Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Memorial services in commemora.
ton of the first anniversary of the
death of President Mckinley were
held throughout the country on the
14th. AT Canton, o., Judge Day, Nc
Kinley's secretary of state, delivered
an address in which he paid a touch
ing tribute to the memory Of his dead
friend.
The board of education at Salt Lake
City, Utah, has ordered that hereafter
no married women shall be employed
as teachers in the public schools Of
that place, and those who get mar
ried will be requested to resign.
News reached Kalama, Wash, on
the 14th, that the bodies of D. L. Wal
lace, wife and two children, and SIX
others had been found burned to
death in the forest fires on Lewis riv-
er, Washington.
Earl Caldwell, a "strike-breaker" at
the Union Pacific shops at Omaha.
was killed on the morning of the 18th
by a party of men alleged to have
been pickets Of the strikers.
More than five hundred employees in
the freight departments of the diff
ferent Kansas City railroads were
granted substantial increases in sal
airy within the past month.
James Oliver, who at one time con-
Quoted a seminary in Roxbury, N. Y,
at which he had the late Jay Gould as
a pupil, died at his home at Burlin-
game, Kas., on the 18th.
Joseph Watkins, a farmer of Beaver
county, Okla, was killeu by Doe E.
Cravens, a neighbor, in a quarrel over
a tax levy which had been made by a
school board.
Col. William A. Rafferty,, of the
Fifth cavalry, U. S. A., died at San
Felipe, P. l., on the 14th, from u
jories sustained by a fall a week be-
fore.
Winfield Scott Stratton, a million
aire mining man of Colorado, noted
for his private charities, died at his
home in Colorado Springs, on the
14th.
Mr.. Reitz, formerly state secretary
of the Transvaal, will sail from am
sterdam for New York, on the 25th, to
give a series of lectures in this coun-
try.
The auxiliary cruiser Panther left
the League Island navy yard, on the
14th, for Colon, carrying a battalion
of marines numbering 800 men.
A n%on-union miner was accidentally
shot and killed by a deputy at Nesque-
honing, Pa, on the 18th.
Indians in southern Nevada recently
captured a notorious Indian outlaw
who had killed a squaw. They fas-
tened one end of a rope around his
neck and the other end to the horn
of a saddle, dragged him a mile over
rocky ground, and then burned him.
Lieut.. John r. Morris, U. S. n, COM
mitted suicide in his stateroom on the
ship Olympia, IN the 18th, by shoot
ing himself with a revolver. Morris
was appointed to the naval academy
from Missouri. He was born in Ore
gon, Mo-, and was 80 years old.
A dispatch was received in New
York, on the 18th, from Lieut.. Peary,
the Arctic explorer, dated Chateau
bay, Labrador, in which he said he
was on his way home in the relief
ship Windward, and that all on board
were well.
President Roosevelt received his
friends and neighbors of Nassau
county, N. Y, at Oyster Bay, on the
18th, between six and seven thousand
people being present, with all Of
whom the president shook hands.
Fire at Rock Island, ILL.,, on the
18th, burned over three acres of
Weyerhauser q Denkmann's lumber
yard and destroyed several neighbour
ing houses. Loss $50, 900, with insur-
nee of $40, 500.
At Denver, Col, on the 18th, Edgar
Fl. Neff pleaded guilty to embezzle-
ment from the Union Pacific Railroad
Co., and was sentenced to serve two
to five years at hard labor in the peni-
Tertiary.
VIM. Howard and Maud Solt, aged
respectively 20 and IS years, of Gid
den, Ia, were instantly killed by a
passenger train near Ralston, Ia, on
the 18th, while driving across the
track.
A check for $39,s09 was forwarded
from Washington, on the 18th, to Mrs.
Mckinley, widow of the late presi-
dent, for salary which would have
been done him on July 1, 1902.
The Alabama republican executive
committee, on the 18th, decided that
hereafter negroes will not be admit
ted as delegates to republican con-
ventions in that state.
Twenty-eight thousand cattle were
received in Kansas City, Mo-, on the
18th, the largest drive ever known
there.
The brotherhood Of Carpenters and
] Joiners met in annual convention at
Atlanta, Ca, on the 18TH