Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

jim Younger wants to get mar
ried; but Jim is legally dead, and is
not competent to enter into Il civil
contract, and the Minnesota board of
control, the only power that car act,
is not anxious to enter into a mar
riage contract on Jim's account.
The woman suffrage amendment
was given its final death blow by the
Iowa Legislature, on the 18th, when
the house, by Il vote of Sc to So,
adopted the report of the committee
recommending it for indefinite post
ponement.
Miss Jane Smith died at MARSHALL
town, Ia, on the 18th, at the age of
1903 years. She was highly connect
ed, a native of West Virginia. and her
father fought in the revolutionary
war.
Gen. Lord Methucn. who was re-
Gently captured by the Boer general,
Delarey. after being badly wounded.
has been released, to the profound
establishment of the British. He ar
arrived at klerksdorp on the 18th.
Because two Jail guards became in
tercstcd in a sent pie viii Lanier,
sentenced to die March 10, at Aber-
deem, Miss. his third escape was
probably prevented. The men broke
open the pastry. and found that it
contained six fine steel SAWS.
Il. G. Dun 4 Co.. of New York. re-
ported on the 14th: Failures for
the week were 232 in the United
States. against 200 for the CORE
spending week last year, and "a in
Canada, against 80 in 1901"
Btai.-Gen. David S. Stanley IRE
tired, a notable figure in many cam
paigns. and in ono of the few remain
ing corps commanders of the western
army. in the civil war. died in Wash
ington, on the 18th, aged II years, of
| chronic Bright's disease.
Senator McComas, IN the 18th, in,
troduced n bill authorizing the re.
funding Of internal revenue taxes
paid on legacies and requests of a re
ligious. literary. charitable or edu'
%cational character, or for the ell
enlargement of art under the wal
revenue act.
The case of Princess Radziwill, who
is charged, at Cape Town, will
forgery in connection with notes pur
porting to have been signed by Ceci
Rhodes and repudiated by the latter
has been postponed until the 21st, or
account of the illness of the prin
cess.
Oil has been struck at q depth o.
500 feet in Il well on Turkey creek
southeast of Morrison, Col, and onl,
IL miles from Denver.
Negotiations for a treaty of amt,
between Spain and the United State
have fallen to the ground. Mr.. Storer
the American minister at Madrid, di,
his utmost to get the treaty accept
ed, but when one Of the principa
clauses was somewhat b~rusqucly re
jected he promptly dropped the ne
gotiations and started for America.
Some one, by means of a duplirat
key, opened u mail wagon, in Chicago
on the night of the 18th, and tS
tracted a registered mail sack. III
contents of the pouch are estimate
to be OF the value of $1,700.
The first court of the present reigi
which took place at buckingham pa
ace, London, on the night of til
14th, was a gorgeous spectacle, n
, less than 500 presentations takin
: place. Rain spoiled the function fro
| the sightscer's point of view.
Gen. II. I. Garrard of M~ancheste
patriarch Of the Kentucky mountai
feudists and chief of the Baker-Whit
faction, died at his home in Cls
e county, KY, on the 14th, after a pr
tracted illness.
King Edward has sent Field Ma
shall Gen. Lord Wolseley to Som
Africa as his personal representa-
I to investigate conditions there with
9 view to bringing about peace befo
the coronation.
3 It Is rumored that two mo
9 changes will soon occur in the cal
: net, namely, that James Wilson.
!. Iowa, secretary Of agriculture, W
tender his resignation, and th
I. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Of st. Lou
secretary Of the interior, will retir'