Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Berlin.
A disastrous wind storm passed
over Portsmouth, n. H., on the 8th,
causing the death of two persons on
Seavers island, and injuring half a
dozen others.
Nearly a hundred members of the
Kentucky Press association arrived at
Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 18th, on a
special train over the Rio Grande-
Western, intending to spend three
days in short excursions from that
point.
Emperor William, r~eciprocating a
recent courtesy of the sultan of Mo-
rocco, has presented to Abdul Ell Aziz,
for the new geological garden at Fee.
a lion, a Bengal tiger, leopards, bears,
parrots, all purchased through a Ger
man dealer.
Five hundred Lawton (Okla.) bust
ness men have signed contest papers
against James Il. Wood, who, they de-
clare, violated both the spirit and let
ter of the homestead act in filing on
land running the entire length of the
town site, thus shutting out Miss Mat
tie Beals.
President Mckinley has approved
the death sentence pronouncedagainst
Private Phineas Foutz, Nineteenth in
fantry, convicted by general court
martial of the murder of Genevive
Torres, a Filipino girl, by stabbing
her to death with a sword cane in her
home, at Mundane, Cebu, November
Is, 1900.
Oscar L.. Triggs, the University of
Chicago professor who compared
Rockefeller with Shakespeare, and
characterized church hymns as dog
gerel, told his class in English litera-
ture, on the 8th, that the poetry of
Longfellow is trivial and unworthy of
consideration.
Mrs. Theresa Wilcox, wife of the
Hawaiian delegate to congress, con-
siders herself insulted by the captain
of the steamship ZeaIandia because
he refused to allow her to conduct a
Hula Hula dance on board the vessel
on its last trip from San Francisco to
Honolulu.
Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from
Pretoria, on the Sth announced that
a post of 25 men, belonging to Stein
acker's Horse, On the Sabi river, had
been surprised and captured by the
Beers.
Chicago housewives, as a result of
the organization of the Servant Girls
union, are hiring men servants now
wherever they can, in preference to
maid servants. Men cooks, men pam
trymen, men laundrymen and every
thing else except men maids" are in
demand.
Nicaragua is left for the present
without a single banking institution,
through a ruling of the supreme
court of that country that the Lon
don Bank of Central America, ltd,
has no legal status in Nicaragua.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $3.50, o00, 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
9th, showed: Available cash balance,
$17s, s12, 511; gold, $1O2, 39s, 760.
A party of capitalists, headed by AL
bert f. Smith. of Milwaukee, closed
a deal at Omaha, Neb., on the 9th,
with the Union Pacific Railroad Co.'S
land departnent, whereby they be-
came rossessor:, of so 900 acres Of
grazing land IN Lincoln county in
that state. Tie land is located nea
the Gothersburg irrigation canal, a
few miles north of Gothersburg.
August 81 will be Shrine Day. at
the Buffalo exposition, and Mystic
Shriners from all parts of the United
States will gather there. Each Shriner
will wear his fez to display the nu-
mertcal strength of the organization.
An elaborate programme has been ar
ranged.
Victor, Col, gave an enthusiastic
welcome to Vice-President Roosevelt,
on the 9th, fully ten thousand per-
sons participating. When the vice.
president and party arrived on a spe-
cial train over the Short Line road,
they were greeted by blasts of giant
powder and hundreds of steam whis-
ties from shaft houses all over the
district.
Gen. Richard L. Page, of Norfolk,
Va. died at his summer home at Blue
Ridge Summit, Va, on the night of
IAkS 0t4s III IL IACty-1Oo IA yOoA
of his age. He commanded the outer
defenses of Mobile bay, at Fort Nor
gan, and, with 400 men, held Farra-
quits fleet at bay for two weeks.
If you want to sell your corpse for
$50 and will promise to die within six
months, a Chicago doctor will pay the
cash to you in advance. He is an os-
tcepathic surgeon and has a book all
written except the pictures. Each OPP
Grafton he describes must be Illus
trated by a series of pictures of him
self with q knife in his hand stand
ink over his subject.
1he San Francisco police are con-
vin&ed that John Winters, or "Buck'
TAYLOR, as he is sometimes known,
who is now in custody, is the man
who planned and executed the $780,
BOO gold bar robbery Of the Selby
smelter at Vallejo. Some think he
had no accomplices in the job. The
Stolen bullion is thought tt be buried
u9ar Winters cabin.
hord Kitchener has issued a proc
lAmation warning all burghers in
aEms TO surrender prior to September
nix as all found in arms after that
dSta win be permanently banished
tom South Africa