Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-03-21
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


With King Edwards special permits
sion a deputation of the Royal Mum
ster fusiliers, including Gen. Laurie
and Col. Johnston, visited the mauso-
leum at Frogmore, on the 18th, and
laid a beautiful Celtic cross of sham
rocks and lilies upon the tomb of
Queen Victoria in memory of St. Pat
rick and of Queen Victoria's command
a year ago to the Irish soldiers to
wear shamrock.
Fire in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th,
destroyed the felt factory of the Hi
ram w. French Co., in which it origi-
mated; the main building of the expo
sition, two extensive lumber yards
and three small dwellings. One fire.
man was killed and three badly in
jured by a live wire coming in con-
tact with the nozzle of the hose. The
property loss is estimated at $250,000;
well insured.
There is much talk in Mexico about
President Diaz going to EI Paso. TEX,
in order to meet President Mckinley
when the latter makes his trip to the
Pacific coast, but there seems to be
some doubt as to which government
should take the initiative. Each pres
ident has a high regard for the other,
and a meeting between them would be
the first event of the kind.
All that was mortal of Benjamin
Harrison, Christian, soldier and states
man, former president of the United
States, was laid to rest in Crown Hill
cemetery, near indianapolis, Ind, on
the 18th. The o~bsequies were attended
by President Mckinley, Gov. Durbin
of Indiana, the members of Mr.. Har-
rison's cabinet and fully fifteen thou
sand of his fellow citizens.
The prohibitionists of Denver, Col,
have nominated a ticket composed en-
tirely of women for the city offices
to be filed at the election on April =
next. Their candidate for mayor is
Mrs. A. A. Hawley, president of the
State Women's Christian Temperance
union.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg, author and
preacher, whose fame rested on his
books for boys and his composition
"Spartacus to the Gladiators," which
nearly every school boy has learned
at some time, died in Harpswell, Me-.
Oh the 18th, in his eighty-eighth year.
Harvard and Yale, American, have
challenged Oxford and Cambridge,
English, for a regular set of track
games, t. be held in New York during
the early part of next July.
NJ Taui De Roulede has t~e1"Sraphed
a friend il. Paris that the econds of
NJ. Andre Buffet told Ills v seconds
that NJ. Buffet had resC lved, in view
oil his Christian principles, to allow NJ.
De Roulede to fire in the proposed
duel without his on BuiTct) return
ing the fire. 1t would therefore. have
been cowarGicc on the part of NJ Ron
lede to insist upon CARRYING on the
duel.
In accordance with President Me-
Kinley's accent order that the treas
urer of Cuba should be 4 citizen of
that island, Gen. Weed. ON h 18th,
cabied tc Il e war department. that he
had appointed Charles IoIos as treas
urer of Cnra Secretary Root CON
hrn1e:! he appointment
y colony of 100 negroes left Knox
vile, Tenn. on h 18th, for Hawaii,
under a ~three-year contract TO the
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co.
The party was raised by ). &. Naples.
an intelligent negro, who goes with
the colonists, many of whom com
PRISE whole families.
The Chase, Robson, Merchants,
American Linen, and Metaeomet coz
ton mills at Fall River, Mass, operat-
ing 250,0O6 :'pindles, were stopped, on
the 18th, in pursuance of an agree
ment to curtail production. Many
other mills are expected IL Close down
shortly.
H. III. Drake, n bachelor farmer. was
found dead in his house five miles
rcrth of Rose Hill la, OF. the 18TH,
| with five bullets in his body. Drain
was wealthy and was t,:ovn to nave
cash abou: the place. lie had been
dead tEree days or more when found.
The first carload d exhibits from
southern California for the ~Pan-Amcr-
| lean exposition at Buffalo, y. y, left
l 1OS HllSCleS, On IllC 10Th. Int SSsi
included a typical select n of Calif,r-
MIA products. Another car vas to fol-
low in d few days.
The United States supreme court,
on tie 18th. restored t the docket for
re-argument the ease of the Carnegie
Stcl Co. VS.. the Cambria Iron Co,
The case involves the patent process
OF Stctl making and vas argued in
January.
On the 18th ex-President Cleveland
spent his sixtv-four+h birthda :, ut his
home in Princeton, n. J., with Mrs
Cleveland and their children. lie en-.
ter1ained no callers. Mlny congratu.
: latory kilograms were received.