Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-16
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


searching for harvest hands.
The navy department, on the sth,
decided to allow the European squad
ron to remain about a week longer
than was intended in English waters.
Red river, in Arkansas, is still ris-
ing. The levee on the Hiram G. San
derson place broke, on the Sth, and
hundreds of acres of that and adjoin-
ing plantations we're inundated.
The syndicate formed last summer
by Kuhn Loeb & Co., of New York, to
underwrite $12, OOO, 900 four-per-cent.
bonds of the St. Louis Southwestern
Railway Co., was dissolved on the sth.
Mine workers from Missouri, Kan
sas, Texas, Arkansas and Indian ter
ritory, embracing Districts IA, 81 and
25 of the United Mine Workers of
America. convened at Pittsburg, Kas.,
on the Sth.
At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Co. held in New York, on the
9th, August Belmont resigned his po-
sition as chairman of the board. Hen
ry Walters was unanimously elected
in his stead,
Secretary Hitchcock, on the 9th,
designated Assistant Secretary Ryan
as chairman of each of the two COM
mittees to take charge of the exhibits
to be made by Alaska and Indian ter
ritory at the ST. Louis exposition.
One of the fires started by light
ming, on the 9th, was in the plant of
the Empire Mattrass Co., 912 West
Madison street. Chicago, and during
its progress four tiremen were more
c" less seriously injured.
After talking with Gov. Durbin oven
the telephone, on the 9th, brighten.
Mckee ordered all troops removed
from Evansville, Ind.
The secretary of the interior, on
the 9th, approved a new code of regu-
lations for the sale of surplus lands
owned by Indians.
There We're six deaths from heat, on
the 9th, in New York. six in Brooklyn
and fully two score of p~rostrations.
1t was the hottest day since July 2,
1901. when it was 90 degrees. On The
9th it ran to "a degrees.
The American Smelling and Rein
ing Co. announced that the Globe
smelter at Denver, Col, would be re-
opened on the 9th, but no men APP
piled for work, and the company was
unable to resume operations.
w. J. Anderson, president of the
Livingston waterworks, Helena, Mont,
died, on the 9th, at johannesburg,
South Africa. He was an officer in
the British army during the Boer war.
At a family reunion held, on the 9th,
at the home of James d. Arnold, in
Monroe township, Ind, 20 persons
were poisoned by eating ice cream.
Nine + not expected to recover.
The plant of the Aetna Powder Co.
at Miller's station, Ind, was demol-
ished by an explosion, on the 9th,
from unknown causes. The loss was
100000. Nobody was hurt.
South-bound Missouri Pacific pas
senger train No. rs, from Kansas
City, collided with the rear end Of Il
local freight at Nevada, Mo-, on the
9Th.
Eastern Iowa was visited by a de-
structive c%loudburst on the 9th. The
loss to crops was heavy and much
damage was done by lightning.
The treasurydepartment purchased.
the 9th, 100000 ounces of silver for
account of Philippine coinage, at an
average of 53.4S cents an ounce.
Barney Oldfield, on the 9th, at Marion.
Ind, established a new worlds record
by driving an automobile q mile on a
track in 1:16.
Chicago has passed the 2,000,0 0J
mark, and its present population is
2,231,O 900 according to the publishers
of the Chicago city directory for 1908.
John Griffith, aged 81, a noted Mon
tana pioneer, died at Helena, Mont,
on the 10th. He wa a native of st.
Louis, and went to Helena soon after
the discovery of gold.
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt
reached Oyster Bay, l.. l., on board
the government yacht Sylph at 1906
a. M, on the 18th, from their trip up
the Hudson river to the home of John
Burroughs. They were taken by car
rage to Sycamore Hill.
Central Illinois, on the 10th. re-
ceived some relief from the intense
heat when a heavy rain fell.
In a wreck on the Milwaukee road
at South Amana, Ia, on the 10th, two
persons were killed.
James Martin, of the United States
monitor Arkansas. died, on the 10th,
at the Brooklyn IN. W navy yard,
of stab wounds inflicted by his broth
err, Charles, already under arrest. Thu
stabbing grew out of a dispute owe
some trivial matter.
The forty-second annual convention
of the National Educational associa-
ton practically closed, on the 10th,
after an interesting and undoubtedly
instructing week to the 10000 teach
ers from all parts of the country, who
visited Boston.
The jury that has been hearing the
case of Mrs. Elmira Drake, of Coving-
ton, Ind, who was tried on the charge
OF poisoning her husband, disagreed,
on the 10th, and was discharged. The
jury stood six for conviction and six
for acquittal.
Thirty-eight deaths and SO prostra.
tons in and around New York and
Brooklyn, on the 10th, tell the story
of the days heat. 1t was the hottest
July 10 in the history of the New
York weather bureau.