Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Secretary of War Root is exasper-
ated over the defeat of the army can
teen. In discussing it he said: 1t is !;
very unfortunate affair. 1t is like
ly hat the soldiers will now get bad
whisky instead of good whisky"
kidnapping in the Empire state will
be punishable by Imprisonment for
not less than 25 years if the measure
introduced in the legislature by Sen
ator Plunkett, of New York city.
should become n law.
The Cuban constitutional ccnver-
ton, in secret session, on the 10th, dc
cided, by a practically unanimous
vote, to insert in the draft OF the
constitution a clause providing for
universal suffrage in the future re-
public. Only one vote, it is under
stood, was cast against the proposal.
Express Messenger j. f. Woods. of
the Wells-Far9o Express Co, at
Shreveport, La, has disappeared with
funds and valuabIes of the express
company. the exact mount of which
can not be learned. 1t is said to lie
$4,000. Nothing has been heard of his
whereabouts.
The children of the murdered mil
lionaire, Amos J.. Smell. the victim of
Willie Tascott, are fighting over the
estate left by Mrs. Henrietta Smell,
the widow, The contestant is Mrs.
Mary Smell Stone, wife of A. J. Stone.
She was left out of consideration by
Mrs Smell, although declaring that
she is the first born of the Smell chill
dren.
Miss Jennie Creek, the Mill Grove
Cnd.) heroine, who tagged the train,
in 1898, on which were many noted
F~renchmen, will leave in a few days
for PARISH in response to invitations
from members of the Legion of Hon
or, to visit cross the sea.
According to the report of r. G.
Dun & Co., failures for the week end
ed on the 18th, were 324 in the United
States, against 274 last year, and 81
in Canada, against 25 last year.
At Princeton, Ind, ]. d. Keith a
on the 18th, convicted of numbering
Nora kicfer and sentenced to death.
After three days of suspense and
suffering, during which their lives
hung constantly in the balance, and
when, added to their other sufferings,
starvation stared them in the face,
the devoted crew and passengers of
the stranded vessel Russie, at Fara-
man, France, were taken off the
doomed vessel, on the 18th, through
the intrepid and almost superhuman
efforts of brave fishermen and others
who had repeatedly risked their lives
in former hnf fnfilo offorpnfS 70
reach the vessel.
The statement of the treasury pal
nee in the general fund, exclusive of
the $3.50, 000, 0OG gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued ON the
18th, showed: Available cash balance.
S137, sol, 462; gold, SS9.512,359.
The attorney general of Ohio has
brought suit in the supreme court to
test the validity of perpetual fran
chises in Ohio.
The liabilities of the 16 London
stock exchange firms which recently
failed aggregate E~2,0O0,000, in one
case the figures reaching 5000, 200.
Winning the largest single wager
ever made against roulette in New
York city, Michael Meagher, himself
a gambling house proprietor. by one
roll of the ball, took S10,5o from the
Savoy club Fo1tieth street gambling
house.
John Vanosdal, aged IS, a liRenan
of the Citizens Electric Light Co., of
Terre Haute, Ind, fell from a pole,
on the 18th, and was instantly killed,
breaking his neck.
The second trial of Jessie Morrison
for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle
will he held at the March term of
court in Eldorado, Kas. The district
judge has formally assigned the case
to a place on the docket.
Serious complication has arisen in
the Mrs. Nation case in Kansas. She
was cited to appear before the SUI
preme court at Topeka, on the 18th,
and railroads refused to carry her,
az she had been exposed to smallpox.
IL they should carry her it would be
in violation of law.