Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-08

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$4,000 taels ($i.292, 2OOJ was paid. On
the 30th. at Shanghai.
BY direction of the president the
flags on all the executive departments
were displayed at half-mast, on the
30th, in memory of cX-Secretary Nor.
ton, whose funeral took place on that
day.
The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon
of Eedleston, telegraphed, on the
Goth. that heavy, beneficial rains hal
fallen in Bengal and Assam and that
there had been local showers in Bur.
nah and parts Of Madras.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $500 o 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
I'd, showed: Available cash balance.
$1S4. S12, 670; gold, $o3, 914,696.
Mrs. Susan Sanders Tevis, widow OF
the late Lloyd Tevis, passed away AT
her home in San Francisco, on the
Goth, after a long and severe illness
Mrs. Tevis was one of the wealthiest
and b%cst-known women in California
The big packing houses have made
such inroads into the business OF
packing and shipping eggs n poul-
try for consumption in eastern mar
kets that the business of the small
shippers in the west is threatened
with destruction.
Capt. Eugene F. Ware, who Will be
appointed United States pension COM
missioner, was. on the night of the
list. unanimously elected commander
of the Kansas commandery OF the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States.
The Russian battleship Retvisan
built by the William Cramp & Sons
Ship and Engine Building Co., left
the s~hipyards at Philadelphia, on the
3Oth. for Russia. The Retvisan had
on board a complement of men mum
DGrlng ABOUT SEVEN liuliuiS''
The steamer Curacao, from Next
can ports, brings a tale of want ana
famine in the town of San Juan de
Cabo, situated near Cape San Lucas.
For three and a half years no ram
has fallen near the city, and for as
many years the crops have utterly
failed.
B. T. Tillinghast, of Davenport, la.
on the 30th, made an argument be-
fore the senate committee on foreign
relations in support of the bill grant
ing an annuity of $1,000 to Miss
Clara Barton, president of the Red
Cross, for distinguished services rem
dered.
The monthly coinage statement IS
sued by the directo" Of the mint, on
the 1st, showed that during April,
1902, the coinage executed at the
minis of the United States amounted
to S7,131, 1893, as follows: Gold, $3,4oO,-
AIS; silver. $3~,385,2T3, and minor
coins, $263, 800,
A company has been organized at
Vinita, |. T., packed by the Frisco
Railroad Co., to build q line, rs miles
in length, uniting the main line OF
the Frisco at Ninita, with the 'FriS-
co extension from Blackwell, Okla
to ~Coffeyville. Kas,, joining the latter
at Battlesyille, |. 7.
r. G. Dun & Co., of New York, re-
ported on the I'd: Failures in the
United States this week were 225,
against PIP last week, 361 the preced-
ing week, and 226 the corresponding
week last year; and in Canada II,
against IS last week, "a the preceding
week, and "a last year"
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The monthly circulation statement
issued by the comptroller of the cur
rency, on the list, showed that at the
close of business April 30. 1902, the
total circulation of national bank
notes was 356,9S7, 800, an increase for
the year of $6,223, l42, and a decrease
for the month of S489,00S.
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At Rochester. n. Y, on the I'd,
Judge Sutherland, of the county
court, on application of the Roches-
ter Baseball association eastern
league) granted a temporary i%njunc-
ton restraining Joe Bean from play
ing on the New York baseball team,
y Bean joined the New Yorks after
signing a contract with the local
club.
Nebraska state officers met, on the
Goth, in the office of Gov. Savage, and
adopted resolutions of respect to the
memoir of j.. Sterling Morton. The
flag on the statehouse was ordered
placed at half-mast, and it was de
cided to close the capitol, on the day
of the funeral, that the officers
might attend the services at Nebras
ka City in a body.
The highest prices ever paid TO
Thoroughbred cattle at the Soutl
Omaha (Neb.) stockyards was bid foI
a herd of Angus-Aberdeens sold there
on the 30th. The siX-year-old GOV
Blackbird was sold to Canton Broth
ers and Stevenson, of Holstein, la.
for 5000, and u calf at her sid
brought $1,000. Forty-four hea'
brought an average of 1924.
Officials of the department of agri
culture, on the 2Sth, adopted appro
pirate resolutions on the death o
former Secretary Morton, at Chicagr
DR.. o. L. Dyson, of the Chicago head
quarters of the bureau of animal in
dustry; H. j.. Cox, Of the Chicag
weather bureau, and DR.. d. G.. Aver