Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-11
OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

was UNCONSCIOUS anu his cOuOtJ1Ou
was considered critical.
The plant of the ST. Louis Milling
Co.. at Carlinville, ILL.,, was burned, on
the night of the 4th, entailing a loss
of $4,000; insured for about two
thirds of that amount. 1t looked for
a time as if the entire town would be
burned.
Prof. John Fiske, the celebrated
lecturer and historian, died suddenly
at his summer home in East Glouces-
ter, Mass, on the 4th. His death
came as a great shock to everybody,
as it was entirely unexpected.
The land frauds in the states OF
Montana and Idaho will lead to an
extended and complete investigation
by the interior department of the
operations of all federal appointees
now in the land offices of those states.
Prof. Franklin w. Fisk, for 10 years
connected with the Chicago Theolog-
zeal seminary and IS years its presi-
dent, n of the most widely-known
theologians and educators of the
west, died in Chicago on the 4th. The
extreme heat is thought to have
naSIened MS u6aIn-
Carrie National delivered a TRADE
against the liquor traffic at CrGw-
louisville, Ind, on the 4th. Upon the
conclusion of her speech the stand
collapsed and Mrs. Nation fell several
feet into the ruins. She was badly
bruised.
The Danish schooner Anna, laden
with naphtha, while proceeding
through the Kattegat, on the 4th,
was shattered by the explosion of her
cargo. Seven men YER killed. Only
one of those aboard was saved.
Carlton Meyers, a small boy living
i'll West Liberty, Ia, became eGtangled
in the rigging of a balloon that as
cended there as a feature of the
Fourth of July celebration, and was
carried five miles and dropped, unhurt,
in the adjoining county. The crowd
which had witnessed his thrilling adj
venture contributed 500 as a reward
for his courage and tenacity in hold
ing on to the ropes until safely land
ed.
Surgeon j. j. Kinyoun. in charge of
the Marine hospital in Detroit, Mich,
has been detailed by the supervising
surgeon-general of the Marine hos
pital service to proceed to Japan and
China on a tour of inspection of the
work done by the Marine hospital
service there. He will investigate
contagious diseases and particularly
the plague. He will sail from San
Francisco on the 10Th.
Mayor Phelan of San Francisco is
in receipt of "A letter from Andrew
Carnegie offering to give S750,O00 to
thai city for a library building, pro-
vided the city furnishes a suitable
site and appropriates $4,000 a year
for maintenance. 1t may be, should
the offer be accepted, that a number
of branch libraries will be construct
ed in addition to a main building
President and Mrs. Mckinley left
Washington, on the 5th, for their
home at Canton, o., where they are to
spend the remainder of the heated
term, except that the president may
visit the Buffalo exposition and run
on to Washington for a few days
Frederick Wright, of indianapolis,
in making a balloon ascension and d
parachute leap at New Carlisle nd.,o OF
the 4th, became entangled in the guide
ropes when $50 fee above the ground
end was pitched to the earth below.
Thousands witnessed the terrible fall.
Wright was picked up unconscious,
but still alive.
Allen o. Myers brought suit in the
United States district our at Column
bus, o., on the 5th, for $4,000 dam
ages against the grand lodge of Elks.
He claims that he was wrongfully and
illegally expelled from the order; that
his newspaper, The Elk, was destroyed
and his history of the Elks rendered
v~alueless, and the ritual of the order,
of which he was the author and pro-
prietor, was appropriated and is now
in use, for all of which he asks dam
ages in the amount stated.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the S150,O00,000 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued en- the
5th, showed: Available cash balance,
S175,49s $50; gold, S99 ,2eS, 644.
According to a report filed with the
state auditor of Nebraska by Exam
iner E. j. Robinson, Alfred Norlin,
treasurer of Kearney county, is short
in his accounts $10,457. The examina,
ton followed the recent alleged as
sault and robbery of Treasurer Norlin
in his Office at Minden.
Twenty-one disciples of John Alex.
ander Dowie visited Evanston, a Chi
cago suburb, on the night of the 5th
and, despite the efforts of the entire
police force of the place, a mob o!
1000 people drove them out of town
using overripe eggs and vegetable:
as incentives to rapid locomotion.
Goy.-Gen. Wood of Cuba, who ha'
been i'll for some time, at Havan;
does not seem to be improving ant
much apprehension is felt regarding
the outcome. At the palace it wa
stated, ON the 5th, that he showed n,
signs of improvement.
Lord Kitchener telegraphs to tn,
British war office under date of Pre-
toria, July 4, as follows: .Greenfcil
on July /, at Howell, captured Q
Beers and a lot of supplies belonging
to BeYer's commando"