Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


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The ceremony of unwilling, at Kuri~
hama. Japan, on the 14th,, the monu-
ment to commemorate the landing
there of Commodore Perry, July Il,
1853, was performed by Rear-Admiral
Rodgers commanding the United
States visiting squadron
Fire at Enid, Okla, that broke out
early on the morning of the 18th, de-
stroyed four blocks of business houses
Oh the public square, involving a loss
Of $1,000 900. Owing to the continued
drought the buildings burned like SO
much finder.
George Gould has closed his home at
Lakewood, \. u, and, with his wife
and four children. is spending the
time, when not at his office, on the
magnificent yacht Sybarite, cruising
around awaiting a visit from the
stork.
\ number Of the Epworth League
eNcursionists, en- route to San Fran
cisco, were the victims of a gang Of
~pickpockets at Colorado Springs, COL,
who despoiled them of money and
transportation, leaving them strand
ed.
Salt Lake City, Utah, was invaded,
on the 14th, by al army of Epworth
Leaguers and their friends, en- route
to San Francisco. The visitors spent
the day in attending divine services
and viewing points of interest.
Dick Liddell, the former Missouri
bandit and train robber, died at Gin
c%innati, OF the 14th, where he was
racing a string OF horses. Liddell was
an associate of the James and Young
or boys.
Army officers returning from the
Philippines report that Gen. Fred
Funston expects to tender his resig-
nation as brigadier general in the
regular army and engage in private
business.
Gov Sage of Nebraska has paroled
Joseph BARLEY, former state treas
rer convicted of the enlbezzlement
IF nearly bali a. million dollars of
state funds and given a 2O-year sea-
tence.
The emigration from Germany by
~" ~ "Ad IL La
the first six months of this year,
reached 112,96S, as against 1880 foT
the corresponding period last year
Reports from the west, northwest
and southwest, en the 18th, indicate
no let-up in the hot weather and
drought The cor crop will, in some
-~ectIons, be . complete failure.
The first meeting OF the trustees OF
the Carnegie educational fund of $780,
900. 900 was held at Edinburgh, OF the
18th, Lord Elgin presiding A letter
from Mr.. Carnegie was read announc-
ing that he had signed the deed plac-
ing the fund at the disposal of the
trustees.
Several hundred negro exeursionists
from Macon caused a riot at Ameri-
Gus, Ga, on the 18th, which resulted
in the shooting of two police officers
and the instant killing of Ball English,
a Macon negro, the r~ingleader of the
disturbance.
AS the result of a fash of lightning
striking a straw shed on a farm a mile
north of Newcomerstown, O., on b
18th, three persons who had taken
shelter from a prevailing storm were
killed and two others seriously in
iured.
Mrs. Fillmore Fetrow, living OH
Round island, four miles below Ian
sing, Ia, found, ON the 18th, a pearl
weighing 1894 grains of the size and
shape of a chocolate drop.
Five persons-engineer, two brake
men and two tramps-were killed in
a collision of Missouri, Kansas & Tex
as freight trains near Muskogee, t.,
on the 18th.
The annual report of the auditor for
the treasury department shows that
during the last year accounts We're ex-
amined involving an aggregate of S.
s06, 761, 014.
In the Ellis Glenn trial at Parkers-
burg, ". Va, the forgery issue in the
case has almost been lost sight of in
the effort to prove the identity of the
prisoner.
Shamrock III. had her final brush
with Shamrock /. on the 18th. She
will o receive her rig and viii
] start across the big pond in a few
days.
Amob of negroes at CORTLAND, Ala,
on the 18th, hanged Alexander Her
man, a negro charged with killing Sal
lie Swope. Herman made a confess
sion.
At Herrenberg and Wurtemburg,
Germany. the crops have been half
ruined by hail, and they have been
badly damaged in other sections.
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
three buildings o. the Des Moines
county (Ia.l poor farm, on the 18th.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
There was an enormous cIoud-burst
1t Potsdam, Germany. on the 18th. Two
men and many cattle were killed in
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