Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The body Of Mrs. George Wolt, who
has been missing since last June, was
found near Chippewa Falls, Wis, on
the Sd, buried in the sand, with marks
on her face which indicate that death
was inflicted by a heavy piece of iron
or stone. Her husband has disap-
peared and his whereabouts are I'M
known.
The Pennsylvania troops on guard
at Shenandoah were assailed on the
nights of the I'd and Sd by parties in
ambush who threw rocks at them, and
orders were given to the soldiers that
if the attacks were repeated they
must shoot to kill and investigate aft
erward.
Gen. Jacob Fl. Smith said in San
Francisco, on the Sd, that his forced
retirement from the army was an I'M
welcome surprise to him; that he nat
urally supposed he would receive a
reprimand as a result of the court.
martial, but nothing more.
Fire at Chicago, on the Sd, dam
aged the elevator owned by John j.
| Badenoch & Co. to the extent of $15,-
900, and completely ruined the stock,
worth 500, 900.
At El Reno, okla, on the Sd, Joseph
Podawoski stabbed and probably IA
tally injured his wife and daughter
and then committed suicide.
r. r. Taylor shot and killed his
brother-in-law, Frank J.. Shader, a
railroad brakeman, at Colorado
| Springs, Col, on the Sd.
There is much Indignation in the
City of Mexico over the formation of
a pool among the bakers there to
raise the price of bread.
David Morris, a farmer, was killed
by being hit on the head with a club
by his son., on the I'd, near Pratts-
vile, o., in a quarrel.
Mrs. Margaret Uzzell, better known
as Mother" Uzzell, a noted charity
worker in the west, is dead at Denver,
Col, aged rs years.
The Indiana state statistician cHti-
mates that the corn crop of that
state will be in the neighborhood of
10000, 900 bushels.
Four people were killed in a col
lision between milk trains at Hor'
tons, Delaware county, N. Y, on the
Sd.
John Francis Duncombe, a pioneer
settler of Fort Dodge, Ia, died at his
home in Des Moines on the I'd.
The republican text book for the
campaign of 1902 has been issued by
the congressional committee.
William Dodwell, a farmer living
near Yelvington, KY, was taken from
his home by a mob at midnight Of the
Sd, bound to a tree and beaten with
a blacksnake whip until he was near
ly unconscious from loss of blood
the mob preventing his wife ano
daughter from interfering. No cause
for the whipping is known.
William Thompson, of Villas, Baca
county, Col, confessed on his death
bed that he had killed his 13-year-olC
son, Benjamin., and that a man nance
Nicholson, now serving a sentence il
the penitentiary for the crime, is in
nocent. A petition for Nicholson'
pardon was filed with the state par
don board on the 4th.
A number of the mills of the Amer
lean Tinplate Co. will close down il
consequence of the rejection by it
: employees of a proposition for a re
duction of rs per cent. in wages, mad
by the company in order to secur
l some large contracts, which it vii
5 now be unable to obtain.
t An unsuccessful effort was made
on the 4th, to float the steamboa
City of Savannah, which ran agroun
in the Ohio river near Paducah a fe,
. days ago, and it is now thought sn
i, may remain there several months.
Arb Mcdonald dropped a stick G
dynamite into the river at Clinton
: Ia, for the purpose of killing fisl
: but it exploded under his boat an
Mcdonald was blown to atoms.
w. II. Hillegross and Miss Nab
l Strong, two young people o. Mattoo,
5 Ill, were A..led, on the 4th, by bein
0 struck by a Big Four train at a eros
> ing at Shelbyville, Ill.
Seven Bulgarian brigands escape
y uniniured from a village in whic
; they were surrounded by $50 Turks
:, soldiers, after killing four soldier
v and five villagers.
Mrs. A. X. III. Patchen, a member
an old and %aristocratic family of Ne
York state, dropped dead, on the At
- at the home Of some friends in So
y Francisco.
The bodies of John w. Kirby al
:. his wife were found in bed at the
home in Cowley county, Kas., on Il
4th, with all indications pointing
u suicide.
~ Gov. Savage Of Nebraska appoint.
!" a new non-partisan police board f
. the city of Omaha, on the 4th.
= A call has been issued for a conve
NJ tion of the peoples party, to be he
at Springfield, ILL.,, August 20.