Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03


u has been discovered that the value
of the estate of the late Mrs. James
G. Blaine will show in excess of ST.
000, GOO.
Carl Rudolph Schultz, 81 years old,
has been elected president of the Ma
tional Equitable bank, of New York.
He is the youngest president but n in
the United States.
The richest gold nugget ever found
In Mexico was discovered, recently
by G. T. Robinson, captain of the vessel
Corrigan. The nugget is nearly twenty
inches thick, and is valued at S75 900.
Post Office Inspector Flavin, of Spo-
kane, Wash, received advices that the
mail stage between Canyon City and
Whitney City, Ore, was held up, on
the 18th, on Dixie mountain, and all
the mail taken.
Martin Kellogg, ex-president of the
University OF California, died at the
Waldeck sanitarium, in San Francis
CO., on the 26th, as the result of an OPP
Grafton performed several weeks age
to relieve a combination of stomach
and liver troubles.
Miss Helen Keller, the famous blint
deaf mute, a member of the graduating
class of Radcliff college, has accepted
the invitation of President Francis t
take an active part in the deaf, dumb
and blind operating exhibit at the
Worlds fair at St. Louis.
Twenty-one indictments against City
and County Clerk Aichele were report
ed by the Denver (Col.) grand jury
on the 2Sth. The principle charges re
late to the destruction of public rec.
ords and an alleged shortage of 5000
in the county clerks office.
The funeral of Maj. Charles E
Smith Chill Arp, who died on the Gath
was held at Gainesville, Ga, on the
26th, from the First Presbyterian
church. The services were exceedingly
simple, according to the expressed
wishes of the late philosopher.
The department of commerce ant
labor at Washington, d. c., has an
nounced the appointment of Edwin w
Sims as special attorney in the bureat
of corporations. He has been prac'
ticing law in Chicago for the past tel
years and has been county attorney Of
Cook county, ILL.,, since 1901.
President Roosevelt announced, or
the 9th, at Oyster Bay, N. Y, tina
Henry c. Ide, at present a member o
the Philippine commission, would bt
designated as vic~e-governor of thu
Philippines, in succession to Gen. Luke
e. Wright, when the latter assume!
the Office of governor general.
Senator Hanna was taken suddenly
i'll while in his office in Cleveland, 0.
on the 18th, and a physician who wa
called ordered that he go to bed a
once. Mr.. Hanna, the doctor stated
was suffering from stomach trouble
and this, together with the intense hea
prevailing, caused the trouble.
The International Typographical I'M
ion has been asked to investigate
charges that George Tracy, who in
stalled the government printing office
at Manila, was forced to resign by JOIN
Leech, the public printer of the Phil
ippines, because Tracy was one of thu
organizers of the Manila union.
Standing upon Inc trap Of the gal
lows, his hands and feet manacled ant
the sheriff adjusting the black cap
Samuel Stiles, at Cuero, Tex, on thu
26th, was respited by Gov. Lanham o
Texas. The negro was charged will
having murdered Doom Edwards be
cause of i%nfatuation for his wife.
The fourth contest for the America
cup was called off, on the 9th, by thu
New York regatta committee, when /
was seen that the Reliance, which wa
20 minutes in the lead of Shamrocl
I'LL, could not finish the remaining
three-quarters Of a mile within the 5k
hour limit set for the 30-mile race.
The French steamer Admiral Coy
don, of Bob tons, which sailed from
Marseilles, France, July Is, for Saigon
French Cochin China, by way of Co
lomba, Ceylon, which port she left Au
gust II, has not since been reported
? and has been given up for lost. Their
were 81 persons on board the vessel.
1t was announced, on the 25th, tina
the total paid admissions to the Mis-
souri, state fair were 81 ,5S9, while tn
gate receipts were S., 800 in excess 0
last year. Although the amount o
premiums was $1,000 more than in 1902
treasury after all Indebtedness wa
paid.
Excitement at Oaxaca City, Mexico
is at fever heat over the wonderful.
rich gold deposit at Ejutla. All min
ing men, as well as many bushes
men, have gone in a wild race there
and are stalking out claims. 1t is prob
ably the richest and most e~xtensiv
gold district yet discovered in tina
country.
Orris J. Towne, Jr., a former deput,
collector of internal revenue for tn
eastern district Of Massachusetts. wa