Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

w. p. Brown, of New Orleans, the
leader of the September cotton corner,
is said to have cleared, at the least
calculation, between $1,000, 900 and S.
900. 900 on the September option alone.
The Northern Pacific railroad, on the
18th, had 400 men patrolling its traces
and guarding bridges and tunnels be-
tween Livingston and Missoula, Mont
The force was being added to as rapid
ly as reliable men could be obtained to
prevent more dynamite outrages on the
line.
Miss Julia Dent Grant, daughter Of
U. S. Grant, met with serious injuries
on the Goth, at San Diego, Cal, in a
runaway accident.
Official Washington learned with
profound regret of The death OF Sir
Michael Herbert, British ambassador
to the United States. The state depart
ment cabled Mr.. Choate, the American
ambassador at London, instructing
him to convey to the British foreign
office an appropriate expression Of the
Washington governments sympathy.
The condition of Archbishop Kahn, OF
st. Louis, who has been i'll at the st
Agnes s%anitarium in Baltimore, Md.
was reported, on the Goth, as being
critical and grave doubts of his recoV-
cry expressed.
The dead body of Tom Madison, the
,1n,+o, rf tho Grnith onI1ntW kansas
family of three women. was found, on
the 29th, in a field near COwles, Neb,
He had been shot by himself, and hat
apparently been dead a number O.
days.
Harry Fl. DevereuX, mayor of Spring
field, H., has been indicted by the
grand jury of Sangamon county, on
five counts charging malfeasance in Of
flee in permitting the operation OF
gambling houses, slot machines in sa-
.oSns and other places, and pOolrooms
w. w. Armstrong, a Lake Erie 4
Western freight brakeman, whose hom'
is in Lima, O., was killed in a freigh
wreck, on the 29th, at Newly Crossing
two miles west of Elwood, Ind.
The total net revenues OF the United
States for the last fiscal year were
$3.50, 390,674, an increase Of $3S, 1888, 43S
over the year preceding, and the tota
expenditures $506, 099,O07, an increase
of $35, 1872 ,034. The surplus was $751;
297, 667, as compared with SOL ,2S7,37
in 1902.
In all the states which comprised
the Southern C~onfederacy the gov
ernors are assisting the govern
ment in it's attempt to collect
complete record of the confederate
troops, and persons have been desig
mated to supervise the work in al
these states, except Florida.
A tentative agreement was reache!
at Pekin, on the Goth, providing TO
the signing of the commercial treat,
between China and the United State
at Shanghai on October 8. Mr.. Copge
is sanguine that the matter will g
through on the date mentioned.
The biggest day in the history o
the Illinois state fair was witnessed o
the list, with $4,000 people on tn
grounds. Excursion trains ran froI
the furthest limits of the state, an
the city contained the largest crowd i
it's history. The weather was ideal,
The coal miners of Colorado Spring!
Col, numbering about 300, at a mas
meeting, on the list, voted to strik
hanatcn of thn rnftGu1 nf tho nnnrn4 Or
to grant an eight-hour day and 20 pc
cent. increase in wages. Six coal mine
are idle as a result.
President Roosevelt was deepl
grieved to learn of the death of 81
Michael Herbert, British ambassador t
the United States, for whom he ha
a warm feeling of personal regard. II
sent a message of coincidence on tn
list to Lady Herbert.
Daniel H. Ogden, a prominent bus
ness man of Ogden, Utah, was shot an
instantly killed while duck hunting
on the list, IA miles west of Ogde'
The wound was inflicted by a stra
shot, the one firing it being unknow.
The three Van Wormer brothe
we're electrocuted at the Dannemol
IN. " state prison on the LIST for Il
murder of their uncle, Peter A. Hallel
back, on December "a, 1901.
The jury in the case Of Mrs. Jul
Edwards VS.. the Alton Light
Traction Co., in a $4,000 damage su
at Alton, ILL.,, for alleged injuries r
ceived, disagreed, on the LIST, and
asked by the justices of the peace. TT
Fifty thousand locomotive firem'
employed by the american railway col
F., panies have started a movement for
wage increase and uniform agreement
The increases asked run from ten
4 twenty per cent.
! George B. Mcclellan was nominal
by the New York city democracy,
the night of the list, for mayor. T
a scenes around Carnegie hall, where
a convention was held, are said to ha
been without parallel in the city's 7
litical history.
a At the close of September, 1908, the
8 were in active operation 5,096 nation
q banks, with an aggregate capital
il $761, AIT ,095, a net increase in numt
q since March IA, 1900, Of 1,479 ban
and $145, Jos, 900 capital.
The large hay barn Of Thomas g
tbs, in Posey county, Ind, was
d stroyed by fire, on the list, entailine
loss Of several thousand dollars. IT.
a makes So barns burned in Posey col
ty, since the first Of the year, and
It Of the fires are supposed to have been
le tncendiary origin.
81 William Rockefeller, Of New 70
a. on the I'd, received a warning that
would be the next victim Of the n
= who assassinated Orlando P. Dex
i. in the Adirondack mountains.
Word from Balmoral, received on