Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-28
TOPICS OF 4 DAY.
NEWS FROM
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CHlldTeA, rum three AnoAtAs
to five years, were burned to death.
The mother had been a quarter of j
mile away for water, and before
she returned the house was in ruins.
The fo~urth-class post Offices at Erie,
Ill.,; Eufalia, /. T., and Lexington,
Okla, will become presidential Janu-
airy L.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
vault of the First national bank at
Mondovi, Wis, on the night of the
18th, and secured between $4,000 and
$4,000.
A deal for 2s,s25 acres of land in
Logan county, w. Va, was closed, on
the Goth, for an English syndicate.
The price is said to be 100000.
Charles t. Yerkes, in the curse of
an interview published in the London
Daily Mail, on the Goth, revealed a
scheme to run a deep level expires
line underneath the existing Metro
politan district lines of London. He
said the contracts had been signed
and that the work would be begun
shortly.
There has been an alarming spread
of the plague in south Russia, ac-
cording to dispatches from Lemberg,
hundreds of fatal cases being report
ed in Moscow, Odessa, Kherson and
other towns.
w. d. Stearns, leader of the Caney
Ct. To- train robbers, pleaded guilty
at Antlers, 1. T., on the goth, and was
sentenced to life Imprisonment in the
p~enitentiary at Fort Leavenworth,
Kas.
Lieut.-Col. Henry H. Whitney, aide
de-camp to Gen. Miles, on the Goth,
inspected Fort Russell, at Cheyenne,
Wyo., as to its suitability for perma-
nent garrisoning for field artillery. 1t
is understood Col. Whitney will rec
ommend Fort Russell as an artillery
post.
The administrative council of
the court of arbitration at The
Hague decided, on the Goth, that it
was incompentent to consider the
Boer appeal for Intervention in the
war in south Africa.
The National Grange, in session at
Lewiston, Me, on the Goth, elected
Aaron Jones, of Indiana, as national
worthy master.
There was a terrible explosion of
artillery in the barracks at Corunna,
Spain, on the Goth, while the soldiers
were emptying cartridges. The barr
racks were burned. Three soldiers
were killed and II others seriously
injured.
A fatal wreck occurred on the San
ia Fe railroad one mile west of Fran
coma, Ariz., on the goth. Seven train
were killed and three passengers
and fourteen trainmen injured.
The military government established
over the native city of Tien Tsin con-
tinues in effect, the military comman-
ders refusing to yield the collection
of taxes to the Chinese. They also
decline to submit the question OF
their control of the native city to the
ministers of the foreign powers in
Pekin, holding that a continuance of
the military government there is vital
to the maintenance of communication
between Pekin Pekin and Taku.
The navy department, on the 21st,
received a telegram announcing the
arrival of the cruiser Buffalo at San
Juan, P. r. Considerable anxiety had
been felt over the safety of this YES
sci, owing to a report hat she had
wrecked.
21st, said: IN. Van Rooy, the singer,
is very i'll, and has consequently can
all future engagements"
Germany and Russia are together
preparing a common circular note
an anti-anarchist confer
Manitoba viii have fully $4,000, 900
bushels of wheat for export this year.
King Edward has checkmated the
British mobiles who proposed
to line their pockets with American
and continental gold by the sale of
their seats in Westminster abbey for
the coronation, by decreeing that, ex-
cept in official capacity, none but
British subjects are to be present.
In the recent disastrous wreck on
the Santa Fe near Needles, Ariz., the
mail carried by both trains
was burned. At least 10000 letters
in Los Angeles, CAL, for the
east, were destroyed.
Advices from Pagosa Springs, Col,
where a company has been drilling for
oil for some time, announce that a
gusher has been struck at 800 feet.
1t is not known yet what the extent
of the flow is.
Harvey S. Dale, of Chicago, will as
sist the authorities of New Jersey in
every possible way to punish his wife,
Mrs. Elizabeth Dale, now under arrest
in Hoboken, charged with the murder
of their fve-Year-old daughter Eme-
line.
A member of the Canadian imu,i-
grafton department, says there viii
a movement from the United
States of not far short of 100000 per-
sons to the Dominion next year. The
has gained this year IT,
900 settlers from across the border.
The election, on the 21st, in the
parliamentary contest in Galway,
Ireland, between Col. Arthur Lynch,
who fought as a colonel in the Boer
army, and Horace Plunkett, unionist,
by 1,247 to 473.
The winter quarters of Wallace's
show, at Peru, Ind, were burned
on the 21st. The fire started n the
elephant house, and spread rapidly.
The animals became panic stricken
and their cries of terror mingled
with the shouts of trainers and EN-
ployes trying to drive them out of
danger. The animals were all safely