Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-05

County Register.
ny ELI ID. AXE.
LRONToN, MISSOURI
The operation performed On o
Taft. on the 2eth, vas successful. he
expects to start for home December
10. to recuperate and confer with Sec
rotary Root
Miss Kumpke, of Chicago, who for
Is years has been assistant at the
Paris observatory, is going to
ford university as chief assistant 10
Prof. Isaac Roberts. Her special o
will be astral photography.
A brilliant Thanksgiving day reeeP-
ton was held at the American EN-
bassy in London on the night OF the
asth. American business and private
houses were decorated with the Stars
and Stripes during the day.
Gov Jenkins of Oklahoma, against
whom charges have been preferred,
had a conference with the president
on the 25th. He was accompanied oS
Secretary Hitchcock. No ln1orma-
ton regarding the conference was
given out.
The supreme court of Nevada, IN
the a5th. handed down a decision sus-
tanning the validity of the LocK"oou
URINARY law. The law provides o
the election of delegates to county
conventions at a general primary he
on the same day for all Partles'
ahleoram to the state depart
nent from Rome announced the
death ON the 26th, of United states
Consul James Fletcher, at Genoa
italy. Mr.. Fletcher was born IN Ell
gland. but was appointed to the gen
eral consulate from Iowa Is years
ago.
Dr. Francis E. Clarke, president OF
Tho Worlds Christian Endeavor, VIII
sail for Europe January 4, where he
will give his personal efforts 10 es'""
fishing the society more hrmly IN cen
trail Europe, Scandinavia France,
Spain, Italy, Holland, Bohemia anu
Bulgaria.
The New Jersey state board OF can
vassers appointed by the governor
met aft Trenton, on the 10Th, anu can
vassed the vote cast at the receh,
election for governor. 1t was founc
that Franklin Murphy (rep.) received
1sa s14 votes. and James ID. seymour
(dem.) 166,6s1.
Cen. Leonard Wood, military gov
ernor of Cuba, arrived in Washington
ON the goth. Accompanying him were
Mrs Wood and Lieut.. Mccoy. Ih'
general will spend some days IL
Washington in conference win th'
president and the secretary OF wa
regarding affairs in Cuba.
The preliminary work of revising
+be creed of the Presbyterian churcl
so as to make it more popularIy un
derstood. was inaugurated 1 N WASH
motion. on the 2Sth, at a meeting o
the section of the committee OF t"eI
ty appointed at the last Presbyterla
assembly to accomplish this result
Three more of the old war mon
TORS which have been lying at tn
League Island navy yard Tor year
mast have been condemned ana al
IN he sold at public auction. They al
the CatskilI. built by Ericsson, an
The Manhattan and Hahopanek' oui
aft Jersey City during the days OF IN
civil war.
The lessees of Indian allotments /
tbe Creek nation have appealed to tn
courts for redress. They are BEN
g;ven notice TO vacate land on whic
they have expended all their none
TO make necessary improvements al
all of which they will lose by vaca
ipo. They contend that the Indian
should paw for the improvements.
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Another big batch of publication
excluded from the second class
mail matter, under the new poht
governing that classification, was a
nounced from Washington on IL
25th. Most of them are serials pu
lished in Minneapolis and Ph1lade
phia. The list includes several new
papers. anu SO
CanvasserS for subscriptions to u
Lewis and Clark Centennial expo:
ton, which it is proposed to hold
Portland, Ore, in 1905, started o
on the morning of the 25th, and
was understood at night that pra
tically the entire capital stock OF t
corporation, ssOO,O0o, had been 6
sured as the result of the single da.
work.
Four large icebergs were Visit
from st. Johns, N. f, on the 2o'
They were drifting south in the ira
of Atlantic shipping. Icebergs ha
never before been known to pass TT
port so late in the season. Their pr
ence is consequently all the me
dangerous t. ocean shIpmasters, w
do not now expect to find lcebel
on the Grand banks.
The long-delayed correspondeI
of Prince Bismarck was published
Berlin on the 2Sth. The work Is
two volumes. The first is made
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