Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS TENS.
Ore man was killed, three were
fatally injured and one seriously in
iured at midnight on the 23d, by the
explosion of the big mogul engine
drawing the first section of the Chi
cago e. Alton train II miles east of
Mexico, Mo-, while going 50 miles an
hour.
The Central Federation union, of
New York, representing 100000 work
ing men, held a meeting, on the 24th,
at which it was decided to ask Presi-
dent Roosevelt to call a special ses-
sion of congress to take action to end
the coal strike.
During a fit of laughter Thomas c.
Garrett, aged 81, a drug clerk from
Chicago, lost his balance and fell out
of a boat, at St. Joseph, Mich, on the
24th. The body was recovered in Is
minutes, but life was extinct.
Official cholera statistics in the
Philippines show a total, up to Au-
gust "a, of 1864 eases and 1S,040
deaths. The actual number of cases
and deaths is greatly in excess of
the official reports.
A disastrous wreck occurred at
Georgetown. Ind. on the Southern
railway, eight miles west of New AL
bany, early on the morning of the
'24th, in which at least three lives
were lost.
Senator Hanna said at Buffalo. n.
Y, on the 24th, that he had done all
in his power to end the coal strike,
and could do no more. He predicts
that the strike will be a prolonged
one.
A~rchduchess Marguerite Sophia, of
Austria, wife of Albert. duke of
Wurtemburg, died, on the oath, at
Gmunden, Austria, as the result of an
operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Minnie Masterson, wife Of
James Masterson, was murdered at
New Albany, Ind, on the night of the
cath, and her husband is in Jail
ClldTSPu Win IDe CRIME.
Miss Wolfing, aged Is, and NJ. Wy
man, aged II, a son of Judge Wyman,
of Niroqua, Wis, were drowned, on
the Gath, at Battle island, Lansing,
Ia, while bathing.
Experiments in wireless telephon-
ing were conducted successfully, on
the Gath, between Sassnitz and Kol-
berg, in Germany, a distance of 10j
miles.
Three persons were killed and
many badly injured in a heaG-on col
lision between electric cars near Nor
folk, Va, on the 24th.
One person vas killed and sever
injured in Memphis, Tenn, on the
25th, as a result of the breaking of a
trolley wire on an electric car. The
wire flew around the cal like u whip,
creating IA panic, and in the rush for
the platform the injuries were re-
ceived.
The Michigan supreme court has
granted a writ of habeas corpus in
the case of Frank G. Andrews, recent
ly convicted of misappropriating
funds of the wrecked City Savings
Bank of Detroit, the writ being made
returnable October /.
A man named A. G. Mitchell, re-
ported to be a millionaire from Mich
igan, committed suicide, on the 18th,
by jumping overheard from the
steamer Coptic, on the way to Homo
lulu, when three days out from San
Francisco.
Miss May Dewein, of Mattoon, ILL.,,
16 years old, heiress to a fortune OF
SIS, 900, eloped to indianapolis, Ind,
with Verne Hinkle, a brakeman of the
Big Four railroad, on the 23d, and the
pair were married there.
Tom Jones, the negro charged with
criminally assaulting Mrs. VIM. Smith,
near Seven Springs, N. G., last Friday,
was taken from the officers by a mob,
on the 25th, and shot to death in the
woods.
ii. st. John Dix, who was convicted
of wrecking the. Scandinavian-Ameri-
can bank, of Whatcom, Wash, was
sentenced, on the 25th, to ten years
imprisonment in the ~penitentiary.
The comptroller of the currency, at
Washington, has declared a dividend
of ten per cent. in favor of the cred
itors of the insolvent Lemars nation
al bank, of Lemars la.
Gen. Samuel i. Casey, who was u
member Of congress from Kentucky
during the war and "a warm supporter
of President Lincoln, died at st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, on the 25th.
G. p. Olson, for 25 years superin-
tendent of bridges of the Burlington
railroad system west of the Missouri
river, was drowned at Burlington, Ia,
on the 25th.
Chester Westbrook, who lived near
Phillipsburg, Kas., killed his wife by
cutting her throat with a razor and
then committed suicide by cutting his
own throat.
Piel Brothers, who have withdrawn
from the Starch trust, will establish
an Independent plant at Indianapolis,
lind, at a cost of over 100000.