Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-17
TOPICS OF TEE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Sentence Of death was, on the 18th
passed upon Commandant Lotter. tn,
Cape rebel whose commando, com
posed almost wholly of rebels, wa;
captured by Maj Scobel, south of Pc
tersburg, early last month. Lore
Kitchener has confirmed the sentence
A report from Hebron, South Afri
ca, says: Thirteen of Lord Kitchen
er's scouts were captured in a Boe1
ambush"
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $150,O00. 900 gold reserve in The
division of redemption, issued on tbs
18th, showed: Available cash balance
S167, 55O,O37; gold, SOL, 464,20s.
Emperor William, in consequence OF
crop failure, has RENTED more than
half the rents payable by peasants Oh
crown lands near Colmar, Prussia.
Prof. Thomas Shaw, of Minnesota
was, ON the 18th, elected to the chair
of animal ~husbandry in the agricul
tural college at Brookings, S. ID. Prof
Show enjoys a national reputation
and is a leader of his profession il
this country and Canada.
On the 18th RIG. Dun & Co., of New
York, reported: Failures for the
week numbered 231 in the United
States, against 232 last year, and -
in Canada, against 80 last year"
Prof. Waldeyer left Berlin, on The
18th, to attend the Yale bi-centen-
nary, as a representative of the Uni
versity of Berlin and the Berlin Acad-
envy of Arts.
The supreme court of Indiana, or
the 10th, in the case of the receiver
of the defunct Citizens bank Of
Union City against its former Iii &c
tors, declared in emphatic terms THAI
the defendants, on account of their
negligence, were liable for damages to
the amount asked for, $4,000.
Capt. Lemly, judge advocate in the
Schley court OF inquiry, was com
PEELED to admit, on the 10th, that
there was a failure in the evidence
to show that Commodore Schley had
received the message from Capt. Nc
Gala in regard to the signal code
with the Cubans.
Charles Watson Armour, younger
brother of the late Kirkland Is. Ar
mour. and the nephew of the pioneers
of the well-known family, is now at
the head of the Armour interests.
He is A years of age and but little
known in western society.
Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago
is quoted as saying: IF the senate
rial nomination is ever handed to me
on a silver platter, they'll be lucky to
get the platter back"
While cleaning furnace pipes at
Hickory church, nine miles from
Beardstown, ILL.,, David Carr and the
sexton found two one pound sticks of
dynamite secreted above the pipes
and connected with 25 feet of fuse,
which led to the outside of the
church.
1t is said that William Waldorf
Astor's gift of $4,000 to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
for the Prevention of Cruelty TO
Children will be followed by like o Il
tributions to nine other charitable
institutions of London, and that the
100000 thus dispensed will win him a
title at the time of the coronation.
Ninety indictments were returned
against Centralia Qll.) saloonkeepers
and alleged gamblers by the grand
jury at Salem as the result of the
crusade conducted by Mrs. May
WEIGH. Fourteen of the twenty-five
local saloon men are included with
five gambling-house proprietors.
Veterinarians of Bloomington and
Mclean county, ILL.,, have their hands
full of late fighting pink eye and
CHAMBERS. No such outbreak has oc-
CURED previously in years.
A Paris dispatch says there is good
authority for stating that the govern
ment will send warships to Turkey
unless the porte promptly agrees to
all the French demands.
A report m from Washington
that President Roosevelt will appoint
Col. Brodie governor of Arizona on
the retirement of Gov. Murphy. Col.
Brodie was second in command of the
Rough Riders when Roosevelt was
colonel.
At Ithaca, n. ", on the 18th, Charles
Norris, car Inspector for the Lehigh
NaileN TdllTOaus Was dAiCStSN,
with the theft of bonds, Jewelry and
other property valued at $4,000, be-
longing to Mrs. Denman Thompson
and Mrs. Franklin Thompson, of the
Old Homestead company. Much Oh
the property has been recovered.
The servant girls of Chicago are to
invade the weekly newspaper field.
It is to be devoted to the interests OF
working The first issue is
expected to appear about the middle
OF November.
Aware that the military forces OF
the Bulgarian and Turkish govern
ments are prepared to attack them
at a favorable opportunity, Miss Ellen
Stones abductors must receive the
ransom without delay or else they
will kill their captive.
Rolla G. Pierson, postmaster at Lou
~isville, ILL.,, has disappeared, leaving
a shortage of $500 in his accounts.
pierson addressed a letter to his bonds
men saying he was short and IN
structing them to take charge of the
Office.