Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-01-19

of that state, is dead.
A denial comes from Essen, Ger
many, of the report that Bertha Krupp,
only child and heiress of the late Herr
Krupp, is engaged to be married to DR..
Heck, of Rheedt, Rhenish Prussia.
Senator Scott. of West Virginia, has
drafted a bill designed to cut down the
cavalry branch of the army to ten reg
iments.
The Episcopal clergy of western Mis-
souri, have invented a new term for the
remarriage of divorced persons. They
call it tandem polygamy."
The coal miners, at their convention
in indianapolis. are expected to take
to place the organization on a
war footing for another struggle in
1906.
The cruiser ST. Louis. now under
construction on the Delaware river,
will be ready to go into action when
she is launched. This is a new de-
parture in warship building.
Hon. Elmer ]. Burkett will be the
youngest man in the United States SEN
ate when he takes his seat as n of
Nebraska's senators. He was born in
Iowa in 1867.
Miss Courteney Thomas, a Missouri
girl, will sing in operate roles at
Monte Carlo for the remainder of the
season, going thence to Brussels in the
spring.
E. X. Brown, of Ell Reno, Okla. was
found unconscious on the street at
Kansas City, Mo-, evidently suffering
from poison, and died at the police
station. He was a freshman in the
art department of the Kansas univer-
sity.
The National Live Stock association
has been disrupted, the cattlemen,
horse and swine growers, who were
opposed to a~ffiliation with the railroad
and packing interests drawing out and
forming IN independent organization.
Chief Wilkie of the United States
secret service announces the appear
ance of a new and very deceptive coun-
terfeit two-dollar silver certificate, OF
series 1899, Lyons register, Roberts
treasurer.
Witnesses for the defense in the
Smoot case. at Washington, testified
that polygamy is dying out in Utah sc
rapidly that there is no need of pros
ecutions.
Fire destroyed the new theater and
several ether buildings at NeepaWa
Manitoba, causing a loss of $4,000.
The ecclesiastical court of inquiry al
Reading, Pa, called to consider
charges against Bishop Talbot, has
adjourned sine die, the members de-
Gliding that the body was uncanonical-
ly constituted.
A well defined movement has been
inaugurated by the Order of Red Men
in Petersburg, Va, for the erection OF
a monument to Chief Powhattan ano
his daughter, Pocahontas.
The county treasurer's vault in the
Fulton county court house in Wauseon
O., was blown open by four craftsmen
who secured from $1,000 to $4,000.
Count Pueckler, Germany's mos
noted Jew batter, has been sentenced
in Berlin, to six months in jail fol
| public Indictment to disobedience o.
the laws and violence of n elias:
against another.
Sllas CARRIER, who served as govern
or of Nebraska from 1874 to 1878, dice
at Omaha. He was a native of Ohio
settling in Nebraska in 1879.
Former Gov. Morgan G. Bulkeley
of Connecticut, was chosen by the re
public caueus, at Hartford, as candi
date for United States senator to sue
ceeed Joseph r. Hawley, who will re
tire on account of impaired health.
Senator Eenry Cabot Lodge, Of Mas
sachusetts, has been renominated t.
succeed himself, and Senator w. Mur
ry Crane, to fill the u%neXpired term o
Mr.. Hoar, which he holds by appoint
ment.
Cablegrama received in st. Louis an
nounce the death of August Anheusel
Sir. at Krueznach, Germany, fror
heart trouble. He was a first cousi
of Mrs. Adolphus Busch, of st. Louis
Rev. J. c. Hartzel, Methodist Episco
pal bishop of Africa, has sailed &c
Liverpool, en- route to his field OF Ia
Dor.
The German mine owners, at
meeting in Essen, resolved under n
circumstances to yield to the demanc
of the miners and to suppress Tn
strike by every possible means, eve
at the cost of hundreds of millions
marks.
Habeas corpus proceedings nay
been instituted in the cases OF II
children taken to Arizona by repr
sentatives of the New York foundlir
asylum and taken from the persoi
with whom they were placed al
adopted by other families.
A commission has been appoint'
to summon a jury and take testimol
concerning the sanity Of Brodie
Duke, now confined in a sanitarium
Flushing, Long Island. 1t is claim'
that Duke is deprived of his liber
without due process of law.
) Official records of Ellis Island, N.
show that for the first month OF t
I new year immigration to this count
G is likely to exceed all records.
0 The Chicago Press club celebrat
the twenty-ffth anniversary OF
: founding with a banquet. Col. Geor
e Harvey, of New York, and Gov. Gu
: minis of Iowa were among the pr
cipal speakers.
Three persons were killed, two
s tally and about a score more or II
seriously injured in a wreck on I
k Santa Fe, three miles south OF Rat
e N. NJ, between the east-bound Calf
!, mia limited and a freight" train. I
+ wreck was one of the worst that |
happened ON the Las Vegas divislon
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