Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-29
TOPICS OF Il DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

lated by gas, on the 22d, in their room
in San Francisco.
Chief Justice Sir George Burton, OF
the court of appeals, of Toronto, Ont,
died in hat city, on the 22d, aged 81
years.
Franklin NJ. Flynn, formerly a
wealthy stock dealer, was found dead
in bed at the Mitchell hotel, Jackson
vile, ILL.,, on the evening of the ed.
Flynn weighed 325 pounds.
The secretary of the treasury, on
the 22d, purchased short-term bonds
as follows: $1,000 threes, 1t 10s.49G2;
S1.4O0 foufs, at 113.21O5; $500 fves, at
at 1Os.1CO7.
Sir Thomas Lipton's new challenger
for the Americas cup, Shamrock H..
had her first trial spin in New York
lower bay on the 22d. Expert yachts
men say the action of the craft as
srues an interesting contest for the
trophy.
Memphis, Tenn, is becoming the
center of the pearling trade for three
states, and daily men who have en-
J gagged in the business are bringing in
gems which sell for good prices. The
rivers of Arkansas and Mississippi are
the most prolific of the gems.
George Klauer. g jointist, was
found guilty, ON Is counts, of viola
ton of the prohibitory liquor law,
before Justice Disney, at Topeka,
Kas., on the 22d, and was fined an ag-
| gregate of $500, or 1850 days in
Jail.
The war against woman conducting
post offices in Kentucky has brought
to light the fact hat J. C. Montgom-
cry, a storekeeper in Bourbon coun-
ty, is trying to supplant Miss Matte
Boyd, a cripple, who lost both feet in
a railroad accident, and who gets $40
a month for her services.
State Health officer W. P. Blunt, at
Austin, Tex, was notified, on the 22d,
that one death and two cases of yell
low fever have occurred at Tampico,
Mexico, on the Mexican steamer Yu-
catan, from Vera Cruz.
Exiles of Madeira and their de-
scendants met in Bloomington, ILL.,,
on the 22d, to celebrate the fifty-sec-
ond anniversary of the arrival in this
country of that band of 800 driven
from Portugal's province because of
religious persecution.
BY the construction of the missing
link by the Rocky Mountain Tele-
phone Co. and the Northwestern COM
pany between Billings, Mont, and the
present North Dakota terminus, a
circuit viii be completed from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, the longest in
the world.
Baron Fava, the Italian ambassa-
dor at Washington, will inaugtrate
an Investigation of the killing of Jo-
seph Gingotti, an Italian railroad la
borer, by one of a mob, near Ash
down, 20 miles north of TeXarkana,
Ark.
Because two union beef butchers
employed by the Cudahy packing
house, at Arm0rdale, Kas., were dis
charged, on the 23d, 125 butchers
struck, causing that department to
be shut down. The strikers allege
hat the men were discharged with
out cause The company superintend-
ent says it was following out a plan
to reduce the force in all depart
ments.
President Johnson, of the American
league, on the 23d, expelled Shortstop
Shugart, of Chicago, for assaulting
Umpire Haskell, at Washington. Mr..
Johnson said: Each player of the
American league who in the future
slugs an umpire on the ball field will
be expelled from the league. That is
final"
The tenth annual session of the
Concentrated Order of Hoo Hoo has
been called to meet at Norfolk, Va,
on September 9. After adjournment
the members will proceed to Buffalo,
N. Y, where they will participate in
the festivities of Lumbermen's week
at the exposition.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $3.50, 100000 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
23d, showed: Available cash balance,
176,4s8,1O7 Gold, S104, s91,143.
James w. Lyall, aged GO, a wealthy
manufacturer of cotton goods, was
found dead, on the 23d, in the bath
tub at his home in New York city.
The gas was turned on. It is believed
he was overcome with weakness and
fell, striking the gas jet with his arm,
turning it o n
j. a. Blodt, formerly secretary CT
he Guarantee Savings and Loan Co.
o. Cleveland, o., was, on the 23d,
bound over to the grand jury on the
charge of embezzling funds of thai
concern.
The Marquis Ito has abandoned his
proposed American tour.
On the 23d r. G. Dun & Co. report
ed: Failures for the week number
205 in the United States, against III
last year, and IS in Canada, against
90 last year"
According to a dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Mail from Simla, India, 10
inches of rain fell there during the
three days ended on the 23d.
The gunboat Machias, which is on
her way to Colon, arrived at Kings
ton, Jamaica, on the 23d.
Lenox (Mass.) society is very much |
stirred yer an invitation given by
Morris K. Jesup, the millionaire New |
York ~financier, to Booker T. Wash |
ington, the negro poet and orator, to
visit him at his splendid summer
home, Belvoir Terrace.
Old Ii Hung Chang now finds him
self in the same precarious position
that he occupied at the close of the
negotiations following the war with
Japan. The native press is unani-