Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

lamation, on tho goth, converting both
houses of the Fifty-eighth congress in
extraordinary session at noon of No
yember 8, to take action on the reci-
Drocity convention with Cuba.
John Philip Sousa, the ~well-known
bandmaster, was seriously injured, in
Washington, on the goth, by being
thrown from his horse and landing on
his head.
Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, son
Of the late Gen. w. T. Sherman, re-
quests the press TO present the thanks
Of the relatives of Gen. Sherman to all
those concerned in the erection and
dedication of the equestrian statue OF
his father in Washington, for which
they feel profoundly grateful.
Scores of congratulatory messages
from persons prominent in the theat-
rical profession were received in Bos-
ton, Mass, on the 22d, by Mrs. G. H.
Gilbert, upon her eightythird ami
versary. Among those who sent con-
gratulations were Sir Henry Irving
and e. H. Sothern.
Bernard Lynch. the saloon keeper,
who was one of the witnesses for the
defense in the trial of Sam Parks, the
labor leader. for eXtortion, pleaded
guilty of perjury, in New York city, on
the 21st, and was remanded for SEN
tence.
The report of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow on the investi-
CATION IF the post office scandals has
been completed and handed to Mr..
Payne. The Tulloch charges are sus-
tanned and Machen's Office recommend
ed to be abolished. Merritt is to be
asked to resign and acts under Heath's
administration are criticised.
The Canadians are terribly chagrined
over the award Of the international
boundary commission, which upheld
the United States contentious except
on one minor point, and already there
are thinly-veiled threats Of secession
from the mother country.
Patrick O'Shay, agent Of the st.
Joseph & Grand Railway, at Morey,
NGtS., was IOullu ullCDlloClOuS VII tiS
22d, at the bottom of a 50-foot ravine,
near the Rock Island ~roundhouse,
South st. Joseph, Mo-, where he had
fallen from a passenger train Is hours
before. His condition was critical.
Felix Hall, colored, was hanged at
Birmingham, Ala, on the 22d, for the
murder of Norwood Clarke, a white
man. When the drop fell the rope
slipped, and the man breathed heavily
for ten minutes, when he was hauled
up and hanged a second time.
Seven hundred employees Of the
American Car & Foundry Co., of JEFF
fersonville, Ind, who struck sever
weeks ago, returned to work, on the
22d. Both sides made concessions, but
the men got an increase in wages.
The National Municipal Improve
ment association, in session at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 22d, selected st
Louis for the meeting next year. G
NJ. Ballard, Newark, N. j., was elected
president.
The president, on the Dist, appointed
Horace w. Bailey United States mar
shall for Vermont. to succeed Fret
Field, dismissed.
Fire destroyed a four-story bricl
building in Omaha, Neb., on the 22d
Loss estimated at between 100000 ant
S125, 900.
John Beckett. of Salt Lake City
Utah, former district freight and pas
senger agent of the Denver & Rit
Grande railway, died suddenly, in Chi
cage, on the 22d, of acute pneumonia
James Presley Fleming, one of the
~best-known democratic politicians II
western Pennsylvania, and prominen
in G. A. R. circles, died at Pittsburg
on the 22d of paralysis, aged &C.
E. Vaughn, of Cardington, O., a ma
tional bank examiner, was appointed
by the secretary of the treasury, OF
the 22d, to take charge of the Firs
national bank of Allegheny, Pa.
The Farmers & Merchants, bank
of Leseur, Mimi, a private institution
: owned by w. Fl. and w A. Patton
father and son, closed its doors, Oh
he 22d. Liabilities, $4,000.
W. H. Lyford resigned, on the 22d
as general counsel for the Chicago 1
Eastern Railroad Co., and was chose,
general counsel for the st. Louis I
San Francisco railway.
On the 22d, Dan Patch paced a mil
) at Memphis, Tenn, in 1:56A, shatter
y ing all previous worlds records.
The coroner's inquest over the re
mains of Thomas Hartley, the inmat
. of the Bartonville Qll.) asylum for tn
u incurable insane, who died on the lot
d from injuries sustained in a struggl
with two of the attendants, brought !
a verdict, on the 23d, finding that tt
deceased came to his death as the n
V suit of the injuries, and recommendin
y that the two guards, Edward Sorre
: and Samuel Flynn, be held witho1
~ bail on the charge of murder.
. Former Gov. Hogg of Texas, in q
l interview, at Dallas, On the 23d, en-
: phatically declared himself out of Il
" race for the United States senate. /
Sdlu. IldVe you oFel poOh IL """
ington and watched the proceedings
: congress? There is a senatorial cou
:. tesy' to the exclusion of the welfa
of the government. l don't want al
II of it. I want to feel that am a fir
: man"
70 Another chapter in the struggle b
" tween the Baltimore & Ohio and w
= bash railroad interests in West vi
% ginia was added, on the 23d, VIII
Judge Mason granted the 3. & o. COZ
4 pany a temporary injunction, whi
~ restraints the Wabash from building
: line on the east side of the Monone
~ hela river at Fairmont, w. Va.
na On the 23d, in sympathy with fello