Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-02

ing or tne G5tn, anu lour AlNes "0iS
lost.
Jacques Francois Henry Fouquier,
the French publicist and former
member of the chamber of deputies,
died on the goth. He was born Sep
TENDER l, 1888.
Civil Service Commissioner Proctor
is quoted as saying, in substance, that
Edgar S. Maclay has been removed
from the public service, and he knows
the eas why. therefore he has no
ground for appeal to the civil service
commission for redress.
Another big oil well was struck in
Knox county, Ky, on the 25th. Gas
came first and took fire from a forge,
burning the derrick and machinery.
After two hours oil began to gush,
spouting a sheet of flame 100 feet
high.
The exactions on tourists arriving
at the port of New York will, it is
said, be made more stringent, and
tourists arriving in this country Will
be called upon, in future, to pay full
duty on all extra wearing apparel,
as well as on everything else not on
the free list.
According to the report of the
Philippine commission the revenues
of the islands will soon be sufficient
to support the army, provide suffi-
Gent police and pay all other de-
mands which would naturally arise in
the insular administration.
Emperor William, while walking in
the e~nvirons of Potsdam, Christmas
eve, tossed several three and four
mark pieces to poor-looking persons
whom he passed. The emperor'a
Christmas bounty is never limited, but
this year he doubled his usual sub
scriptions to charitable funds.
According to an estimate compiled
by the Railroad Gazette for 1901, the
mileage built in the United States
during the year ending December 81
approximates 4,51S. The figure last
wear was 1904, and in 1899 1869.
On December 81 the first volume oil
the complete census report on pop
ulation will be issued. This is Is
months after the beginning of the
census, and the work has been done
in three years less time than was
required for the eleventh census.
Mrs. Mckinley spent Christmas day
alone at her home in Canton, o. She
was urged to join the Barber family
in their Christmas dinner at the OLE
Saxton homestead, but declined to d'
so. She received flowers and loving
remembrances from all over thu
country.
Eighty members of Company +
Eighteenth infantry, were poisoned
while eating breakfast, Christina
morning, at Fort Russell, Wyo., ant
for a time fully half of them wer
in danger of death.
1t has been decided in Rome t
send u pontifical mission to the coro
nation of King Edward. This mission
will be organized on lines similar t.
the one which attended the Victoria,
jubilee.
Simon Owens, aged 1902, was burne
to a crisp in his cabin in Guthrie
Okla, on the Goth. He was born
slave on Gen. Andrew Jackson
plantation, and was crippled for lif
at Vicksburg when the city was bt
sieged by Gen. Grant.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to Civ
Kalispell, Mont, $4,000 for a librar,
provided the city furnishes a site an
!, 81, 900 yearly for maintenance. III
; city already expends that amour
) each year for library support.
A certificate of incorporation w;
I filed at Dover, Del, on the Goth, II
the Bell of Thunder Mining Co.,
. acquire mines and mining rights. Ca
ital, $1,OOO,0 Incorporators: r
dolphas w. Pardeman, Nampa, ldah
/ Clinton D. Greenlee, Pittsburg, Pa
Charles w. Culver, Reno, Pa.
It A deed transferring the Pope
|. cycle works of hartford, Conn.,, fro
the American Bicycle Co. to t
v American Cycle Manufacturing
Ie was filed in that city on the 20
" Revenue stamps indicating a cons
Grafton of about 100000 were
tached to the deed.
Il A. J.. Ayers, a young messenger
the Union bank of Brooklyn, who d
d, appeared recently with $4,000 of I
It. banks money, was arrested in MI
IS. treal on the Goth.
The River Arno has overfiowed
banks and the waters have eau
es considerable damage at Florence 6
SO at Pisa, Italy.
Bond purchases by the treas
department, on the 26th, amour
se' to $53,400.
'u- Rev. William B. Corbyn, in his Ell
Ill ty-eighth year, quietly celebrated
he Quincy, ILL.,, Oh the goth, the II
he eighth anniversary of his ordina'
)0,- as an Episcopal minister. He
lat graduated from Yale in 1889, and
1, admitted to holy orders in 1s46.
lge Former President Grover Clevel
has accepted the appointment on
Industrial department of the Nat
'lei al Civic federation, created at the
~ cent peace conference of labor
y c~apitalistic leaders in New York
Fire, which broke out in the p
maceutical department. OF the Cut
=. Packing Co.'S plant at Omaha,
- IN the 26tk. did $4,000 or 81
ugh damage before it was gotten u
control