Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

to take up, among other things, the
charges which have been preferred
against Judge Humphreys, of Homo
lulu.
Joaquin Cooley, Chilean minister to
Brazil, died suddenly in Rio Janiero,
on the 27th. He was formerly Chilean
minister to the United States.
Commander-in-Chief Rassieur of
the Grand Army of the Republic has
named the committee on credentials
of the coming encampment, in the per-
sons of Adjt.-Gen. Sterrett and Assist
ant acknowledgements Rodgers, of
Missouri; Thatcher. of Connecticut:
Kasson, of Ohio. and Robbins, of Colo
rado and Wyoming. This committee
will sit, on September 10 and Hat the
HolIenden hotel, in Cleveland, o.
John r. Thomas, an architect of
New York city, died at Watertown, n.
Y, on the 2Sth, aged SO years. Mr..
Thomas was the architect and sole
commissioner for the erection of the
architect of the New York city hall of
records and of the Eighth regiment
armory. He was also the winner of
the first prize in the New York city
hall competition.
The Nebraska City (Neb.) Daily Tri-
bune has been sold to the Morton
Printing Co., of which j. Sterling Nor
ton, ex-secretary of agriculture is the
head, and will be edited by him. Mr..
Morton is also editor of the Conserv-
ative, a weekly paper, and has been
connected with other periodicals at
different times for 20 years.
The will of the late Dowager En-
press Frederick of Germany was
opened at Hohmurg, on the 2Sth, with
out special ceremony. Her fortune
totals 1900, 900 marks. Her six chill
dren receive a million marks each. The
youngest, Princess Margaret of Hesse
(wife of Prince Frederick Charles of
Hesse) also gets Frederickshof castle,
on which the dowager empress spent
the whole of the three million marks
beuuest which she received from the
late Countess Galliera.
I A beouest of 100000 to the First
Church of Christ ~(Scientist) of New
York city, by Helen c.. Brush, who
died July Z, 1900, was upheld by sur
rogate Fitzgerald in a decision rem
oered on the 2Sth. The will was con
tested on the alleged testamentary in
capacity of Miss Brush and undue in
1uence on the part of the agents of
the First Church of Christ.
The United States transport Han
cock arrived at San Francisco, on the
2sth, from Manila, 22 days out. She
brought 1900 soldiers and 90 cabin
passengers.
Mounted troops returning from the
Philippines leave their horses behind,
as it has been found Improbable to
reship the animals, they being prac-
tically worthless for service after
their return.
According to Ali Nouri Bey, former
Turkish consul in Rotterdam, "the
number of Armenians killed by the
Kurds will depend upon the cutlery
raised in Europe and the pressure
brought to bear upon the sultan. The
same horrible process will be repeated
year by year until all are killed.
zach" Phelps, a prominent lawyer
and Gobel democrat leader of Louis
vile, Ky, died, on the night of the
goth, of pneumonia, complicated with
heart trouble. Mr.. Phelps drew the
ten-year agreement of the National
baseball league.
The board of review, at Chicago, on
the goth, discovered, while closing its
affairs, that the Armour estate, val
ued at So, 264, 529, was not on the books.
An investigation was begun, which de-
veloped some queer juggling.
While the general opinion at Con-
stantinople is that Turkey will yield
and meet France by paying the full
amount of her claims, it is known
hat there is a war faction in the sui
tan's cabinet that is urging him to
provoke Franco into some overt act
of hostility.
William Johnson, a f~our-year con
Wet, committed suicide at the Kansas
state ~penitentiary, at Lansing, by
drinking a large quantity of wood al
cohol. He was SEM up from Dodge
City, and had three years TO serve.
Editor W. S. Cox, of the Brainerd
(Minn.) Arena, was kidnapped, on the
night of the goth. by three men, who
tarred and feathered him, and then
turned him loose. The cause of the
outrage is not made known.
The Carnegie public library build.
ing at Oklahoma City, Okla. was ded.
icated on the 29th. Gov. Jenkins and
other prominent men delivered ad,
dresses. The library building cost
$4,000, the gift of Andrew Carnegie.
After electing officers and selecting
San Francisco as the place of meeting
the first Tuesday in September, 1904
the twenty-eighth triennial corclave
of Knights Templar. which had beer
in session at Louisville, Ky, ad
journed, on the Goth, to the date set
A call has been issued for a conven
ton in Guthrie, October IL next, of al
persons in Oklahoma named Smith, tt
effect an organization for annual re
unions. It is estimated hat there ar,
1000 Smiths in the territory.
The interior department. has bee,
advised of the completion of the sal
of town lots in the town of Hobart
in the newly-ceded part of Oklahoma
The aggregate amount paid for al
the lots sold was $1,000.
The navy department has awarde,
TO Private C. Donan, of the Marin
corps, a ~life-saving medal for the res
cue from drowning of Private W. 3
Gibson. also a marine at Olongapo, T
/, in June last