
Secretary of the Treasury Gage, IN
the 18th, accepted the United States
mint which has just been completed
at Philadelphia, at 4 cost of more
than two million dollars. and which is
said to be the finest andbest equipped
building of its kind in the world.
Mrs. Lynn III. Pullman has begun
suit in the circuit court, at Chicago,
for divorce from George NJ. Pullman,
alleging that he is anything but a
saint, and that he has added deser-
ton to the list of undesirable things
he has done.
On instructions from Washington.
District AttorneySullivanhas brought
suit against Lieut.. f. d. Chase, OF
Sandusky, o., who is charged with
converting to his use government sup
plies to the amount of $1,000 while
serving with the Sixth Ohio in the
war with Spain.
Heat and humidity caused seven
in Chicago, on the 18th, as
follows: Patrick Buckley, John Carl
Son, Thomas Curla, Otto Hecker.
Fritz Stabler, W. White, Mrs. j. Wolo-
coski.
The Pennsylvania limited, ease
bound, was wrecked near Rochester.
Pa, on the 14th, by a rear-end COLI
sion with a freight train. Mrs. Amos
of Dubuque, Ia, was the
only person hurt. She was slightly
cut and bruised by being thrown
against a mirror.
r. G. Dun & Co. reported on h
18th: Failures for the week num-
bered 179 in rhe United States, against
l62 last year., and % in Canada.
against 81 last year"
By courtesy of the navy department.
yacht Independence was placed in
the drydock at the Boston navy yard.
the 18th, to have her rudder
changed and her hull cleaned.
The wooden side-wheeler North
field, which had been in the service
Of the Staten Island Ferry Co. for the
past SO years, was rammed, on thel
of the 14th, in North river, by
the stee1-hulled propeller Mauch
Chunk, used as a ferry boat by the
Central Railroad of New Jersey. In 20
the Mortified, which was
with hundreds of passengers.
to the bottom. The loss of life
was variously estimated, the highest
figure being 100, but latest reports
said that only one person was miss
ing.
An obscure official of the Russian
ministry of the interior, was attack
I'd, but not injured, in ST. Petersburg,
On the 18th, by a man who was not
identified. The incident gave rise to
\ report that a nihilist outrage had
been committed.
The Cleveland CO., Punch and Shear
Co., on the 14th, commenced injunc-
ton proceedings against their strik-
ing machinists, asking hat the men
be restrained from picketing the
works of the company.
The Mineral Springs hotel, at West
Baden, Ind, was burned, early on the
morning of the 18th, involving a loss
Of a quarter Of a million dollars ex-
of the losses sustained by
guests, Who were all rescued minus
everything except their night clothes.
The United States transport Ingalls,
over in the floating dry dock in
the Erie basin, New York, on the
l4th, where she was awaiting repairs.
One life was lost and twenty-five or