Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mayor-Elect Low Of New York took
the oath and entered upon the duties
of his office on the list.
Reports to T.. G. EGn & Co. show
that the failures for the year 1901
were HOOP in number and $113,092,-
$40 i'll amount of liabilities, while of
banking and other fiduciary institu-
tions there were "A insolvencies, in
volving S1S,01s,71i and a total of H.
orc defaults and Sl31, III $50 liabili-
ties.
Two men, giving their names as
Harry Williams and Charles Morgan,
were arrested by the Milwaukee po-
lice, on the LIST, charged with whole
sale operating in forged checks in
northern lumber camps.
United States District Judge De
Haven. at San Francisco, has rem
dered a decision to the effect that it
is no offense against the United
States government or the federal
laws to be in possession of, or to ut
ter notes of a defunct bank.
A man 80 years old, believed to be
j. w. Cheek, formerly a practiclng
physician in Bryan, Tex, st. Clair
county, Missouri. and Council Grove,
Kas., committed suicide at KANSAS
City, on the Cd, by taking morphine,
Emperor William of Germany ex-
pressed the wish to Ambassador
White, at the New Years reception,
that President Roosevelt would allow
Miss Roosevelt to christen his new
Yacht when launched in American wa
tiers.
The new District of Columbia di-
vorce law went into effect on the list.
1t provides that infidelity shall be the
only ground for absolute divorce, and
that, in such cases, only the innocent
party may remarry. Separation may
be granted on other grounds.
A tough negro named Hensley was
riddled with bullets by a crowd of
miners at Island City, Ind, on the
evening of the list, and the feeling is
SO general that he deserved death
that probably no arrests will be
made.
An industrial school for the eXclu-
sive benefit of students from France
is soon to be established at the Uni
versity of Chicago at a cost of ST.
600 900, made possible by the gener-
osity of Robert LeBaudy, the wealthy
Paris sugar dealer.
Rear-Admiral Endicott, chief of the
bureau of yards and docks, received
a telegram, on the I'd, from Capt
Converse, president of the naval
board in charge of the dock at New
Orleans, saying the big collier Sterling
was very successfully locked in a
strong wind and current.
The Geological Society of America
concluded it's semi-annual convention
at Rochester, n. Y, on the I'd. The So
ciety's summer meeting will be held
in Pittsburg the later part of June.
The secetary of war, on the I'd, re-
ceived a brief telegram from Gov
Gen. Wood, at Havana, saying the
elections had passed off smoothly but
giving no details.
The eleventh congress of Russian
n%aturalists opened in St. Petersburg
on the I'd. Three thousand persons
were in attendance.
Richard P. Leary, United States
navy, who died at Chelsea, Mass, re-
Gently, a a rear-admiral without
being conscious of the fact. 1t was a
promotion which he had looked for,
and it was said to have been the one
thing which troubled him in his last
moments.
At Paoli, Ind, on the Sd, Miss Eva
dentist and man of family, to read
before a crowd of citizens, an insult
ing letter he had written her; to
make public apology, and, finally, I'd
promise to leave town within 20 days
The steamer Walla Walla, of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Co.'s line
was sunk, on the night of the I'd, of
Cape Mendocino, by collision with al
iron bark, supposed to be French
OF the passengers and crew on boarc
all but 81 have been accounted for
Nothing is known as to the fate o
the bark.
In every branch of Great Britain
army gold lace, swords, belts, con
spicuous shoulder straps or lik
badges of rank are to be abandone
This is the result of the lesson
learned in the South African war.
A.A. Powell, seven feet seven niche
tall. and known as the "Kentuck
Giant" and Miss Matte Kerlin, VIII
stands four feet five inches, wer
/, married, on the Sd, at Starlight, K.
Powell is a travelling salesman for
!, New York firm.
:. A rich strike is reported from I'll
Nisi Prius mine near Orc, at the hea
of California Gulch, in Colorado.
J, Is a perfect .Aladdin's cave for rio
d ness. The sides are encrusted wit
O ore and on the floor are tons of
4 which contain values running as his
as 81, 800 to the ton.
@ Major low of New York city h,
d discovered that Tammany is plannir
l, to steal some Of the fruits Of Il
fusion victory by the use Of lar,
II sums of money in buying the suppo
Of some of the fusion members of q
board Of aldermen.
u While hauling in a seine off !
le Hamilton, N. Y, on the Sd, a fishe
II man captured and killed a full-groy
female fur seal. This is said to be t
lie first fur seal cver caught in tho
N waters.
N The most brilliant and INTEREST,"
T. social function in the national capt
ve since Nellie Grant "came out" "