Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-11
OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

'or New York. These are the frst car
,oes to be shipped from Great Britain
to New York.
Messages Of congratulation on his
orovidential escape from death or
injury fairly rained in upon
President Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay,
on the 4th, among the first being one
from Emperor William of Germany.
The patent office at Washington is
doing a lively business in looking into
for burning oil for fuel
purposes, both for the production OF
heat and power. There have been
granted up to date 1880 patents for
using oil as fuel. .,
Bailey Kerekas, a Lowell (Mich.)
veterinary surgeon, was arrested by
officers of Ionia county, on the Attn,
charged with sending a poisoned
headache powder to George Merritt,
of Saranac.
Col. ]. A. Chalaron, secretary of tha
Confederate Memorial association at
New Orleans, has expressed himself
as being unalterably opposed to re-
ceiving n Grand Army aid for the
confederate home at Mission Creek,
Ala, as suggested by Gen. Ell Tor
rance.
A Boxer proclamation has been
posted at Canton, China. melting the
slaughter of foreigners. 1t is ascribed
to the commencement of work on the
Canton-Hankow railroad and to the
collection of funds for the payment
of the foreign indemnity.
The National Association of Post
Office Clerks, by practically a unani-
nous vote, rejected the proposition
to affiliate with the American Fedora
ton of Labor. Resolutions were
adopted declaring that such an al
lance would prove d trimental.
In anticipation of a third challenge
from Sir Thomas Upton for the
Americas cup, it is said that a syndi-
cate has been formed for the building
of another defender. The Herreshotfs
will be given the order.
President Roosevelt left Washing
ton, on the 5th, on his southern trip,
The only stops he will make will be
at Wheeling, w. Va, Chattanooga and
Knoxville, Tenn, and Asheville,'N c.
The democratic state convention at
Pocatello, Idaho, on the 5th, nomi'
mated Joseph H. Hutchinson for con-
gress and indorsed the Kansas City
platform and VIM. j.. Bryan.
Thomas Lewis, a miner, living al
Marquisville, Ia, was arrested, on the
5th, charged with the murder of LEM
Patterson and her brother, in Des
Moines, Ia, on April 10 last.
An intimate friend of Presiden
Roosevelt says there is no truth il
the report that the president intend:
to visit Colorado soon on a hunting
trip.
Martin c. Ruiz, a California pioneer
is dead at his home at Santa Monica
aged 1O7 years.
In New York, on the 5th, Senator
Platt reiterated his assertion, mad
on August 80, that the coal strik'
would end by the middle of Septem
Der.
1t is learned that the tempOrar,
hitch in the formation of the allege'
packers trust is due to the fact tina
the Swift people insisted that thei
stock be taken into the deal at it
market value of from $50 to $1S5, IT
stead of at it's par value.
Miss Mary Gamble, a well-know
Cincinnati woman, who gave thor
sands of dollars annually to churc
and charity work, died at Cambridge
England, on the 5th.
The Beef trust inquiry at St. j
seph, Mo-, adjourned on the 5th, I
meet at Jefferson City on Septembe
IS.
Fire swept away the business pc
ton of Savage, Neb., on the 5th, d
stroying 10 buildings and causing
property loss of $4,000.
Alvin c. Dake, the pioneer charco
manufacturer of Colorado, and n
the wealthiest men of the state, dit
at Denver, on the 9Th.
Sheriff Strain, of Monona count
Ia, who was shot by Ed. earns, ne;
!, Whiting, on September 1, died on Il
5th.
The continued volcanic eruptions
. Mont Pelee are creating alarm amol
, the islanders of the Caribbean sc
who are in constant dread of an OF
break sufficiently sever to create
great tidal wave, in which case
a million or more of lives would be
: dangered.
d A crowd Of citizens attacked Pr
son Green's house at Eldorado. I
d on the night Of the 5th, and becal
$ involved in a pitched battle with
soldiers stationed there by O.
! Yates. Several shots were exchang'
:, but no one was injured as far
= known.
:. Hopeless restitution lies in t
wake of civil war now raging
: tween President Castro and the re-
: lutionists in Venezuela. The peoT
: owing to the paralysis Of busine
!. are in a more impoverished conditi
!. than in many years.
= Prof. Rudolf virchow, the celebr
y cd pathologist, died in Berlin, on
= 9Th. With him passes n Of the gre
!. est medical discoveries and inve'
gators of this or any age.