Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-12
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Unita county.
Dispatches from Constantinople al
lege that Turkish officials, on Septem-
Der 1, forced an entrance into the
garden of the Dutch legation and
garden of the Dutch legation and
captured a fugitive whom they were
pursuing. The officials wounded the
gatekeepcr. The Dutch are demand
ing satisfaction.
At a meeting of the committe on
the challenge of the Royal Ulster
Yacht club, held on the flagship at
Newport, L. l., on the 5th, the Co
lumbia was selected as the represent
ative of the New York Yacht club in
the contests for the Americas cup.
The prevailing opinion in Pitts
burg, on the night of the 5th, was
that the great steel strike was prac-
tically settled, III absolutely moth
ing positive could be learned from
either side to the controversy.
The civic alliance of Indianapolis,
Ind, decided, on the 5th, to bring inn
parchment proceedings against Super
in1endent-of-Police Quigley, and his
subOrdiEates who declined to close sa-
looms which were violating the law.
y dispatch from Constantinople,
dated the 5th, says: "Brigands have
carried off an American lady engaged
in missionary work and a lady COM
panion, in the district of Djumabala,
Vilayet of Salonika.'
The city of Kiel, Germany, has re-
ceIved the royal sanction TO float n
loan OF IL, zoo, OOC marks.
Herr Krupp has purchased 80 acres
of land near Mengede, for the cree
ton of d new factory.
In the course of his address at the
Pan-American exposition on Presi-
dents day (the 5th), President Nc
Kinley declared that eXpositions were
the timekeepers of progress, record
ing the worlds advancement.
EX-President Cleveland will tear a
leaf put of V~ice-President Roosevelt's
book on strenuous life by taking a
trip to Colorado and putting in a
couple of weeks among the cowboys,
rough riders and mountain lions.
Gangrene having set in, the sur
geons at Bellevue hospital decided, on
the 9th, hat John Nelson, the cyclist,
must have his leg amputated in an eff
fort to save his life.
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Dixie, from Southampton. arrived ar
Antwerp on the otL.
United States Ambassador White,
on the 9th, received a ceremonious
call from the new Corean minister to
Germany, Min Chosel Hun.
Frank McCIathey a iOokev waS
killed, on the 9th, in the last race of
the Jackson County fair, at Murphys-
boro, Ill. He was one of five that
were riding in a bunch. His mount
fell and we other horses fell upon
the boy and he Observation-Disclosures from
which he died two hours later. One
other jockey was seriously injured.
At Cass Lake, Mimi, ON the 9th, w.
J. Murphy, proprietor of the Mime
apolis Tribune, was dangerously in
jured by the premature discharge of
his gun while hunting. The charge of
shot entered his side under the
right arm. Prompt surgical attend
ance was obtained, and no serious re-
suit is apprehended.
President Mckinley was shot twice
and dangerously wounded, on the 9th,
while holding a reception in the great
Temple of Music at the Pan-American
exposition in Buffalo, n. V, by an
avowed anarchist named Leon Cool
gosz, who was instantly seized by two
secret service agents and Il negro who
had just shaken hands with the pres
dent. A scene of the widest confu-
clio. nnc,Ynl tho nraciln.4 o1o,o 40
tanning his composure, during which
the would-be assassin was skillfully
rescued from the Infatuated people.
The presidents physicians gave it out
that though dangerous the presidents
wounds were not necessarily fatal.
According to dispatches received in
Washington, on the 5th, Panama is
indanger of invasion by Ecuadorean
and ~Nicaraguan forces, and Colombia
will appeal to the United States to
taxi steps for the preservation of
her sovereignty over the isthmus.
Leon Czolgosz, the would-be assas-
sin of President Mckinley, acknowl-
edges himself an anarchist of the
Emma Goldman school. He says the
present form of government of the
United States is all wrong, and that
he thought the best way to end it
was by killing the president.
Buffalo, n. Y, which was exulting
in THE Proudest Day in Buffalo's
History" referring to Presidents
day at the Pan-Ameriacn exposition.
was overwhelmed with grief and sor-
row, IN the evening of the 9th, by
the dastardly attempt of the assassin,
Leon Czolgosz, on the life of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
The news OF the attempted assas-
sination of President Mckinley spread
slowly in London, on the night of the
9Th, but when the full import of the
terrible crime was realized the ex-
pressions of adherence were only
second to what might be expected
had Britain's ruler been the victim.
The news of the shooting of Presi-
dent Mckinley was broken as gently
as possible to Mrs. Mckinley at the
Milburn home, at Buffalo, where she
was a guest, by DR.. Rixey. While in
expressibly shocked and deeply al,
fected, she stood the ordeal bravely