Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-03
TOPICS OF TIE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The signal office of the war de-
partment now has direct ~telegraphic
communication with Fort Egbert,
Alaska. The lines were completed on
the oath.
The condition of Kirk B. Armour,
the packer, who is seriously i'll at his
home in Kansas City. No., was report
ed improved on the 26th.
Assassin Czolgosz, who was SEN
fenced, on the 26th, to be e~lectrocut-
ed during the week beginning October
%, is reported to have said, during the
trip to Auburn prison, that he had
made a mistake, and was sorry now
that he did it, as it had helped no.
body.
John George Nicolay, who vas pri-
vate secretary to President Lincoln,
and widely known as the author of
several works on the life OF the great
war president, died, on the goth, at his
residence in Washington, aged 20
years.
The London Daily News publishes
an unconfirmed rumor that Lord
Kitchener has resigned the post of
commander-in-chief of the British
army in South Africa, owing to dis
agreements with Mr.. Brodrick, the
war secretary.
Caleb Harvey, an old and wealthy
resident of La Porte, Ind, died. on
the Goth, as the direct result of griev-
ing over the assassination of Presi-
dent Mckinley. The physician who at
tended Mr.. Harvey says that he liter
ally mourned himself to death.
The remains of Abraham Lincoln
were placed in what is intended shall
be the final resting place of the sa-
cred dust, on the 26th-a bed of iron
and masonry Is feet below the base
of the shaft of the national Lincoln
monument at Springfield, Ill.
Much disappointment was ex-
pressed over the failure of the wind,
IN the Goth, which prevented the first
race between Shamrock II. and
Columbia being finished within the
time limit. At the time the race was
called off Shamrock was almost hull
down to the rear of the Columbia.
The period of official mourning for
President Mckinley will end on Octo-
Der IA, and after that date the routine
of life at the national capital, both
political and social, will progress as
usual.
1t has beer intimated to the ladies
of the official set in Washington hat
Mrs. Roosevelt will not be ready to
receive calls of a social or formal
nature until after October Is.
Mrs. Roosevelt is trying to solve
the problem of bestowing a family of
eight into a seven-room hat-for that
is all the White House living rooms
amount to-and at the same time
maintain a decency of public appear
ance and a privacy of family life be-
Citing their station.
Announcement is made that the
marriage of Maj.-Gen. II. C. Corbin,
adjutant general of the army, and
Miss Edyth Patten will take place in
Washington, at the residence of the
bride, on November 6.
Passenger train No. 5, on the Wa
bash, a through train from ST. Louis
to Omaha, was wrecked, on The 27th,
seven miles southeast of Council
Bluffs, la. The entire train, consisting
of mail and baggage ears, two day
coaches, a chair car and Pullman
sleeper, rolled down an 1s-foot en-
bankment and turned bottom side up.
Nearly forty persons were injured,
some of them fatally.
The question of the new tariff con-
tinues to be the subject of newspaper
discussion in Germany, which is daily
becoming hotter.
Kirkland B. Armour, the packer,
died at his residence in Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 27th. Mr.. Armour had
suffered with Bright's disease and a
weak heart.
1t is again asserted in well-informed
circles at Caracas, that President
Castro will soon declare war on Co
Iombia. The Venezuelan government
is without financial resources, and
will shortly use the method of South
American relationships and proceed
to raise funds by force. Lack of con
fidence in the government is mani
tested everywhere in Venezuela.
In the Schley court of inquiry, on
the 9th, a letter was presented from
Rear-Admiral Sampson, asking to be
allowed to be represented in the court
by counsel, but the court refused to
grant the request on the ground that
1.-THE court does not at this time re-
gard you as a party to the case"
A special dispatch from Christiania.
on the 9th, said that the condition
of Henrik Isben, the Norwegian
dramatist and poet, had grown worse,
and that his death was hourly expect
ed.
DIR. Lueger, the chief burgomaster
of Vienna, has been challenged to a
duel by Herr Oftenheim, a lawyer,
whom he had called a "malevolent
fool" He refused to fight, however.
On the 27th r. G. Dun & Co. report
ed: Failures for the week numbered
227 in the United States, against Goa
last year, and 81 in Canada, against
Is last year"
Herr Luck, a banker in Aschaffen-
burg. Germany, committed suicide, on
the 27th, by drowning himself in the
Main.
Czolgosz collapsed when he arrived
at the Auburn On. W prison, where
he is to be electrocuted, on the morn
ing, of the 27th, induced by the
demonstrations of a mob that sur
rounded him and his guards on the
arrival of the train from Buffalo.
President Francis and Corwin H.
Spencer called on President Roose-
welt, on the 27th, and were assured
by him hat he is in thorough accord
with the Louisiana Purchase exposi-