Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-04

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The food situation in Texas was
generally improved on the 25th. The
damage to railways and highways is
estimated at 100000.
Madame Duse, the Italian actress,
was received at the White House, on
the 25th, by the president and Mrs.
and Miss Roosevelt.
Judge and Mrs. William Dawson, of
st. James, Mo-, celebrated their gold
en- wedding IN the 25th.
The strike in Havana, Cuba, was de-
clared off by the Central Labor union
on the 25th.
A railroad train on the Pennsyl-
vania road ran into an open switch
near Indianapolis, Ind, on the 27th,
and was derailed, killing Engineer
Frazier and fatally injuring Fireman
Grant. Baggagemaster Clayton was
seriously injured.
Frau Krupp has given $750,oo 0 to es-
tablish a benefit fund for the work
men at Essen, Prussia, in memory of
Der late husband.
There were two more deaths at Ha-
vana, Cuba, on the 27th, as a result of
injuries received in the strike riots of
the previous day.
The Mark Henson block. at Granite
City, lIl.. was destroyed by fire, on the
night of the 27th, causing a loss of
SIC, 900.
James johnson, aged II years, was
killed by the accidental discharge of a
gun, near Deep Water, Mo-, on the
27th.
In a football game at Champaign, on
the 27th, Illinois university defeated
Iowa by a score of 50 to 0.
Mrs. f. w. Whitsett, aged so years,
was burned to death at her home at
Lorena, Tex, on the 27th.
The body of a man supposed to be
George Blessing, a wealthy farmer,
was found hanging to a tree near
Nenia, ILL.,, on the 27th, by two hunt
ers.
Webster Yingling, captain of a team.
was fatally injured in a football game
at ~Coshocton, o., on Thanksgiving
day.
Burglars blew open a safe of a man.
ufacturing plant at Enoree Mills, s.
G., on the 27th, and secured $4,000.
About 3,250,000 bushels of coal were
shipped from Pittsburg, Pa, by the
Ohio river route, on the 27th.
Bunce Quarles, a young college stu.
dent injured in a game of football
died at Marshall, Mo-, on the 2Sth.
Fire at Louisville, KY, on the 2Sth.
damaged the Currie Fertilizer Co.'s
plant to the extent of $4,000.
An engineer and fireman and four
men of a bridge crew were seriously
hurt in a wreck on the Northwestern
road, near Lytles, Wis, on the 2sth,
caused by an open switch.
Ernest Damns and Charles w. Tuck
er fought a pistol duel at Armourdale,
Kas., on the 2sth, over a waitress
named Mabel Randall. Both men were
mortally wounded.
The 1~4-year-old son of H. N. Boyd,
Of Belleville, Kas., was killed while
hunting, on the 2Sth, his gun being
discharged while he was pulling it
through a fence.
William Armstrong, a prominent
business man, dropped dead of heart
disease in his Office at Ottumwa, Ia.
on the 2sth, while talking to a Gus
toner.
An unknown man was killed, Engi
neer Brewer fatally and seven Others
seriously injured in a railroad COLI
sion near Missoula, Mont, on the 2sth
ConstabularyInspector Hendryx was
killed by ladrones on the island Of
! Samaf, P. l., on the 25th.
Snow fell to the depth of two inches
throughout central Kansas on tn;
2Sth.
Harold Fl. Merrick, a school boy Of
Kansas City, NO., accidentally killed
himself while hunting near Wolcott
Kas., on the 2sth.
Franklin Tanning, a well-knowI
civil engineer, was fatally stricken
with apoplexy at his home in st. 10
seph, Mo-, on the 2sth.
Twenty-Five million feet of lumber
Lemay's ship yards, six steamboats,
two barges and II houses were de
stroyed by fire at Norman, Ont, o,
the 2Sth.
A pension system for employees o
the company goes into effect on tn
Union Pacific january 1, 1908. Tn
system has been perfected and tn
rules and regulations, which are com
piled in book form, have received of
fetal signature.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, minister o
the City Temple, London, who 70
many years was n of the most in
fluential preachers and leaders anon
the English monconformists, died, o.
the 2Sth, aged ~ years.
The German reichstag, on the 2stt
was the scene Of much turbulence
the uproar reaching such a pitch tina
vice-President Buesing, who was i
the chair, was constrained to suspen
the sitting, a measure without prece
dent in the reichstag.