Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07
NE VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DR.. w. c. Gabbert, president of the
village board of Trilla, ILL.,, was brut-
ally beaten and seriously injured by
two young farmers, named Rardin
and Brown, on the 31st.
At an execution of a negro in Wise
County, Va, on the list, the rope broke
and the condemned man had to wait
until the sheriff procured a new one.
Miss Helen West, of Des Moines, Ia,
will christen the cruiser Des Moines,
which will be launched at Quincy,
Mass, September 20.
Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, wife
of Richard Henry Stoddard, the poet
and writer, died in New York, on the
list, aged 50 years.
The marriage of Miss Alice Hay,
daughter of the secretary of state,
to James w. Wadsworth, Jr., will
take place at Newbury, N. H., Sep
TENDER 30.
Gen. Jacob II. Smith has accepted
an invitation to attend the reunion of
the National Society of the Army of
the Philippines, at Council Bluffs, Ia,
August 10.
Mrs. Julia c. Howell, of Chicago,
committed suicide in Denver on July
30, but her body was not discovered
until the 1st.
Forest fires are destroying valuable
timber in different sections of Colo
RADIO.
Judge Dunno, at Chicago, On the
1st, continued the hearing of the case
of Chas. w. Spaulding, the ex-bankar,
for two weeks, and remanded him to
Jail.
San Francisco is preparing to en-
terrain 100000 visitors at the Pythian
conclave between August II and 20.
The price of hard coal was adj
vanced ten cents a ton in Chicago on
the list.
The chamber of m OF
Kingston, Jamaica, adopted resolu-
tions condemning the British govern
ment for its treatment of the colony
and urging energetic action looking
to annexation to the United States.
From a small village near Warsaw,
Russia, comes the story that a three
m~onths-old babe has spoken a pro-
phecy that Sin one years time there
will be a great war between the
world powers, and in three years we
will witness the coming of the mil
lenium."
The ]coroner's jury at Murphysboro,
ILL.,, that investigated the death of
Anna Hayden, who was found dead
In bed, returned a verdict holding
Norton Bryan, with whom she lived,
to the grand jury.
LANG Cheng, the newly-appointed
Chinese minister to the United States,
now in London, having been ordered
to return to China, Minister WI Ting
fang will remain at Washington for
an indefinite period.
Dennis Dunnacher, one of the al
legged foot-race swindlers, created con-
sternation among the counsel for the
defense at Springfield, ILL.,, on the
31st, by making a complete comics.
sion, in which he implicated several
others.
James Hopkins, colored, who was
arrested at East Madison, Ill, by Pat,
rick McCambridge, chief of police
has confessed that he killed Charles
Odum, of East st. Louis. He alleges
self-defense, saying that Odum at
tempted to cut him as the result Of
n rrn1 nyar. n 20 n of oropc
The London Lancet says there neec
be no apprehension as to the kings
ability to go through the coronation
ceremony or the appointed date, Au
gust 9.
The little town of Los Alamos, il
Santa Barbara county, California
sustained serious damage from al
earthquake on the 31st. The resi-
dents were panic-stricken and wer,
afraid to remain in their homes.
An American engaged in mining il
Sonora says Mexican army officer
are exterminating the Yaquis withou
provocation, and that foreign lnves
tors are afraid to t. TX about tn
butcheries.
Alfred E. Rhodes, of Aurora, A.l., al
employee of the Cudahy Packing Co
at Butte, Mont, was killed, On tn
3st, by an electric shock that cam
from a stack of meat in a refrigera
tor a that had become charged dun
ing a violent electrical storm.
The monthly statement of the M
, tional debt shows that at the close q
business July 81, 1902, the debt, les
cash in the treasury, amounted t
$973, 91o,3 which is an increase, a
, compared with July 1, Of $4,453,1 1875.
About 10000 bound volumes Of th
! census report for 1900 have been ii
sued and mailed to those entitled I
!, them, and 10000 more are to be prin
! ! ed and mailed before the work is fl
! ished.
The monthly statement Of the go
eminent receipts and expenditure
1 shows that for the month of Jul
e 1902, the receipts amounted to SAG
e 305, sol and the expenditures $56,S1a
567, leaving a deficit for the mont
e Of $7,507,s76.
. Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter
+ President and Mrs. Theodore .Roos
n velt,, arrived in Newport, II. l., {
, the LIST, and 0 several weeks
y come will be the guest Of Miss Helt
d Cutting, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Fulton Cutting