Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

pendent Brewing Co., at South Seat
tie, Wash, was destroyed by an in
cerdiary fire. on the Goth.
Capt. Lewis Dickes was nominated
for congress by the democrats of the
Thirteenth Illinois ulstrict, at Free
port, on the eth.
The democrats of the Eleventh
Iowa district. at Sioux City, on the
eth, nominated T. NJ. SINK, of Lemars,
for congress,
IL. II. Brinker, formerly receiving
teller of the Germania national bank,
of PittSburg. Pa, was arrested, on the
9th, at the instance of a trust com
pany, and placed in prison as a de-
faulter.
\ freight train on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy was wrecked at
Kemper, H., on the 2Sth, by falling
through a bridge, and three tramps
claimed to have been ON the train are
supposed to have persisted.
Whitecaps neal Ellis, Neb., on the
night of the @Sth, fired several volleys
into the house of james Rojan, whom
they had previously warned to leave
the country, narrowly missing several
members of his family.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., aCCOmpan-
led by II. X. Mccullough, vice-presi-
dent of the Chicago & Northwestern
railway, left New York, on the 2Sth,
for a t~hree-weeks' hunting and fish
ing trip in the west.
The charred bodies of John s.
Holmes and his housekecper, Miss
Katherine Shute, were found in the
ruins of Holmes barn, which was
burned at Bridgeton, N. j., on the
night of the 2ith.
Mrs. Reese Wagner and her three
children were found dead in bed with
their throats cut, at North Little
Rock. Ark, on the 2Sth. presumably
the act of the mother.
NJ. A. Carmichael, junior vice-com-
mander of the Kansas &. \. r., died
at his home at Colony, Kas., on the
2Sth.
The coal miners and operators in
the Pittsburg (Kas.) district have
reached an agreement, and it is be-
lieved that all danger of a strike has
been averted.
Fellow-pasSengers of Charles 5.
Schwab on his trip to Europe say that
he worked very hard all the way
across, and never gave himself any
leisure.
Engineer Dad Carey and Fireman
Lee, of Chicago, were killed in a
wreck on the Chicago q Eastern lii
nois, at Cayuga, Ind, On the 2Sth.
Grand Duke Boris. of Russia, who
arrived in New York on the 2Sth, will
visit President Roosevelt, at Oyster
Bay, about September >.
The concentration of a smelling
works at Butte. Mont, was destroyed
by fire on the 2Sth, and 1000 men are
thrown out of work.
Mrs. Jack Frost, wife of "A promi'
nent business man and politician OF
Blackwell, okla. was arrested. on the
goth, charged with poisoning Mrs.
Alice Combs and her eldest son, by
putting arsenic in the coffee in the
absence of the Combs family.
Walter Lemarand. of Monroe, Mich.
on going to his home, on the Goth
found a man in the house with his
wife. After a quarrel the man rar
r. IL. I.,,,, .,t,, tlp gt,,Ant t,Io, ~,
he was pursued by a mob and shot t
death in a corr field.
While Harold Pierce, who was ar
rested at Sylvia, kas, on a charge o.
forgery, was being taken to Hutchin
son for trial, he leaped from a trail
running at the rate of 40 miles al
hour and made his escape.
The bodies of Bruce and Lewis, tn
missionaries murdered in China, hav
been recovered, mutilated beyond rec
ignition.
President Roosevelt went huntin
near Newport, n. H., on the Goth. an
succeeding in shooting a bear.
Gen. Goblin, in command of tn
troops on duty in the Pennsylvani
coal regions, has given orders tina
hereafter attacks by the mobs c
strikers on military escorts are to
resented with butts, bayonets or bu
let's.
Gen. Chaffee has cabled to the we
department that he and his successo
|. Gen. Davis, are of the opinion tn;
!, another regiment of cavalry can no
be spared from duty in the Phil,
. pine islands. The Ninth cavalry wi
be relieved and sail for home en- II
! Logan September 16.
By the terms of the agreemel
s made between the heirs of the la
d Mrs. Charles i. Fair and Mrs. He
8 man Oelrichs and Mrs. w. X. Nande
l. bilt, Jr., the former are to recei
S more than $1,00, 900 for an entire az
l. claim.
= Two children Of Jim Cullens, a L
gro, were burned to death near My
n tie, Miss. Cullens and his wife h
Is put the children to bed and we
opcssum hunting. The origin OF t
fire is unknown.
Andrew Hays, % years of age,
10 wealthy farmer, near Marion, In
$, took his own life, on the goth,
ID hanging himself in his barn. He W
recently married to a charming you
e, woman, and seemed to be happy, a
Il, no cause is known for his rash act
:; On invitation of President Roo
7, welt the citizens of Nassau county,
n. Y, will visit Oyster Bay and Sal
#, more Hill On September Is. The in
L; tation was read from 1876 pulpits
the county on the 31st, 1t havi
N been forwarded to all the ministers