Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-10

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missionary held captive by Bulgarian
bandits, have made an appeal for
money with which to pay the $4,000
demanded to prevent her threatened
execution on the 9th.
Mrs. Roosevelt has appointed Miss
Belle Hagner, daughter of Justice
Hagner, of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, her social secre-
tary. Miss Hagner acted in the same
capacity for Mrs. Mckinley.
The first of the five submarine
boats of the Holland type, building at
Barrow-in-Furness for the British
government, was launched, on the I'd,
without The other four
boats viii be ready for launching this
year.
The monthly statement of the gov
m receipts and expenditures
shows hat for September, 1901, the
receipts amounted to $44,454,422, and
the expenditures to $50, 310, 1856, leav-
ing a surplus for the month of ST..
1856.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt, issued on the 1st, showed
that at the close of business Sep
TENDER 80, 1901, the debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted to $1,O31,-
524, 1865, a decrease for the month of
$4,s25,4O1.
Herr Panzer, of Berlin, editor of the
anarchist sheet Neurs Leben, received
notice, on the Sd, that he would be
prosecuted for public Indictment to
acts of violence. The discriminating
matter appeared in an article on the
assassination of President Mckinley.
The marriage contract betweenM Miss
Helen Morton, daughter of Levi z.
Morton, former vice-president of the
United States, and Count Bosom de
Perigord, a son of the duke of Talley-
rand-Perigord, was signed in Paris, on
the 1st, in the presence of the two
families.
The receipts of the German i'm
perial post and telegraph department.
for the first five months on the pres
ent year aggregated 167, 134, OBJ marks,
or an increase of almost nine million
marks, upon the receipts for the cor
responding period of last year. This
is regarded as remarkable, in view OF
the reduction of railroad receipts
A report, issued on the Sd, by the
United States geological survey, shows
that the total value OF minerals ot
all kinds produced in this country in
1900 was $1,O70, los, SS9. The total value
of the metallic products vas $685.
41s,627; the non-metallic $516,69O,262.
and estimated value of mineral prod
ucts unspecified, 81, 100000.
At Lacrosse, Kas, f. j. Smiley, OF
Topeka, secretary of the Kansas
Grain Dealers association, was, on the
4th, fined $500 and sentenced to three
months in Jail for violation of the
state grain laws. He was charged with
entering into combination with
grain dealers in Rush county to pool
and fix prices and prevent competition
among grain buyers.
The American Tin Plate Co. has
adopted a policy of cancellation oward
its employees who were recently en-
gagged in the steel strike. While the
terms of the settlement of the strike
do not permit the recognition of the
~Amalgamated association, not the
slightest discrimination, it is officially
stated, will be allowed against the
old men when they return to work.
Complying with an invitation to rec
ommend someone for superintendent
of the live stock division of the ST.
Louis Worlds fair, President John w.
Springer of the National Live Stock
association, on the I'd, on behalf OF
his organization, Endorsed Hon. C.. e. /
Thomas, secretary of the American
Hereford Breeders association, indie
pendence, Mo-, for this important POI
sition.
The department of agriculture has
finally succeeded in securing the Jor-
dan almond, expectation of which has
been vigorously prohibited by Spain
for some years, and this government
now will experiment with it to de-
termine the best localities for grow
ing il. This species of almond is re-
garded by the agricultural authorities
as the finest IN the world.
In the fastest and most superb con-
test ever sailed by single stickers for
the Americas cup, the Columbia van
pushed in a piping breeze, over a tri-
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