Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-30
TOPICS OF Il DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

June 1, DIT tuc lAN1GdlAOH"
The making of a new mast and gait
for Shamrock II. was begun, at
Glasgow, on the 23d.
The decision of the supreme court
of the United States is that the con-
stitution does not necessarily follow
the flag. The decision. however, is
not unanimous. The opinion, it is un-
derstood, has been written by Chief
Justice Fuller, and may be formally
promulgated on the 27th.
Ex.-Gov. John Riley Tanner, of Illi-
nois, died at his apartments in the
Leland hotel, Springfield, Ill, on the
23d, of rheumatism of the heart, aged
81 years. Though he had been i'll for
about a week, his death came unex
pectedly.
The five cadets dismissed from the
military academy at West Point have
entered the service of the New York
& Bermudez Asphalt Co., ostensibly in
a civil engineering capacity, but will
probably be employed in the organi-
zation and training of guards for the
company's property in Venezuela.
Prof. Frederick Starr, in a lecture
to his students in anthropology at the
University of Chicago, declared that
"Poets, gamblers, drunkards, cigar
etts smokers, persons who are tat
tooed and those persons who part
their hair in the middle are degener-
ates."
William Webb Ferguson and Mrs.
Mamie Barnes wer jointly indicted
by the grand jury, at Jacksonville,
ILL.,, on the 23d, charged with poison
ing the husband of the latter, DR.. j..
L. Barnes. The ease will be tried in
November.
Katie Duugherty, 16 years old, of
Peoria, H., who had been i'll for more
than a year, saturated her clothing
with gasoline, on the Esd, and then
set them on fire, standing stoically
in the center of the room while she
roasted to death. She lived two
hours, but never uttered a cry of
pain.
The tablets in the Hall of Fame, in
New York, will be unveiled on Mem
orial day with impressive ceremonies.
Many men of prominence will partici-
pate, Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew
delivering the Grafton.
The fate of the steamer Croft,
which sailed from New York for
Leith, on January 90, 1899, and which
was never heard of afterwards, is ex-
planned by the contents of a bottle
picked up at Granton, England, on the
Esd. The message said that the
Croft was sinking in mid-Atlantic.
Reports of the devastation of wheat
fields over Mcpherson county, Kas.,
by the hessian fly continue to come.
Many fields are entirely ruined and in
others the damage done by them has
not reached the limit.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna was mustered
into Memorial Post, G. a. R., of Cleve-
land, o., on the night of the Esd. He
received with great enthusiasm
and madc a brief speech in reply to
the congratulations upon the new
honors conferred upon him.
The schooner c. III. Hackney, Capt.
VIM. G. Ertel, went ashore in a north
east gale off Port Washington, Mich.
the 24th. The Milwaukee life saw
ing crew was notified, and went TO the
wreck with a big wrecking tug. AT
ter considerable exertion the six mer-
bers of the crew were rescued, though
the schooner was an utter wreck.
1t is semi-officially asserted that the
by the ministers of the
powers in Pekin not to reduce the
Chinese indemnity below $50, 600, 900
is final, and also that China ac-
this, thus rendering approx
mate reimbursement of the expedi-
expenses of the powers GER
tain.
The Berlin comic paper, "Ulk,"
shows Count Won Waldersee ready TO
from China standing before
three empty trunks, labelled "Vic-
tories" acquisitions" and "Indemni-
anil asking: "Is it worth while
them along?"
On the oath R. G. Dun & Co. report
ed: Failures for the week num-
bered $50 in the United States, against
1s5 last year, and % in Canada,
90 last year"
The anti-German agitation in the
province of Posen has assumed alarm
ing proportions. and the Prussian gov
eminent has forbidden all Polish i'll
door or outdoor meetings for the PEN
.tecostal holidays.
The live stock industry of Wyoming
is face to face with a grass famine.
Trouble between the cattle men and
sheep men is feared.
The gunboat Scorpion arrived OF
Memphis, Tenn, on the oath, and was
which was responded to by the war
ship. The Scorpion will remain there
until after the confederate reunion.
At their next meeting, directors of
the Pullman Sleeping Car Co. will be
asked to pass upon plans for pension
ing the $4,000 or $4,000 employees of
the company.
The merchants and clubs of Havans
have contributed literally for the re-
lief of the Jacksonville fire sufferers.
The steamer Tactician cleared from
New Orleans for Cape Town yester-
day, with 1,10O horses.
The question as to the ownership of
the historic Plains of Abraham has at
last been decided. The Dominion gov
eminent has voted $4,000 for the
purchase of the property from the
nuns. The government will hand the
property over to the city of Quebec,
to be converted into a public park.
An explosion occurred, on the Gath,
at the Universal coiliery, at Sem
OhoDudd in tho Rhopdda roIIoxy