Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-01

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Plans are under way at Seattle,
Wash, for the laying of the keel of
the battleship Nebraska, July 4, with
elaborate ceremonies.
United States Senator fernando De
Soto Money, of Mississippi, got into
an alteration with a street car con
ductor, in Washington, on the 24th.
wei a five-cent fare, and in resisting
eiectment from the car the senator
got punched and the conductor re-
ceived Il cut in the hand from Il knife
welded by the senator.
Senator Clark, of Montana, was no.
tilted by a couple of policemen, in
Washington, on the 24th, to appear
in the police court the next day to
answer a charge of exceeding the
speed limit in driving his automobile
through the streets of the capital.
Philander c. Knox, attorney gen
eral, after a conference with the pres
ident, on the Gath, announced that in
junction proceedings against the Beef
trust in the United States courts at
NllNdSp N'iIlt Dt ptSul IlllIiltNlId'CiN :.
The oats crop in portions of Illinois
has been damaged to a great extent
by the cold weather and dry season
the past month. This will have a
tendency to greatly increase the corn
and potato acreage, as the oats
ground will be pIowed up and planted
in potatoes and corn.
Fire at Red Oak. Ia, on the oath,
destroyed the iI%oughton bank build
ing, and then entered the south side
of the square, burning II buildings.
Sixteen merchants were burned out.
five lawyers. two dental offices and 1G
other offices and apartments. Loss,
$212 600; insurance. $160, 900.
Trustees of the University of Hi
nois have granted A. S. Draper, presi-
dent of the institution, one years
leave of absence, with full pay. Presi-
dent Draper was recently severely in
iured in a runaway at Champaign,
Ill. Nice-President Biddell will take
charge in the presidents absence.
The fire that started at Marienville,
Pa, on the 23d, ragged until $50 build
lngs had been consumed, entailing a
loss of nearly $4,000 600, with not over
SIS, 900 insurance. About one-half of
the town is in ashes, and 800 persons
are homeless.
Twenty-one buildings were de-
stroyed at Croghan, n. Y, among
them being the property of the st,
Stephens Catholic society, including
the church, the monastery, the con.
vent, the school building and college
attached to the monastery. Twenty
families were made homeless. Loss,
$250, 900 to $500, 900.
An agreement has been entered in.
to among the 1000 employees of the
Chicago & Alton shops in Blooming
ton, ILL.,, which provides that none of
their number will eat meat during
the next 30 days.
The Netherlands government holds
that if peace is made it should ne
made on terms settled by the Boer
leaders in South Africa. The terms
may possibly be communicated to Mr..
Kruger as n matter of courtesy, but
for all purposes, and for good or evil,
his fighting countrymen have thrown
him aside.
Caleb Hopes, aged rs years, a vet
eral of two wars-the Mexican and
c%ivil-died at Sumner, ILL.,, on the
o5th He sarva1 a g poc4,,,st,r Co., oA
years and was a prominent frecma-
son. He will be buried with the hon
ors of that order.
The Manila cholera record, I'D to
the 25th, is as follows: Manila, sos
cases and 1903 deaths; in the province.
1917 cases and 9O7 deaths. The board
Of health is finding cases Of natives
trying to bury the dead at night in
order to prevent the detention Of the
living.
The senate committee on Cuba has
decided to institute an investigation
into the charge that the greater part
OF the present crop of Cuban sugar is
held by the Sugar trust of this coun-
try, as directed by the resolution in
troduced in the senate by Mr.. Teller.
Alge, the three-year-old son Of
Wesley Hicks, near Isabel, ILL.,, found
a box Of matches while his mother
was in the yard. The child's clothing
wa ignited and before aid arrived he
was burned to death.