Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Prentice Tiller and J. FL. Grant,
alias a. B. Chase, alias A F. Martin,
who were recently arrested in Ne
braska, and who were wanted by the
federal authorities in Cincinnati and
! other cities for robbing the United
States mails, made a sensational dash
for liberty in the Union station at
! Chicago on the 9TH. Grant made his
escape, but TiIler was recaptured.
In the volunteer cyclists maneuvers
ordered by the British war office, the
attack on London, on the 18th, proved
that the military value of wheelmen
is largely dependent on the weather.
The attacking force outgeneraled the
defenders, put lost so many men in
the rain and owing to the bad roads
that it was unable to attack in force
at the proper time.
Fifteen hundred pounds of dyna-
mite were used by the authorities of
the port, on :he Goth, in blowing up
the forward superstructure of the
sunken United States collier Merri-
mac, which has long impeded entrance
to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba.
The explosion was plainly heard in
the city, five miles away.
Mrs. Isabel Thompson, aged 81
years, was fatally wounded in Kansas
City, Mo-, on the night of the 18th, by
a footpad, who, in attempting to o
the woman, crushed her skull with a
coupling pin. She was returning home
from church when assaulted, at Seven
teenth and Holmes streets, an unfre-
quented part OF the city.
Probably ten thousand persons par
ticipated, on the 18th. in the ded1ca-
ton of the Second Church OF Christ,
Scientist, at W~rightwood and Pine
Grove avenues, Chicago. So great was
the assemblage that a qnadruple
service was held, the church being as
often filled with new and different
congregations.
At the services, on the 9TH, OF the
Syrian Greek Orthodox church IN
New York city. it was announced That
Gar Nicholas III. of Russia had given
1000 roubles, or about one Thousand
dollars. toward the building fund or
the church which is soon. to be erect
ed in Brooklyn.
According to the St. Petersburg p
respondent of the London Daily Matt
import duties for Vladivostock have
been raised on all American iron,
steel and machinery.
The ST. John schooner WendaIf Bur-
nee went ashore on the cape near
portland. Me-, about noo on the
7th. and the mate only was saved.
Mrs. Prudence Smith and Mrs. Jane
McNutt, and her daughter, were
arraigned in Judge Manning's court,
in Kansas City, Has, on the 18th, on
the charge of destroying property in
an Armourdale Joint, March IL, and
. the county attorney dismissed the
case. The women refused to say
whether they intended to continue
their crusade against the joints.
: Mrs Carrie Nation says she will sue
. the city of Topeka, Kas., for some OF
her hatchets which are now in the
4 possession of the police department
The hatchets were taken from her on
the occasions of several arrests dur
. ing saloon smashing days. She made
4 a demand on the chief of %rUlicr FOL
the hatchets, ON the 7th, but was re
fused.
g Congressman r. B. Gordon, of thu
Fourth Ohio district, and other mem
4 bers of will visit h h
n ippines his summer. They will leav'
the first of the month. Congressman
G. Gordon saws it is his desire to max
3, a study of the actual conditions. AM
# TINS be better able to handle Philip
n pine matters in the next congress.
'e Thelma Taylor, the f~our-year-ol
= daughter of Chas. Taylor a Fol
r Wayne Qnd.) railway conductor, re
le siding in Chicago, died at Laport'
Ind. on the 18th, as the result or a
senical poisoning caused by eatln
- paint samples off an advertising foIS
= er.
- According to expert opinion Chin
"A would be able to pay from twenty
M thirty million pounds sterling 1noen
nity without crippling her hnancl
resources, while the amounts whlc
II. the powers at present demand aggr
nd gate from esO,OOO,O00 to e1Oo,Ooo'oU
"a Ten new cases of smallpox were T
S. ported in Kansas City, Mo, on u
n eth. There were nearly one hundr'
lc- smallpox patients in the pesthous
On Of the 915 sufferers since the on
IN break of the epidemic, only four hi
&C. died up to the 7th-
La- The naval ship Supply is to be Owe
hauled and reftted as a station sh
ia for the Island of Guam h VIII Ia
M the place of the collier Brutus, WIN
he is now on her way to the United Stat
nc to be laid up for repairs.
rs. Large and excited antl-cleTl'
in meetings at Malaga, Corunna and ell
STU where have passed resolutions
manding that h government eNi