Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The negotiations between Secretary
Hay and the ministers from Colom-
bia, Nicaragua and Costa RIGA, look
ing to the requirement of the neces-
sary rights for the construction by
the United States government of eth
err the Panama or the Nicaragua ca
nal, were concluded on the 18th.
At Kansas City, Mo-, on the 18th,
william S. Green shot and killed his
divorced wife and then committed
suicide. His wife had just been grant
ed a divorce.
Col. John F. Gaynor and Capt. B.
B. Greene, who jumped their bond at
Savannah, Ga, under charges of de-
frauding the United States govern
meut, were arrested in Quebec, on
the 18th, and taken on a tug to Mon
treal to appear before an eXtradition
commission.
Fire, which was discovered just be-
fore midnight, on the 18th, totally
destroyed the elevator of Smith, Hip
per g. Co., at Pekin, ILL.,, together
with it's contents of 10000 bushels of
grain. A loss of about 500, 900 was
entailed.
By the burning of the American
hotel at Point Pleasant, w. Va, on
the morning of the 18th, four farm
ers, members of the grand jury in
session there, lost their lives, and
one person was so badly burned that
he will die.
The anthracite mine workers, in
convention at Hazleton, Pa, decided
to continue the strike of the las 900
men against the mine owners and to
fight it out to the bitter end. The
matter of calling out the engineers,
tiremen and pump runners will be de-
cided later.
DR.. William Tod Helumuth, the emf
nent surgeon of Flower hospital, New
York, died at his residence, on the
18th, of heart failure. He had long
been afflicted with heart disease, but
had been seriously ill only three days
While prospecting for copper ore in
the northern part of Washington
county, ILL.,, R. Murphy made the dis
covery of a metal, said to be found
in no other part of America. 1t is
cadmium, used successfully in the
manufacture of storage batteries, and
worth SO a pound.
Esther Dowie, aged 20, daughter Of
doctor" Alexander Dowie, of Zion,
died in Chicago as the result of burns
received by her clothing being igniteG
while using an alcohol lamp to heat a
curling iron.
The statement of the treasury bal
ance in the general fund, exclusive OF
the $3.50, 900, 900 gold reserve in the di
vision of redemption, issued on the
10th, showed: Available cash bal
ance, $18S, 102, 1863. Gold, $97, 524.918.
The Cuban congress, on the 18th
after an examination of the severa
credentials, formally announced tina
Tomas Estrada Palma had been elect
ed president of the Cuban Republi,
and Senior Esteves vice president, an
so notified Gen. Wood, at the SAM
time thanking the latter for his serv
ices to Cuba.
A riot occurred at Kingston, ia
maica, on the night of the 18th, be
tween soldiers and civilians, in whicI
20 of the ~populace were wounded
Parties of soldiers from the West In
dian (colored) regiment made a sorti
from the camp and attacked peopi
in the streets with razors dashed t.
sticks. The civilians used nail-stud
ded clubs. Numbers on both side
were injured.
Five persons were fatally and man
others badly injured by the collaps
of a hog runway, crowded with pee
pie watching a fire which destroye
Armour & Co.'S new lard refinery, a
the Chicago stock yards, on the nigh
of the 10th. The fire loss was upward
of $3.50, 1000.
The anthracite mine workers, !
order to win their strike, have decit
ed upon a plan that, il carried int
successful operation, would practica
ly tie up the industries Of the coul
try, paralyze business and inconvel
fence the people throughout I'll
United States.
BY way of accentuating the feelin
of friendship Of Germany toward til
United States, Emperor William hs
signifed to President Roosevelt h
: intention to present to the America
, people a statue, in bronze, of Frede
i lex the Great, to be erected in the n
, tional capital. President Rooseve
, hos accepted, with thanks.