Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LSAIE NCVS GWsSS
The lody of a man found in a field
near the town of Lowther, Ia, on
the 9th, with a bullet hole i'll his head,
has been identified as that of William
Bartholin, who murdered his mother
and sweetheart, in Chicago. He had
committed suicide, but left a confess
sion of the crimes of which he was
charged, in which he says he had no
assistance of any kind from any one.
President Roosevelt will arrive in
St. Louis on October l and will visit
the site of the Worlds fair in the
| afternoon, leaving the mex day. Thir-
ty-two states and territories will be
represented on the occasion, as at
that time the allotment of sites for
state buildings will take place.
President Roosevelt arrived at
Chattanooga, Tenn, on the 18th, and
was royalty entertained by the citi-
zens. He visited the famous battle
fields in the vicinity of the city, and
was presented with a cane cut from
the fleld OF lhlckamauSa.
The gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot, which
was in the service of the Firminist
party, was sunk in the harbor of
Gonaives, Hayti, by the German gun
boat Panther. Thirty shots were
fired into her. Germany regarded the
vessel as a pirate.
Rev. +. Whaley was killed and his
son had both arms shot to pieces in
a fight with three men near Durant,
/. r., on the 9th, the result of trouble
between the parties of long standing.
The plant of the Campbell Wall Pa
per Co., at Bogota, N. j., was de-
stroyed by fire on the night Of the
18th. The loss is $175,000, and 800 peo-
pie are thrown out of employment.
Gov. Taft of the Philippine islands
intends that a great exhibit shall be
made of that people at the Worlds
fair. The appropriation for it al
ready made exceeds 100000.
A mass meeting of 500 church peo-
pie was held at Kansas City, kas., on
the 18th, at which a fund of $500 was
raised with which to begin a crusade
against the liquor joints.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
l.. Fair, victims of the automobile ac-
cident in France, arrived at New
York, on the 18th, on the steamer st.
Louis.
; Gen. James A. Williamson, who was
commissioner of public lands under
I President Grant, died in New York
on the 18th.
) Large volumes of flame were issu'
) ing from Mount Vesuvius on the
morning Of the 18th.
J, Positive suran has been given
; that President Roosevelt will visit the
reunion of the southern Illinois sol
I diers and sailors, at Carbonate, De-
t tober /, 2 and 3, the exact date to be
{ fixed when the president returns t.
: Washington. VIM. j. Bryan will also
be present one day.
! President Roosevelt attended the
opening session of the convention OF
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the
Sth. He made an address to the mem
bers and was elected to honorary
, membership in the organization.
=. Sixty Otoe and Pawnee Indians go
into a fight on a Santa Fe train, OF
Il the night of the Sth, while returning
- from a circus at Perry, Okla and on
Indian was killed and Con luctor Fen
- nell so badly wounded that he viii
~ probably die.
The Maine state election was hell
on the sth, and Chairman Simpson, o
= the state committee, claims that tn
- republicans carried the stare by
plurality of $4,000 and elected the en-
=, tire delegation in congress by a larg
10 majority.
- The carcasses of $4,000 New Zealan
sheep taken to London by steame
" were condemned by the authorities a
a. unfit for human food, and the shi
be was ordered to go to sea and thro'
overheard the entire cargo.
of A large posse of men with blood
,r hounds are pursuing Frederic
20 Carnes, the slayer of Sheriff Strain
of Whiting, la. Carnes is armed wit
a a rifle and has plenty OF ammunition
n The seventeenth national encaml
N. ment of the Union Veterans unio
will be held at Washington, D. O., Q
r. October 8, 10 and II, at which tin
II. the G. A. r. also meets there.
me Two Italian striking miners wei
he mistaken for n%on-union men by pic
nv. cts at the mines near Wilkesbarr
ed. Pa, on the Sth, and one was KILT
as and the other fatally injured.
Mai. Daniel O'Driscoll, a promine1
he lawyer of Washington, d. g., wi
be- killed near that city, on the Sth, |
vo- being struck by a railroad train viii
lie, driving across the track.
SIS, At Knoxville, Tenn, on the ot
ION President Roosevelt visited Mrs. WI
Ia. Brownlow, widow Of TENNESSEE
at famous editor, former governor al
the United States senator.
at At Omaha, Neb., on the 9Th, Pet
sti- Olsen, in a fit Of jealousy, shot al
fatally wounded Mary Petersen,
sweetheart.