Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS

Nine persons who hIrried1y sough.
shelter under some trees and bushes
in the woods in the Bronx section OF
Greater New York, during a storm, on
the 18th, were struck by the same
flash of lightnin. Physicians said
hat four of them would die, while n
fifth could only survive to become in.
sane.
r. III. Ferrcll, n former empIoye o:
the Adams Express Co, was arrested,
on the 18th, aud confessed to the muir
der of Express Messenger Lane and
the robbery Of the safe on the Penn
~sylvania east-bourd train, on the
night of the 10th. One thousand dol
lars of The money stolen was recov-
cred.
Joseph Phelpot and Franz Craig,
wealthy stockmen, were fatally shot
three miles from Nodaway, Mo-, on
the 18th, by two men who attempted
to rob them. The stockmen had just
returned from selling cattle 1t ST.
Joseph, but had deposited the pro-
ceeds in the bank.
The state department received a
dispatch, on the 18th, from Gen. Chat
fee, including a telegram from Minis
ter Conger, in which the latter says:
'Will hold on until your arrival. Hope
it will be SOON" The government
will use every means to push forward
the relief column.
Several persons were killed and 10
injured, on the 18th, by the wrecking,
at Iowa station, La, of the west
bound fast passenger train on tn.
Southern Pacific road. The trucks of
the engine left the track, and the en-
tire train. except the ~sleepers, was
ditched.
Fifteen persons were killed and a
number injured three miles east of
S~latington, Pa, on the 18th. by the
omnibus in which u party of 25 were
returning from n funeral, being run
into at a. crossing by a train on the
Lehigh & New England railroad.
Field Marshal Count von Waldersee,
according to the Berliner Tageblatt,
will go on a special mission to Rome
before sailing for China to assume
the command of the international
forces.
In Philadelphia the heat, on the
18th, resulted in II deaths and Is
p~rostrations. The maximum temper
ature was 90 degrees. A storm at
night caused a fall of "a degrees.
In a storm which passed owe
Greensboro, N. Y, on the 18th, four
persons were killed outright and two
were probably fatally injured.
Tho rnn1v IF fhn TTnifnd Sto4oC Cnv-
eminent to China's o%vertures for peace
was made public, on the 18th, and
showed the firm and final position
rad been taken. While express
ing satisfaction at this pacific step,
the reply states that it is evident
there can be no negotiation between
China and the powers, so long as the
ministers and legationers are re-
strained and in danger, and calls
upon the Chinese government to i'm
mediately place them under protec-
ton of the international troops.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, commander
of the department of the lakes, on
the 18th, saved the life of William
Jennings Bryan, Jr., the ~12-year-old
son of the democratic candidate for
the presidency. While playing in the
old warriors office the lad leaned too
far out OF the window, and in another
moment would hav fallen to the
pavement IS feet below, when the
Mortified general discovered and res
cued him.
A dispatch from Gen. Chaffee, re-
ceived in Washington IN the 18th, said
49, ~ ~-- -00~z hn1
reached Ho-Si-Wu on the 10th. At the
same rate of progress they should
have been near the capital city by the
time the. dispatch reached the state
office.
The Duke d'Arcos, accompanied by
the duchess and the attaches of the
Spanish legation at Washington, will
reach Chicago, on the 18th, to attend
the G.. A. r. encampment. The date
for the first illumination of the court
of honor has been postponed to that
date.
Acting under his doctors advice,
Lord Salisbury, the British premier,
has gone to Schlucht, a health resort
in the Vosges, where he viii stay a
month. He will, however, retain the
conduct of foreign affairs, by means
of the telegraph and messengers.
Winnipeg, Man., is threatened with
an epidemic of typhoid fever. There
were nearly a hundred cases there on
the 18th. The disease is also raging
in many parts of the province and
cases are coming into the Winnipeg
| general hospital daily.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker, wife of Com
Imander Booth-Tucker, of the Saliva
ton Army, who has been i'll at Spring
Lake, near Asbury Park, N. j., and
was reported dying, was, on the 18th.
said to be greatly improved and out
of danger.