Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GON. cummings OF IOWA, Oh Tie
goth, forcibly urged changes in the
currency laws of the country, declar-
ing that it is a fallacy to believe that
the laws under which prosperity has
come will preserve prosperity.
John G. Long, United States consul
general at Cairo, Egypt, died, on the
2Sth, at Dunbar, Scotland, where he
had been visiting friends on his way
homeward. His death was the result
of an accidental fall.
The London Daily Chronicle learns,
through a special correspondent,
that Russia has made important con-
cessions to the United States and ia
pan, while Great Britain, which has
conducted her negotiations on more
sober lines, also has obtained her de-
sire.
In the Doodle cases at Jefferson
City, Mo-, the defense resorted to all
manne of dilatory tactics, the result
of one move being that Judge HAZEL
was disqualified. Judge Walter w
Graves, of Butler, was selected to try
the cases.
Gen. Jose Manuel Hernandez, the
newly-appointed Venezuelan minister,
in company with Senior Pulido, the
Venezuelan charge, on the goth, paid
his respects to Acting Secretary of
State Loomis.
As the result of an explosion, On
the Goth, in the Sun and Moon mine,
near Idaho Springs, Col, % members
of the miners union are under arrest
charged with conspiracy to cause the
explosion.
During an electrical storm at Pitts
burg, Pa, on the Goth, a number of
Italians took refuge in a building
which was struck by lightning. Two
were killed and three others injured.
Twenty persons are dead and so
more are injured as the result of the
explosion of two powder magazines at
Tewksbury, Mass, on the Goth.
Joseph NJ. Riker, president of the
Merchants national bank of Newark,
N. j., gave out a staten INT. on the
30th, to the effect that Edmund j.
Smith, former discount clerk of the
bank, was short in his accounts at
least $4,000. Smith has been en-
ployed by the bank for IS years, start
ing as an Office boy.
Searchers have tried in vain to dis
cover the bodies of other victims Of
the powder magazine explosion at
Lowell, Mass. The death list, on the
30th. numbered 10, with two other
deaths expected.
The militia engaged in pursuing the
escaped convicts, on the 30th, from
Folsom (Cal.) prison lost the trail,
and it is thought the fugitives have
turned away from the vicinity of Lo-
tus, Cal.
The Sullivan Doodle East was post
poned by Judge Timmonds, on the
30th, till August 10. The grand jury,
which will meet in Jefferson City,
Mo-, August 3. has been selected.
Union plumbers who refused to work
with non-union men were locked out
at St. Joseph, Mo-. on the Goth. 1t is
said the Employers association is de-
sirous of testing it's strength.
The postmaster general, on the
Both, ordered the establishment of
free delivery postal service on No
vember 1 next at Union City, Ind, and
Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Rev. j. Leslie Ellsworth, pastor Of
the Presbyterian church at Capt Gil
rardeau, Mo-, was drowned while
bathing in the Mississippi, on the
both.
Charles Binford, on the 3Oth, shot
and fatally wounded his wife for a
burglar at Fulton, Ky.
After being severely beaten by his
nephew, August Rosteck, for inter
fering while the latter was beating
his wife, Gottlieb Rosteck, of Spring
field, ILL.,, secured a pistol and fired
three bullets into Augustus body, in
licting probably fatal wounds.
Indictments were returned, on the
3oth, by the grand Jury, at Chicago,
against five sanitary inspectors, in
Guiding John s. Kelley, assistant chief
sanitary inspector, for accepting
brides. Kelly is a prominent labor
leader. and was at one time president
of the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers
union.
The greatest secrecy was main.
tanned in the inquiry, on the 3lst, into
the death of little Ewart Checksield
who is said to have been poisoned al
Bunker Hill, ILL.,, by a prominent WON.
an, who gave him candy containing
strychnine.
John H. Sullivan, a brakeman, was
Killed and Is workmen were injured
in the wreck of a work train. on the
31st, on the Otter Creek division Of
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail
road, near Brazil Ind.
Robert M. Wilson, editor cf ID.
Durand Gill; Clapper, started, at moor
on the 31st, to walk to Cape Lisburne
on the Arctic ocean, 5000 miles away
He expects to be gone Is months.
Senator Esnna returned to Cleve
land, o., on the 31st, from Newport
r. l., unexpectedly, to BIZ present a
an important meeting of the ConsoH
dated street railway directors.
King Edward, Queen Alexandra ant
I.their party left Galway, Ireland, b.
train, on the 31st, for Kenmare, wher,
they arrived at 3 p. m. and met will
an enthusiastic reception.