Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-10-30
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

died in Washington. The funeral was
held the same day.
The directors of the Masonic Tenn
pie, Chicago, have decided to pay the
taxes on the property of the assooia-
ton, amounting to $26,670 and pro-
coed against Capt. Williams to re-
cover the $4,000 received by him to
pay the taxes.
Ernst Augustus Renner, former
principal of the Cincinnati public
schools, died at his home in his eigh-
ty-frst year from heart failure. He
was one of the IL men who carried
Napoleon Bonaparte's coffin on it's re-
moval from St. Helena to Paris.
Twenty children were born in 10
years to Joseph Metayer, a painter,
As years old, who died at Springfield,
Mass, on the Esd, from the results of
injuries received in a all.
Albert SELF, the 1~S-year-old youth
who threw a brick, causing the death
of aged John Moehsler, in st. Louis,
on April 23, was convicted of murder
in the second degree and sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary by a
jury on the 23d.
Judge John Henry Flournoy, of the
superior court bench of Virginia,
and formerly secretary of state OF
Virginia. dropped dead in the corridor
of the Latham hotel, Houston, lex,
on the ED. He was president OF the
Pacific & Atlantic Oil Co.
Uncle Sam has opened his chrys-
anthemum show in Washington. He
has 900 of the plants on exhibition,
and these represent 122 varieties. The
largest bloom of the big bunch,
known as the "Black Hawk" meas
ures 10 inches in diameter.
According to the estimates of the
mineral inspectors of the eight dis
tricts of Pennsylvania, upwards OF
zoe, 900 tons of anthracite coal should
be mined during the week beginning
on the 9th. The normal weekly out
put is 100000 tons.
In the presence of a large follow
ing of confederate veterans and their
families and friends, the Confederate
Veterans home was dedicated at
Pewee Valley, KY, on the 23d.
In Old Bailey court in London, on
the 23d, Lawrence Gerig. the clerk
Of the Cranegie Steel Co. was found
guilty of %defrauding the company of
e25,OoO by forgery, and was SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment.
Mabel Ellison, an ex-telephone girl,
has been arrested in San Francisco
for incorporating in male attire. She
acted as bellboy for six weeks in a
leading hotel, because, she said, she
could earn more while acting as a
boy.
A Northern Pacific train was held
up by a lone bandit east of Bear
Mouth, Mont, early on the morning
of the oath. Engineer O'Neil was shot
and killed and the mail and express
cars were looted of valuable contents
At last accounts bloodhounds were on
the trail.
In a collision between double
header freights on the Cincinnati
Southern, at Oneida, Tenn, on the
oath, a fireman was killed. Both loco
motives, Is cars, two residences, two
store buildings and a Toulouse were
destroyed by fire caused by the wreck
Andrew Carnegie attended the lay
ing of the foundation stone of one
of the branch libraries in Dundee
Scotland, on the 24th, to which he
had contributed $1S5, 000, and was pre-
scented with the freedom of the city.
Secretary of the Navy Moody vii
issue orders for the reassembling e.
all the torpedo craft at Newport, r
l., next ummer for drill in torpedo
tactics.
A number of additional mines were
put in operation in the anthracite
coal region, IN the gath, and the out
put of coal was ~measurably increased
The house of bishops of the Pro
testant Episcopal church, at Phila
delphia, on the gath, elected Rev
Sheldon Munson Griswold, rector o
Christ church, Hudson, N. Y, as mis-
sionary bishop of Salina, the western
district of Kansas.
Max FIeischer, who was n of tn
strongest men on the Notre Dam
SCRUB" team, while attending tn
university, is dead at South BEND
Ind, as the result of injuries receive
in football practice.
Tom Horn, the famous scout an
stock detective, was found guilty o
murder in the first degree, at Chey
enne, Wyo., on the Gath, for havin
killed Willie Nicholl on July IS, 100
at his fathers ranch in the Iro
Mountain country.
One hundred members of the Chic;
60 Press club left that city, on tn
night of the oath, for st. Louis, I
participate In the dedication of ii
Press building Of the Louisiana Pu
i. chase exposition.
! With the end of September a FIJI
year had elapsed since a case of we
I low fever had originated in Havan
a fact that stands unparalleled in ii
memory Of the Oldest physician Their
William D. Ellsworth, postmast'
at Eveleth, Mimi, has been remov'
pending investigation of IN alleg'
$ shortage of $4,000 in his accounts d
Q veloped by postal inspectors.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilst
spent the day, on the Gath, inspectil
! the cattle show at Kansas City, M
and made a couple Of inform
speeches to the cattlemen.
The British parliament will
: asked to vote a grant Of $40, ooO,o
for the benefit Of those residents
the T%ransvaal who remained loyal
Great Britain during the war in Sou
" Africa.
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