Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15

President Jacob G. Shermany OF
Cornell university, will address the
students of the University of Missou-
ri, at Columbia, January IL.
Senator McLaurin, of Mississippi,
called on Postmaster-General Payne,
on the Sth, and urged him to reopen
the post office at lndianola, Miss.
Andrew McWilliams, one of the
junior partners of Andrew Carnegie, |
was struck and killed by a railroad
engine at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 9th.
A bill was introduced in congress,
on the 5th, to restore the sale of malt
beverages and wines to soldiers on
army transports and post exchanges.
In his message to the legislature,
on the 9th, Gov. Stone of Pennsyl-
vania said the coal strike had cost the
people of that state more than 81 ,000,-
900.
Admiral Dewey left San Juan, 2. r.,
on the 9th, for a cruise along the
coast of San Domingo, Hayti and
Cuba, and will return to Washington
on the nth.
Six hundred people sat down to a
banquet in Berlin, on the night of the
Sth, at which the dishes consisted IN
tirely of horse meat prepared in
various forms.
Representative Thomas Crow ana
wife had a narrow escape from being
sutfocated by escaping gas in their
room at Jefferson City, Mo-, on the
night of the 5th.
The Pioneer Reserve association of
Bloomington and the Loyal Ameri-
ian of Springfield, fraternal insur-
ance associations, consolidated their
organizations, on the 9th.
Cole Younger made application to
the Minnesota state board of pardons,
on the 9th, for a full pardon, the pur-
pose being to enable him to return
to his old home in Missouri.
At a cabinet meeting at Washing
ton, on the 9th, it was decided that
the resignation of Mrs. Minnie Cox,
the colored postmaster at Indianola,
Miss, would not be accepted.
G. w. Putnam, aged 81, appointed a
postal clerk during the administra-
ton of President Lincoln, which Of
flee he held continuously since, died
at Westtield, N. Y, on the 9th.
r. C. Kerens received the caucus
nomination of the republican mem
bers of the Missouri legislature, on
the 18th, for United States senator, by
a vote of 50 to 33 for Charles Maggie.
Col. Henry c. Forbes, librarian of
the Illinois state laboratory of nat
ural history, died at his home in Ur-
llama, on the 5th. He commanded the
Seventh Illinois cavalry in the civil
war,
Clarence Rein. of New Orleans, was
arrested at San Francisco, on the
9th, on a charge of aiding in swindling
the Western Union Telegraph Co. out
of about 100000, to which he con-
fessed.
By a decision of the supreme court
of Nebraska, on the 18th, the bonds
men of former State Treasurer Bart
lev. who embezzled nearly $750,000
from. the state, were released from all
liability.
The driver of a mail wagon was
arrested in New York, on the Sth, hav-
ing in his possession checks to the
value of more than a Thousand dol
lars, which it is charged he stole from
mail bags.
Gov. Nash, of Ohio, issued a proc
lamation, on the 9th, calling on the
people of Ohio to observe January 20,
the sixtieth anniversary of the late
President McKinley's birth, with suit
able exercises.
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The caucus of democratic members
of the Missouri legislature, at Jeffer-
son City, on the Sth, nominated Will
lam J.. Stone by reclamation for Unit
ed States senator to succeed Hon.
George G, Vest.
Gen. A. B. Leeper, publisher of "The
Lunatic Herald" at Pana, ILL.,, was adj
judged insane, on the Sth, and taken
to the asylum at Jacksonville, where
he had been confined on the same
charge eight times previously.
The effects Of the blizzard that
ragged in the northwest on the 9th
were felt in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Louisiana and Texas, on the
7th, high winds and cold weather pre-
yailing throughout those states.
DIR. j. T. Mcfarland, pastor of 9
church at Topeka, Kas., severely
scored a judge in court, on the 9th
for a fine that had been imposed OF
Mrs. Carrie Nation, and the judg'
fined the pastor $10O for contempt O
court.
Prof. Robert Koch, the bacteriolo
gist, sailed from Hamburg, Germany
on the 18th, for Rhodesia, to study tn
cattle plague for the Chartered Soutl
Africa Co., at a salary Of $3.50 per day
all expenses and two high-salarie
doctors to assist him.
William P. Bradley, the aged multi
millionaire, who married his privat
secretary, Miss Hannemyer, at MI
waukee, Wis, on the 9Th, died on I'll
nth, sitting in the same invalid cha
in which he sat when the weddin