Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-29

County Register.
by ELI ID. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
The appointment was announced,
on the 18th, of Lionel E. G.. Garden
to be British minister at Havana. Mr..
Garden has been the consul general
of Great Britain in Cuba'since 1895.
Prof. James w. Wilson, son OF the
secretary of agriculture, has accepted
the chair of animal ~husbandry and d.
rector Of the state agricultural ex-
pertinent station at Brookings, S. d.
Gen. Lloyd Wheaton received a
great ovation as he boarded the Unit
ed States transport Sherman at Ma
Mia, on the Esd, for home. The sail
ing of the steamer, however, was de-
layed by a typhoon.
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The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $3.50, OOO, 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
23d, showed: Available cash bal
ances, S1S7, 639,253; gold, $95, 1896.
"Kosher meat" disturbances broke
out il the West End section of Bos-
ton on the 22d. About three hundred
Hebrews-men, m and children
attacked three meat stores. The
windows were smashed and the
stocks of meats ruined.
The highest price for Texas cattle
in the history of the Chicago stock
yards, was paid, on the 21st, for a
carload belonging to Charles McFar-
land. of Aledo, Tex. The cattle aver
aged 1885 pounds. The price paid was
$685. a hundred pounds.
Rev. FIR. G. Taylor Griffith has re-
signed the rectorship of the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church of the Good
Shepherd at Omaha, Neb., because of
lack of belief on the part of the con-
gregation in the real presence OF
Christ in the holy communion.
A court of inquiry was organized,
on the goth, on board the United
States cruiser Chicago, at Naples,
Italy, to investigate the arrest of Off
GERS of that vessel at Venice, April
25 last. Capt. James H. Dayton was
appointed president of the court.
At Kansas City, Mo-, on the goth,
Frank Stewart and Victor D. Snyder,
who pleaded guilty, on May IA, to in
dictments charging them with using
the mails to defraud, were each SEN
fenced by United States Judge Phil
fps to serve one year in the peniten-
tiary.
Henry Brothers & Co., stock brok-
ers, whose suspension followed the
decline in what was known as Webb
Meyer stocks early in the present
month, were, on the 22d, relnstat7d
to membership in the New York
stock exchange, having met all their
obligations.
The senate committee on Isthmian
canals decided, on the goth, to report
adversely Senator Hoar's bill placing
the matter of the selection of an in
ter-oceanic canal route in the hands
of the president. The measure was
especially opposed by the supporters
of the Nicaragua route.
On the Goth, at noon, sharp, the
government of Cuba was handed over
by Gov.-Gen. Wood to President Pal
ma, the duly elected first president of
the youngest republic. Pretty com
pliments were exchanged between
Presidents Roosevelt and Palma, and
other officers of the two govern
ments.
The annual cncampment OF the G
A.. R. and auxiliary organizations Of
Nebraska closed their sessions al
Omaha on the 23d. Lieut.-Gov. Calvin
F. Steele, of F%airbury, was elected de
partment commander of the G. A. T..
and Mrs. F. NJ. Mckinney, of Blair
was elected president of the Women's
Relief Corps.
The executive committee of the
Washburn College board of trustees,
on the 21st, selected DR.. Norman
Plass, of WilliamStown, Mass, as
president of the college. The action
will be ratified by the trustees at the
June meeting. DR.. Plass is a gradu'
ate of Williams college and the Yale
divinity school.
Through the state department the
navy department has been requested
by the government of Germany to
look after the safety and welfare OF
German subjects on the isthmus OF
Panama. The request has beer
promptly granted by our government
and cabled instructions have beer
sent in accordance Herewith.
J. J.. Ruhan, rs years Of age, wa
burned to death, on the 23d, in a fir
which destroyed his home in the rear
of the st. Elmo hotel in Salt LAX
CITY, Utah. Ruhan had lived in Sal
Lake City since 1857. He was tn
first convert to the Mormon faitl
from France, and for some time file
the position of instructor in Frencl
to Brigham Young's children.