Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
LATE NEWS TENS.

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Vile, KY, was, on h 22d, found
guilty of the murder of Police Cor
poral Fred fredericksburg, and his
punishment was fixed at life impr1s-
onment. Corporal fredericksburg was
shot and killed on the night of April
/. He had reported Hanlon to the
chief of police at different times for
violating police regulations.
The British Court Circular an
nounces that the journey of King Ed
ward and Queen Alexandra to San
dringham (where they were to go to
spend Christmas), has been post
poned, in consequence of a slight in
disposition of Queen Alexandra. 1t is
understood her majesty's indisposi-
tion is not serious.
Nuc-Se-Ga, the Oldest Indian squaw
in the United States, died at the Win
nebago Indian camp on Barron's ISL
and, opposite La Crosse, Wis, aged
1913. She was buried with the Gus
tomary ceremonies, on the 22d, in
the presence of a large number of
chiefs from alb parts of the north
west.
The British war Office, on the 22d,
issued another long dispatch received
from Lord Kitchener, detailing tn
murders of natives by the Beers. One
case is given of a wagon driver who
was captured from a British convoy
in the end of 1900 and burned alive.
1t is reported from Basra, Asiatic
Turkey, hat the commander of a
British gunboat has removed the
Turkish flag from the residence of
Mabarouk, the sheikh of kowyte, and
replaced it by Mabarouk's own flag
in token of his independence.
The Italian foreign Office has been
informed that the consul general of
the United States to Cairo, Egypt,
John G. Long, had withdrawn his
charge that the Italians have encour-
aged slave trading in the Italian col
ony of Eritrea.
The steamer Minnehaha, which ar
rived at New York, on the 22d, from
London, brought "a fine thorough
bred racing horses. Twelve are for
Wishart and Baker, and are going to
Chicago, the other are consigned to
H. E. Leigh.
Justice David McAdam, of the New
York supreme court, died, On the 22d,
at a private sanitarium in New York
city, from cancer of the tongue. JUS
tice McAdam was the author of many
legal works hat are considered au-
thorities.
Charles Preston, aged about 30, OF
Middlesboro, KY, took little jessie
Marion sleigh riding on Powell river
across the Cumberland mountains.
The ice gave way and h girl was
drowned. Preston tried manfully to
save the girl, and, becoming crazed
over the matter, went to the child's
mother and committed suicide in her
presence.
A tank of oil on a car in the lower
| part of the city of Richmond, Va,
caught fire and exploded, on the q
| killing Buck Wakefield, a machinist,
and injuring several other persons.
| The flaming oil set fire to and de-
stroyed a trest1e on which the car
was standing, and several shanties
in the neighborhood, entailing a loss
of $4,000.
At Paducah, Ky, the suit of Luz
Their Heron against the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Co. for $4,000 for the
loss of an arm was ended, on the 23d,
when the jury brought in a verdict
for the full amount. This was the
second trial, and the verdict was the
same both times.
Five persons were killed and a
number injured on the night of the
23d, by reason of an electric car
Jumping the track at a sharp curve
at the foot of the high mountain be-
tween Allentown and C~oopersburg
Pa. The accident was due TO the wet
rails and snow.
At ~Jeffersonville, Ind, on the 23d
Newell G.. Rathbun was found guilty
of manslaughter for the killing OF
Charles Goodman, by giving him poi
son, and his punishment was fixed al
two to twenty-one years imprison
men.
The treasury department, on the
22d. drew a warrant in favor of Rear
Admiral Schley for $3,334, his share
of the prize money due him for thu
destruction of the Spanish fleet a
Santiago, July 3, 1898.
William Ellery Charming, the las
of the brotherhood including Tho
reau, Hawthorne and Emerson, wht
made Concord, Mass, famous, diet
on the 23d. He was born in Boston
November 90, 1918.
The Boer prisoners of war lande'
recently on Hawkins island have bee
isolated, as several of them are euf
fering from a mild form of measles.
1t is estimated that the late hoo'
damaged property of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad Co. to the amount o
$26O. 900.