Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Thomas r. Reed, former speaker OF
the national house of representatives,
died in Washington, d. c., on the
9Th, of Bright's disease. His remains
were taken to Portland, Me-, on the
18th, where the funeral will be held.
He was born there in 1889.
Annie McMahan, a domestic, was
found dead in her room, at SPRING
field, Mo-, on the 7th, with a bullet
hole in her back. A man who was in
the room at the time, and who was
himself slightly wounded, was arrest
ed for the crime.
A special train that left Chicago for
New York, on the 18th, carried 600
Scandinavians from the northwest
and the middle west who are on their
way to spend the Christmas holidays
in their native countries of Sweden
and Norway.
A cold wave swept over the west
and northwest, on the 18th. At
Bloomington, ILL.,, the thermometer
stood at zero, at Milwaukee, Wis, it
was lei that point, and at La Crosse,
Wis, it was two below.
Two of the four men charged with
the robbery of a number of stores at
Red Key, Ind, and who broke jail,
were recaptured, on the 18th, and
bloodhounds were put on the trail of
the other two.
Robert Killian, formerly of st.
Louis, and Thomas Sharp, of Indian
apolis, Ind, committed suicide in a
hotel in indianapolis. on the 18th, one
using morphine and the other rough
on rats.
Thomas Mast, once famous as a
cartoonist, but for the past year
American consul-general at Guaya-
quill, Ecuador, died in that city, on
the 18th, of yellow fever.
Fannie Bloomfield Seisler, the Chi
cago pianist, took part in a concert
at Vienna. Austria, on the night OF
the 18th, and was accorded an enthusi-
astic reception.
Barry tombstone, the actor who
shot and killed Kate Hassett, an ac-
tress, in Philadelphia, OF the 1st, and
attempted suicide, died in a hospital,
on the 18th.
Col. Lamb, a member of an English
rife team, committed suicide on
board a steamer in the Mersey river.
on the 9Th, by shooting himself with
a rifle.
BY an explosion at Ridgeway, Pa,
on the 7th, the Eagle Valley tannery
was destroyed by fire. The loss is be-
tween S2nn nra ami S40n
In the senate, on the sth, all the
committee amendments to the immi-
grafton bill were adopted with the
exception of one providing an educa-
tional test. and the committees ac-
ton in striking out "A section pro-
hibiting the sale of liquors in the
capitol building was c%oncurred in. An
fixing a three-dollar head
tax on each immigrant coming into
the United States was also adopted.
Other amendments We're acted on,
and the bill went over. In the house
a little unimportant business was
transacted. and Mr.. Sherman IN. W
offered resolutions expressive of the
sense of the house on the death OF
it's former speaker, Thomas B.. Reed,
after which adjournment was had in
| respect to his memory.
The house of representatives, at
| Washington. on the Sth, unanimously
adopted resolutions expressive OF
the sense of the house on the death
of Hon. II. B. Reed, and adjourned out
of respect to his memory. Such ac
! ton by the house on the death of Q
former member has been taken but
three times before in it's history-on
the occasion of the deaths of Benton,
Blaine and Alexander II. Stephens.
The Marshall & Huschert Machin-
cry Co., of Chicago, was damaged by
fire. on the Sth, to the extent of $780,
600. A panic was created among the
100 employees of the firm, and many
had to use the fire escapes to reach
the street.
Two men were killed, six others Sc
riously injured, at least three of then
fatally, and four painfully hurt by
delayed explosion of a blast in a Gu
in which they were working, at Ba
ker's Hill, Tenn, on the Sth.
Two women witnesses before tn
coal strike commission, on the 9Th
testified that the Markle Coal Co. de
Quoted house rent from the las
!, wages of their husbands, who wer
killed in the mines.
A rejected suitor named Davis sho
, and killed Mrs. Wynne, a bride 0
three days, near Tyler, Tex, on tn
sth, and when the husband went t
: his wife's assistance Davis blew on
his own brains.
!. A west-bound Santa Fe train wa
wrecked at Rothville, Mo-, on tn
+ sth, and Engineer Wise and Firema
Haylin were killed.
} Fire in San Francisco, OF the ST.
damaged Barker & Kinney'splumbin
esta blishment to the extent Of $6O 300
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