Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


London, died ON the 9Th.
Two more stock exchange failures,
making a total of six in eleven bust
ness days, were recorded in New York,
on the 5th, when Sharp & Bryan and
Hurlbutt, Hatch & Co. announced their
inability to meet their obligations.
They we're not unexpected and caused
no commotion.
The state department is advised that
the anti-canal party in the Colombian
congress, determined to prevent the
ratification of the treaty, and, fearing
to take the responsibility of defeating
it, have decided to filibuster.
During the violent windstorm that
struck East st. Louis, Ill, on the 5th,
Mrs. Margaret Riechmann, with the
memory of the tornado Of 1896 wildly
in her mind, became 10 frightened
that she fell in a faint and died.
Dispatches received on the night of
the 5th indicated that the storm
which struck st. Louis and vicinity on
that day was general, V the major
portion of the upper Mississippi val
ley, at many places assuming almost
the force of a tornado.
A feature of the storm in Illinois, on
the 5th, was the damage done by
lightning, one fire in Louisville from
that cause resulting in losses of $780,
900. Several persons were rendered
senseless from the shocks and consid-
erahke farm property was destroyed.
Andrew Carnegie has made known
his intention to donate 81 0 900 in
United States Steel corporation bonds
to Dunfermiline, Scotland, his birth
place. He stipulates that the gift
shall be employed in keeping up the
estate of P%ittencrieff, which contains
the tower in which Malcolm Canmore
married Princess Margaret.
President Kebler Of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co, of New York, on the
9Th, made official announcement that
]. L. Jerome, third vice-president and
treasurer, has resigned, the resignation
to become effective at once, and that
A. A. Miller has been appointed assist
ant treasurer. Mr.. Miller will have full
charge of all financial matters.
The attention of Rome is now cen
Tered upon the solemn coronation cere-
mony of Pope Plus X, which is to oc-
cur on the 9th, and for which great
preparations are being made. The
throne of st. Peter, which Plus X. will
occupy, will be surmounted by a cano-
by 40 feet high.
Willard p. Voorhees, was, on the 9Th,
appointed receiver for the Perth Am
boy Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.,
Of Perth Amboy, N. J.. The appoint
ment was made on application of A.
R. Ramsey, treasurer of the company.
A thousand laborers employed in
building trades of Minneapolis, Mimi,
struck, on the 9Th, for an increase in
wages. Masons and all skilled. laborers
who are dependent on the men who are
out have also been forced to quit work.
At Tifin, o., on the 9Th, Fire Chief
Weimer, Capt. Gregg and four firemen
were overcome by carbonic gas while
investigating a supposed fire in Will
sons cold storage plant. The men
were rescued by the crowd.
Albert Seavis, colored, and Frank
Case, escaped Folsom (Cal.) convicts,
have been captured near Davisville,
Cal. This leaves nine of the 10 escapes
still at large.
The plant of the Little Rock (Ark.)
Mill and Elevator Co. was burned on
the 9Th; loss between $4,000 and $780,
900.
Conrad Schroeder, one of the wealth.
lest contractors and builders in Penn
sylvania, shot himself in the head by
accident, on the 9Th, at Scranton, Pa,
dying almost instantly.
Advices received at Salonica, on the
9Th, said that Bulgarian insurgents
had dynamited the governors palace
at Krushevo, 20 miles north of Mona
stir, and that so Turks were killed. A
detachment of Ottoman troops had
burned the village of Dihove, near
Monastir.
The grand jury at Danville, ILL.,, has
returned indictments for rioting and
defacing public property against Har-
vey, Vangundy, Harry Rennick, Cicero
Davis, William Pettis, Isaac Newton
Slade, Horace Murphy, William Red
win, John Kress, John Isom, John Wal
ton, Richard Roberts and Edwin Hart
A meeting of the grand officers Of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was called to order at Cleveland, O., or
the 7th, to eject a grand chief to sue
coed the late P. M. Arthur and also tc
choose a first assistant grand chief. UI
to a late hour it was said that no elsc.
ton had taken place.
Maurice Runkle, who was jointly in.
dicted with Machen and McGregor II
the post Office investigation, sur
rendered himself before United States
Commissioner Shields, in New York, OF
the 7th, and gave $4,000 bail for his ap
p~earance when wanted.
Whitaker Wright, the arrested pro
moter and director of the London {
Globe Finance corporation, was re
leased, on the 7th, from Brixton jail
London, satisfactory sureties for hi
$3.50, 900 bail having been furnished.
Brighten. A. E. Woodson, U. S. A.
retired, died at Paola, Kas., on the 18th
aged 81 years. He was in the militar,
service Al years. He will be buried il
the national cemetery at Arlington, Va
Col. William H. Phelps, the well
known lobbyist, declared in st. Louis
where he was summoned to appear be
fore the grand jury, that the lobbyis
wouldn't be needed by the corpora
lions, at Jefferson City, were 1t no
tor the legislative sandbaggers, VIII
concoct measures to compel defensiv