Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-10
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The wife of Capt. Horn, of the Sea-
coast artillery, his daughter Frances,
aged seven, and Miss Alice Mcmahon,
were drowned in Sandy Hook bay, on
the 9th, by the capsizing of a sail
boat. Capt. Horn and five others
were saved by clinging to the up
turned vessel, after they had made
every effort to save the women and
child.
Fire in Chicago, on the 9th, de-
stroyed a number of buildings on Wa
bash avenue, and for a time endan-
gered the department store of Siegel,
Cooper e. Co., and caused much eX-
element among the guests of the
Auditorium hotel. By good work the
firemen got the flames under control.
Near Mcpherson, Kas., Miss Maude
Holmes was shot in the head, neck
and breast and fatally wounded, or
the night of the 9Th, by some I'M
known person who fired a gun shot
at her through the window of her
bedchamber.
At Grand Forks, n. d., on the night
of the 9th, Charles j. Mccormick, a
Great Northern conductor, and his
wife were found dead in a bath room.
No explanation of the tragedy could
be given, although indications point
to poisoning.
At Chicago, on the 9th, Theodore
Oelfeuer, 4 laborer, through motives
of revenge, the result of an old quar-
rel, shot and killed his wife and
wounded his baby son and his step
daughter, the former probably fatal
ly.
King Edwards progress toward re-
covery continues to be in every way
satisfactory. If his improvement con-
tinues it is thought he will be we'll
enough to be taken to the royal yacht
at Southampton by the LIST of August.
Two boys were drowned at Benton
Harbor, Mich, on the 9th, making a
total of five lives lost in "a hours.
On the same day three boys were
drowned in the St. Clair flats, near
Detroit.
A national convention of the Amer
lean Federation of Catholic societies
will be held at Chicago August 5, 6
and Z. 1t is estimated that a million
Catholics will be represented.
DR.. Charles c. Furley, a surgeon of
| the civil war, and the first practicing
physician of Wichita, Kas., died in
that city on the 9th.
The twentieth national convention
of the North American T%urnerbund
opened in Davenport, Ia, on the 9th.
Freight handlers to the number OF
over nine thousand went out on a
strike in Chicago on the 18th. Unless
the state board of arbitration, which
is at work, can effect a settlement,
it is feared that all the railroads en-
tering the dity will be involved. The
teamsters and truck drivers threaten
to 60 out or a sympathetic strike.
Two ons of Stanley Beggs, a
| prominent farmer of johnson county,
ILL.,. aged 10 and IA years, and a
cousin, were found near the tracks
of the Illinois Central railroad, on the
18th. The Beggs boys were dead and
the cousin was in a dying condition,
1t is supposed they had laid down to
rest.
Joseph Chamberlain, the British
colonial secretary, was severely but
not dangerously cut on the head, or
the 18th, caused by the stumbling OF
a horse attached to a cab in which
he was seated. Mr.. Chamberlain was
thrown on the glass front with great
violence.
At Davenport, Ia, on the 7th, thu
North American Turnerbund refused
to admit women to membership. i
passed a resolution favoring the tax
alton of all church property, and an
other one favoring free text books
in schools.
The Afro-American Press associa
ton, in session at St. Paul, MINI.
on the 18th, adopted resolutions com
planning that their race had beer
overlooked by President McKinle,
and the Worlds fair management.
At Peoria, ILL.,, on the 18th, Franl
Case rocked u boat to brighten Franz
Cannon, who could not swim. Til,
boat capsized, and Cannon locked hi
arm about Cases neck and boil
were drowned
The Cheyenne Indians in Oklahom;
are reported as holding a council o
war because the Indian agent pre-
vented them from indulging in tn,
usual tortures incident to their SUI
dance.
King Edward passed a favorabl
day, on the 18th, and the report wa
given out that his majesty was doin,
well. The coronation is now set TO
some time between August II and /;
Aguinaldo is coming to America
He will have headquarters in Boston
and purposes to give a series Of lee
lures through the country.
A washout near Beatrice, Neb., O
the 18th, caused great loss to tn
Union Pacific and Burlington roads.