Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-08
AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the durbar at Delhi, on the list.
Fire in the basement of the capitol
building at Jefferson City, Mo-, on
the list, burned some records of the
land department, but otherwise did
little damage.
A message came owe the new Pa
cifc cable, on the evening of the 1st,
from Honolulu saying that the cable
was spliced to the shore end at three
o'clock on that day. The message
gave no explanation of the six days
delay in the completion of the col
nection.
There is no longer the slightest
doubt that the disease now affecting
Mazatlan, Mexico, is genuine Asiatic
plague, for microscopic investigation
proves that bubonic pest bacilli are in
the blood of those afflicted with the
prevailing disease.
Thomas A. Edison promises to have
his new storage battery on the mar
ket this month, and declares it will
solve the traction problem and that
it's introduction will mean that the
horse will have to go.
President Castro's reply to the pow
ers, through Minister Bowen, is sub
stantially an unqualified acceptance of
their proposals to arbitrate, and the
accompanying conditions. A further
interchange of views, preparatory to
signing the protocol, will take place
in Washington.
President Palma of Cuba celebrated
his first New Years as chief eNecu-
tive with a public reception at the
palace in Havana, and a diplomatic
dinner at night. There were many
Americans among those who paid
their respects.
Miss Mollie Atchison, the largest
woman in southern Illinois, died at
Ina, a small station IL miles from
Benton, on the list. She was rs years
old and weighed $40 pounds.
1t is said that the sultan of Moroc'
co has summoned the shereefs and
notables to Fee and made a bid fol
their loyalty, offering to abjure his
European predictions, to break his
relations with Christians and to main
tain Islamism.
Miss Helen Miller Gould received
as a New Years gift Il handsome low.
ing cup, which was presented to he1
by about 300 enlisted men of the
Eighty-first coast artillery, who are
stationed at Fort Slocum.
In q drunken brawl at Santiago
Cuba, on the Sd, between seven Ital
ians, two of them were killed instant.
ly, two died in the hospital, n was
fatally and one seriously wounded
The seventh mar was unhurt.
Grief over the death of her hus
band, who fell from a wagon ant
broke his neck, impelled Mrs. Eliza
beth Gleich, of St. Louis, to drown
herself in a cistern, on the I'd.
A wild engine crashed into a flyer
on the night of the I'd, at Shelburne
VT, killing both engineers and fire
men and fatally injuring a brakeman
The American Association for thu
Advancement of Science will hold it,
next meeting in St. Louis, from De
cember 20, 1903, to January 2, 1904.
The village of Woodruff, in Mclean
county, ILL.,, was destroyed by Are, OF
the I'd.
Deputy Marshal Sorrels was sho
and instantly killed and two othe
deputies wounded by an unknown
man whom they attempted to arres
at Coal Creek, I. r., on the I'd.
%. Williams, alleged to have eraset
and forged money orders in Ohio, In
diana, Illinois and Kansas, was ar
rested by post office inspectors a
Lima, o., on the I'd.
A new gas well, the largest in tn
state, was struck In Licking county
O., on the I'd. 1t has a daily capacit
of 100000 cubic feet.
The headquarters of the Carpenter
and Joiners' union were removed froI
Philadelphia to Indianapolis, Ind, o
the I'd.
j. N. Castle, a former congressman
was found dead of heart disease q
his home in Saltwater, Mimi, on til
I'd.
Officials of the Pacific Cable Co. sa
they will have the cable completed I
Manila by the Fourtn Of July.
Howard Gould and party, on tt
! steam yacht Niagara, passed Gibra
. tar, on the I'd.
. The cabinet, on the I'd, decided
. permanently close the post office
Indianola, Miss, from which Il
postmistress, Minnie M. Cox, 4 n
: gress. recently resigned under COZ
: pulsion, since which it has remain'
closed.
a The Pressed Steel Car Co., of Ne
8 York, proposes to carry for each
7 its employees who have been S
months or more in its employ fro
one to twenty-five shares Of the pi
, ferred stock. now paying seven p
cent. dividends.
It is officially announced that t
Z French government has abandon
the idea Of reproducing the Pc
!. Trianon as the national pavilion
: the Louisiana Purchase exposition
st. Louis, and will, instead, reprodu
the Grand Trianon, erected by Lo'
XIV.
Il Capt. George Terrell of the Red
"a line steamer Zulia has been susper
ia ed for having violated the ueutrali
laws in giving information to a g
'. man ~blockading ship that led to t
n capture Of the Venezuelan gunbt
Miranda on December 10 last.