Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

lie american Ice Co., on the 2Gthi
filed papers at Trenton, \. j., reducing
it's authorized capital stock from
SOC 100000 to $40, O0O, 900.
The board of governors of the New
York stock exchange will suspend
business on Good Friday and on the
Saturday following.
AT Kansas City, Mo, on the 29th,
VIM. Deardruff, aged 20 years, pleaded
guilty to stealing $500 worth of dia-
monds from his employers. Edwards
& Sloane, wholesale jewelers., aud was
sentenced to two years in the peni-
tertiary. Deardruff's father, with
tears streaming down his cheeks.
pleaded for his son. The elder Dear
druff is a Kansas City (Kas.) jeweler,
and the boy had previously borne u
good reputation.
The Argentine government has ac-
cepted in principle the proposal of
European bankers for the unifcatioa
of all the public indebtedness of AS
gentina.
The physicians of James Hackett,
the actor, who is i'll at Cincinnati,
have decreed that he must retire from
the stage for a month.
The Pixies Peak cog road opened,
on the 2Sth. for the season.. There was
a great deal of snow on the mountain,
but the track was comparatively
clear. Daily trains are run to the
summit.
a dispatch from Salonica announces
that nine men were scalded to death,
on the 2stn, by the bursting of a
steam pipe on the Turkish torpedo
boat Shehab.
Theodore Wallert, who murdered
his wife and -four of her children,
was hanged at the county jail at
Henderson, Mimi, early on the morn
ing of the Goth. The murderer dis
played no nervousness, and during
the last few hours of his life he
laughed and joked with his relatives.
Thomas Nichols, of Danville, XIV,
dropped dead of heart disease. Mich
OILS was in Louisville, Ky. last winter
and attracted considerable attention.
as it was developed, on examination,
that his heart vas located on his
right side.
The president assured callers who
spoke to him regarding the disposal
of Aguinaldo, that he would be gov
erned largely by the advice OF Judge
Taft, chairman of the Philippine COM
The senatorial deadlock in Nebras-
ka was broken, on the 2Sth, by the
of the republican candi-
dates, ~whereupon the caucus placed
in nomination Joseph H. Willard, of
Omaha, for the short term, and the
nominations We're promptly ratified
in the joint session OF the legislature.
The kentucky court of appeals, on
2Sth, granted new trials to Caleb
Powers and James Howard, under
sentence as having been connected
with the GOebel assassination. The
in the Howard ease we by
he whole court. In the Powers case
Judges Hobson, Paynter and White,
dissented.
A patrol of the colonial defense
orce has seen captured in the Mid
and district of Cape Colony, by the
reacherouS use of the white flag.
The British mistook the Beers for a
'ortion of their own column. The
advanced, waving a white flag,
Lntil resistance was useless.
The Odessa correspondent of the
.ondon Graphic, r~emarking hat the
acts were suppressed in the official
counts of the recent rioting, asserts
hat IS students, including three
iris, were killed in Kharkoff and FIVE
St. Petersburg.
From October 1. 1919, to the close
f the nineteenth century the volume
f immigration at the port of New
DIRK aggregated 1903, 162, which
epresented nearly seven-tenths of
total arrivals during the same
eriod at all ports in the United
!
The Richardson shoe factory at Du- '
uque, Ia, was destroyed by fire on i
ne evening of the 2Sth. The factory S
mployed 40 hands. The loss is es- t
at $125,OOO. Thirty thousand +
ollars' worth of goods were just G
for shipment. It
Daniel Krick, a farmer, living three I
east of Montrose, ILL.,, was E
Ound dead OF the 2Stb BE was en-
aged in hauling timber, and was ,
0und lying beside his team. He was :
he last of a large family, all of whom ,
led very suddenly. -
The directors of the Calumet and :
[ecla Mining Co., at a meeting in Bos-
on the goth, declared a dividend .
f SIS per share. The last dividend de-
Jared was $50. :
R.G.Dun & Co., reported, on the goth:
for the week numbered FOG {
1 the United States against 203 last :
ear and 90 in Canada against 30 last
/
A seat on the New York stock ex-
hange was sold. on the goth, for $685. {
90, which is $4,000 more than the I
ighest price previously paid. {
The operation of gastrectomy, or
emoyal of the stomach, was per- {
Grmed at the German hospital, in ;
'rooklyn, on the Goth, on Jacob Wich-
ian, on account OF a ~cancerous $
rowth. Though the patient was in 5
poor condition to undergo so Sc ,
an operation, the physicians are :
opeful that he will survive. ,
James Stephens, the celebrated
cad center of the Fenians, died in ,
on the 29th. Stephens, after
years of exile, was permitted to re-
urn home to die in 1891. He was 81 !
ears old then, and a broken-down ,
Id man. l
a, the magnificent structure built l
furnished by the late Lewis Gin t
er, at a cost of 100000 and occG- I