Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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ports that the state department has
made a demand upon Turkey for re-
endorsement of the money expended
in the ransoE Of Miss Stone, is caus-
ing a good deal of annoyance to the
officials of that department.
Emperor William has directed that
a former torpedo boat, now used as
a %guardship at Wilhelmshaven, Prus-
STA. shall be named Alice Roosevelt,
in honor of the daughter of the presi-
dent of the United States.
Hardman, Peck q Co, piano manu-
facturers. suffered a loss OF $500, 900,
or, possibly, more by the d%estruc-
ton. on the night of the Goth, by fire,
of their plant located at West Forty
eighth street and North river, New
York city.
Mr.. Fl. CLAY Evans, commissioner
of pensions, has told President RooSe-
welt that. at his early convenience,
he wishes to be relieved from his
present official position. The presi-
uenl HAS lHulCulcu MS llleHllOl ul
giving Mr.. Evans a diplomatic mis-
sion.
Lieut.-Gcn. Miles told the senate
committee on military affairs, on the
Goth. that if the bill introduced by
Senator Hawley, at the instance Of
the war department, for the organi-
cation of a general staff of the army,
should become a law, he would de-
cline to longer hold his commission.
Henry Bush. As years of age, a ar
penter, became enraged at a stray
cat at his home in Quincy, ILL.,, on the
Goth, and made a vicious kick at it.
He was standing on the edge of his
front porch and missed his footing,
falling to the ground, breaking his
neck.
In the current issue of the Com
moner William j. Bryan makes an at
tack on Grover Cleveland, denouncing
him as a traitor, migrate and political
%nonentity. The animus of the attack
is the letter recently written by Mr..
Cleveland to ii Mississippi editor.
Noah Davis, for many years a judge
of the supreme court of New York,
died at his home, in New York city,
on the goth. lie was the magistrate
before whom William NJ. Tweed and
Edward S. Stokes were tried.
a large tree, half oak and half
black walnut, is a curiosity IN the
timber lot owned by E. c. West, in
Ohio Grove, three miles southeast of
Sycamore, Ill. Old woodmen say they
never before heard Of a similar freak
of nature.
The board of library trustees of
Beatrice. Neb., on the 21st, received
an offer from Andrew Carnegie to
give 100000 fo2 a library building
there. on condition that the city fur
nish a site and agree to supply ST.
900 a year for maintenance.
The Vienna Tageblatt announced,
on the 21st, the arrest in Warsaw OF
the Russian general, Prince Narkoff
who is attached to the staff of Grand
Duke Sergius, on the charge of com.
plicity in a widespread revolutionary
movement.
The house appropriations commit
tee of the Iowa legislature, on the
c1st, recommended for passage q bill
appropriating $150,OO0 for an Iowa
exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition 10 be held in st. Louis ir
1908.
j. +. Post, a farmer, living on thu
Worth road. four miles from
~Tonawanda, n. V, becoming Jealous
of his wife, tied her to a post in hi
cattle yard and allowed a viciou!
hull to gore her to death.
The bill for the protection of TIL
president of the United States, o
any officer on whom the duties o
president may devolve, was passe'
by the senate on the DIST. The sam
penalties imposed apply to those VIII
conspire to kill any foreign ruler.
Brother Joachim, a member of til
Gethsemane Trappists, has been com
missioned a notary public for Me-
son county, KY, by Gov. Beckhan
Brother Joachim is known to tn
world as Jack Hanning, Of Owens
boro.
For the first time in three year
the export trnde'of the United State
is showing a decided falling off. Th
figures for eight months ending wit
: February indicate a decrease of SAL
: ooo, OGa, or about $5,0oO.Ooo a month.