Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-03-28
TOPICS OF TIE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Traction Co. was destroyed by fire, on
the night OF the 21st, together with
So street cars. Total loss, 9 0,000; Jul
ly covered by insurance.
There have been 1921 enlistments in
the regular army since the enactment
of the army reorganization law.
By a vote of ~ to 80 the Minnesota
house, on the 21st. passed the senate
bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale
or giving away of cigarettes in this
state.
Two persons were killed and two
others seriously injured in d mine eX-
plosion in Mercia, Spain, on the 21st.
The explosion was followed by a land
slide.
The ST. Louis Worlds fair bill
passed the Arizona Legislature on the
21st, and was signed by the governor.
AS amended it carries an appropria-
ton OF $4,000, to be raised by an is
after ten years.
DR.. III. F. Gray, of Los Angeles, Cal,
has purchased five million acres OF
agricultural lands in Mexico and has
obtained a concession from the MeXi-
can government for the establish
ment of a number of Mormon colo
MES thereon.
Col. Schuyler of the Forty-sixth
regiment has broken up a pirates
rendezvous at Ternate. capturing
eight officers, IS men and 80 irrecon-
cilables, who control many rifles. An
officer and % men belonging to the
fOroo Of Gov TrIaE c,,-ra-Jo,nl ~
San Francisco de Malabon.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is confined to his
room, at Omaha, Neb., with a severe
attack of grip. y dinner which was
to have been given in his honor at
the Omaha club, on the night of the
23d, and at which the governors of
several states were to have been pres
ent, has been postponed till the 3Oth.
The battleship Kentucky, which re-
Gently arrived at Cavite from the
United States, has been assigned by
the navy department to be the flag
ship of Rear Admiral Kempff, in place
of the Newark, which has been or
dered home to be repaired.
Gen. Harrison had four life poll
cies of $4,000 each in force when he
died. The appraisement of the Har-
rison estate gives its total value at
S3SO,OOO. This includes all real es-
tate, bonds, stock in the Union Trust
Co., the Law building at indianapolis
and other securities.
The transfer from military to civil
government in the Philippines is ex-
pected TO occur about June so, ac-
cOrding to calculations made at the
war department upon information re-
ceived from the Taft commission and
Gen. Macarthur.
Fire, on the night of the 21st. to-
tally destroyed the large warehouse
OF j.. S. Ford, johnson & Co., at Six
teenth and Wabash venue Chicago.
The building and everything inside
was ruined, involving an estimated
loss of 100000: covered by insurance.
John Norris, city marshal of Poca-
hOntas. Ark. was shot and instantly
killed by George Shurley, on the 21st.
trouble came Up owe Q block of
logs which Shurley had caught and
anchored to his house-boat. refusing
10 restore them to their
Benjamin o. Davis. of the District
of Columbia, squadron sergeant
major in the Ninth cavalry. ranked
third in a batch of II enlisted men
who recently passed examination for
commissioned rank in the army. He
an average of 81 per cent, be-
particularly strong on International
and military service and tactics.
On the 22d r. G. Dun & Co, report
ed: Failures for the week num-
bered 224 in the United States against
1s3 last year. and SO in Canada against
81 last year"
Kenyon +. COnger, residing at IT.
and with of
fees in Wall street fled a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy, on the 22d,
placing his liabilities at S533,Os5 and
nominal, at $500.
The American Bridge Co. announc-
ed, on the 22d, that it had closed one
of the largest foreign contracts ever
made, aggregating ver twenty thou
sand tons. The contract was issued
by the Ecuadorian Association, Linn
tied, the material TO be used for
construction on the Guayaquil
Quito railroad in Ecuador.
BY the explosion of Stag at the open
furnace No. 1 of the Carnegie
Steel Co., at Homestead, Pa, on the
%, seven men We're seriously burned.
I'D, seven men were seriously burned.
will die.
Judge L. W. Seney, a prominent
attorney of Toledo, o., died suddenly
on the 22d. He served on the bench d
number of years ago.
The immense plant of the Dugdale
Can CO., at Indianapolis, Ind, with an
annual output of p, 10 900 cans, was,
on the 22d, transferred to the Ameri-
can Can Co., of New York, which has
a capital of $685. 600, 900. This complet-
ed the consolidation of all the large
lin can manufacturing concerns of
the country.
Fire, on the night of the 22d, COM
wiped out the piano estab-
lishment of William Rohlfing & Sons
in Milwaukee, and wrought further
destruction to adjoining property, en-
a loss close upon $780, 900; full
~ covered by insurance.
Fire that started at $3.50 o'clock
afternoon in the Greenvi:le
cotton compress, was not
under control until s D. M,
damage had been done to the
OF 100000. The cotton loss is
$500 bales, valued at S7O,OOO; covered
by insurance.
The analysis of the stomach of Miss