Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SOl. hllSOU, "IIH -5U VI hlJCLcIcI :
scouts, surprised and routed 400 Beers
of Beycr's command, "a miles west OF
Warm Baths. The Beers left 81 dead
100 prisoners, and all their wagons
and supplies, including 5000 cattle, in
the hands of the British. The British
loss was three men killed and Ii
wounded.
Congressman Theobold Often and
his private secretary, Nathaniel Green,
were run down and both seriously in
jured by an electric car at Milwaukee,
on the 9Th, while driving in a buggy.
Maj. George Arthur, assistant pay
master of the United States army,
who recently returned from the Phil.
ippines, died suddenly at the Weddell
house in Cleveland, o., on the 9th, as
the result of the rupture of a blood
vessel in the head.
The Wayne hotel, the leading hotel
in Fort Wayne, Ind, was damaged to
the extent of S21, 900, by fire on the
night CT the 9th. The guests all got
nut safely.
The American contingent of mil
lionaires and merchant princes was
entertained at Lord Brassey's resi-
dence, III London, on the night of the
eth. 1t was a brilliant affair, with a
large assemblage of ministers, mem
bers of parliament, leading men OF
the. London chamber of commerce,
bankers and Judges.
Miss Ollie Tyson, a poor orphan liy-
ing in Todd county, KY, has learned
through attorneys that she is to re-
ceive over s., 900. 900 from the estate
of John Tyson, her uncle, a Scotch
man, who died in Australia. She is
one of IS heirs.
a terrific tornado struck Clarks-
vile, Tern, on the 9th. WaddeII hall,
at the Southwestern Presbyterian
university, was wrecked, causing S.
900 damage, and Peatus' tobacco fac
tory, in New Providence, was recked;
damage about $4,000. Considerable
damage of a minor nature was done.
At Toronto, Ont, on the It'll, Frank
Rutledge and Fred Lee Rice, convict
ed of robhing the post office and a
private bank at Aurora, were SEN
fenced to p years in Kingston peni-
Tertiary. Upon being returned to Jail,
Rutledge broke from the officers and
plunged headlong from the Jail GAL
lery to the paved floor 80 feet below,
and died Of his injuries Don after.
Andrew Carnegie signed a deed in
London, on the 18th, transferring $1O,-
coo, 900 in five-per-cent. United States
Steel Corporation bonds to trus-
- g. IL. I,-,oe< - IL
of Scotland. The amount becomes
Immediately available. The next in
stallment OF interest can be used for
the October term.
Mr.. Frederick, the British war sec
rotary, replying to a question in the
house of commons, on the 18th, re-
garding the probability of an early
conclusion of peace in South Africa,
reaffirmed that the government would
not consent to discuss the future in
dependence of the conquered states
with the Beers.
The statement Of the treasury bal
aoces in the general fund, exclusive of
The $50, G0O,0 0 gold reserve in the iii
vision of redemption, issued on the
9TH, showed: Available cash balance,
$165, 6,423; gold, SOC, 3O4,17
The English censor of plays has
the production Of 1.-THE
First VISIT" an English version of
the younger Dumas "Une Visite dc
which the American actress,
Beverly ~Sitgreaves, was to have
the leading role.
Count 0oluchowskI, the Austro-Hun-
minister of foreign affairs, IN
formed an Austrian deputation, on
the 18th, that the government could
entertain a suggestion of media
ton between Great Britain and the
Beers, because mo serious govern
would care to undertake media
ton after the British government bad
declared that it would not accept
and that an offer to medi-
ate would be regarded by Great Brit
ain as an unfriendly act"
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller CT
the United States supreme court ar
rived in Chicago, on the 18th, from
He declined to discuss
for publication any of the national
affairs now occupying public atten-
ton.
The secretary of the treasury, on
the 9TH, bought short-term bonds for
the sinking fund as follows: SIPS, 900
tours at S113.sO6, $4,000 tours, deliv-
cradle OF the Sth. at S113.S1; $4,000
threes at S1Os.S531. The total amount
purchased to date was 81, ,990.
As the result of a fire that started
in TIE Otto Cooper shop in Lexington,
KY, on the 18th, % houses, with their
contents. were destroyed, the aggre-
gate loss approXimating $4,000.
FoXhall Keene's filly, Cap and Bells
H., which won the Oaks stake, in En-
on the 18th, is a Kentucky bred
by Domino, out of Ben
My Chree by Galopin. The Keenes
viii devote the purse to charity.
Failures IN the United States for
the week, ended the 7th, according
to Bradstreet's, number 163, against
IA last week, 1S4 in this week a wear
ago, 17s in 1899, 221 in 1895 and ESQ
in 1897. Failures in Canada in Nav
number 103, with liabilities of $780,
600, an increase in number, but a de-
crease in liabilities of Z per cent.
Bishop Rufus Nicholson, of the Re
formed Episcopal church in Philadel-
phia, died 1T his home in that city
the night of the 18th. He was born
in Greene county, Miss, in 1922, and
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