Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-11-13
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The next convention of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union of America will
be held at Atlanta, Ca, in July, 1908.
Eight men were drowned and much
shipping destroyed by a storm at
Nome, Alaska, October IA.
William Golliday was killed by a Big
Four train near Charleston, ILL.,, on
the night of the 5th.
There was an advance of two cents
in the price of crude oil at Lima, o.,
on the 9th.
A union station, costing half a mil
lion dollars, is to be built at Ell Paso,
Tex.
A. E. Pfeger, a fireman on the Indi-
annapolis q Vincennes road, mysteri-
ously disappeared from his engine, on
the 9th, and next day his dead body
was found lear Martirsville, Ind. 1t
is believed he was iolted from his en-
CINE.
Election bets amounting to nearly
100000 were paid in New York, on
the 18th.
j. H. Robinette was fatally wound
ed by having his skull crushed in a
fight with a railroad conductor on a
train near st. Joseph, Mo-, OF the 18th.
The trouble arouse over a ticket, the
time limit of which had expired.
Gottleib N~iegenfind, the murderer
sentenced, on the 18th, to be hanged at
Pierce, Neb.. on March 10.
Hall Malone, colored, was hanged
in the courthouse yard at Van Buren,,
Ark, on the 18th, in the presence of
5000 spectators.
The Missouri Press association will
hold its annual meeting at Columbia,
January % ind 20.
Ten years in the penitentiary was
the sentence given to John Stewart, a
death Emil Kuhn, another soldier, at
Fort Morgan, Ala.
Engineers are being sent from Bos-
ton to Tacoma and Seattle, WASH, to
begin work on a project which has
for it's chief aim the Harvesting of
the waters of the Puyallup glacier on
Mount Tacoma for commercial pur-
poses.
Reports of brutality to prisoners
rivaling the horrors of the ancient in
QUESTION come from Barcelona, Spain.
In order to extract confessions from
criminals, it is alleged the police have
in~augurated a system of the most
elaborate and cruel t%ortures.
While republicans will have control
of the house in the Fifty-eighth con
gress the failure of several members
to cur reelection will make neces-
sary many radical changes in the
composition of the various important
committees.
DR.. G. A. Charlton, Rockefeller fell
low of pathology at McGill university,
Montreal, Can, says that he has dis
covered a serum which will combat
the scarlet fever parasite in a pa
TENTS system.
The Paris Matin says that President
Roosevelt is the greatest leader of the
republican party since Lincoln, and
perhaps since Washington. America,
it adds, voted neither the democratic
nor republican ticket, but the Roose-
welt ticket.
Owing to the meager subscriptions
to the proposed Danish West Indies
company many former anti-sale
members of the folkthing are wish
ing the islands had been sold.
By direction of President Roose-
welt the new military post to be es-
tablished in the vicinity of Manila,
Philippine islands, will be known as
Fort William Mckinley, in honor of
the late President of the United
States.
Col. John Jacob Astor, through a
communication in the Scientific Amer.
lean, dedicates all of his patents on
marine turbines to the public, in the
hope that the development of the
ideal turbine may be fastened there.
by.
Capt. Oscar Citing, retired, former,
ly of the Third United States cavalry
died at Burlington, VT, on the 9th
He entered the army, in 1861, as a pri.
vate in the First New York cavalry
and served through the civil war. His
wife, who survives him, was a daugh'
ter of Prof. Charles Stewart, of st
Louis.
A change occurred in the promis
ing condition Of Gov. Yates of Hi
nois on the 9Th. The temperature
which remained a little over 101 dur
ing the day, took an upward shoot tc
103 rs in the evening, and in addition
the patient suffered a vomiting spell.
Members of the anthracite strike
commission informed President
Roosevelt, on the 18th, that the indi
vidual operators in the anthracite Goa,
region had agreed to abide by the
findings of the commission, and hat
SO notified Judge Gray.
1t is said that the machinery will
soon be set in motion, in Washington
looking to the reinstatement in thu
army Of Gen. Jacob Fl. Smith. Ever,
possible influence will be brought t,
bear on President Roosevelt to re
scind his order retiring the general.
The battleship Kearsarge, flagship
Of the North Atlantic squadron, start
ed south, on the 18th, with Rear-Ad
miral Higginson aboard, to begin or
ganizing the great feet which is to g,
through war in the Carib
bean sea.
Frank Dodson and Mary johnson
Of Beulah, KY, were married at Cairo
Ill, on the 7th, by Rev. Mr.. Rpther
ford, on board g street car, with TIL
motorman and passengers as Wit
nesses.