Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Colorado Smelling and Mining
Co. was incorporated at Trenton, n.
j., ON the 10th, with a capital of ST.
100000.
The recent prairie fires IN Beadle
county, S. d.. have been very destruc-
tive. The burned area is from two to
five miles long, in which were located
many prosperous farmers and stock
men.
As a demonstration in honor of the
seating of a single senator, and as an
elaborate and beautiful floral spec
tacle, the return of Hon. Matthew
Stanley Quay, of Pennsylvania, to the
senate, on the 18th, was unique in
the history of the body. Within the
memory of the oldest senators Moth
'ng approXimating the scene was ever
witnessed.
The orders to the Scorpion to pro-
coed from La Guayra to Guanoco have
been countermanded, and she will re-
main at La Guayra where her pres
ence is regarded as necessary.
The jury in the Jennie Bosschieter
murder case at Paterson. n. j.. re-
turned a verdict, on the 18th. of muir
der in the second degree. This means
Imprisonment for Is years.
The statement OF the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive OF
the $3.50, 900, 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
18th, showed: Available cash balance,
S13s,Oe3,s43; gold, s79,1s6,45s.
Marvin Kuhns, the noted Indiana
desperado, and the man who escaped
from the Ohio ~penitentiary some
weeks ago, was placed behind the
bars of the Cass county Qnd.l Jail on
the night of the 18th, in worse shape
than he ever was in before, having
stopped several bullets in an effort to
escape from his captors.
The senate. on the nth, confirmed
Col. II. B. Freeman, Twenty-fourth in
fantry, to be brigadier general, L. S.
A.
Charles E. Mather, who had pleaded
| guilty, in New York, to the larceny of
! jewelry valued, it is said, at $4,000,
was sentenced, on the 18th, to seven
years imprisonment in Sing Sing.
A Chicago street car collided with
a heavy loaded truck wagon while
rounding the curve on Archer avenue
on the 18th. Several passengers were
injured by splinters and broken glass.
At a special meeting of the stock
holders of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Co., il New York, on the 18th,
the number of directors was increased
from IL to IL.
A caucus of republican senators in
Washington, on the 18th, decided
definitely that there should be no
tariff tinkering in connection with the
war tax reduction bill, the senators
present pledging themselves to sus-
tain this policy.
Gov. Allen of Porto Rico returned
to San Juan from a trip over the is
land in an optimistic frame of mind.
He says the sugar and tobacco crops
are the largest hat have eve been
grown on the island, and the planters
are afraid the factories will be I'M
bic to handle them.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister &c
the United States, arrived in St
Louis, on the night of the 18th, and
addressed the Commercial club on the
night of the 10Th. The newspaper
men who started out to interview the
visitor soon found themselves the in
teryiewed, and had to give it up.
The sad tr.th is forcing itself upoT
the minds of Englishmen that theil
queens days II numbered, and thE
question of n regency is being freely
discussed. On the 18th the queen be
eame the Oldest sovereign who evel
reigned in England, having lived 81
years and 239 days, which was exact
Iy the age of her grandfather, Georg'
Ill.
The senate, on the 18th, finally dis
: posed of the army reorganization
bill. The having originated
/ IN the senate, but final question wa
not upon its passage, but upon agree
! ing to the senate amendments. The.
we're agreed to by a vote of a3 to %
and the measure was sent to confer
snee.