Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

New York city, was burneu w uedth,
on the 10th, in the apartments in
which she and her husband, Victor,
lived. Her apron caught fire at the
kitchen stove. Mr.. Suret and Police
Officer Blessing, the latter a boarder
with the family, were severely burned
in trying to eXtinguish the flames
which enveloped Mrs. Suret. There
is some doubt of Mrs. Suret's recov-
cry.
George Borchgrevink, the antarctic
explorer, arrived in New York, on the
steamer Etruria, on the 10th. In an
interview he told how. in 1899, he and
Il party of scientists had reached 70
degrees, so minutes, south latitude,
about so miles from the South Pole,
and the most extreme southern point
that any mar has ever reached.
Four lives were lost in a collision
on the Iowa Central railroad one mile
north of Clifford, Ia, on the 10th, a
light engine, north-bound, crashing
into a passenger train. A number of
passengers were slightly injured.
Fire at Carl Junction, Mo-, Destroy
ed the opera house block, including
three stocks of general merchandise.
Loss, $4,000. Mark Enos, a miner,
was caught by falling walls and IA
tally injured.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg, on
the 10Th. said: Count Tolstoi's tenn
perature is at 100. while his pulse is
81. He is very weak, but is bearing
up well. 1t is still hoped that he may
recover"
The factory of the IIampden Corun-
dunn Wheel Co., at Springfield, Mass,
was almost destroyed by fire, on the
18th, causing a loss of about s. $1,000,
mostly covered by insurance.
Cornelius Roosevelt, the only sur
viving son of the late S. Weir Roose-
welt, and a cousin to President Roose-
welt, died in New York city, on the
10th, of heart disease.
About t%wo-thirds of the business
portion of Woodbury., Cannon county,
Tenn, burned, on the night of the
10th, the loss being estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
The critical illness of the earl OF
Kimberly was announced on the 10th.
There was 1G inches of snow in
North Carolina, on the 10th.
Gen. Weyler, the Spanish minister
of war, will submit to the cortes a
proposal to reduce the Spanish army
by four army corps.
In the senate, on the nth. several
bills of Importance were taken from
the calendar and passed, among them
one extending the charters Of ma
tional banks. After an extended de-
bate, the bill establishing ID pcrma-
nent census Office was passed. In
the house, after the adoption. by Il
strict party vote, of a special order
for the consideration of The bill tu
repeal the war revenue taxes, the
bill itself was, by unanimous on
sent, put upon it's passage AVID re-
ceived the entire vote of the house
ayes, 27S; nays, o..
Gov. Stanley of Kansas received q
letter from the mayor of Paterson
N. j., on the 18th, returning $3.50
which the Kansas Indian Relief com
mission had sent to the Paterson
fire sufferers. The letter thanked
Gov. Stanley and the commission, bu'
stated that Paterson was able tC
take care of it's destitute without out
side assistance.
With only n negative vote TIL
Minnesota senate, on the 18th
passed the bill appropriating $25.o0
to pay the expenses of the legal ION
test against the so-called merger o
the Northern Pacific andGreat North
ern railways.
Unprecedented floods have oc
Cured in the southwestern portion
of Cape Colony, resulting in grea
destruction of houses, bridges ant
railroad property. Twenty-Five per
sons, also, were drowned.
There have been changes in tn
ministry at Seoul, Corea, rs a resul
of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Ne'
ministers of war and finance, O
neutral politics, have been appoint
ed.
Asunion Esquivela obtained a III;
iority of the votes of the electoria
in the election for the presidency q
Costa Rica held in San Jose on til
18th. The election passed off quietl,
Mrs. T.. A. Cook, of Shawnee, Okla
a restaurant keeper, has authorize
the announcement of the death of a
uncle in Luzon, Philippine islands
leaving her an estate of $1,000, 900.
Dew. Newman Hall, d. d., forme
chairman Of the Congregational III
|, ion of London, who had been i'll fc
some time past, was pronounced, O
the nth, to be sinking.
King Leopold is confined to h
: apartments with throat trouble an
his doctors have enjoined strict pr,
cautions.