Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-10
OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the Americas cup, Capt. Barr is to re-
ceiye an annuity of $4,000 a year for
life. Each member of the Reliance's
crew has received a handsome bonus.
Mary Gano Bryan-Cobb, step-grand-
mother Of VIM. J. Bryan, died, on the
4th, at her home in New London, Ind,
in her one hundred and first year. Mrs.
Cobb was one of the pioneers OF How
ard county. She was born in Ken
lucky.
According to trade reviews, general
business conditions are conservative,
Tut the outlook favorable, the dizziness
of speculation having a distinctly help
full influence on legitimate trade.
A general strike of railway express
employees throughout the United States
is threatened because of the refusal or
six of the largest companies in Chi
cago to consider demands made by the
Brotherhood of Railway Expressmen.
Veterans of two wars marched
through streets of St. Paul, Mimi, on
the I'd, thronged with thousands anX-
lOuS W w I1tll lOlol. o"ui A. ~"
wart and alert, the soldiers who saw
service in Luzon formed a sharp con-
trast to the grizzled old veterans OF
Gettysburg, Shiloh and a hundred
bloody battles of the war between the
states.
On the I'd Col. W. A. Johnson died
at his home in Kansas City, Mo-, OF
Bright's disease. He had been promi-
nent in Kansas politics for 40 years,
had held several state positions, and,
in 1888, was a delegate to the repub-
lican national convention.
Secret service officers at Washing
ton. D. c., received, on the I'd, a new
counterfeit $40 national bank note, on
the Mechanics national bank OF New
Bedford, Mass. The series is of 1882
check letter B, charter No. TAB, Bruce
register, Wyman, treasurer of the
United States.
The American squadron reached
Beirut on the evening of the 4th. For
eign marines have landed at Con,
stantinople to protect their embassies
The Washington authorities do no
consider the Turkish situation serious
although the American minister takes
an apprehensive view.
The English swimer, Montagu Hol
bein, who left South Foreland, on tn
list, in his fourth attempt to swim tn
English channel, failed again. He LET
the water eight miles from Calais
France, on the I'd, after swimming l
hours and 20 minutes.
Secretary Hitchcock's investigation!
into the frauds practiced by the triba
investment companies in the Indian
territory, by which the Indians Wer'
Systematically swindled out of thei
holdings, will result, it is said, in tn
! wreck of most of these companies.
The R. T. Davis Mill and Manufac
| turing Co., of st. Joseph, Mo-, with
branch house at Kansas City, was de
clared bankrupt, ON the LIST, an
Charles F. Enright was appointed re
ceiver by B. j. Swoodson, referee i
bankruptcy. This is the pioneer mill
} ing firm of northwest Missouri.
Miss May Comstock, of East 81
Louis, Ill, was arrested and placed un
j. der 5000 bond on the Sd. The warran
, for her arrest was sworn out by Mrs
Jennie Brimmer, who declared tina
Miss Comstock threatened to take he
, life because she named Miss Comstoc
, as correspondent when she brough
: suit for divorce.
J. B. Smith, for 80 years chef In
prominent downtown restaurant l
:, Chicago, jumped from the fifth-stor
: window Of a north side apartment
building, on the Sd, and was Instant
[ killed. Less of his position, due t
the walters strike, was believed t
4 have prompted the act.
While returning from the Oaktow
watermelon carnival to Busseron, Ind
s John Langley and Ford Howard wei
# to sleep on the railroad track, and wei
struck by an Evansville & Terre Haul
train, shortly after midnight on the 8
Their bodies were found, terribly maj
gled.
Luke Bodin was killed and Thorn,
lie Davis, Jr., fatally injured, or the 3
u while repairing an air shaft Of Il
Is Royal mine, three miles north of Bell
10 Vile, Ill.
Fl. G. Miller, ex-deputy county trea
4 urer Of Rock Island county, ILL.,, was a
a. rested at Vancouver, B. G., On the
A. on a charge Of having %absconded,
ID July s, 1902, with $4,000 Of coun
70 funds.
II King Edward arrived in London,
IN the 4th, on his return from Vienna.
m The city of Topeka, Kas., has lost
fight for dollar gas. Two years ago t
council passed an ordinance requiri
fc the local gas company to furnish 6
mt at a dollar a thousand feet. The co,
es pany enjoined the city, and broue
ed, suit to annul the ordinance. Master
I'M Chancery Brock, on the 4th, decid
lily the rate to be confiscatory, and the
lat dinance illegal.
wy Witnesses In the naturalizat
ID. fraud cases in st. Louis claim Il
they are being subjected to all mani
OF Of persecution and intimidation at
Id hands of the local police. The Uni
tn, States officials will look into the m
Us, ter.
he Charges made against the agent
ON the Pawnee Indians in the Indian
for ritory accuse that official Of abus
a Indian women, illegally leasing Ind
his lands and favoring certain hunks "
deposits Of Indian funds.