Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

in that city, their flesh being made in
to 'corned beef" hamburger steak
sausage and other products for cheap
restaurants and the free lunch trade.
The Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial
Appeal and the Scimitar violently crit
icise President Roosevelt for having
dined with Booker L. Washington
the negro educator and reformer, at
the White House, on the evening OF
the 10Th.
The British having surprised sew
eral camps, the Beers are now in the
habit of shifting camp by night. Late
Iy the British columns, after long
night marches, have arrived at their
~objectives only to find the Beers
gone.
President Roosevelt, in his message
to congress, will confine himself to
personal comment on administrative
and legislative problems. and will not
incorporate in it abstracts of the re-
ports of different heads of depart
ments, as has hitherto been the Gus
TOM.
AT the regular weekly meeting of
the Council of Apostles, held in the
temple at Salt Lake City, on the 18th,
Joseph Z. Smith was chosen as presi-
lent of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, in succession to
the late Lorenzo Snow. with John r.
Winder and Anthony H. Lund as his
first and second counselors.
Miss ~Theophile Noonan, the beauti-
full ~1S-year-old daughter of State
Factory Inspector Noonan, who~ was
Goddess of Labor, leading a big DEM
onstration at Nashville, Tenn, has
~mysteriously disappeared from her
home, and it is feared she has been
abducted.
The battleship Maine relief fund has
been exhausted. This fund was turned
over to Capt. Sigsbee, chief intelli-
gence officer of the navy, for disburse-
ment, and he has distributed it to de-
serving applicants.
A gorgeous Chinese fancy ball will
be given by Minister WI Ting-fang at
the Chinese legation to celebrate the
return from China of Mime. WI. Three
OF the daintiest little maids of China
that the minister's wife could select
will make their American debut at the
ball.
Herr Maurer, editor of the Neus-
Leben, an anarchist sheet, was
in Berlin, on the 18th, to
four months Imprisonment, owing to
the. publication of an article approx
ing of the assassination of President
Mckinley.
Officers of the German field hospital
in China, just arrived at Wilhelms-
haven, brought with them the mead
of the Chinaman who murdered Baron
Won Ketteler, the German minister,
and who was executed in Pekin for
the crime.
A committee has been formed in
London to give a banquet to Sir
Thomas Upton on his return from the
of the committee are. Lord Mayor
Frank Green, Lord Charles Beresford,
Lord Llangattock, Sir John Monck-
ton, Sir james Thompson and T. p.
O'Connor.
The British admiralty has sent in
to Davenport to prepare for
the construction of a battleship larg-
er than any TO- existing. Her dis
will be 1880 tons, and her
425 feet. She will be the first
of the King Edward class.
w. II. Nelson, proprietor of the Kan
City (Mo.) Star, has purchased
the Kansas City Times, and will con-
tinue it's publication, both papers to
be issued from the Star building. The
Sunday edition of the Times will be
merged with that of the Star.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of Amer
ca is planning a general reorganiza-
ton tending to strengthen itself af-
ter the losses accruing in membership
due to the settlement of the late
The autumn crops in the unirrigated
soil throughout the Punjab, India,
nave entirely ~withered, the monsoon
failed.
Judge Jacob Scales, aged 20 years,
died at his home in Webber's Falls,
[. t., on the 18th. Judge Scales was
one of the most prominent citizens of
the Cherokee nation, and had held
many offices under the tribal govern
ment.
On the 18th r. G. Dun & Co., of
New York, reported: Failures for
the week numbered 229 in the United
against 200 last year, and 81 in
Canada, against 26 last year."
1t is reported in government circles
In Munich that Count Won Buelow, ut
the wish of Bavaria and Wurtemburg,
has decided to drop the minimal du-
ties from the new tariff bill.
The British war office has ordered
the immediate payment to the yeo-
many of arrears of pay, thus remov-
ing a serious grievance.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $3.50, 900 900 gold reserve in the
of redemption, issued on the
18th, showed: Available cash bal
ances, $16s, 714,074; gold, s10o,474,oss.
A detachment of 46 men of Com
pany E, Ninth infantry under Lieut..
Wallace, was attacked by 500 bolomen
at Lower Gandara, Samar island, on
the 10th, and suffered a loss of ten
killed, and six wounded. The
was beaten off, leaving 81 lead
on the field.
John S. Pillsbury, former governor
of Minnesota, and one of the states
citizens, died at Minneapolis,
the 18th. of Bright's disease, after
brief illness. He was over 73 years
years of age. Mr.. Pillsbury left num-
erous monuments of his public spirit