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Tron County Register. By ELI D. AKE. IRONTON. : : 1 MISSOURI On the 6th, the United States recog nized the new republic of Panama a a de facto government. The Sheldon State bank, of Sheldor Ia., closed on the 4th. The officers sai depositors would be paid in full. Without the firing of a shot and ami scenes of great enthusiasm, the inde pendence of the isthmus and the de partment of Panama was declared, O the 4th. President Roosevelt, on the 6th, re ceived the members of the executiv board of the Women's Foreign Societ of the Methodist Episcopal church which had just concluded its annus convention in Baltimore, Md. Minister Powell cabled the state de partment at Washington, D. C., on th 6th, that the insurgent army wa marching on the city of San Doming He asked that an American man-o war be sent there. The Baltimore wa sent. King Edward, in the presence of sev eral thousand people, on the 3d, lai the foundation stone of the King E ward VII. consumption sanitarium, a Midhurst, Sussex, for the erection ( which Sir Ernest Cassel gave the kin $1,000,000. The cadets of the Western militar academy, at Alton, III., constituted part of the reception committee which met Gov. Richard Yates, on the 3 The governor addressed a mass mee ing of the citizens in the Spauldir auditorium. The first trainload of returnir Dowie "restorationists" arrived at Zie City, Chicago, on the 3d. Later, intervals of an hour or two, train aft train deposited its travel-stained cr saders. The day was devoted to pray and thanksgiving. The First national bank of Victo Col., was closed, on the 4th, by dire tion of the acting comptroller of t currency, the examiner having repor ed the bank to be insolvent. James Lazear, national bank examiner, w appointed receiver. As showing the depth of the reser ment over the success of the Unit States in the Alaskan boundary ma ter, during the performance of a mi strel troupe at Vancouver, B. C., on t 6th, the music of the American anthe was vigorously hissed. Final burial services were held 01 the remains of Emma-Booth Tuck on the 4th, in New York city, and 1 body was placed in a vault at Wo lawn cemetery. Later it will be i terred in the army plot, where two the commander's children are burie Congressman Slemp, in Bristol, V on the 5th, confirmed the rumor the Edward L. Wentz, the young Philad phia millionaire who disappeared, V in the hands of abductors in the moi tains of southwest Virginia, and t.] a ransom of $100,000 was demanded his release. President Roosevelt was asked, the 5th, to forbid the United Sta Marine band to accent encagome
