Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A. II. Pierce, the Texas cattle king,
better known as shanghai Pierce,
died at his ranch at Pierce Junction,
in Wharton county, Tex, OF the Goth,
of pneumonia, after a few days ill
ness. He was a union veteran of the
civil war.
Chairman of Sanitary Commission
A. j. Burr, at Wichita, Kas., has is
sued orders to kill all cats and dogs
caught loose On the streets. The rea-
son for this, he claims, is that these
animals are spreading smallpox by
running into infected houses.
A real wolf, savage and hungry, is
roaming about in the vicinity of
North Severty-second street and
Grand avenue, Chicago, and is soaring
the inhabitants of that part of the
city.
Mrs. Mary Foreman appeared be-
lore the Dawes commission, at VIM
ia, /. T., a few days ago, and applied
for the enrolment Of SwitZler Low
rev, an aged Cherokee Indian, and
when asked why Mr.. Lowrey did not
appear in person for enrolment, as
signed the reason that he was Iii
years old.
United States Minister Conger, says
a Pekin correspondent of the London
Morning Post, declares that no one
of the ENJOYS will recognize The en-
press dowager officially, although al
are aware that she has long exercised
the supreme power. He believes the
! crisis will result in the initiation OF
reforms in China.
Cadets testified at West Point, or
the Goth, that difficult or yery objec
tionable tasks were given fourth
class men, and, when they refused tC
obey the orders, were forced to fight
or leave the academy. y cadet from
Arkansas swore the social ostracisn
was so unbearable hat fourth elias:
men had to resign.
Hog cholera has swept Bureau
county, III. Spectators are buying
the deceased animals and hauling the
rca to Dixon. Within the las
two weeks many farmers in the south
ern section of this county have los
hogs ~aggregating several thousand
dollars in value.
Placer gold fields of fabulous rich
ness are said to have just been dis
covered in the Valley of the Penoles
southwest of OaXaca, Mexico. Thu
discovery was made by three Ameri
can prospectors who recently arrived
in Mexico from Denver, Col, lei
they were ''grub-staked" by prom
inent mining men.
Capt. Hank Half has been selected
as sailing master of the Boston boa
to be built to defend the America
cup. He has had great experience il
cup races. He sailed the Voluntee
and Defender in 1887 and 1895 respect
lively.
The American Crystal Palace Thor
oughbred Poultry and Belgian Har
show opened in Kansas City, Mo, o
the 27th, with about twelve hundre
specimens on exhibition.
More than six thousand person:
, four-ffths of whom came to the Unit
ed States, emigrated from Christian;
, Norway, during the last IL months
as against $500 in 1899.
Fire, on the 27th, destroyed the res
dence of Mrs. Harriger, at BrookTlll
Pa, and the mother and two daugl
I tiers, aged five and seven, persisted
: the flames.
In a accident at Film
g Mich, on the 27th, DIR. d. W. Howlan
was killed and G. H. Quigley, a prom
U inent business man, fatally injured
z The car and czarina will return
ID Taarskoe-Selo, neal St. Petersbur
:, about February 2.
U A certificate of incorporation WI
filed at Dover, Del, on the 27th, Il
il. the Midland Canal Co., of Fargo, n.
Capital ST. 900.
"a The corn crop of 1900 was one
~ the four largest ever gathered, VIII
the oat crop has only once been e
N ceeded.
Martial law has been proclaimed
the districts of Beaufort West Al
- Carnarvon, Cape Colony.
The Chinese court has enter
earnest objection to the razing
any permanent Notifications and
nj the maintenance of legation guar
at at Pekin. Apparently the Chine
go court finds in the proposed legati
b guards a menace to its OWE safety
ne At Bloemfontein rumors are c.
ly rent that Gen. DeWet, Preside
w. Steyn and Gen. Haasbroek have ha'
&c. conference and decided to offer
to surrender, provided the colon
~ rebels are not punished and the lie
10 ers including themselves, are not
'~ ported.
A corner in beans is the lat
.rx novelty in the Chicago market. Ii
so being engineered by the Albert ID
inson company. Within two we
Of the price has risen from $1.s4
les bushel to $2.20, and dealers predic
he further advance to $3.50 in the n
of future.
AT noon, on the 27th, w. Il. Smy'
,ig- grand secretary of the Free and
of cepted Masons of Indiana, was S
the by a mysterious blonde woman, '
entered his Office, in Indianap'
he'd while MI. Smythe was alone. fired
full shot and made her escape without
rist ing seen by any outsider.