Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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bicentennial fund had all been pro-
vided, the principal new pledgers be-
ing Frederick Vanderbilt and James
J. Hill, of New York, and Matthew
Borden, of Fall River, Mass.
Official business at the cabinet meet
ing, on the 25th, gave way to express
sions of sympathy with Secretary Hay
in his bereavement.
A German firm has secured the con-
tract for the electric lighting of Fe-
kin.
AT Seattle, Wash, on the 27th, the
coroner's jury entered a verdict that
William J.. Meredith was murdered by
John Considine, assisted by Tom Con-
sidine. Warrants were issued charg-
ing both the Considines with murder.
A dispatch from Rome, on the eth,
announced the pope to be seriously
i'll, and said that his attending ply
stefan did not leave the pontiff's bed
side. Vactican officials were anxious
concerning the pope's health.
Gen. Maxine Gomez sailed from Ha-
vana for New York, on the Goth, by
way of Tampa, Fla, accompanied by
the private secretary of Gov.-Gen.
Wood.
The governors of the New York
stock exchange voted, on the Goth, not
to close the exchange on July 5 and 6.
At a meeting of the Harvard Alum
nj association at Cambridge, Mass,
on the Goth, Hon.. John D. Long was
elected president.
A portrait of Louisa, Lady Manners,
afterwards countess of Dysart, by
Soppner, was sold at auction, in Lon
don, on the 27th, for 14,750 guineas.
Max Kershaw, formerly of Denver,
and who at one time w a one of Yale's
best-knovvn athletes, died IN San Fran
cisco, on the .7th, aged 30 years.
The secretary of the treasury, on
the 27th, purchased 100000 short
term four-per-cent. bonds at 113.9133.
Boer invaders, under Malan. and
Smit, about three thousand strong,
attacked Richmond, Cape Colony,
early on the morning of the 25th. The
town was defended by a detachment
of the North Staffordshire militia
under Capt. Hawkshaw and the town
guard. After a fight lasting IL hours
the Beers withdrew.
1Hc ScN6llUh DdlIOnd1 Ddnh VI UCH
York city was placed in the hands of
a temporary receiver by the comp
troller of the currency, on the 27th,
because of the Indebtedness of a bor-
rover, approXlmating $1,60O,000, Sc
cured by doubtful collateral.
La Lucia (Hayana), referring edi-
torially to the annexation movement,
warns it's agitators to proceed slowly,
saying premature action will prove
harmful to themselves and that their
efforts should be saved for that time
in the future when the problem OF
annexation up.
The jury at Eldorado, Kas., after
wrangling for 80 hours, found Miss
Jessie Morrison guilty of manslaugh-
ter in the second degree for the kill
ing of Mrs. Olin D. Castle. The penal
ty is not more than five years nor
less than three years imprisonment.
The jury at Springfield, o.. in the
case of George w. Thatcher, charged
with forging the name of the late
millionaire, P. P. Mast, to notes ag-
gregating $296,0O0 returned a verdict
of acquitta1.
While Alfred Norlin, the county
treasurer, was working in his office in
the courthouse, at Minden, Neb., on
the night of the 27th, some one en-
tered and knocked him senseless, and,
after rifling his pockets and h
money drawer, set fire to the build
ing.
The grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
mother of Abraham Lincoln, in Spen-
Ger county Ind, is at last marked by
a creditable monument. 1t has just
been completed and is now ready to
turn over to the commission created
by the last general assembly.
Thomas G. Barker, who shot Rev.
John Keller, and who was found gull
ty by a jury at Jersey City, N. j., was
sentenced, on the 27th, to five years
Imprisonment and to pay the costs of
the trial.
AS a result of the breaking of a
temporary platform built on a scat
folding inside and bridging the top of
q monstrous tank in the Eastern ele-
vator at Buffalo, N. Y, six men fell
a distance of so feet. Four were
killed, one instantly, and the others
died within a few hours. Another is
not expected to live.
There arrived at Ashcroft, B. c., on
lhe 9th, a gold brick weighing 1000
| pounds, representing the greater por-
ton of the years clean up of the
Cariboo Mining Co.
All the flint glass factories of the
country operated under the scales of
The American Flint Glass Workers
union, closed down, on the Goth, for
periods ranging from four weeks to
Two months. Fully forty thousand
men and boys will enjoy the custom
lry summer vacation.
At Christies' auction rooms il Lon
don, on the 28th, a pair of small
Louis XIV. cabinets with brass mounts,
and executed by Cafferi, which were
formerly the property of the duke Of
Leeds, were sold at auction for e15,-
100.
Miss Minnie A. Stoner, dean Of the
Roman's department. and professor of
domestic science in the Kansas State
Agricultural college, has been elected
professor of domestic science In the
Ohio state university.