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

Adams killed his wife with a shotgun
and then blew out his brains.
The thermometer was 12 below zero
and the snow two feet deep at Bone
steel. S. D., on the 25th.
Edward Mosty,a negro, was stabbed
to death by Eugene Roberts, in St.
Louis, OF the 25th.
Advocates of the omnibus statehood
bill have not by any means abandoned
hope of securing the passage of the
bill by the senate, despite the evident
determination of the opponents of
the measure to talk it to death.
1t is estimated that Chicago citi-
zens spent $4,000, 900 for Christmas
presents. They bought goods of better
grade and in larger quantities this
year than ever before. According to
population st. Louis was well up with
her sister city.
Charles Henry Burr Crosby has re-
turned to his home in Detroit, after
an absence of almost thirty years.
Mr.. Crosby is now in his one hundred
and eighth year. He claims that he is
the son of Aaron Burr.
A home for orphan girls, daughters
of Free Masons of Pennsylvania, is to
be erected at Broad street and Bristol
avenue, Philadelphia, by William L.
Elkins, at a cost of more than $780,
900.
Col. Henry Clay Lockwood died in
Bellevue hospital, New York, on the
25th, after a short illness. He was IS
years old, He was breveted major
for gallantry at the storming of Fort
Fisher. He was the author of '"Thc
Abolition of the Presidency"
Mr.. A. w. Machen, superintendent
of rural free delivery, has issued an
order that the postmaster at each of
flee from which a rural free delivery
route starts shall post in a conspicu-
Gus place in his Office a list of the
patrons of each delivery route.
Thousands of cattle are reported
to be starving on the range in north
western Colorado. The Humane So
ciety appealed to the owners to res
cue their stock and they have replied
that they are powerless to do so. The
cattle are showed in on the high
range without pasture or water avail
able.
A Berlin newspaper announces, ap-
parently on authority, that u German
condition precedent to arbitration is
that Venezuela must pay 1,7O0, 900 Dol
wars ($340,000) in cash to satisfy
claims.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt found
the usual parental pleasures in seeing
that their children were the recipi-
ents of such articles as they desired
for the Christmas season. There wa
no Christmas tree, but there were
numerous presents exchanged in the
library.
Emperor William spent Christmas
in his usual way. His majesty took
a walk in the afternoon in the Sans
Souci park and distributed bright
gold pieces, fresh from the mint,
among the gardeners and watchmen.
Jean Echeyarria, a saloon passenger
on the steamer La Touraine, commit
ted suicide by jumping overheard, on
the 21st, on the voyage from New
York to Havre.
Mrs. NJ. A. Mcclure, of st. Louis,
mother of the wife of Gen. Eugene A.
Carr, U. S. A., retired, died of pnsu-
monia, on the Goth, at St. Vincent's
hospital, Santa Fe, N. M.
Fire at Newark, N. j., on the goth,
did $4,000 damage to a number oil
mercantile houses.
Amos Bissell, a pioneer banker OF
Denver, CoL, died of paralysis, on the
2Gth.
A post Office inspector having found
him 81 400 short in his accounts, u. X
Greening, postmaster at CORTLAND, Ill.
committed suicide, on the Goth, by
shooting himself in the head with {
revolver.
The tin mills at Newcastle ant
Shenango, Pa, employing 5000 men
which have been idle since July, will
be put in operation on January 1.
Gen. Leonard Fl. Wood has accepted
an invitation to respond to a toast a
the banquet of the Kansas Day club
at Emporia, on January 80.
Mrs. Marshall Sattley's fine resi-
dence, in South Springfield, ILL.,, wa
burned to the ground on the 26tl
causing a loss of $4,000.
Edward Gay was murdered an
robbed of 81 200 and his store burned
early Christmas morning, near Mai
thews, Ga.
Mrs. Walter Legally was fatal
burned and her twin boys persisted i
a fire at Cuero, Tex, On the Goth.
Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwooc
the %well-known authoress, died c
cancer, at Chicago, on the 26th.
Recent reports to the war depar
ment from the Philippines indicat
that there are less than 400 of tt
Spanish friars now on the archipel
go, and these are all in Manila. The'
} are being quietly withdrawn by IL
church and priests from other cou
tries sent to replace them.
Andrew Carnegie has purchast
t part Of the Pittencrief estate, ne;
Dunfermline, Scotland, including Il
glen which runs through Dunfer1
line and the site of Dunfermline to-
! er, where Malcolm Canmore MARI,
Princess Margaret. The price pa
! was G45,00
= The advent of real wintry wealth
2 has sccentuated the coal shortage
!, over the country, and coal deale
= have taken advantage Of the situati,
to advance prices On all grades,
luminous as well as anthracite.
N The cable ship Silvertown arriv
/ off the island Of Oahu, Hawaii, on t
n morning Of the 2eth, and proceed
4 at once to buoy the cable preparato
/ to having the shore end, which is o.