Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The fifth international Epworth
League convention closed at San
Francisco, on the night of the 21st,
with rousing meetings in the Mechan-
les pavilion, the ALEXANDRIA theater,
the Metropolitan temple and the First
Presbyterian church. The day had
been filed with meetings all over the
city characterized by great religious
enthusiasm.
The yacht Venetzia, which capsized
and sank, in Long Island sound, on
the 18th, has been raised and the
bodies of the Misses Ada Elizabeth
and Annette Colburn, who were
drowned, with their father and two
of the crew, found in the cabin. The
other bodies were, at last accounts,
still missing.
A carriage was struck by the Mon
treal express, on the Boston & Maine
railroad, Mt Lebanon, n. H., on the
morning of the 21st, and James Good
win, of Hinsdale, Mass; William
Thurston, of Percy, N. H.; Thomas
Burns, of Winoski, VT, and Eddie Nc
Cabe, of Lebanon, were instantly
killed.
Director-General Buchanan of the
Pan-American exposition at Buffalo
says hat under no circumstances will
he consent to become officially ON
nected with the st. Louis Worlds fair.
Mr.. Buchanan is visiting at ST. Louis,
and is enthusiastic over the prospects
for the fair III 1908.
1t is freely predicted that when the
drawings For the $4,000 claims in the
have been accomplished a serious on
dition will develop among the disap-
pointed ones, who will be largely in
the majority,
Reports from many points in the
central west, ON the 21st, indicated
that mountaineering temperatures
prevailed everywhere, varying from
100 to ITO degrees. The intense heat
was productive of nauc suffering.
The district court at Fort Scott,
Kas., as the result of evidence secured
by several ministers and church MEM
bers, has ordered all the saloons i'm
the town closed, and the order has
been obeyed.
The Ellis Glenn mystery promises to
be solved soon, by the production in
court, al Parkersburg, W. Va, of the
real Gilbert Glenn.
Secretary Root has returned to
Washington from his tour of inspec-
ton of army posts in the middle
west
As the result of conferences be-
tween Adj't.-Gen. Corbin and Gen..
Chaffee, at Manila, numerous reforms
i'm military administration, in the line
of economy, have been agreed upon,
which will be put into operation as
rapidly as circumstances will admit.
The draying business of San Fran
cisco was brought to a practical
~standstill, on the 22d, by the strike
of nearly a thousand teamsters. There
is a congestion of freight on the
docks, which is being continually add
ed to by incoming steamers.
Signor Crispi, the Italian statesman,
was reported, on the 22d, as in a
state of exhaustion, at Naples. The
members of his family and some of
his more intimate friends were sum-
moned, as it was feared the end was
not far off,
A Berlin dispatch of the 22d reports
continued heat, with many violent
thunderstorms. Berlin had a cloud
burst, on the 22d, with hail and a
whirlwind. Great damage had been
to crops In the valley of the Fulda by
hail.
William Brooks, a negro, shot and
mortally wounded Chief-of-Police Lii
ly of Elkins, W.. Va, while resisting
arrest on the 22d, and a mob took
Brooks from the sherif's posse and
hanged him to a tree in the city park.
Application has been made by BUSH
ness men of Kansas City to have the
headquarters of the department of
the Missouri removed from Omaha to
Kansas City. The matter is under adj
visement at the war department.
The transport Mcclellan. carrying
! the members of the congressional del
| egation, who are going to examine in
to the general administration Of af-
| fairs in the Philippines, arrived at
| Gibraltar ON the ed.
The cruiser San Francisco, which
| has been undergoing repairs at the
| Norfolk navy yard, viii be placed in
| commission October i, and will proba-
/ bly, be assigned to the South Atlantic
| squadron as flagship.
Officials of the department of jus
/ tice were in conference with Secre-
tary of War Root, on the 22d, in re-
gard to the preparations for the pros
ecution of Nicely, at Havana, for the
Cuban postal frauds.
The treasury employees, at Wash
ington, who place the seals and num-
bers on notes OF the United States, on
the 22d, reached the number 100,0 o0,-
600 on the 81 silver certificates, series
' of 1899.