Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-27
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

~. liz was dppolutcu pOSlhidSNSA ~
Cruger by President Franklin Pierce,
and has peel in continuous service
since that time.
Throughout the northern and eastern
portions OF the corn belt the weather
has been too cool for maturing corn,
which is unusually late, The crop. how
ever, has generally improved, especial
ly in the central and western districts.
Sixteen of the % men indicted on tho
charge of attacking the Jail at the re-
cent riot in Danyille, H., were ar
raigned in the circuit court on the 18th.
They pleaded not guilty" and attor-
neys have been engaged to defend
them.
Ten thousand survivors of the civil
a passed in review, at San Francisco,
on. the 18th, marching to martial tunes
that inspired them to endeavor 40 years
ago. Above the national colors, borne
by every marcher, proudly tloated torn
and tattered flags. These, with empty
sleeves and limping gait, were eloquent
reminders of the sorrow and glory OF
war.
The concentration and nearly the en-
tire plant of the MISREPRESENTATION
Mining and Concentration Co., at Yer
million, Mont, was destroyed by fire
on the 10Th. Loss estimated at $125,-
600 to $15O,000, with 100000 insurance.
Directors of the new Indianapolis
Southern railway opened bids at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 10Th, for the
construction of the line between In
%dianapolis and Sullivan, Ind, 10 miles.
The estimated cost will be S., 1000, 900.
Secretary Root left Washington, D.,
c., on the 18th, for New York, and
sailed for Europe to take his seat as
chairman Of the Alaskan boundary
commission, which meets in London,
September 3. Until the first of Sep
tember the war department will be
under the direction of Col. Sanger, the
assistant secretary, at which time Gen.
Oliver will succeed him.
The remains of the late Judge John
G. Long, United States consul general
and diplomatic agent at Cairo, Egypt
who died as the result of an accident
in Dunbar, Scotland, July %, arrived
at Washington, D. c., on the 10Th.
The Topeka, Lawrence & Kansas
Electric Co. applied for a charter at
Topeka, Kas. on the 18th, with a cap
ital stock of 81, 900, 900. T. S. Salathiel
is the promoter. The line will be rs
miles in length.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, on the
10Th, appointed Senator II. W. Johnson,
of Montgomery county, Mo-, judge of
the circuit court of that county, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Judge r. d. Rogers.
The wooden ore steamer Queen of the
West, from Cleveland, O., sank in Lake
Erie, on the Goth. The crew of Is mel
and two young women, daughters Of
the engineer, were rescued by the
Anchor Line steamer Codorus, bound
for Cleveland. The steamer was val
ued at $45. 600.
The Wyoming supreme court, on the
Goth, refused a new trial to James Kef-
fer, who killed S. J. Warren at Derby
December 20, 1901, and re-sentence(
him to be hanged September 25.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts and his
staff, on the goth, booked passage Or
the steamer M~aylower, which will sal
from Liverpool, September %, for Bos-
ton, Mass.
The Missouri, a sister ship of the
Maine, built for the International Mer-
camille Marine Co, was successfully
launched at Baltimore, Nd, on the
Goth.
The Conecup Lumber Co.'S plant at
Montgomery, Ala, was destroyed by
fire on the Goth. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles left San Fran
cisco, on the goth, to meet an engage.
ment in New Hampshire, August 26.
w. j. Edwards, Of Plains, Kas., was
shot and killed on the Goth. His sons
John and Roy surrendered, and admit
ted that they did the shooting. Nc
cause was given.
Fire partially destroyed the building
occupied by the y. s.. Aloe Optical Co..
CT Broadway, St. Louis, on the morn
tanned, by water, by the Simmons
Hardware Co., adjoining, and by T. j
Reid Shoe Co, opposite, a water tower
falling against me third-story window
and flooding the building before il
could be shut off.
The first of the Americas cup yacht
races was started. but not finished, on
the Goth, there noL ocing sufficient wind
TO enable the yachts to cover the
course within the time limit. Reliance
the cup deten le;, demonstrated her su.
p~eriority as 4 light wind craft, being
nearly two miles IN the lead when the
race was called OF.
The Grand Army of the Republic ma
tional encampment. on the goth, selected
Boston as the place in which the en-.
campment of 1904 will be held. Gen
John G. Black, Of Illinois, was chosen
commander-in-chief.
AL unhllONu youh5 Hidh lioNi III
diana was shot in the side by m o
four tramps, on the morning Of thu
21st, 20 miles east Of Wichita, Kas. HI
died several hours later.
David Stafford, an Emporia (Kas.
business man. left, on the 21st, fol
Sheridan, Wyo., to investigate the mys
FERROUS disappearance of his son
Lloyd Stafford, a non-commissioned Of
icer in the United States army, sta
toned at Fort Mckinney, near Sheri
dan.
Hazel Avery, s~elf-confessed kidnape
Of two-year-old Olive Furlong, In Chi
cago, was, on the 21st, sentenced t.
three years in the ~penitentiary. TIL
baby was stolen June 20 and was no
recovered until June 30.
The national encampment Of tn