Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-31
TOPICS OF 4 DAY.
NEWS FROM
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Roosevelt during the international
Live Stock exposition, which begins
in Chicago December 3.
The Altoona Iron Co., the largest
industry outside of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co.'S shops in Altoona, Pa,
and employing several hundred men,
closed down indefinitely on the oath.
Guy Bright shot and killed his IA
Their, Alexander Bright, on their farm,
five miles from Iantha, Mo-, on the
oath. A quarrel led up to the shoot
ing. The son gave himself up.
Frank Farrell, a prominent Tam
many man, bet $4,000 against $4,000,
on the oath. with George Wheelock,
on the result of the mayoralty cleo
ton in Greater New York city, Far
rell backing Shepard against Low.
Fire, which started in the fertilizer
building of the Armour Packing Co.'S
plant at South Omaha, on the night
of the gath, did $4,000 damage, equal
~ divided between building and stock.
The seventh successive well on Gas
ridge, just south of Chanute, Kas.,
was brought in, on the Gath, with
twice the flow of any well in that
field. The roaring of the well can be
heard a long distance.
The London Daily News states that
it is an undoubted fact hal j. Pier
pont Morgan, the American ~fnancier,
is bearing the entire expense (e9,0O0)
of the installation of an electric light
plant in ST. Paul's cathedral, London.
and declares it a reproach to wealthy
Englishmen.
One of the greatest natural gas
wells that has ever been discovered in
the United States vas struck about
three miles northeast of Lawton,
Okla, on the oath, by Mr.. P. Mcdaniel,
while drilling for oil.
Mrs. William Mckinley was prob,
ably left more wealth than is men
toned in the will of her dead hus-
band. News is received from Ely,
New, where the SaXton and Mckinley
mines are located, that outcroppings
show a lead of ore that will go $1OO
to the ton.
Bishop Sbaretti, having settled the
question of church property in Cuba.
has been appointed delegate extra
ordinary to the Philippines, whittier
he will go about the end of the year
to settle the church property ques-
ton there. He will leave Cuba for
Rome in a few days.
The imposing marble shaft erected
in the national cemetery at Knoxville.
Tenn, by the people of Tennessee, 20
the memory of the Tennesseeans who
fell during the civil war, was unveiled,
on the Gath, with appropriate cere-
monies.
Lieut.-Col. Ezra Woodruff, of the
been retired on account of age. He
is a native of Kentucky.
According to reliable reports re-
oeived in Shanghai from Gen. Warren,
600, 900 persons in the Province of AIT
Hui and 100000 in the province of
kiang-Su are on the verge of starva-
ton, and the famine is spreading.
The plant of the GAINESVILLE CO..
Art Pottery Co. vas destroyed by fire
on the 25th. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
1000. One hundred and fifty men are
was fatally injured under a falling
wall.
Fire in the lumber yard of the Alex
ander & Edgar Lumber Co., Iron Riv-
er, Wis, on the 25th, destroyed H.
600, 900 feet of lumber. The loss is es-
timated at 100000, fully covered by
insurance.
Andrew Carnegie announced on the
25th hat he will preserve an impartial
attitude in relation to the municipal
campaign in New York. Any other
improper, in, view of his present and
future relations with the municipal
officials of New York in connection
with his gifts to that city.
David White, a chaplain in the
United States army, from 1866 until
1882, when he was retired, died at
Lawrence, Kas., on the 25th, aged 80
years.
The civil service commission, on the
25th, notified the postmaster general
that it had modified its regulations in
accordance with his request to waive
certain physical requirements of fe-
male applicants for positions as post
office clerks, including that making
them hop on one foot for a distance
of IL feet.
The navy department received d
cablegram from Rear Admiral Re
mey, on the 25th. announcing his ar
rival at Vladivostock aboard his flag
ship, the Brooklyn.
Since the establishment of the new
system of customs collections at the
dock at the port of New York, on
March 1, 1901, there has been collect
ed a total of $685. 4s in duties on the
baggage of ee,6s6 passengers, against
a total of $152,454, collected at the
docks from 95,125 passengers during
the same period last year.
Fire, which started in the building
occupied by Hunt, Wilkinson & Co.,
up~holsterers and furniture dealers,
on Market street, Philadelphia, on
the 25th, resulted in the known loss
of Is human lives, and possibly more,
and a money loss of 100000.
John Silverwright, of Kansas City;
James Mace, of Unionville; Wyman
Marion, of Lancaster, and Mrs. NJ.
Freeland, of Browning, all Missouri
ans, died, on the 25th, as the result
of injuries received in the Burlington
wreck at Exline, la. Two other deaths
are expected.
The dead bodies of George, aged %;
Edward, IA, and Clement, s, sons of
Joseph Casper, a farmer residing
three miles west of Granville, ILL.,,
WE'RE found in n we'll on the farm of