Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Trinidad, Col, on the 18th, Is men
are said to have been killed.
S. A. Sidroe, of Springfield, Mo-, q
locomotive engineer on the Frisco, is
looking for his runaway wife, who, he
claims, deserted him and took $4,000
of her w money and $500 O. his.
The body found in the ditch at
Mayfair, near Chicago, was identified
as that of Amelia Miller, a sufferer
from Bright's disease, and death is be-
lieved to have been by suicide.
Fred Riseling, a newspaper man,
formerly of Murphysboro, ILL.,, was
fatally wounded in a murderous as
sault made on him at Shawnee, Lkla.,
on the Sth.
Miss L. T. Hurt, Miss Maggie Koer-
ner and Dewey Llndsey, injured in the
crossing accident at Paducah on the
18th, died on the Sth.
Gen. Lucas Meyer, commander of
the Orange Free State forces in the
Boer war, died suddenly at Dresden,
Germany, on the Sth, of heart dis
ease.
In a street fight at Whitehall, ILL.,,
on the night of the 6th, Henry Garri-
o was stabbed three times in the
lungs and fatally wounded.
Fire at Marquette, Kas., on the Sth,
destroyed the burnison lumber yard
and Schimmerhorn's livery stable, en-
failing a loss of 10000.
Communication between Washing
ton and Annapolis by wireless tele-
graphy was established on the 8th.
Lieut.. r. P. Brewer, U. S. A., died
suddenly while bathing in Lake Ia
hoe on the 18th.
Baltimore, Nd, has become the
Mecca of the blind. Marvellous cures,
said to have been wrought by the os-
cillator invented by DR.. Henry F. Ga
rey, are attracting the blind from
every corner of the country.
A disastrous explosion occurred at
$50 o'clock, on the evening of the
9TH, at No. 3 mine at Bowen, a small
camp about ten miles north of Pu-
eblo, Col. Sixteen lives are known to
have been lost.
The United States monitor Ar
kansas returned to Newport News,
Va, on the 18th, from a very success
full trial trip. During the trial the
Arkansas maintained a speed for two
hours of 1872 knots, or z knots great
er than required by the government.
Late on the night of the 18th the
nude body of a was found in
the weeds on the prairie at Seventy
second and State streets, Chicago,
bearing marks of violence. The case
is somewhat similar to that of Amelia
Olson, several years ago.
The evident anxiety of some would
be purchasers to get possession of his
farm led William A. McHaney, of Har-
risburg, ILL.,, to investigate, when he
discovered great quantities of rich
iron r on his forty acre tract, ten
miles south of Harrisburg, on the di-
viding line between Saline and Pope
counties.
1t is now said that 100 packages of
greenbacks, each containing $1,000,
were secured by the bandits who held
up the Burlington train, on the night
of the 5th, in a ravine neal Savannah,
Ill.
The expedition which sailed from
Victoria, B. c., on the brigantine
Blakley, in January last, to search
for buried treasure On Coco island
returned on the 7th. The expedition
was an entire failure, like those that
had preceded it.
A report comes from Atlantic City,
N. j., to the effect that Att'y.-Gen.
Knox was recently the victim of an
assault in the cafe Of a hotel there
by a trio of millionaires who are OPP
posed to his attitude on trusts. Mr..
Knox was also called names that
startled every respectable person
within hearing.
Miss Thomas, an Ottawa (Ont.)
schoolgirl, 10 years of age; Walter
Basham, a Grand Trunk railway EN-
ploye of Montreal, 60 years of age,
and Alderman George Ford, 60 years
of age, of Ottawa, guests at the East
III cottage, at Old Orchard, Me-,
were drowned, on the 18th, while bath
ing.
Before the eyes of his 1s-year-old
wife, BENZ. Coleman, Of the McCor-
mick Harvester company, sent a bull
let through his heart at his at
the Sioux City (Ia.) house on the
7th. Jealousy is assigned as the
cause.
George Burke, a negro, was shot
and killed in a prominent business
house at Nacogdoches, Tex, on the
9th, by Sandy Murphy, a white man
Murphy says Burke killed his father
IA years ago in San Augustine county
Coronation day, in London, was
ushered in with artillery salutes from
the Tower Of London and Hyde parl
at sunrise of the 9th. The city hat
been wide awake all night in anticipa
tion of the event.
Nothing is known at Manila of th'
reported sale Of the lands Of tn,
friars to an American syndicate, ant
the statement that such a sale hal
been made is officially discredited.
At a conference between Presiden'
Roosevelt and Att'y.-Gen. Knox, OF
the 9Th, the conditions under which
the Commercial Cable Go. may lay 1t,
Pacific cable to the Philippines wer,
agreed upon. The conditions give
the government practical control .
the cable.