Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-10-02
OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
Personal AND GENERAL

James Gordon Benefits niece, Miss
Rita Bell, was married in Paris, IN
the 25th, to Count Paul D'Aramon.
Justice A. II. Ellis, of the Kansas
supreme court, died suddenly, on the
25th, at his home at Topeka. He had
been in bad health for some months.
President Roosevelt passed a com
Portable day on the 25th, and at ten
o'clock at night his physician re-
ported that he was doing nicely.
Four Illinois stockmen were killed
and two seriously injured in a COLI
sion on the Burlington road near
Maiden, ILL.,, on the 25th.
Substantial relief came to the New
York money market, on the 25th,
when Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
announced hat he would anticipate
interest on government bonds up to
June, 1908, amounting to S20,650, 900.
The effect on the market was pro-
nounced.
Germany has decided not to asso-
ciate herself in a formal name with
the American and British protests
against Roumania's treatment of the
Jews. Germans are large holders of
Roumanian securities.
Charlemagne Tower, at present m
bassador to Russia, has been selected
as successor to Mr.. Andrew D. White,
ambassador to Berlin, who recently
resigned. 1t is intimated that Mr..
Bellamy Story will be transferred
from Madrid to st. Petersburg.
Mrs. Chaffee, wife of Gen. Chaffee,
is still i'll, and if her condition does
not improve it may delay Gen. Chat
fees return to the United States. The
generalhas abandoned his idea of com
ing home via Suez.
Ten ounces of baby-said to have
been the smallest child ever born
alive-came into the world. on the
25th, in New York city, and probably
would have lived had not the weather
been so f~orbidding. 1t was eight
inches long and perfect in form.
Lawrence Watson, the cobbler poet
and scholar, is dead at Sycamore, Ill,
For 60 years he lived a solitary life in
a two-room house with only a rough
table and a hard lotion chair with
the strictest simplicity in diet and
apparel, doing p%enance for a real or
fancied wrong.
Mrs. William C. Smith, aged 76
years, died at her home in Macon, Mo-,
on the 18th. She was the wife of
Capt. Smith, a noted Missouri pioneer,
who is Sc years old. Mr., and Mrs.
Smith were married IS years ago.
A committee has been formed at
Copenhagen to erect a statue of Will
lam Shakespeare in the open space
opposite the so-called Hamlet Ter
race" of Kronberg castle, at Elsinore,
on which Shakespeare laid the scene
of Hamlet's meeting with the ghost
of his murdered father.
In the last week or two several
calves have died in Seminary town
ship, Fayette county, ILL.,, from a pc
culiar disease unknown to the farm
ers of that locality. Assistant State
Veterinary Bauer, of Belleville, who
went to investigate, declares it black
leg.
Frank Ackerson, a runaway inmate
from the Nebraska asylum for the in
sane, was captured, on the Goth, and
confessed to having started the fire,
two days before, which destroyed the
barn, horses and carriages of the in
stitution.
BY an explosion of a steam engine
in the electric light plant a. Green
vile, Tex, on the 10th, Mrs. Keith and
her ten-year-old daughter were in
stantly killed and her husband, the
engineer, was probably fatally scald-
ed.
Della Liddy, an unmarried woman
residing nea Elkador, Ia, killed her
three-weeks-old babe, on the Goth, by
pouring carbolic acid down its throat.
Samuel Greenage, who killed a con-
stable at Bridgeton, N. j., on the
25th, committed suicide the next day
by drowning himself in a mill pond.
The furnaces in two large steel
Pioh'o GU lioiitois osS ohub uo"h, oh
the goth, on account of a lack of coal,
throwing 500 men out of work.
Two women were brutally beaten
by Regulators" near Bloomington,
Ind, on the night of the 25th.
Joseph b. Lindsay, republican nomi-
nee for congress in the Sixth Missouri
district, has withdrawn from the race
on account of i'll health.
DR.. George Beatty, of Kiowa, 1. T.,
charged with completely in the muir
ger of Gyp Rally, a Cincinnati sales
man, last spring, was admitted to
bail, on the Goth, in the sum of $4,000.
j. M. Parsons, of Rock Rapids, was
nominated for congress, on the Goth,
by the democrats of the Eleventh
Iowa district.
Secretary of War Elihu Root and
Senator and Mrs. M. A. Hanna ar
rived at Canton, o., on the Goth,
from Cleveland, to visit Mrs. McKin-
ley. They were driven direct to the
Mckinley home in the family car
rage.
President Roosevelt has signed the
order providing for the taking of a
census of the Philippine islands, in
accordance with the act passe at the
last session of congress, effective up
on the certificate from the Philippine
islands that the insurrection has been
suppressed.
The order Of Commandments
Torrance, prescribing the order and
line of march for the parade of the
Grand Army of the Republic, to &C.
cur, October s, during the encamp-
ment in Washington makes the route
from the congressional library build
ing to a point well past the White
House. an Easy distance.