Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-11
TOPICS OF Il DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

in Denver, Col, on the 4th, having
contracted a cold while on a trip
around the Georgetown loop in b
mountains. He had planned to go to
Colorado Springs on his way to Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Annie W. Clarke, of Columbus,
o., president of the Ohio Woman's
Christian Temperance union. has adj
dressed a formal note to the women
of the Ohio society of California, pro-
testing against the serving of wine at
the BANQUET which the society is to
give in honor of the presidential par
ty at the launching of the battleshir
Ohio.
Lieut.. Frederick Boyer, of the Thir-
tv-ninth volunteer infantry, chief COM
missary for the second district of the
department of southern LuZon, is un-
der arrest at Calamba, Province of
Laguna, where he has been charged
with misappropriating so cases of ba-
con and with other irregularities.
The president, on the 18th. signed
the commissions of Lloyd Wheaton as
major general and of Jacob H. Smith
and Frederick Funston as brigadier
generals of the United States army,
the commissions of Generals Wheaton
and Smith bearing date of March 80,
and that of Funston April 1.
The Columbian Paper Co., started
it's mammoth pulp plant in Bristol,
Tenn, on the 4th. This is perhaps
the largest plant OF the kind in the
south, and has just been completed at
a cost of $4,000.
One of the questions to be settled
at the annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans association, at
Memphis, Tenn, May % to 80, inclu-
sive, will be that of the admission of
the sons of the veterans to full mem
bership in the association.
Col. Robert Wallace, who served as
a captain in the United States army
in the Mexican war and vas made col
onel of 4 western regiment in the
| Union army in the civil war, died at
the residence of his sister, Mrs. Alex
ander Elliott, in Jersey City, n. j., on
the 5th, aged 50 years.
Samuel L. Gordon. of Omaha, Neb.,
suspended as police judge pending an
impeachment trial by the city coun-
| ell, on the 5th, attempted to take his
seat IS usual At the morning session,
and, with his son, was finally removed
forcibly by the police.
Howard Cole, of Indianapolis, Ind.
who is Russell Il. Harrison's attorney.
said, on the 9Th. that the report That
| Mr.. Harrison would contest his ia
Tiers will was entirely uDfounded
| Mr.. Harrison, ne said, is entirely sat.
isfied.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $4,000 gold reserve in the di.
vision of redemption, issued On the
5th, showed: Available cash balance
S15s,1T1,344; gold reserve, $97,2 LA
$40.
At johannesburg, Transvaal Colony
on the 5th, Lord Kitchener personally
presented the Red Cross medal tc
Madame Terriers, head of the French
ambulance department. for her serN
ices to the British wounded.
Judge John A. Warth, aged 90 years
died at his home near Charleston, w
Va, on the 5th, after an Illness o.
| several "c0hS. uC was u oChSOO1 "
Virginia in 1857 and a member of thu
constitutional convention of West Vir
ginia in 1872. In 1873 he was appoint
ed by the legislature to codify tn,
state laws which r now used
The steamship Rhein, which arrives
at New York, on the 5th, from Bre
men, broke the record as a passenge
carrier. Besides her whic
numbered over four hundred, she ha
2,5O2 passengers.
The navy department, on the 5tl
awarded the contract for the buildin
of the 23-knot protected cruiser Mi
waukee to the Union iron works c
San Francisco. The contract price
81, $4,000.
The Kansas asylum for the insan
at Topeka. with over 1000 patient
, is threatened with an epidemic {
smallpox. An attendant was take
i'll, and the malady was found to !
smallpox. He was sent to the pes
house. On the 5th two cases deve
oped among the patients, and a pan
: started among the employees.
2 A Washington dispatch intimat
thaJ the preSluenI Will Ec"dEu ACe
Mitchell, Fortieth infantry: Capt.
!. w. Newton, Thirty-fourth infantr
n and Capt. r. T. Hazard and Lieut..
p. NJ. Hazard. who also accompanl
r. Gen. Funston on his expedition f
: the capture of Aguinaldo with CO..
n missions in the regular. army.
BY the death of Thomas Fl. Caswe
of San Francisco, ali the pomp a
M sanctity of the worlds highest n
rs sonic rank, now falls upon Congre
&c man James d. Richardson, of TIE
nessee. In other words, he will 81
coed to the exalted office of soverei
IS grand commander of the southe
ee jurisdiction of the Ancient and
n cepted Scottish Rite OF Free \
ne sonry.
i'll Atty.Gen. Douglas of MinnesC
Oh has rendered an opinion on the De
in ing bill, passed by both houses Of
he legislature, for purpose of secur
IN the release of the Younger brotht
~ He states that the enactment
nc question is, in his opinion, uncon
'u' '%uti0naL