Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Thomas Finley Brown, ~ years old,
died, on the 4th, from injuries re
ceived while being hazed at the Porter
military academy at Charleston, S. C.
The boys dropped him into a cement
ed swimming basin 12 feet deep. The
basin was dry at the time, and the lad
received internal injuries from the
fall. He refused to give the names of
the cadets who had ill-treated him,
and, it is said, nc action will be taken
in the matter.
The Cunard liner Saxonia, Capt.
P~ritchard, from Boston, October 81,
which arrived at Queenstown, on the
4th, had on board Is members of the
fishing schooner Mary Mosquito,
which the Saxonia sank off Gloucester,
Mass, on the day of her departure
from Boston. One member of the crew
was drowned. The Cunarder was not
damaged.
Indian Agent Shoenfeld, in charge
of Union agency, whose jurisdiction
comprises the five civilized tribes, pro-
tests, in his annual report, against I'M
lawful occupation of the Indian lands,
and urges rigid congressional leg1sla-
ton to protect the Indian citizens
against the encroachment of aggres.
sive and grasping whites.
The jury before whom Lloyd j.
Smith was on trial in Chicago last
week charged with Irregularities in
the management of grain elevators,
rn~orfnI n rorl1o% ~ oa-rT1&&o1 o, tho
18th. His wife, who was present, upon
hearing the verdict, tainted, and it
took the doctors two hours to restore
her.
The cornerstone of the new Deacon
ess home and hospital at Lincoln, ILL.,,
was laid on the 4th. Rev. William L..
Jungk, D.. D., of St. Louis, delivered
the address in German. The home is
being built under the auspices of the
Evangelical St. John church.
Two electric cars on the Cincinnati,
Lawrenceburg & Aurora electric rail-
co1lided, on the 4th, near C1eves,
D., owing to a misunderstanding of or
ders. The cars were wrecked and IL
persons were injured, some seriously,
but o fatally.
The October reports concerning the
Egyptian cotton crop say they are I'M
satisfactory, both as to yield and quail
ity.
In a coal mine explosion at Berrys-
burg, w. Va, on the 4th, IL persons
were killed and two fatally injured.
Hugh S. Hart, a we1l-known writer
on sports, died in Brooklyn, on the
4th. of a complication of diseases.
The Cuban constitutional conven.
ton met in Havana on the 5th. Cow
Gen. Wood called the convention to
order and in a short speech pointed
out the powers and duties of the con-
venticn, and urged its members to a
faithful and patriotic performance of
their duties. The speech was enthusi-
astically received, and resolutions
thanking the general and President
Mckinley for services rendered, were
unanimously adopted.
Upon receiving notice from Gov.
Roosevelt, on the 5th, that he would
hold him responsible, as head of the
city government, for evil conse-
quences growing out of Chief-of-Po-
lice Devery's instructions to his men
to resist the deputies of Chief of the
Election Bureau John McCullagh at
the polls, on election day, Mayor Van
Wyck called upon Chief Devery and
instructed him to rescind the order,
which he did.
The steamship Charles Nelson ar
rived at Seattle, Wash, on the 5th, ten
days from Nome. She reported that
four days prior to her sailing Nome
Beach was swept by another severe
storm, which did much damage to
small shipping and to such buildings
as owners were unwise enough to
commence constructing on the beach
after the September storm.
Hampton Rich, formerly president
of the Ionia & Lansing railroad, now
part of the Flint 6 Pcre Marquette
system, and at one time prominent in
Michigan politics, died in Chicago,
on the 5th, aged s4 years. Mr.. Rich
tional convention at Chicago. in 1864,
which re-nominated Abraham Lincoln
for the presidency.
An explosion took place in the dry
house connected with the works of
the Winchester Repeating Arms Co..
at New Haven, Conn, on the 5th The
walls of the building were blown out
and the windows in the adjacent build
ines were shattered. No one was in
the building at the time, and the
damage was nominal.
A regular exodus of o~ficeholders
from Washington took place on the
5th. All the trains leaving the nation
al capital on that day we're crowded
with voters going to their respective
homes to cast their ballots.
The board of election at Springfield,
o., on the 5th, refused to grant regis
tration to Gen. J. Warren Kiefer. The
general was out of the city campaign
ing on the regular registration days.