Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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pany. The court named Frank How
ard receiver.
Gov. jenkins of Oklahoma appoint
ed William Qninlan, of Waynoka; w.
A. Knipe, OF Perkins. and Geo. II
Brett, of Ponce City. as delegates TO
represent Oklahoma at the National
Live Stock convention in Chicago, De-
cember 3.
Brighten. Robert H. Hall was placed
on the retired list of the army, on the
18th, by operation of law on accoun
of age. Fe was born in Michigan and
appointed to the army from Illinois.
Judge j. G. Swinnerton, a we'll
known lawyer and orator, died at
Stockton, Col, on the 18th. He was
the father of James S~winnerton, the
well-known newspaper artist.
b. A. Palmer, a retired banker of
New York, has made a gift of $50, 900
to the Union Christian college, locat-
ed at Merom, Ind.
An Amsterdam dispatch of the 14th
said that the condition of Queen Viii
helmina, who is confined to her bed
through premature accouchmelIt, was
normal. Her physicians, however, pre-
scrlbed absolute repOse. Her mother
had been summoned by telegraph.
Joseph ID. Keith was hanged at the
Michigan City (Ind.) penitentiary at
12:11 a. m. of the 18th, for the mur
der of Nora Kiefer. Before his execu-
ton Keith made a confession of his
guilt.
The final draft of the new Hay
Pauncefote treaty in abrogation of
the Bulwer-Clayton agreement and
providing FOR American control of the
proposed interoceanic canal has been
completed by Secretary Hay and Lord
Pauncefote, and its text was tele-
graphed to the foreign office in Lon
don on the 18th.
The financial report of the Pan
American Exposition Co., made by the
auditor, on the 18th, shows the total
liabilities of the company at that time
to be S3,326,114 net, assuming that the
assets of $146,454 are collectable al
face.
A severe snow storm prevailed in
central New York on the 18th. Coun-
try roads were, in some instances.
blocked, and huge drifts piled up
along the fences. In Syracuse sIeighs
were running and the trolley car serv-
ice was temporarily d~emoralized.
Fire, followed by an explosion, in
the Baby mine, at P~ocahontas, Va.
on the 14th, resulted in the Known
death of nine persons and the iniur-
ing of q score or more. Several other
persons were u~naccounted for.
A report has been made by the spe-
cial agent appointed by Gov. Stanley
to gather statistics on the subject of
prairie dogs in Kansas. In the 67
counties covered by the report it is
shown that 1,224.S54 acres of land are
occupied by prairie dog towns.
Fire, on the night of the i4th.
cleaned out the Pankratz Lumber Co.'S
yard. at Sturgeon Bay, Wis, which
contained many thousand feet of lum-
Der belonging to the Milwaukee Lum-
Der Co., and a large quantity of shin
giles, the property of the Pankratz
company: loss, $40. 1000.
The attention of Russell Sage having
been called. on the 18th, to a twice
repeated story of his death, the ia
nous financier quoted Mark Twain by
asserting that the reports were, at
least, premature.
On the 18th, II. G. Dun & Co. re-
ported: Failures for the week num-
Der 215 in the United States. against
217 last year, and % in Canada,
against 80 last year.
Gen. Palaviciini, formerly aide-de-
camp to the late King Humbert, of
Italy, died in Rome on the 18th.
Secretary Gage, on the 18th, pur-
chased $s57,3OO of short-term bonds.
Naval Constructor Richmond p.
Hobson has been detached from duty
at the bureau of construction and re-
pair and detailed to duty in connec-
ton with the management of the gov
naval exhibit at the Charles
ton Is. c. exposition.
Fire broke out in the canning build
ing of the Cudahy packing establish
metn at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 18th,
destroying hat building, with the
large stock of canned meats that it
contained. The loss is estimated at
s15O,0OO.
Two special trains, bearing 232 head
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ter Root stock farm of the late Mar
Gus Daily, left Helena, Mont, on the
10th for New York. The horses will
be sold at the Madison Square garden.
These are the last horses that will be
sold from the ranch, all blooded ami
mails having been shipped away.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $15O,OOO 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, on the 18th,
showed: Available cash balances,
S171 or, 61O; gold. $109, sos, 1856.
Mayor-elect Seth Low, of New York,
went to Washington, on the 18th, at
the invitation of President Roosevelt,
and will be a guest at the White
House during his stay there.
George Z~ollunhoffer, n receiving
teller of the Williamsburg IN. W saw
ings bank, has confessed thai he and
Harry E. Corbett, former paying tel
Ter, who died November 2, had used
100000 of the banks funds in stock
speculations. The bank is protected
by ample bonds.
Four masked ~highwaymen who ap-
preached the scene of their bold rob-
berry mounted on horses, held up the
cashiers office at the Chicago Ameri-
can barns on the night of the 18th,
deied six men, who fought to frus-
trate the crime, and secured $500 in
money.