Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A great fire swept through Pater-
son, N. j., on the 9th, and in it's des-
olate wake left the embers and ashes
of property valued in preliminary es-
Inmates at ten million dollars. 1t
burned it's way through the business
section of the city and claimed as
it's own a majority of the finer
structures devoted to commercial,
civic, educational and religious uses,
as well as scores of houses. There
was but small tribute of life and in
jury to the conlagration, but hun
dreds were left homeless and thou
sands without employment.
The steamship Philadelphia of the
American line, which arrived at New
York, on the 9th, broke the record
for having made the longest COM
munication with the land by means
of the Marconi wireless telegraph
system. On the 1st, the steamship
was at 1915 p. m. a few miles off the
Lizard. Messages were then ex-
changed, and the t~elegraphing was
kept up until midnight of the follow
ing day.
The sacrament of the Lords Sup
per was administered in the Jewish
synagogue at Springfield, o., on the
9th, this being the first time thi~
Christian ceremony has taken place
in a Hebrew house of worship. The
sacrament was administered by Rev.
Small, Of the Congregational church,
which was recently burned. Chevze-
dukah congregation offered the Eseof
the synagogue until a new church is
built.
The worst loss of life from fire ever
recorded in st. Louis, with one en-
ception, occurred, on the morning of
the 9th, in the destruction of the En-
pire apartment house, 2700-02 Olive
street. The fire was q fierce one, and
soon accomplished it's work of de-
struction, including the sacrifice of
IL lives-ten men and one woman
most of whom were suffocated or
burned to death in their rooms.
Fire, on the 9th, destroyed nearly
all of the business section of ETber-
ton, Ga, doing damage which is
estimated at $780, 00. The city had no
fire protection, and the bucket bri-
gade formed by citizens was of no
avail in a temperature of 20 degrees
and a high wind.
Senior Lerma, the newly-elected
governor Of Bataan province, p. L.,
fled after his election, when he was
called on to account for $4,000 of in
surgent funds. He is still missing.
In the senate, on the 10th, consid-
Grafton of the Philippine tariff bill
occupied the entire session, Mr.. Tur-
ner (Wash.) concluding his speech,
begun on the 18th, on the legal phase
of the question. Mr.. Teller (CoI.) OBJ
tanned the floor, but almost immedi-
ately requested that he be allowed
to continue his address on the 18th,
lin the house general debate on
the oleomargarine bill occupied the
day and was finally concluded, a
large number of members speaking
upon the measure.
AT Detroit, on the 10th, Cashier
Frank c. Andrews was placed under
arrest on a warrant charging him
with taking over a million dollars
from the City savings bank without
the authorization of the directors
He was arrested in the Office of thu
Detroit Trust Co., a11'aigned and lie
leased on $40 1000 bail.
DR.. Ernest +. Robinson, Gen. Fred
erick Funston's physician, forward
ed to the war department, on thu
10th, a certificate in support of al
application for a three months eX
tension of leave of absence for Gen
| Funston. The generals leave expire
March 10 under the present order
He is recovering rapidly.
Gen. Maxine Gomez arrived at San
l bldSo uC SuDus VII thG ioth, oh LII
way to Santo Domingo. He was give
a great demonstration. A large row
had assembled, with bands of mt
sic. The municipal police and fire
men also turned out to welcome hin
Seven years in the penitentiary a
Wallla Walla was the sentence i'm
posed on Attorney w. A. Lewis a
Spokane, WASH, on the 10th. convic'
ed of stealing more than a thousan
dollars from Mrs. Nettie Bauer Plat
one Of his clients.
With a view of relieving the bulge
King Victor Emanuel of Italy, in h
speech to be delivered at the reopel
ing of the Italian parliament, wi
voluntarily ask for a reduction in h
civil list.
Special dispatches received in Be
lin, on the 10th, from Vienna, sal
that the government Of Austrian III
Germany were exchanging notes CO,
corning the abolition of sugar bou.
ties.
A west-bound immigrant speci
over the Canadian Pacific railwt
was derailed two miles east of Moo
Head on the 10th. One boy was kill,
and IL other passengers were injure