Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

OF acres OF larm lands IN the
vicinity of La Crosse, Wis, sweeping
away stacks of hay and grain, drown
ing live stock in fields and doing ines
Unable damage. In the lower part of
La Crosse so families were forced to
move out of their homes and whole
sale merchants were moving their
goods from the lower floors.
The eleventh national irrigation con-
gress came to an end at Ogden, Utah,
the 18th. 1t reelected Senator w
A. Clark, of Montana, president and
decided to hold the congress in 1904 in
Ell Paso, Tex, and adopted a platform
which requested congress to make
needed notifications of the existing
land laws in order that speculation
and monopoly of the public domain be
prevented.
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the
United States, closed the Upton Incl
dent, on the night of the 18th, at the
dinner of the Seawanhaka Corinthian
Yacht club at Center Island, Oyster
Bay, by proposing a toast in honor of
the Irish baronet, which was responded
to with cheers and songs for the own
er of all the Shamrocks.
Charles H. Read, aged GO years, is
dead at Waterbury, Conn, after
months of suffering from a complica-
ton of diseases which finally culmi-
mated in paralysis. He was the inven-
tor of most of the important machin-
cry used in hat making, through which
industry he accumulated wealth.
Bar Harbor, Me-, is just recovering
from the throes of a social sensation
in which figured a putative foreign no.
bleman, but who, in reality, was a
former servant of the Gerry family in
New York and once a waiter in the
Hotel Ritz, in Paris. He disappeared
Immediately after mis- recognition.
One hundred and seventy-six cases
of shoes, valued at $4,000, it has been
discovered, have been delivered to I'M
authorized parties by the Big -Four
Railroad Co. at East st. Louis, Ill.
They were consigned to a st. Louis
wholesale house and have not been To-
Gated, though the transfer driver who
got them has been identified.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has
definitely decided to withdraw govern
ment deposits from all banks reducing
their circulation to take advantage OF
the high price of United States bonds,
when such banks are already desig-
mated as United States repositories.
The stockholders annual meeting of
the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville
Railway Co. was held in Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 10th. Gilbert B. Shaw, OF
Chicago; James Murdoch, of Lafayette,
and Volney T. Malott, of Indianapolis,
whose terms as directors expired, were
reelected.
It was reported, on the 18th, that 1t
had been showing at Eldora, Col, for
four days, and a number of the noun
tain trails and gulches were almost i'm
passable. In Berthoud pass there was
over two and one-half feet Of snow.
Six hundred men employed at the
Lorain Coal and Dock Co.'S Crescent
mines, at Bridgeport, o., went on
strike, on the 10th, because a dozen
men in the mines would not join the
union and the company insisted On
working them.
Fire, on the 10th, destroyed the plan
ing mill and contents of the |. S. Har-
vey Planning Mill Co., at East st. Louis
Ill. How the fire originated was not
known, but it was believed lightning
struck the building, The loss was
about S., 900.
Frank Clark, who was arrested in
Galesburg, Ill, On the 10th, was taker
to Palmyra, Mo, on the 18th, anC
placed in the Marion county Jail. Clarl
Is charged with an assault atd at
tempted murder of Ollie Hess, a II
year-old girl of Clark county, Mo-, sew
eral months ago.
The national encampment of the
Sons of Veterans adjourned, at Allan
tic City, N. j., on the 18th, after Sc
lecting Boston for the next annua
meeting. Arthur B. Sphinx, Providence
R. l., was elected commander-in-chiet
Seven members of the family o
VIM. Grover, residing near Galesville
Wis, were poisoned, on the 18th, b.
eating canned minced ham. One chill
died and the rest Of the family wer
made seriously i'll.
A heavy fall of snow over Jane
river valley, N. D., on the 18th, ado
ed to the seriousness of the crop situa
ton. 1t was estimated that the fa]
was three inches deep.
The National Association of Mex
can War Veterans, in convention a
indianapolis, Ind, on the 18th, electe
James c. Carlton, Bedford, Ind, pres
dert.
Sir Thomas Upton, who has bee
i'll of catarrhal appendicitis in Chic
go, was reported by his physician
on the 18th, 20 be recovering.
A killing frost destroyed the cant,
loupe crop in the vicinity of Rock
Ford, Col, on the night Of the l7t
The loss may reach $250,000.
Frank Wilkens, a cigar manufacture
of East st. Louis and Belleville, Ill, W;
found guilty, on the 18th, of havir
paid an employee, George JiEes, $2'
to Durn his factory in East st. Lou
in June, 1902. He was given an il
determinate penitentiary sentence.
Since the storm Of the 18th off II
Atlantic coast nothing has been heai
of the fishing steamship Beatrice, fro
New York, which carried a crew Of
fishermen. 1t is believed the Beatri
went down with all or board.
The weather, on the 18th, was Gle
/. and warm throughout Kansas a
western Missouri. The danger to co
s fromfrost was believed to be ended.
President Roosevelt delivered t
principal address, on the 18th, in
n driving ram, at the dedication of