Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

mySterlouSly shot 10 death early on
the morning of the nth, while stand
ing in front of a hotel at Groveton,
Tex. Each of them received a bullet
in the stomach.
Two masked men attempted to hold
up a Rock Island train near Fort
Worth, Tex, on the night of the 18th.
The engineer and fremen opened fire
on the robbers and they fled to the
brush.
Two brothers named Jaubert went
to the home of one of them, near
0rayille, H., early on the morning of
the 18th, in an intoxicated condition,
and began abusing his wife and at
last attacked her. The woman fled
to. another room, the door of which
the men kicked in, when Mrs. Joubert
fired three shots into her husbands
body, killing him instantly. His
brother attempted to strike her, when
she shot him, and he died soon after.
The coroner's jury eXonerated Mrs.
Joubert.
Heavy r~ainfalls in central Iowa, on
the S1th and 10Th, raised all the
streams in that section. and the Mis-
sissippi is rising rapidly. Telegraph
ic warnings have been sent to all
points south of Keokuk, and the
greatest damage ever known from a
flood on the upper river is predicted.
Fred Weichbrod, 80 years old, and
a son and daughter of Jacob P. Mus
kopf, aged respectively IA and Is
years, were struck by lightning near
Milllstadt, st. Clair county, ILL.,, on
the morning of the 18th, and Instant
ly killed. The same stroke killed two
horses they were driving.
Harry Mercer, a typewriter thief,
who has operated in several eastern
states, was sentenced at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 18th, to four years in the
~penitentiary.
The Illinois river at Peoria, on the
18th, was rising at an alarming rate,
and farmers feared a damaging food.
Sam Faughn, a ball player, was
shot and killed by Jasper Abbott, at
Metropolis, Ill, on the 18th.
A cloudburst struck Lincoln, ILL.,,
and vicinity, on the 18th, doing much
damage to streets, cellars and base
ments.
Paul Marcos Carlinville Qll.) farm
err, on the 18th, carried out a threat
to commit suicide by blowing out his
brains with a shotgun before his
whole family.
Clyde S. Houk, principal of the
school at Lawrenceville, ILL.,, was
held to bail at Springfield, on the
18th, charged with using the mails to
defraud.
A rainfall of nearly four inches
caused another flood at Joliet, ILL.,.
on the 18th. Streets were overlooked
and several manufactures had to
close.
Three men were killed and n seri-
ously injured by a collision on the
Minneapolis, St. Paul q Ste Marie
road, near Rhinelander, Wis, on the
18th.
W. P. Swallows, a prominent mer-
chant and postmaster at Kokomo,
Col. was instantly killed, on the 18th,
by a stroke of lightning.
Russia has suggested an interna-
tional conference to deal with trusts.
The statement of the treasury
balances in the general fund, eXclu-
sive of the $50, 900 900 gold reserve
in the division of redemption, on the
18th, showed available cash balance,
$19S, 165 $50; gold, $102, OBS SOS.
With much pomp and imposing
ceremony, and in the presence of the
cardinal Of the church and a great
gathering Of ecclesiastical dignitaries,
the last rites of the Roman Catholic
service for the dead were performed
for Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan at
the cathedral of the Holy Name, in
Chicago, on the 18th.
The cruiser Philadelphia came into
port at San Francisco, on the 18th,
from Panama, in command of Lieu
tenant-Commander Charles Laird. On
the desolatc shoresof Magdalena bay,
Lower California, the body of Capt
William Wagner Reisinger, who was
in command of the Philadelphia when
the cruiser left Panama, lies buried
He died Of Panama fever or July 10
Capt. Wester, of the Swedish army
challenged an American to a duel
but failed to appear at the appointed
place for the fight, and probably vii
be forced to leave the army.
The United States immigration re
port shows that 415,64S foreigner
have come to this country in the las
six months. Thirty-nine countrie!
are represented.
Louis Bellairs, an aged Frenchmar
who died at the Jacksonville GILL; in
sane asylum, had dug his own grav'
and prepared his own tombstone 2
years ago.
John G. Stice, an old confederate
soldier, who died near Columbia, Mo.
left a will a~ppripriating $500 for hi
funeral, which he desired conducted
in military style. Among other thing
he desired was a brass band. 1t wa
provided.
Two attractive young women VIII
go under the name of the Forest sis
tiers are touring the country shinin
shoes for a living. At present the
are making q stand in Washington
d. G. They gave up concert singin
to 20 into the polish business becaus
they say there is more money in it.
The Nicaraguan rebels, aided b
%Colombians. met severe defeat in tw
attacks on Nicaraguan towns. Anon
the invaders captured by the Nicar'
guans is one Wilson, an America
citizen, who may suffer death for h
act.
La Presse, a Paris newspaper, In a
article on the American invasion {