Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Mrs. Hannah Ward, an eccentric
old lady, died suddenly at Van Buren,,
Ark. Relatives who knew she had
money about the place found $3.50
tied in rags on topso of an old safe.
She had her silverware lying under
her bed covered with dust and ashes.
DR.. Leonel de Pean, a prominent
Cuban physician, now in this country.
says that when Estrada Palma, the
newly-chOsen president of Cuba, lands
in the island there will Immediately
follow a revolution between the
whites and the blacks.
A sensational pitched battle, with
pistols, occurred at Richmond, KY,
on the 18th, as the result of which
Leslie Estill and Shelton Chambers
were mortally wounded. Jim Estill,
Il brother of Leslie, also participated
in the battle, but managed to escape
unhurt.
The Kansas state agricultural col
lege is overwhelmed with demands
from western Kansas for prairie dog
poison. One western Kansas county
ordered a hundred half-gallon cans
capable of poisoning 1000 to 1900
dog families each.
Five thousand laborers on the
docks at Sueste, Hungary, struck, on
the 18th, in sympathy with the fire.
men employed by the Lloyd Austria
company who were out. Several col
lisons with the police occurred and
numerous arrests followed. Troops
finally arrived there to maintain or
der.
The Italian government has appro-
priated $4,000 for the purchase of
an Italian embassy at Washington.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg, on
the 18th, said: Count Tolstoi i'm
proved to-day, but his condition is
still precarious."
The first American blast furnace in
Germany with an automatic charg
apparatus has been started in ST.
lesia.
The city council of Des Moines, Ia.
on the 18th, decided to close all
churches and theaters and to prohib'
it all public gatherings until the
smallpox epidemic shall have abated
Seven men were killed and at least
fourteen were seriously injured, on
the 18th, by a huge boulder, weigh.
ing Is tons, crashing into the ca
boose of a work train on the Choc
tow, Oklahoma g. Gulf railroad, q
miles west of Little Rock, Ark.
Sir Archibald Milman, formerly
clerk of the British house of com
mons, died in London on the 18th
He had been in the service of the
house from 1857 until recently.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $3.50, 900, 900 gold reserve in thu
division of redemption, issued on thu
14th, showed: Available cash balance
$174,49S 1884; gold, $s7,336,557.
On the 14th r. G.. Dun G. Co., of New
York, reported: Failures for tn,
week numbered $40 in the United
States, against 257 last year, and il
Canada SO, against 40 last year."
A dispatch to a London news agen
cy from st. Petersburg announce
that the large town of Shamaka
Trans-Caucasus, has been destroys
by an earthquake. No details Of tn
disaster have been received.
A Constantinople dispatch to tn
Reuter- Telegram Co., London, on tn
18th, said that Miss Stones ransor
had been paid and that her releas
was expected at any moment.
Mrs. Kate Voepel, a widow, wa
murdered in her apartments i
Christopher street, New York, on th
18th. She was found dead by he
young son. There were IS knit
thrusts in her body, and a disorderet
blood-marked room told Of a despe1
ate struggle before the woman CAV
up.
Marconi's laurels are in danger {
being stolen. A society has just bee
formed in Paris for the commerce;
exploitation of wireless telegraph
The promoters say that it will be in
possible for Marconi to patent b
system there,