Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-10-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The colonel of the regiment to
which the private belonged who shot
a man at Shenandoah, Pa, on the 9th,
refused to allow the civil authorities
to serve a warrant for his arrest, say
ing the soldier was justified in shoot
ing as he did.
DR.. w. L. Smith, of Streator, ILL.,,
"a elected president and Dr.. e. E.
Chapman, of Fort Madison, Ia, vice.
president of the Santa Fe Medical and
Surgical society, which adjourned at
Topeka, Kas., on the 10th.
The troops at Eldorado, ILL.,, have
gone into winter quarters, the grand
jury of Saline county having failed to
find indictments against any of the
parties who have been terrorizing the
negroes in that locality.
The coroner's jury in Jersey City,
on the 10th, returned a verdict that
Mrs. Pulitzer, whose body was found
in the Morris canal on September 1s,
came to her death at the hands of
William Hooper Young.
A special examinati n for midship-
men will be held at Washington, No
vember IL, under supervision of the
civil service commission, made neces-
sary by the urgent need of officers
+ L the navy.
The Union Veterans legion, in ses-
sion at Chicago, sent a message of
greeting, on the 10th, 20 Hiram Cronk,
of Ava, N. Y, the last survivor of the
war of 1912, who is 1903 years old.
The encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic for 1902 came
to a close on the 10th. San Francisco
was selected as the place of meeting
in 1908.
A restaurant keeper at North Nc
Gregor, Ia, killed a a by a blow
of his fist, on the 10th, because he re-
fused to pay for a meal he had eaten.
Near Grand Forks, N. D., on the
10th, Rose Mason, 20 years old, fell
head down into a barrel containing
ten inches of water, and was drowned.
Fire at Lexington, Mo-, on the 9th,
destroyed an ice plant, brewery, bot
Ting works, warehouse and several
dwellings, causing a loss of $780, 900.
The crown prince of Siam arrived
at New York, on the 10th, and left at
once for Washington. He will remain
in this country two months.
Lewis Hyer was fatally shot by an
officer at Evans, Ia, on the 10th, while
resisting arrest.
Gov. Cummins delivered his first
speech of the campaign at Dubuque,
Ia. on the 10th.
A conference at Washington, on the
18th, between President Roosevelt and
j. p. Morgan and associates resulted
in an agreement to refer the differ
ences between the coal operators and
miners to a commission of five per-
sons, which it was believed would
lead to an early settlement of the
strike.
Mrs. Andrew Doan was shot and
killed in a mysterious near
Level Green, Pulaski county, KY, two
bullets being fired into her brain. Her
husband was only a short distance
away, but knows nothing of the kill
ing.
The St. Paul railroad has purchased
$4,000 acres of coal land in Putnam.
LaSalle, Bureau and Hennepin coun.
ties, Illinois, at a cost of So 1000, 900
and will furnish fuel for it's own sys-
TEN of roads for all time to come.
NJ. Murnane, a Chicago lawyer, died
of a hemorrhage of the lungs at e.
Paso, Tex, on the 18th, after witness.
ing a bull fight in which two horses
were disemboweled and gored te
death.
Two men were killed, four fatally
and a number of others seriously in
jured by an explosion in the Victor
coal mine, at Pawnee, Ill, on the 18th
John L. McLaren, a survivor of the
famous charge of the Light brigade
at Balaklava, died at Salt Lake City
Utah, on the 18th, aged SO years.
At Tracey, Mimi, on the 18th, Ed
Stricken killed his wife and young
son, seriously wounded another per
son, and then committed suicide.
Gov. Odell of New York opened tn,
republican campaign in that state, OF
the night of the 18th, by making
number of speeches in Brooklyn.
Willard S. Denslow was arrested a
Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th, charge,
with stealing $4,000 from a Chicag,
firm by which he was employed.
Mrs. Alexander Small, sister o
United States Senator Shelby M. Cul
lom, Of Illinois, died at her home, il
Chicago, on the 18th.
Allen Hyden, county judge Of Ows
ley county, Ky, was shot and kille'
from ambush early on the mornin,
Of the 18th.
Two a%eronauts, De Bradski an
NORM, were killed by falling from
balloon near Paris, France, on tn
18th.
Several hundred cigar makers wen
Of a strike at Tampa, Fla, on til
18th.