Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-19
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IoAAilSOh SiNh lCdNS.
The hopes of those in attendance
upon the president of his speedy re-
coyery were rudeiy shattered, early
on the morning OF the 18th, when
stomach disorder, accompanied by
pronounced heart weakness became
manifest, and the gravest apprehen-
sions were felt. At 5 a. N. he wa in
q condition of semi-stupor.
DR.. Isaac Saylin, of Buffalo, a friend
of Emma Goldman, who left Buffalo
on the night of the attempted assas-
sination of the president, was arrest
ed in Chicago on the 18th. He an
svers the description of the man who
Immediately preceded Czolgosz in the
line shaking hands with the president.
The Schley our of inquiry, which
assembled at the Washington navy
yard, on the 18th, was adjourned, sub
ject to further call, pending the selec-
ton of another member of the court
to replace Rear-Admiral Howison,
who was disqualified on the challenge
of Rear-Admiral Schley, the challenge
being sustained.
Johann Most, the anarchist, was ar
rested in New York, on the 18th, and
locked up at police headquarters. The
arrest was made by Central Office
Detective Ferneison. Herr Most was
at his headquarters in Gold street,
when the arrest vas made.
The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic assem-
bled in business session at the Euclid
avenue opera house, Cleveland, o., on
the 18th. Commander-in-chief Ras-
sieur, in his annual address, arraigned
the administration of the pension bu-
reau and demanded a more literal
enforcement of the pension laws.
One thousand pounds of powder ex-
ploded in the Schultz Powder Co.'S
storehouse, at Oakland, N. j., on the
18th. Five men were blown to atoms
and two were fatally and scores seri-
ously injured.
Tender of a portion of Forest park
as a site of the ST. Louis Worlds fair
was formally accepted on the 18th,
and the taking possession of the site
by the exposition company will be
followed at ones by the erection of
a barrier around the property thus
acquired.
Shamrock ii. was caught in, a squat
that came out of the west at a 81
mile an hour clip, off the bell buoy 1t
Sandy Hook, on the 18th, with ~, 900
square feet of sail set. She behaved
splendidly, and the fine seamanship
Of her crew saved her from what
seemed at first imminent disaster.
A mob took from Jail at WickIiffe,
KY, on the morning of the 18th, and
hanged, Frank Howard, Sam Feed,
Ernest Harrison, negroes, who muir
dered Wash Thomas, an i~noffensive
old darby, on the night of the 18th.
They are said to have confessed.
The dreaded boil worm is at work
in Texas and Indian territory. Where
a yield of from one-half to three
fourths of L bale to the acre was ex-
pected farmers will get only about
one-fourth of a bale. The boil worm
eats the bark and leaves the stalk and
then cuts off the boil at the stem.
When it became known in Indianap-
oils, on the 18th, hat President Nc
Kinley was dying, Gov. Durbin or
dered the abandonment of the ar
engagements for celebrating Indiana
day at the Pan-American exposition,
and the special train ready to convey
his party to Buffalo was released.
EX-President Grover Cleveland,
when told of President McKinley's Sc
rious sinking spell, said: This is
very sorrowful news" When asked if
he would say something regarding the
president, he replied that the thought
it would be out of place to say any
thing at present.
Gov. Yates of Illinois, on the 18th,
issued the following proclamation:
I'm view of the serious change in the
condition of the president within the
last few hours, it is thought best to
postpone indefinitely all arrangements
and exercises in connection with Illi-
nois day. If, within the providence of
God the president shall recover, the
State of Illinois can show her interest
in the Pan-American exposition, and
her rejoicing, by naming another Illi-
nois day."
Prince Chun, head of the Chinese
mission of eXpiation, visited Hamburg,
on the 18th, and vas entertained at
dinner by Herr Albert Balm, presi-
dent of the neutrality-suspicious. line.
Emperor Francis Joseph has con-
ferred upon Count Won Waldersee the
grand cross of the Order of st. Ste
phen.
Princess Victoria Louise, only
daughter of Emperor William, cele-
brated her ninth birthday, on the 18th,
with her mother and her youngest
brother, Prince Joachim, at Kadinen.
Among those who We're at Presi-
dent McKinley's side constantly, none
has come in for such unstinted praise
as Private Secretary Cortelyou, who in
every emergency proved himself tact
full and resourceful, seeming to know
exactly the right thing to do and
when to do it.
Rear-Admiral Ramsay, former chief
of the bureau of navigation, has been
selected to fill the vacancy on the
Schley court of inquiry caused by the
disqualification of R~ear-Admiral
Howison.
William Mckinley, twenty-ffth
president of the United States. died at
the Milburn house, Buffalo, n. Y, at
2:15 a. m. of the 18th, the victim of
the bullet fired by the anarchist as
~sassin, Leon Czolgosz, at the Pan
American exposition on the 9th.
President Mckinley, in the last