Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

William r. Denton, a soldier of the
Black Hawk Indian war, aged 1O1, died
at Madison, Ind, on the 23d.
With all the pomp and circumstance
of medieval times, Edward VII. WIS
proclaimed king of Great Britain and
Ireland and emperor of India at three
different points in London, on the
oath, beginning at the Friary court,
st. James palace and closing at the
Royal Exchange, within the old city.
Considerable excitement prevails
among the people who live along the
eastern line of Lincoln county, Okla,
adjoining the Creek nation, on ac-
count of the reported outbreak
among the Snake band of the Creek
Indians.
Andrew Carnegie, on the cath, au-
thorized Mayor McGuire of Syracuse,
n. Y, to draw on him for $780, 900, in
installments of $4,000. as needed, for
the construction of a library building
at Syracuse, upon a site already Sc
cured.
Nikola Tesla has at last perfected
his new system of electric lighting
daylight illumination it may be called
and he hopes to have it soon intro
duced into general use. Under a full
mead of electricity, the lamp has the
color of ice in the sun, and the light
is absolutely steady.
Since the fire in Montreal, Can, on
the night OF the 23d, two men, one
named Rosen, a tailor, and another
it is feared they persisted in the
named Wilson, have been missing, and
flames.
Strong efforts are making to induce
Speaker Henderson TO fix an early
date for the consideration of the
Brosius pure food bill. The measure
has attracted widespread Interest
among grocers, druggists, etc. 1t
aims to prevent aduIteration of food
and drugs.
It is semi-officially announced that
1877, O00, 900 marks is the estimated
amount required for the German
expedition in China during the fiscal
year of 1901.
Emperor William has confirmed the
honorary doctorate recently con-
ferred upon United States Ambassa-
dor White by the Berlin Academy of
Science.
Michael Delaney, a ranch owner hv-
ing ear Butte, Mont, reported to the
Chicago police, on the 25th, that he
had been fieeced of a certified check
for $4,000 by a sharper who represent
ed himself as a Chicago mining
broker, and induced Delaney to give
him the check to be cashed at a bank.
Charles a. Smith, a wealthy Mime !
apolis, Mimi, man, has given Bethany
college, a Swedish Lutheran institu-
ton at Lindsberg, Kas., $4,000, 900 feet
of standing pine, worth than
twenty-five thousand dollars. No con-
ditions are attached to the gift.
From the Prussian diet budget it ap-
pears hat Emperor William now
own S3estates in Prussia, aggregating
9s, 74O hectares, and yielding 651,631
marks net. Next in order in Prussia |
is the prince of Pless, with SLIP hec-
tares.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $3.50. 600, 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
25th, showed: Available cash balance, |
S13s, 404.ss4; gold, S72,229,511.
John 81. Gordon, charged with burn
ing his wife to death at Woodbury., |
Tenn, cut his own throat to escape
Officers pursuing the alleged
murderer found his body in Warren
county, neal Lucky, soon after death
had resulted.
Ben LevineSa farmer of Dickson
county, Tenn, was held up by two |
masked women, one white and the
other a 1nulatto, and robbed of So, |
which was all he had. The women
were heavily armed.
Lieut.. Richmond Pearson Hobson
left the Presbyterian hospital, in New |
York, on the 26th. where he has been
for several weeks i'll from typhoid fe-
yer. He is still weak, but is expected
to recuperate rapidly now.
At the Old Bailey, in London, on
the 25th, Julian T. B. Arnold, son of
Sir Edwin Arnold, who was ordered
extradited from San Francisco in DC
tober last, charged with misappropri-
ating trust funds, was sentenced to
ten years penal servitude.