Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-11-20
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Eight survivors of the wreck of the
steamer Elingamite were rescued by
the British steamer Penguin after be-
ing on a small raft from Sunday until
Thursday. The only food they had
was two apples, and they suffered
great hardships and were terribly
emaciated when picked up.
John Sloan was shot and killed by
James Pratt at a hotel in Somerset,
KY, on the 10Th. Pratt angered Sloan
by telling him to turn over in bed, and
in a quarrel that ensued Pratt drew a
knife, but was shot by Sloan before
he could use it.
Armour & Co.'S packing plant at
Sioux City, Ia, covering four acres OF
ground, was destroyed by fire, on the
10th, entailing a loss of nearly a mil
lion dollars, and throwing 900 men
out of work. 1t will be rebuilt at
once.
At Chillicothe, o., on the 10th, Will
lam Smith pulled the trigger of a
gun, after he had induced Pearl JUS
tice to smell the muzzle, and blew Jus"
tees head off. Smith claims he did
not know the gun was loaded.
w. j. Linkenhoger died at a hos
pital in st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 10th,
from knife wounds alleged to have
been inflicted in a fight with Robert
Craig, by whom he had been EN-.
ployed.
An Italian anarchist named Genera
Rubino made an attempt to kill King
Leopold, of Belgium, on the 18th, by
| shooting at him as he was leaving "a
church in Brussels, but missed his
aim.
Hugh Curran was killed and a dozen
men, women and children more or less
seriously injured in a collision be-
tween an electric car and a freight
train, in Chicago, Oh the 10th.
Harlan Buckles, who was sentenced
| at Elizabethtown, Ky, on the 10Th, to
life imprisonment for murder, was ia
ken from the Jail by a mob, on the
10th, and hanged to a tree.
An assassin shot through the rear
| of a private car, at Waukegan, Tex,
on the 10th, and killed G. W. Tate,
master mechanic of the Gulf, Colora-
do & Santa Fe railroad.
James Rose, a young negro, shot
and killed his wife, at Youngstown, D.,
on the 10th, then went to his Fathers
house and blew out his w brains.
i. r. Thorp, a fireman, was killed in
a railroad collisi, VI at Rife, Col, on
the 10th.
There is a daily average Of 80 cases
of cholera in Manila.
A prospecting party in the noun
tains of southern Nevada found the
skeletons of a number of people lying
close to a spring, the water of which
when Analysed, was found to be heavi
ly charged with arsenic, which is be
lieved to have caused their death.
Officials of the Armour & Co. pack
ing plant at Sioux City, Ia, destroyed
by fire on the 10th, announc that the
new plant they are about to build will
be one of the finest in the west.
Two students of a college at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, fred six shots a
each other in a street duel, on thu
18th. One of them was thought to bt
seriously injured.
The Lake Shore Railroad Co., on thu
18th, announced an advance of tel
per cent. in wages to all switchmel
employed by the company outside o
Chicago.
A fresh eruption of the volcano
Stromboli, off the coast of Sicily, oc
Cured on the 10Th, accompanied b.
terrific explosions and a great foV
of lava.
The commission house of Boardmal
Bros. at Nevada, Ia, made an assign
ment, on the 18th, with liabilities o
$780, 900 and assets about the same.
A Chicago firm has secured the con
tract for the switchboard of a larg
telephone system to be installed a
st. Petersburg, Russia.
John W. Davenport shot Charlie
Olmquist, a student who boarded wit
him, at Madison, Wis, on the nth, an
. then committed suicide.
The body Of a man named atus Hal
, rington, supposed to have fallen of
steamer, was found in the river at s
Louis, on the 18th.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, al
1 rived at San Francisco, on the 18th, e
route to Washington, where she wi
4 spend the winter.
Joseph France and William Norr
, were killed by an explosion in a pov
: der mill, at Seward Station, Pa, 9
!, the 18th.
William Cooper was killed and no
\ ribly mangled by a railroad train,
= st. Joseph, Mo-, on the night of Il
!. 18th.
Fire at Niles, Mich, on the 18th, d
. stroyed two large mills of a pap
company's plant, causing loss Of $7'
!, 900.
Denver, Col, celebrated the fort
:" fourth anniversary of its founding
a city, on the night of the nth.
A heavy snow fell at Nardin, Okli
on the 10th.