Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Inc drawing or winning. NUMBERS
In the United States land lottery at
Ell Reno, Okla, "a concluded on the
1st, 1900 envelopes having been taken
from the wheels, $50 for each dis
trict. The distribution of claims will
now be begun.
The Southern Cotton Oil Co., on the
LIST, filed papers at Trenton, N. J., in
creasing its capital stock from $780,
900 to S11, 900, 900.
The brutal murder of Nh. and Mrs.
r. T. Taliferro, in Carroll county,
Miss, on the night of July 30, led to
the l%ynching, at Carrollton, on the
night of the 1st, of Betsie McCray,
her son, Belfield McCray, and daugh-
ter, Ida McCray, all negroes, by a mob
of 500 Carroll county citizens.
Ex-CongressmaD John Davis died at
Topeka, kas., on the 1st. John Davis
was born in Sangamon county, ILL.,,
August 9, 1926; was educated at the
Springfield, ILL.,, academy and the Il
linois college, at Jacksonville. He had
been a resident of Kansas since 1872.
The Maryland democratic state con-
vention, which met at Baltimore, on
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the party, if successful in the COM
ing election, is to eliminate the negro
from politics in Maryland, if such a
thing be possible under the constitu,
ton of the state.
Reports to r. G.. Dun & Co. show
commercial failures in the United
States, during July,697, with an aggre-
gate Indebtedness of S7,035,93S. Com
pared with the same month last year,
there appears most gratifying i'm
provement, as failures were then 793
in number and 5 .771,775 in amount.
The British house of lords, on the
1st. unanimously ipdorsed the appro-
priation of 100000 for Lord Roberts,
recommended by King Edward as a
token of the nations appreciation of
the field marshal's services in South
Africa.
Following a week of comparatively
cool weather a hot wind began blow
ing from the south in the vicinity of
Huron, S. D., on the 1st, sending the
temperature to los, curling corn
blades and compelling harvest work in
many fields to cease. For hours the
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were compelled to keep in doors.
The Chicago & Northwestern rail-
way is trying the use of oil as a dust
preventive, and, if successful, will
adopt it on its entire system. Five
miles of double track were selected
for the experiment, 1000 gallons of
| crude oil being used to the mile.
| Pictures taken before and after using
show a great improvement, the oil
seeming to do away with h dust
King Edward has accepted the res
ignation by Maj. Karrie Davis, as
companion of the bath, that officer
having expressed the wish that he
might be permitted to serve his
majesty without any reward Maj.
Davis received the decoration for con
spicuous services in South Africa, es-
pecially in connection with the relief
of Mafeking.
Thomas Malley, an old time ac5or,
who for years played in Uncle Toms
Cabin" was, on the I'd, committed to
the Rochester (Minn.) insane asylum.
Malley had seen so much of Uncle
Tom hat it affected his brain, and
he imagines that Simon Lagree is con-
stantly pursuing him with blood
hounds.
Walter S. Harrington, of South
Bend, Ind, manager of the st. Louis
branch of the Oliver Chilled Plow
works, died in South Bend, on the
1st, of injuries received in stepping off
a moving street car in st. Louis.
The senate of Bremen, on the I'd,
voted to confer the freedom of the
city upon Count Won Waldersee on his
return from China.
Hugh Mcclellan, Dominion minister
of agriculture, estimates the yield of
wheat in Manitoba and the North
west territory for this year at from
6fty-fve to sixty million bushels.
AS reported by r. G. Dun & Co., on
number, against 1893 last year, and
$7,035,933 in amount of liabilities,
against $9,771, us in 1900.
Each of the 25 delegates of the
chamber of commerce of New York to
the recent London dinner contributed
1000 to the Victoria memorial fund.
Wheat is lying on the ground in
parts of Kansas in danger of being
damaged by rain, the railroads being
again short of cars.
George H. Phillips has not abdicat-
ed as corn king. He has patched up
his tottering throne and expects
again to WELD bis scepter over the
yellow cereal, which he believes may
sell as high as a dollar a bushel.
William Maher, aged 20 years, has
been stung to death by mosquitoes in
a dense swamp near his home at Nan
ticoke, Nd. Swarms of the insects
settled upon him, literally incasing his
face and hands. The aged man was
soon rendered unconscious by theil
stings and was found in a dying con
dition.
According TO reports received by
the Indian bureau, the Indians
throughout the country were neveI
more peaceable than now. There ars
about 100000 of them. The Indians
have not INDUCED in any ghost dance:
of late, nor have n of the tribe:
wandered off their reservations.
Robert Hilton, a life prisoner in the
Kentucky penitentiary, sent from
Warren county for murder, made his
escape on the night of the 1st. Hill
ton, while confined in the prison
wrote a novel entitled ''Ten Years q
Convict" published this year, from
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