Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IL DuIS On august ~Os 4SoOs was
fairly gotten under way at Pittsfield,
Mass, on the 18th.
Paris, on the 18th. recorded a tenn
Perature of SIS; Brussels, "a: Amster-
dam. ~: Lisbon, ga. Frosty weather
| prevailed in the Austrian Alps.
Naval Constructor Gilmore will visit
Havana, shortly, to make a careful
examination of the big floating dry
dock, which has been acquired by
the government by purchase from
Spain.
The Orient liner Ormuz. Capt. Coad,
from Sydney, \. S. W., for London,
which left Colombo, Ceylon, June %,
arrived off Gibraltar, on the 18th, with
two cases OF bubonic plague on board
In the course of an inquiry, on
Quoted under oath, at johannesburg,
various non-commissioned officers and
men of the British army confirmed
the statement that the Beers shot the
British wounded at V~lakfontein.
Francis Truth, the divine healer"
was again arrested at Denver, Col,
on the 18th, on a warrant charginghim
| with assault and battery. The COM
| plainant is Miss Lenore Elma Ladd, a
former patient.
A Shanghai dispatch to the London
Globe, dated July IL, confirms pre-
vious reports of the rising of the
Yang Use river, and says millions of
acres of land are under water, and
that the city of Hankow is threat
ened.
The supreme tent Knights of the
Maccabees has decided that all old
members must be rerated on the same
plan as new members at the age at
which they joined the order.
A bulletin issued by the census Of
fee shows hat there has been a de-
crease of the Chinses population in
the United States since 1890 of 1873,
, the number now here being $500.
Francis Schlatter, known as a "di-
vine healer was arrested on COM
plant of the Central Union mission
authorities, at Washington, on the
18th, for creating a disturbance in the
rooms of the mission. He was charged
with vagrancy.
Gov. Hill of Maine has designated
Miss Mary Preble Anderson, of Port
land, to christen the new United
State battleship Maine, which is being
built by the Cramps at Philadelphia.
The heat in London, on the 18th,
exceeded all previous records of the
season, the official record being 81
degrees. The entire absence of any
breeze added to the discomfort of the
heat.
Arthur Orr, builder of the coming
prpScac 1cnl for n,nDx- ,z - A.
United States mints in Philadelphia,
Carson City, San Francisco and New
Orleans, died at his summe home at
Morristown, n. y, on the 18th, aged
81.
The feature of the Epworth League
meetings at San Francisco, on the
10th, vas missionary work, the day
winding up with a great missionary
mass meeting at Mechanics pavilion,
at which addresses were made by sew
eral prominent ministers of the Unit
ed States and Canada.
W. Clayton Pickersgill, British CON
sui general for the Pacific coast states
and territories, died, on the 18th, at
a sanitarium in. Alameda, CAL, to
which he was conveyed a few days be-
fore suffering from malarial troubles.
After being robbed on a Choctaw
train, returning from Ell Reno, Okla,
on the 10th, accompanied by his wife
and daughter, Il. II. Smith, an aged
man from Bonham, Tex, dropped
dead in a crowded coach.
Kansas farmers are blowing up
their ruined corn fields preparatory to
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pasture fields for stock in the fall and
winter.
Cave & Sons shoe factory at Rush.
len, England, was burned, on the 10th,
involving a loss of 100000.
A work train on the Cotton Belt
broke in two, three miles north of
Texarkana, Ark, on the night of the
10th, and of the 3OC laborers who were
on board 40 were more or less injured.
|. Mrs. Urquhart Lee, of Chicago, has
accepted the chair of parliamentary
law, an addition to the Allied Wom-
ans club of the University of Califor-
MIA, established by Mrs. p. A. Hearst.
The municipality of Berlin has re-
ceived 100000 marks, for benevolent
purposes, under the will of DR.. George
ferl1ng, the composer, VINO o1eo az
Weisbaden last month.
Robert Folger Westcott, the head of
the Westcott Express Co., and father
in-law of former Capt. Oberlin M. Car
ter, United States engineers, died sud-
denly at Richfield Springs, n. Y, on
the 10Th.
Lord Kitchener has committed n
sentence of death passed upon "a Boer
prisoners to penal servitude for life in
| Bermuda.
The word christian remains in
the Virginia bill of rights, as fer as
the constitutional committee on that
document is concerned, the vote for
its retention being seven to four.
E. 6. McHale, foreman in the shoe
department of h Indiana state pris-
on at ~Jeffersonville, was branded, on
the 18th, by LIE Kelly, a convict, with q
piece of shafting, in the presence of a
number of lady visitors.
DIR. Joseph A. Chandler, a veteran
OF the One Hundred and Fifty-Second
Indiana infantry, died, ON the night
of the 10Th, having been overcome by
heat while returning from a profess
sionaI call.
Indiana has just completed her sea-
sons job of packing French Pease,'
having put away about $4,000, 900 cans,
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