Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-22
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Among the passengers who arrived
at New York, on the 18th, per steam
er Lain, from Bremen and Southamp-
ton, were Gen. Fred. d. Grant, his
wife and son Ulysses S. Grant.
A sever tropical storm swept over
the gulf coast, on the 18th, accompa-
MED by what amounted to a tidal
wave. Thousands of persons were cut
off from the mainland in Louisiana,
Alabama and other coast states, and
it is feared there wassome loss of life.
The New York Tribune, of the 10Th,
asserts chat news has been received
in this country involving Venezuela,
Nicaragua and Ecuador in the at
tempt of Gen. Rafael Uribe-Uribe, the
Colombian rebel leader, to overthrow
the government of Colombia"
Mrs. Carrie Nation, while taking a
pleasure trip on the ST. Lawrence, out
Watertown, n. Y, on the 18th, began
a crusade against cigar smokers. She
undertook to snatch a cigar from the
mouth of Eugene Foley, a travelling
NINA, who promptly slapped her face,
and the crusade came to an end. Fo-
ley afterwards apologized.
Mrs. Eliza Stotlar, of Peoria coun-
ty, Ill, mother of William Stotlar, of
near Carthage, claims to be the oldest
woman in America. She celebrated
her one hundredth and eighteenth
birthday anniversary August Z, 1901.
She vas born in Pennsylvania.
In a match race at Brighton Beach,
on the 18th, for a purse of S12, 900,
offered by the New Yorl- Trotting as
ISOLATION, George H. Ketcham's stall
lion Cresceus defeated John j. Scan
nell's The Abbot, taking the first heat
in 2:03A and di~stancing his competi-
tor in the second heat. Fully 10000
persons witnessed the event.
Shamrock IL. was put in dry dock,
at New York, on the 18th, to have her
hull cleaned. Experts who saw her
say the cup challenger resembles the
Columbia very much, so far as her
underbody and fin are concerned.
That Shamrock II. is a dangerous OPP
ponent is conceded by all.
At Goreville, a little town on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad,
near Metropolis, ILL.,, no rain has fall
en- since last April, and all the wells
and springs in the neighborhood have
dried up. Water is selling at 81 per
barrel.
The postmaster-general received a
cablegram from Havana, on the 18th,
stating hat the trial of f. P. Thomp-
son, formerly postmaster at Havana,
charged with embezzling money Or
der funds, had been concluded and
convicted. He was SEN
fenced to pay a fine of $500 or serve
six months in prison.
The ministers of the various powers
at Pekin unexpectedly signed the pro-
tocol on the 18th. Copies were later
to the Chinese plenipotentiaries,
to receive their signatures.
The bill for the construction of a
cable from British Columbia
to Australia, by the imperial govern
and the Australasian colonies,
was passed by the British house of
.ords, on its final reading, on the 18th.
State Building and Loan Inspector
of Ohio, on the 10Th, swore out
q warrant for the arrest of J. A.
Blodt, late secretary of the Guaran-
tee Savings and Loan association,
at Cleveland, upon the charge of en-
bezZling funds ofthe institution. Blodt
recently resigned his position with
bank as the result of an investi-
cation by state officials.
On the 18th detectives arrested
.erhart Terlinden, alias Theodore
at a boarding house in Milwau-
100 HI - ohor~o1 1uf4A a-,Io,,lS,
1 500, 900 marks from a large manufac-
concern in Germany which is
at $4,000, 900 marks. Ter
it is alleged, duplicated the
concerns stock, had it stamped and
and sold it.
The entire town of Landess, Ind,
was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
There was no fire protection what
ever. The town had a population of
300. No casualties were reported.
American coal has ousted British
coal from the Swiss market" says a
dispatch to the London Daily Nail
Geneva, "aEd the American syn
dictate is confident of eventually OBJ
a monopoly of the entire
Swiss coal market"
On the 10th r. G.. Dun & Co. of
New York, reported: Failures for
the week numbered 16s in the United
States, against 161 last year, and 10
in Canada, against "a last year"
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $50, 0O0, 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
10th, showed: Available cash bal
ance, $175,4o7 orr; gold, 1O3,459,6s7.
Biologists of the Association for
Advancement of Science started from
Denver, on the 10th, on a ten days
tour of the state of Colorado. The
party goes first to the quarries near
Canyon City; thence to Aspen, Salida
and other points of geologic interest.
Prof. C. R. Van Hise, professor of
geology in the University of Wiscon-
sin, is leader of the party.
United States Senator Clark says
he would rather let the grass grow
in the streets Of jerome, Ariz., than
grant his miners an eight-hour day,
and has shut down the United Verde
copper mine, which produces a rev.
enue of $12, 000 900 a year.
A private letter received from Hon
olulu says that when the transport
Thomas touched at that port, en-
route to Manila, 80 couples out of the
400 school teachers on board had de-
cided to join fortunes and were mar.
ried by a local clergyman.
Monroe Roberts shot and killed
Dave Roberts, his brother, at Alt