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

a day coach left the track. Engineer
Smith and Baggageman Morris were
probably fatally injured.
Rev. Cecil +. p. Bancroft, for 2s
years the head of Phillips-Andover
died at Andover, Mass, on the 4th. He
was a graduate of Dartmouth college
He was principal of the Lookout
Mountain (Tenn.) institute for five
years, and had been principal of Phil
lips academy since 1878.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $150,O0O,OOO gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
4th, showed: Available cash balance,
S171, O31, 704: gold, $1G2, 639,955.
r. G. Dun & Co. reported on the 4th:
Failures for the week number POS
in the United States, against 20S for
the corresponding week last year, and
81 in Canada, against 23 last year"
DIR. Samuel j. Jones, for 25 years
professor of ophthalmology and
otology at Northwestern university,
Chicago, died, on the 4th, of stom-
ach trouble, aged 65 years.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew adj
mits hat ere many months shall have
passed he Will again enter the bonds
of matrimony. His fiance is Miss May
Palmer, a New York lady, who has
resided abroad for the most part.
France is disturbed over a deficient
wheat harvest, a deficiency all the
worse as the grain is very inferior in
quality. Wheat has risen As cents
per q%uintal (22O.46 pounds) and the
price of a qua~rtern-loaf of bread has
already advanced from 1875 cents to
1875 cents.
Sir Thomas Upton has failed to Eft
the Americas cup, and it is further
spiked down with three straight wins
by Columbia over Shamrock II. The
last victory, won on the 4th, wa a
close one, being gained by only 40
out of the 43 seconds time allowance
on account of excess of sail area on
the Shamrock.
Miss Helen Long, youngest daugh-
ter of Secretary of the Navy Long.
died at her home at bingham. Mass.
on the 4tii, of consumption. Miss
AOAS AAAo bSSh nix 1IOI1 al Dui-
monary trouble since the winter o.
1898.
Rear Admiral Schley r~etires from,
active service, by age limit, October
9. His retirement will be followed by
the promotion of Captains Wilde and
Glass to the rank of rear admiral.
The Third Baptist church of Owens
bora, Ky, has devised a way to insure
the payment of the church debt.
amounting to $4,000. The lives of 20
young men of the congregation are
to be insured and the policies made
payable to the church. The policies
r to be for $4,000 each, ten year
plan, the church paying the premiums.
Capt. Bookmiller, Ninth infantry,
reports the destruction of the town
of Halangiga, Samar island, where the
recent treacherous attack on Com
pany c of that regiment was made.
The insurgents secured 81 ~serviceable
rifles and $4,000 cartridges, which are
likely to be heard from later.
The record of the foreign COM
merce of the United States during the
eight months ending with August,
1901, shows an increase in imports of
$14, 000, 900 and an increase in exports
of $23, 0O0, 900, comparing the eight
months of the calendar year 1901 with
the corresponding eight months of
1900. =
The Farmers national congress-, at
Sioux Falls, S. d., on the 4th, elected
the following officers: President,
George L. Flanders, Albany N. Y;
vice-president, Col. Harvey Jordan,
Monticello, Ga; treasurer, J. III. Rey-
nolds. Adrian, Mich; secretary, John
NJ. Stahl. Chicago; assistant secreta-
ries, E. A. Ohlahan, Albany, N. y;
Joel NJ. Roberts, Nebraska.
The Manchester Guardian says the
American visitors to the Methodist
drank intoxicants, were greatly dis
turbed to see English ex-presidents
of the Wesleyan conference enjoying
their cigars and glasses of cham
payne and whisky and soda.
Failures in the United States, re-
ported by r. G. Dun & Co., for the
nine months of 1901, number s,144,
with an aggregate Indebtedness of
S97, S56.416. In the same months of
1900 the number was slightly smaller
(7,S95), but the amount of liabilities
was much heavier, S1~33,234,9SS.
The round-bale plant of the Ameri.
can Cotton Co., at Morrillton, Ark.
was destroyed by fire on the Sd. \
building containing $50 tons of seed
wa also consumed, as were the seed
houses of the Arkansas Cotton Oil
Co. and the Consumers Oil Co.
Mrs Roosevelt, wife of the presi-
dent, will attend st. Johns Episcopal
church, opposite the White House, on
Lafayette square, Washington, Snd
will occupy the pew that has been set
aside in that edifice for many years
for presidents of the United States.
1t is stated at the office of Secre-
tary of the Interior Hitchcock that
the announcement which has been
made that the Fort Hall Indian reser-
walton, in Idaho, would be opened on
the old sooner system was prema-
ture and without authority.
The first snowfall of the season and
the earliest for so years, was reported
from Warsaw, Ind, and Lima, o., on
the Sd. Half an inch fell, but it
speedily disappeared before the noon
day sum-.