Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-11-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A reward of $1,000 is offered for
Benjamin f. Egan, if alive, or his
body, if dead. Mr.. Egan was a dlvl-
sion superintendent of the Great
Northern railroad at K~alispell, Mont,
and disappeared from a party OF
friends with whom he was hunting in
the mountains e that place about
l.
Six persons were injured, two OF
them internally, by a Missouri Pacific
passenger train running into a switch
at Jefferson City, Mo-, on the
9th. Geo. P. Griff,ns, of Chicago, pres
ident of the BricElayers and Stone
Masons' international union, was one
of the wounded.
John McAtee, a clerk in a railroad
office in Kansas City, Mo-, for whom
officers had a warrant of arrest on a
charge of attempted robbery, commit
ted suicide, by shooting, on the 9th.
Mrs. Enoch Hink shot and killed
her husband at their home, near Port
Dickinson, N. Y, on the 9th, jealousy
of his nephew having caused the hus-
band to make an assault on her.
Burglars dynamited the office of a
soap mandatory on Herr's island,
near P%ittsburg, Pa, on the 9th, Sc
cured 5000 in money and did $4,000
damage to the building.
Harry Allemang, a professional
baseball player, was fatally shot by
burglars whom he tried to prevent
robbing the post Office at Mason, W.
Va, on the 9th.
Ernest Armstrong, a brakeman, fell
from a moving freight car at LeXing-
ton, Ky, on the 9th, and the wheels
divided his body in two parts from
the chin down.
A large boiler at one of the pump
ing stations of New York's water sup.
ply exploded, on the 9th, killing two
men and totally wrecking the build
ing.
George Miller, Alexander Cyr and
Anthony Monsor were drowned in
Whitetish bay, Alpena, Mich, on the
9TH, by the capsizing of a sailboat.
Gen. --aonard Wood, who arrived in
New York from Europe on the 9th,
expressed himself as favoring the re-
establishment of the army canteen.
John Snyder, an express messenger,
was instantly killed in a railroad col
Iision near Williamson, w. Va, on the
9TH.
At Beaver City, Neb., on the 9th,
there was a drop in the temperature
Of 40 degrees
A meeting of Illinois congressman
at Chicago, on the 10th, Endorsed Con-
gresham Cannon, of the Eighteenth
Illinois district, for speaker of the
house of representatives to succeed
Speaker Henderson. Headquarters
will be opened in Chicago to further
his interests.
Sarah Frost, her son and a mar who
lived with them were found dead in
an apartment house in New YORK.,
on the 10th, from the effects of inhal-
ing Illuminating gas that had acct
dentally been allowed to escape dur
ing the night.
The British steamer Elingamite,
bound from Sydney, N. S. W., for
Auckland, was wrecked on Three
Kings islands, a small group 3s miles
northwest of New Zealand. Forty-one
people on board were saved, but 96
are missing.
AS a result, of the careless handling
of shotguns by four boys at Ottum-
wa, Ia, on the 10th, Frank Perkins
was killed, Asa Noe lost a hand, Oliver
Fothergill was shot in the thigh, and
Frank o. Ejka vas perhaps MORALLY
wounded.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan arrived at San Francisco, on the
10th, from Manila, after a very
stormy voyage. Gen. Chaffee and wife
and a number Of civil and military Of
ficials we're passengers.
Capt. Winfield Tucker was shot and
fatally wounded at Norfolk, Va, on
the 10th, by a motorman named Ca
boon. Tucker was attempting to
shoot Cahoon.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to be present and make an
address at the Mckinley memorial
banquet, at Canton, o., January 81.
Five hundred silversmiths employed
at Tiffany & Co.'s plant, at Forest
Hill, N. j., went on strike, on the
10th, for a nine-hour working day.
President Roosevelt and party left
Washington, on the 10th, for a two
weeks trip in the south. He will take
part in a bear hunt in Mississippi.
Fire broke out in one Of the towers
of the new East river bridge, at New
York, on the night Of the 10th, and
did damage estimated at $780, OO.
Robbers blew open the safe Of a
lumber company at Bancroft, s. D..
on the 9th, and secured $4,000.
William Grant Roe, a druggist, com.
mitted suicide at Washington, D. c.,
on the 10th, by shooting.