Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-16
TOPICS OF Il DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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$50 men, no rifles and ten cannon
Seven counts charging James Gala
han, alleged to be one of the alb
ductors OF young Cudahy, with per-
jury on his late trial at Omaha, Neb.,
were filed on the 9th.
At Dubuque, Ia, the jury in the
case of Jackson and Stovall, the al
legged Manila Ga.) express robbers,
found them not guilty. The men were
released fl ON Jail.
The Indian bureau has received
word that the official count of the
vote of the Cherokee Nation on the
Cherokee agreement with the Dawes
commission shows a majority of 1923
votes for rejection, instead of 1926,
as at first announced.
Gov. Yates of Illinois, on the 9Th.
signed the Louisiana Purchase
Worlds fair appropriation bill, which
appropriates $250,OO0 for an Illinois
exhibit at the exposition in 1868.
There was another wild time among
the stock spectators, in New York,
on the 9th, and many who considered
themselves rich in the morning saw
their fortunes vanish before the sun
went down. Thousands of small in
yestors, who took a flyer for luck"
dropped all they put in.
Most of the Chicago brokers and
traders were caught short on North
ern Pacific in the recent whirl, and
will have to stand heavy losses. One
young Chicago trader, however,
bought 1850 shares of Northern Pa
cific at 100 and sold it out at 700. His
profit was in the neighborhood of
81, 4 900.
The Australian federal parliament
was opened with great ceremony, at
Melbourne, On the 9th, by the duke of
Cornwall and York, representing
King Edward, in the presence of an
immense and brilliant assemblage.
A decision has been rendered by the
commissioner of internal revenue,
Mr.. Yerkes, holding that estates which
passed to heirs prior to the adoption
of the war revenue act, June IS, 1898,
were not subject to the legacy tax.
The two Shamrocks left SouthamD-
ton, on the 9th for a 60-mile spin. OF
the Needles they were caught in d
fierce squaII. Shamrock II. lost her
gait and gaff-toPsail yard. Sir Thos.
Upton had a narrow escape from De-
ing hurt by a falling block. The sails
of the yacht were wrecked.
President Mckinley viewed the
floral parade Of the Los Angeles (Ca1.)
! carnival on the 9th. The city was
packed t. the doors, there being
probably 100000 people in the streets.
Pasadena. Santa Monica and other
~neighboring towns in southern Cali
fornia were literally depopulated.
Count Bcni de Castellane is con-
fined to his room, in Paris, by sick
ness. Appendicitis is feared, and his
physicians are considering whether
an operation is necessary.
Gov. La Toilette, on the 10th, sen n
long message to the Wisconsin senate
vetoing the Hagemeister primary cleo
! ton bill.
The cooperative store at American
Fork, Utah, was entirely destroyed
by fire on the 10th; loss, S65, 900.
1t has developed that r. n. Pollock,
the president of the Cuyahoga saw
ings bank of Cleveland, o., who COM
mitted suicide at Seattle, Wash, car
ried life insurance to the amount, of
s65, 900 in favor of his family.
The branch appellate court of III
cago, in Il decision handed down, on
the 10th, denied the right of striking
workmen to ''picket" a shop for the
purpose of dissuading others from en-
tering the works. The decision was
given OF appeal from Judge Holdom's
court in contemptproceedings brought
against strikers who had violated an
III Injunction prohibiting them from
"picketing'' the Winslow Bros. Co.'S
works during tho strike two years
ago.
On the 10th r. q. Dun & Co. report
ed: Failures for the week numbered
1ST in the United States, against 1872
last year, and 20 in Canada, against Is
last year"
Lord Salisbury, bronzed and looking
exceedingly well, returned to London,
On the 10th, from Beaulieu, in the
south of France.
Miss Helen Gould has been com
work, temporarily, and take q rest.
WINE NOT pOSIIlNeIy III, nef nervous
system is somewhat unstrung, and heI
physician prescribes rest.
The steamer Bon Voyage caught
FIRE in Lake Superior, on the night OF
the 10th, and was beached neal the
Portage ship canal. Five passengers
all women, were drowned in getting
from the boat to the shore. The res
of the passengers and the crew were
safely landed.
Department of agriculture reports
made up to May 1 show the area un.
der winter wheat in cultivation on
that date to have been about 2s,267,
600 acres. This is 2.015,000 acres, or g.
per cent. less than the area sown las
fall, but ~2,0s2,0oo acres, or ~ PEI
cent. in excess of the winter whea'
acreage harvested last year.
As the result of an attempt to pre-
vent a single-tax advocate airing hi
views on the Campus Martius, in De
troit, Mich, on the night of the 10th
a riot occurred, during which a 6oze1
policemen and several citizens wer,
injured.