Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-19

being drummed out of the grounds,
for having manifested elation at the
attempt upon the life of the presi'
dent.
Many of the pupils of a young
ladies' school near Count Tolstoi's res.
idence, at Yasnaia, Russia, who, with
their teacher and theryoung persons
of the neighborhood, calledo on him
presented the count with flowers,
have been arrested, and their teacher
has been dismissed.
According to a story which was
made public in New York, on the 18th.
immigrant smugglers are bringing
cargoes of foreigners in schooners 10
this country. Within a few days a
vessel, said to be named the Lottie,
landed 112 immigrants at Clarke's
Cove, on Buzzard's bay.
The first violence of the great stee.
workers strike at McKeespOrt, Pa,
took place, on the night of the 10th,
when three workmen were set upon
by strikers or strike sympathizers,
dIu Odd1I -AhO SAN4o
policemen were sworn in, and numer-
Gus arrests were made.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist agl-
tator, under whose red banner Leon
Czolgosz claims he stands and whose
words he says fired his heart and his
brain to attempt the assassination of
the president, was arrested in Chica-
go, on the 10th, charged with con-
spiracy to murder the president.
1t is reported tina half the coffee
crop of Porto Rico has been partially
ruined by recent storms, and that the
banana crop has suffered serious Gam
age. The poorer classes will probably
appeal for assistance in consequence.
The new railway bridge across the
Anasco river has also been destroyed
by the floods.
Early on the morning of the 18th,
the president took a turn for the
worse, and his condition gave rise to
the gravest apprehension. While not
considered in extremis, the worst was
feared, owing to the weakness of the
heart action. The trouble vas said
to be due to taking too much nour-
ishment during the preceding day.
Mayor Phinney of Kingston, n. Y.
on the 18th, suspended Policeman
Heppner for remarks regarding the
attempted assassination of President
Mckinley. Heppner said it was a pity
more people were not shot who in
sisted on making rich people richie
and poor people poorer, and hat the
presidents death would equalize
wealth.
Al Wichita, Kas., on the 18th, the
grand jury brought in a reindictment
against Mr.. William Martindale,
charging him with wrecking the En-
poria national bank, which failed
more than two years ago. The presi-
dent of the bank, Mr.. Cross, commit
ted suicide at the time of the failure.
Mr.. Martindale was vice-president of
the bank.
The ground plans of the Louisiana
Purchase Centennial exposition are in
such shape now that it will be possible
to determine, within a very short
time, by them the exact amount of
space which each department can be
allowed. As soon as the allotments
are made the committees will COM
mence the actual work of getting to-
gether their exhibits.
The British Medical Journal, of the
18th. saws: 9TH details in the Nc
Kinley bulletins are sufficient to justi-
fy the assertion that the treatment
of the case in promptitude and COM
plete efficiency, will rank as one of the
greatest achievements of abdominal
rye recorded" The Journal COM
pliments highly the skill and courage
of the attending surgeons.
The Schley court of inquiry began
its sessions at the Washington navy
yard, on the 18th, Admiral Dewey pre-
siding. Rear-Admiral Howison's quail
iflcation as a member of the IL
was formally challenged by Rear-Ad-
miral Schley, and the challenge sus-
tanned. The court then adjourned
pending the selection of another
member by the navy department.
The first real day of the grano
army encampment at Cleveland, o.
opened, on the 10th, with nearly two
hundred thousand visitors in the city.
The day wa the eighty-seventh an
niversary of Commodore Perry's great
victory on Lake Erie, and that memor
able and decisive triumph of young
Americas naval prowess was fitting
ly celebrated by a great naval parade
President Mckinley, who was shot
twice at the Pan-American exposition
at Buffalo, n. Y, by the avowed an
archist Czolgosz, on the 9th, and who
under the skillful treatment of his
eminent surgeons and physicians, had
made such apparently rapid progress
toward recovery, began, u-naccounta'
bly,. to sink on the afternoon of the
18th. The alarm spread rapidly
throughout the country and constant
~ grew in intensity until 2:15 a. m
of the 14th, when he died. His last
conscious words, spoken to his be
loved wife, after chanting part of the
words of the hymn. Nearer, My God
to Thee" were: s'Good-by. All good
by. 1t is Gods way. His will b'
done"