Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-11-13

County Register.
By ELI ID. AXE.
RONT0N. MISSOURI.
Robbers stole 50, 100 from the Stew
art county bank, at Dover, Tenn, or
the night of the 9th.
Restoration of the canteen is urged
by Maj-Gen. Corbin, adjutant genera
of the army, in his annual report.
Herr Theodore Lewald has been ap
pointed imperial commissioner from
Germany to the st. Louis Worlds fair
Gen. Toral, who surrendered San
tiago de Cuba to the American forces
in July, 1898, has become insane a
Murcia, Spain.
Senator Hanna was initiated as +;
member of the Loyal Legion of Ohio
at a meeting of the order in Cleve
land, on the 5th.
NJ. Gottfried, the millionaire Chi
cago brewer, who had been ill wit
pneumonia for three weeks, died a
Elkhart Lake, Wis, on the Sd.
DR.. R. C. Kedzie, for 40 years pro
lessor of chemistry at the Michigan
agricultural college, died at LansirG
Mich, on the nth, aged 70 years,
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The anthracite strike commission
ers completed a weeks tour of tn
coal belt on the 9th, and adjourned t
meet again at Scranton, Pa, Novem
Der "A.
The historic Kimball homestead, a
Kenosha, Wis, was destroyed by fire
on the 7th. 1t was the oldest resi-
dence in Kenosha, having been bull
in 1886.
Col. L. Q. Washington, who was re
lated to George Washington throug
a collateral branch of the family, die
at the city of Washington, on tn
4th, aged II years.
President Roosevelt has been II
vited to preside at the third annua
international live stock exposition,
be held in Chicago, commencing Sa
urday, November 20.
Joseph Simpson, for many yeal
one of the leading financial men {
western Iowa, and prominent in Siou
City in the boom days, died at Del
yer, Col, on the 9th.
Rev. George Wilson, who attracte
much attention before and during tn
civil war as a lecturer against SLAYER,
died at his home at Bloomington, Iii
on the Sd, aged IS years.
William ?. Cornell, a Chicago new:
paper man, was stricken with ape
plexy just after casting his vote, o
the 4th, and dropped dead in the pol
ing place. Lakeview town hall.
The report of the director of II
mint, at Washington, shows the on
put of gold in Alaska for the last te
months to be 1S,S70,075, against 81
675,G75 for the entire year 1901.
The question of accepting $l65 OC
from Andrew Carnegie for a publ
library at Albany, N. Y, was put t
a popular vote, on the 4th, and defea
ed by an overwhelming majority.
The wheat harvest this year in Ne
South Wales was a very poor one, tf
shortage being estimated at 100000
bushels. Other states in the Austr;
liam federation also had poor harves.
The king of Siam sent a cablegral
to President Roosevelt, on the Ct
earnestly thanking him for the kind
reception accorded to the crow
prince on landing in the United State
Rev. l. Willard Puffer, who wa
struck by a train at the station q
Decatur, ILL.,, on the night of Octobe
81, died at st. Mary's hospital, Dec
ture, on the Sd las a result of his il
%juries.
President Mitchell, of the Mir
Workers union, may be elected t
succeed Samuel Gompers as %presider
of the American Federation of Labo
which meets at New Orleans, Noven
Der IA.
President Roosevelt received tn
election news at Osyter Bay, on tn
4th. He expressed himself as Statistic
with the result, and sent a congratr
latory dispatch to Gov. Odell on hi
reelection.
A fierce fire has been raging o
the Rosebud Indian reservation,
Nebraska, since the 1st, and 300 hea
of cattle are known to have bee
burned to death, with several rancho
to hear from.
Contracts were signed, on the I'll
for the building of an interurban ele'
trio line from Quincy, ILL.,, to Boards
town and from Quincy to Niota, til
construction of which will requiI
about $4,000, 900.
George P. Vest, son of Senate
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