Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

For the triennial conclave of the
Knights Templar at Louisville, KY,
August 27-30, the Central, Trunk line,
New England, Southeastern, Western
Southwestern and Trans-Continental
Passenger associations and the AS
sociated Railways of the Virginias and
Carolinas have made a reduced rate,
two associations granting one fare
plus two dollars, the others one fare.
The excursion steamer Queen al
rived at Port Townsend, WASH, on the
9TH, from the north. Her officers re-
ported Glacier bay n mass of ice,
and that no nearer than IA miles of
Muir glacier could be reached, an ice
jam from thirty to forty feet high
extending clear across the bay. The
ice foes in the channel were greater
than ever known before.
The Kansas state supreme court, on
the 18th, handed down a decision de-
claring the Kansas irrigation law to
be constitutional and that the con-
demnation of land by the Pawnee
Lake and City Irrigation Co. is valid.
This will make it possible to carry
into effect the biggest irrigation
scheme ever attempted in Kansas.
There was a shortage of ears to
move the Kansas wheat crop before
the marketing of hat cereal had bare
ly gotten under way. The wheat
movement started much earlier than
usual this year owing to the fine
harvest weather, and the railways, it
is reported, are unable to care for it.
\ number of Japanese war ships
will be present, in addition to the four
American wal ships under Rear-Ad-
sniral Rodgers, at the unwilling, on
the 14th, at K~urihama, Japan. of the
monument to commemorate the land
ing there of Commodore Perry, July
IA, 1858.
At Louisiana, No., on the eth, DON
aid Nichols and Samuel Taylor, each
about five years old, were burned to
death locked in an cut-building. They
had been playing and probably set
fire to a can Of oil. The door was
fastened and they were unable to es-
cape.
On the 9TH Silveton Green, of Nc
Dowell county, West Virginia. fatally
stabbed his wife and peat out the
brains of his child with a rock be-
cause the wife refused him money
with which to gamble. Green es-
capped to Kentucky.
Gov-Gen. Wood of Cuba who had
been suffering from a mild case of ty-
I,hoid fever, was reported, on the 18th,
as much improved.
The official reports to the New York
bureau of vital statistics of deaths
from heat for the week ending July
6 show that the actual number in he
five boroughs of Greater New York
was 9s9. For the boroughs of Man
haitian and the Bronx the number was
500; for Richmond, II; forQ Queens, "a;
for Brooklyn, 264. The records cover
the days when the heat was most in
tense.
The United States Philippine COM
mission has ordered II. Phelps Whit
marsh, governor of Benguet province,
to Manila to sumbit to an investiga-
ton, on account of the allegation that
he has been using his position to his
personal advantage in acquiring land
and mining rights from the natives
He is at present charged with indis-
cretion and violation of his instrue-
tions.
Mrs. Philip D. Armour, of Chicago
through her attorney, on the Sth, de-
clined to take one-half of the estate of
her brother, Frank Ogden, who died
recently in Cincinnati. Mr.. Ogden left
an estate which, by his will, was to be
equally divided between his wife and
his sister, Mrs. Armour. By the lat
ter's action the whole estate will go
to the widow.
The financial secretary of the Brit
ish war office, Lord Stanley, in the
house of commons, on the Sth, in an
! swer to a question, gave the total
number of Beers killed, wounded or
made prisoners, from among the ac-
tive commands. recently, as follows:
March 1, 472; April 2, 434; May 2, $40;
June, incomplete, 1,53s.
In the suit at Santa Fe, n. NJ, of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. against
the United Mine Workers, growing
out of the coal miners strike at GAL
llup, Judge McFie made permanent in
junction restraining the strikers from
interfering with the working of the
mine by non-union men.
Three explosions at the powder
works at Santa Cruz, CAL, on the sth,
wrecked the corning mill and resulted
in the killing of w. r. Darling and
serious injury of Joseph Maynard, en-
ployes. The corning mill was COM
pletely demolished. Cause of the ex-
plosions unknown.
Howard B. Rodgers, a nephew of the
late Jacob S. Rogers, of Paterson,
has been served with notice from the
relatives of the deceased millionaire
that the latter's viii, ~bequeathing the
bulk of his estate to the Metropolitan
museum of arts, viii be contested.