Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mis-. W. u. vast, dSCu oo' WIN Ak'Su
alone at Grandview, a., was burned TO
death in her home on the 14th. Her
body was burned to a crisp.
The south-bound through train on
the Kansas City Southern vas held
up by seven men at a point between
Spiro and Redland, I. r., early IN the
morning of the 10th, but no booty
was secured.
Capt. John Alexander Armstrong,
aged "A, one of the best-known river
men between Pittsburg and Cincin-
natl, died in the hospital at Hunting
ton, w. Va, on the nth. He lived at
Point Pleasant, where he operated
the largest docks on the Ohio river.
He was president of the first line Of
steamers that ever towed coal from
Pittsburg to the south.
At two o'clock on the morning of
the 18th two shots were fired through
the window of the bedroom of Super.
intendent Deck of the S~tarkville Coal
mine at Starkville, Col. Neither hit
him. 1t is a mystery what prompted
the attack upon the life OF Mr.. Deck,
He is very popular in Starkville and
adjoining mining camps.
President Roosevelt has promised
to give an invitation to visit Kansas
City, Mo-, on his next trip west his
serious consideration, according to a
letter from his private secretary
George b. Cortelyou, received by e.
NJ. C~lendenning, of the Commercial
club of that city, on the 18th.
The twenty-ninth battery of United
States troops arrived at Fort Sill
Okla, on the 27th, from Cuba, where
they had been for a couple of years
This was formerly known as Grimes
battery. 1t has now but 63 men, but
will be recruited up to 100.
In the suit for $1,000 damages fol
alleged libel brought by Frank N
Morse, of ST. Paul, Mimi, against the
Times-Republican, Judge Caswell, or
the 18th, instructed the jury to re.
turn a verdict for the defendant.
1t was announced, on the 18th, from
the federal Office at Guthrie, Okla.
that in order to prevent contests, al
homesteaders should be on their
claims in the new country by Febru
airy 6.
The house committee on revision Of
the laws, having taken up a long
mooted question, decides that the
verb sis" should be used in referring
to the United States.
The second producing oil well neal
Boulder, Col, was opened on the
18th. 1t is half a mile distant from
the first. The excitement is great
land values are rising, and many par
ties are preparing to drill for oil.
James F. Wide, who with William
H. Dalton is under sentence of dealt
at Portland, Ore, for killing Jane
B. Morrow on November II last, ha
confessed that he free the sho
which killed Morrow.
The Kentucky senate, on the It'll
unanimously concurred in the hous
resolution asking congress to provid
for the election of United States ser
ators by direct vote.
On the 18th r. G.. Dun & Co. re
ported: "Failures for the week nun
bered 334 in the United States, agains
,25 last year and 40 in Canada, agains
10 last year."
Warden McClaughrey of the fee
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kas
las received telegraphic informatio
from the Canadian police authoriti;
!, that F. A. Rating, a prime leader
the prison mutiny of November
, has been located near Quebec al
: can be had whenever wanted.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th, d
rected Secretary Long to deliver
the state department, for TRANSMIT
sion to the Chinese minister, $376,0C
y representing the value of the silv,
: bullion seized in the yamen at Til
Tsin by the United States marines.
:. An unconfirmed dispatch fro
! Mishawka, Ind, states that L. P. M
2 J ers, a confidential agent for Chau
: cey M. Depew, is purchasing a IL
foot right-of-way for an electric ra
"a road which is to connect New 70
d city with st. Louis.
!. A syndicate of Pittsburg capitals
has concluded negotiations for 11,t
vi acres Of coal land in the first pc
district, south Of P%ittsburg, Pa. L
g. price is said to have been $4,000
e Eight mines are to be opened, to ha
DO a daily capac. ty Of 10000 tons. a
D. 1000 houses for the workmen are
be built.