Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Col. James Hayr, chairman of the
Grand Army standing committee on
free quarters, announced, OF the 21st,
that he and his colleagues of the COM
mittee had secured free quarters in
the school houses and halls of Cleve-
land, o., for 81. 900 veterans at the en-
caInpment in hat city September 0 to
IA next. Col. Hayr is now ready to
receive applications for free quarters.
A high wind which struck Chicago,
OH the 21st, 1oosened a huge iron wa
ter tank from its f~astenings on the
roof of the Galbraith building, Madi-
soil and Franklin streets, causing it
to crash through the six floors to the
ground, injuring five persons and re-
sulting in damage to the building es-
timated at $50, 1000. The tank contained
10000 gallons of water.
The hotel and bath house at the
historic Steamboat springs, Nevada,
which, i'll the palmy days of the Com
stock mine, was a watering place
where more money was squandered
in a night than at most any other re-
sort on the Pacific slope, were de-
stroyed by fire on the 21st. The loss
is heavy, and, it is understood, no in
surance was carried.
Incessant snow and rain for many
hours in the valley of the Ohio caused
almost unprecedented floods in the
Ohio river and its tributaries on the
| goth and 21st. Immense damage was
done at many points, the city of Pitts
burgh alone reporting losses esti-
mated at between 50, ZOO, 900 and 49,
OO0, 900.
The London morning papers of the
22d, printed elaborate descriptions of
the launching of Shamrock II. and
expressed good wishes for the success
of Sir Thomas Upton, but they did
not venture opinions as to the chances
of the challenger.
The work of cutting the Nile sudd
FLOATING vegetable matter that forms
in the river and obstructs navigation)
las been so successful that navigation
will shortly be practicable from Rejai
to Omdurman, a distance of 1000
miles.
The LONDON Daily Mail says it IN
derstandS that the managers of the
Metropolitan district railway have de
cided to adopt the electric traction
system used by surface lines in New
York city.
Joseph Hume, the pioneer salmon
packer of the Pacific coast, died, on
the 21st, from heart disease. Mr..
Hume established the first salmon
N ON the Columbia river in 1874.
Fifty million dollars of Great Brit
aims new loan has been placed in the
United States. The National City
bank, J. P. Morgan & Co, Barring,
Magoun & Co., and the New York Life
Insurance Co., comprise the syndicate
nat mas taken the loan. American
subscriptions will probably aggregate
much in excess of the $4,000 900 ar
ranged for.
Sidney c. NewsOm, teacher of En-
glish and Latin at the manual train
ing high school OF indianapolis, Ind,
mas accepted the situation of super
intendent in one of the nine divisions
OF the Philippine islands. Mr.. New
som will leave to assume his new
duties in a few weeks. He will be ac-
companied by Mrs. Newsom.
\ terrific natural gas explosion oc-
Cured in the Commercial hotel at ST.
Marys, W.. Va, on the 22d, resulting
in the death of four persons. The en-
tire building, a large frame, was in
stantly a mass of flames, and was en-
tirely destroyed. Several persons
were badly injured, but will recover
Thomas Shelton, editor of The
Christian. a monthly publication of
Denver, Col, was arrested, on the 22d,
on an Indictment returned by h fed
eral grand jury, charging him with
using the mails to defraud. Shelton
processes to cure all mental and ply
steal ills by sending vibrations
Mrs. Elizabeth II. Ward died in
Kansas City, Kas-; on the 22d. at the
home of her son after a brief llness'
! She was the daughter of Maj. Chas'
Wheeler, who served with distinction
in the war of 1912 and in the Mexican
war.
Every mine in the fifth Ohio sub
district, which includes Belmont, Har-
rison and Jefferson counties, Ohio,
and the four West Virginia Pan-Han-
die counties, is idle, the strike order
| having become effective on the 22d-
The French foreign minister, NJ
DelcaSse, arrived at st. petersburg,
on the 22d, from Paris. A series OF
dinners has been arranged in his
honor and the ear will receive him
in audience at Tzarskoe-Selo.
A skiff containing three persons
who were catching driftwood in the
Ohio river at Legionville, Pa, cap
sized. On the 22d, and two of the Or
c~upants, w. H. Barnhart and Thomas
Hoslinger, were drowned.
The Beer force under Commandan1
Bokburg, composed of LOG men. with
wagons and rifles, have surrendered
near MiddleShurg. TransYaal colony.