Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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saw and planning mills at Upper Lake,
N. Y, went out on strike, on the 18th,
demanding a nine-hour day instead OF
IL. The trouble was o~ccasioned by .
factory inspector insisting hat a
dozen boys under eighteen years old
should not be compelled to work over
ten hours. No attempt has been made
to start the mills.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones, IN the 18th, received an en-
velope postmarked Denver, Col, con-
tanning $40 in bank notes, with a sim
pie memorandum: please give this
to any tribe of Indians. From a friend
of the Indians" 1t was forwarded to
a representative of the Indian Indus
trial league for use in its work.
DIR. Murdoch, the physician who is
attending Gen.. Daniel Butterfield at
his summer home in Cold Springs, N.
Y, said, on the 18th, that for ten days
the general had been very weak and
unable to leave his bed without as
sistance and that he realized that the
end was drawing near.
On the 18th the secretary of the
treasury purchased short-term bonds
as follows; $4,000 threes, at 100. O264;
$4,000 fves, at 1O9.1372, and S26, 500
tours, at 112.So79.
Mrs. Helen Althoff, widow, and her
~two-year-old daughter, were burned
to death in a fire which destroyed
their home at Vallejo, Cal, on the
18th.
The will of the late Pierre Lorillard
was read, on the 18th, in a law office
in Jersey City. No statement as to it's
contents was made public.
Warden Wolfer of the Minnesota
prison at Saltwater decided not to
maxi known the time when the
Youngers would be released, in order
that no demonstration, friendly or
hostile might occur on the outside.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
former president of the co~nfederacy,
is quite i'll at the Willard hotel in
Portland, Me-, where she went, re-
Gently, to spend the summer.
A Boston dispatch of the 18th said
paddy" Breen was under arrest
there charged with the theft of a gold
watch from Rev. Michael Burnham,
of st. Louis, which was taken from
the priests pocket while waiting for a
train.
Fire, on the 18th, destroyed the en-
tire crop of wheat on the farm of
Mrs. A. W. Whathen, two miles north
of Henderson, Ky. A separator had
just completed threshing the crop
and was moving away when a spark
from the engine set fire to the straw.
Conservative men who have careful
ly studied the disastrous effects of the
prevailing drought in Kansas say the
people of the state have suffered a
loss in all crops, except wheat, to the
amount of nearly $500, 100000 since
July /.
The continued intense heat and ac-
companying drought is assuming the
form of a calamity as unharvested
crops of all kinds are drying up in
the fields and water, in many places,
is becoming exceedingly scarce.
The Berliner TagebIatt, speaking of
the rumored retirement of Ambassa-
dor White says: Mr.. White is the
recipient of such confidence and ven-
Grafton from all circles in Berlin that
his departure would cause the keen
regret"
William Butler, one of the most
grocers in the east, died in
the German hospital at Philadelphia,
the 18th, from shock following an
operation for appendicitis. MFR. But
Ter owned sc grocery stores in Phila-
delphia and Camden, n. j.
Postmaster-General Smith is de-
to weed out the fake publ
that are b~urdening the mails
as second-class matter. Instead of is
a general order specific cases
will be taken up and tested on their
While the Marine hospital service is
not prepared to give out specific re-
of it's recent investigation, suf-
fcient data is at hand to warrant the
ascertain that there are at least 1000
cases of leprosy in the United States.
George G. Tilden, a well-known
mineralogist, was committed t. the
state hospital for the insane at Stock
ton, Cal, on the 18th. While expert
ing mining property in Salvador, Mr..
was attacked with fever and
mental trouble developed. He
was formerly state mineralogist of
New York, and is a nephew of the
late Samuel J. Tilden.
On the 18th r. G.. Dun & Co. re-
ported: Failures for the week num-
bered 2OS in the United States, against
1876 last year, and 81 in Canada, against
"a last year"
r. III. Newell, who was known as a
humorist &C years ago, under the
name of Orpheus' C. Kerr, was found
dead in his apartments in Brooklyn
on the 18th. When found, he had
been dead for several days.
Senior Federio Errazuriz, president
of Chilli, who had been in feeble
health for more than a year, died at
Buenos Ayres on the 18th. He was
elected president in 1896, for a term
of five years.
Richard B.. Hubbard ex-governor OF
Texas and a distinguished figure in
the politics of the state, and one of its
most famous orators, died at his home
in Tyler, IN the 12th, aged 81 years.
He was a native of Georgia.
Mrs. William Dean, daughter Of
Cashier J.. L. Haywood, who bravely
sacrificed his life in defense of the
Mortified (Minn.) bank when it was
raided by the Younger gang, resisted
every appeal for her signature to a
petition for the release of the
Youngers, and the men are finally
free h her aid