Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-18

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IRoNToN. MISSOURI
DR.. FL. w. Hardness, O pioneer ply
stefan and q well-known authority OF
fungi, died ct San Francisco, on tn
10th, aged so years.
Gov. Herried of South Dakota, OF
the 18th, appointed A. B. Kittridge
of Sioux Falls, as senator to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Sen
ator Kyle.
The Presbyterians of Mexico assem-
bled in Mexico City, IN b 9th, or
ganized the Presbyterian church IN
Mexico independently of the two
Presbyterian churches in the United
States
DIR. August NJ. Unger, under conv1c-
ton in Chicago for conspiracy in the
Defsnbach insurance case, was taken
TO Joliet on the 18th. DR.. Unger com
menced the service of his sentence at
his own request.
Secretary Hay has received a num-
Der of communications from mer-
chants and exporters, begging him to
secure the withdrawal of the -esigna-
ton of Consul-General Stowe, at
Cape Town, in view of Mr.. stoves
great services to the American ex-
port trade.
King Charles of Portugal, in the
presence of the Portuguese cabinet
ministers, the insular authorities and
the officers of British and Portuguese
cruisers, inaugurated, at Ponta del
Gada, Island of Miguel, Azores, on the
nth, the international Meteorological
observatory.
Herbert l.. Bridgman, secretary of
the Peary Arctic club and head of the
expedition to the north by which it is
hoped to discover the fate of Explorer
r. E. Peary, his wife and little daugh-
ter, left New York, on the 18th, for
Sidney, Cape Breton, which will be his
sailing point.
At Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th, Mrs.
J. S. Yates, of Kansas City, Mo-, wa
elected president of the National AS
ISOLATION of Colored Women, defeat
ing Mrs. Booker T. Washington and
Mrs. Bruce, of Josephine, Miss. Mrs.
Yates had been treasurer of the asso-
citation for four years.
The census office issued a bulletin, IN
the 11th,~ concerning the urban popula-
ton of the country. 1t shows hat 2S,-
Ill, 69s people in the United States live
In cities and towns of over four thou
sand population, a gain of almost five
per cent. since the census of 1890, wher
the percentage was 800.
j. III. Hollander, treasurer of Porto
Rico, left San Juan, on the 9th, on the
steamer San Juan, for New York. Ii
is reported that Mr.. HollandeI
has resigned his position of treasurer
and that he may go to Manila, there
to draw up tax laws similar to those
he has drafted for Porto Rico.
The monthly statement of gross
postal receipts for June at so of the
largest post offices show a net in;
crease of S209, 7S6, or Sc per cent, for
the so offices over June of last year.
The biggest increase vas 30 per cent
at Buffalo New York city increased
7.2 per cent. and Chicago 3.3 per cent.
One of the Boer prisoners recently
taken to Derrell's island, Bermuda.
from south Africa, escaped and was a
stowaway on the steamer Trinidad,
which arrived at New York on the 9th.
The authorities sent him to Ellis isl
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examination before the board of in.
quiry.
If. Santos-Dumont's cigar-shaped
balloon, driven by a motor had a
trial, on the 18th, from st. Cloud,
across Paris, around the Eiffel tower
and back to St. Cloud. Paris papers
say the trip was quite successful, and
that the balloon assembled and de-
scerded apparently at the will of the
aeronaut.
Four thousand Epworth leaguers
passed through Omaha, Neb., on the
10th, half of them stopping off to
visit local points of interest. The
home societies had reception commit
tees at the depots who took the par
ties for rides on trolley cars and to
visit the great packing houses and
stock yards.
Ex-Congressman A. n. Martin. dem
ocrat, died in the hospital at the Sol
diers' home at Marion, Ind, on the
18th. of consumption. He represented
his district in the national house of
representatives three terms, 1888, 1896
and 1892, during which time he was
chairman of the committee on PEN
sions. He was 60 years old.
James Ragsdale, American consul
at Tien Tsin, has sentenced three
American hooters, caught in the Chi
nese quarter of that city, to four
years Imprisonment in the American
Jail at Shanghai. Mr.. Ragsdale also
turned over two Europeans caught
footing to the consuls of Great Brit
ain and Denmark respectively.
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