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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
ILLINOIS AT WORLDS FAIR.
Competition, Open To the World Tor
a Design For the State
Building.

st. Louis, Sept. 21.-A meeting Of
the executive committee of the Illi-
nois Worlds fair commission was
held, Friday, at the Southern hotel. A
subcommittee, consisting of Chair
man John Fl. Miller and C. C. Craig,
was appointed to confer with Director
of Works Taylor relative to the site
allotment ceremonies, September 30
October 2.
This conference took place in Mr..
Taylor's office, when the visitors were
given an extended account of the
plans for the day. Afterward they
were driven through the grounds to
the site assigned to Illinois, which is
just inside the paling fence. The Hi
nois commission will spend about $780,
900 on its state building, and has at
this time a competition under way to
determine the best design for the
structure. The building will cover an
area of 5000 square feet, and a set
of, rules governing the competition
has been drawn up. The designs OF
five architects will be selected by a
committee, from which the commits
sion will decide upon one. Each OF
the five architects will receive a fee,
and the one who submits the success
full design will superlntend the con-
struction of the building.
The competition for the building is
open to the world, and is under the
charge of the building committee OF
the commission. The subcommittee
which called upon Director Taylor
stated that Gov. Yates had been re-
quested to respond to the presenta'
ton Of the state site to the commits
sion, and had accepted. The commit
teemen requested that the allotment
to Illinois be made on October /.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
DEATH OF AN AGED ARTIST.
j. Charles Collins SuffOcated by Els.
Gaping Gas While He Slept
in His Bed.

New York, Sept. al. Charles
Collins, at one time a highly success
full artist, was found dead, Sunday,
in his room at his boarding house.
The coroner's verdict is that death
was due to the accidental opening OF
a gas jet, the escaping gas killing the
artists as he slept. Mr.. Collins was
70 years of age. Two Of his paintings,
Lookout" and Spring" brought him
much fame years ago. Failure of his
eyesight had forced him to abandon
the finer work of his profession, and
his later years were passed in oam-
parative poverty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

other petition before Judge Hanecy.
New evidence will be produced in be-
half of the banker prisoner, who has
been fighting for freedom for six
years. Good conduct has been the
principal plea for freedom, but some
time ago the state board of pardons
refused to grant him liberty, because
it was believed he still held a portion
of the embezzled funds of the state
university.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.
The Banker Convict Has Not Given
Up Hope of Release From the
Illinois P~enitentiary.

Chicago, Sept. 21.-Novel means
were used Saturday in an effort to Sc
cure the liberty of Charles Warren
Spalding, former president of the
Globe Savings bank and treasurer of
the University of Illinois, convicted of
embezzling university funds. Judge
Dunno, who has for some time been
considering a writ of habeas corpus
in the case, was preparing to read his
decision, which was understood in adj
vance to be adverse to the prisoner,
when Attorney w. G. Anderson
stopped proceedings by taking an
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
VISITING OLD BATTLEFIELDS.
Tour of the south Spend Sum
day at Marietta, Ga.

Atlanta, Ca, Sept. ga number
of the survivors of Col. Dan Mc-Cook's
brigade spent Sunday at Marietta,
where memorial exercises were held
in the afternoon in the National GEM
etery. The brigade was organized in
Chicago, and the visit made through
the south will include battlefields
where the brigade fought during the
civil war.
The survivors will erect monuments
and marks on the different positions
held by the brigade during the bat
ties fought.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

pany of distinguished guests, includ-
ing a delegation from Iowa, many
government officers, national, state
and city dignitaries and foreign naval
attaches made the occasion a notable
one. The launching party and other
guests left Boston on a special train.
1.-THE Des Moines represents what
her designer, Admiral Hichborn, re-
earded as the most useful of the me-
dium-sized type of warship. 1t was
never intended that she should be a
racer, nor yet that she should be a
battleship in resisting qualities, but
the Des Moines was planned to com
bine a fair rate of speed, a moderate
but still formidable armament, good
seagoing qualities, and a coal endur-
ance rather above the average. All
these qualities have been gotten to-
gether in a vessel of 5000 tons dis
placement, 3Os feet 9 inches long, A
feet beam and Is feet 9 inches draft,
and a speed of 1914 knots.
The Des Moines has a protective
deck two inches thick, and her sides
are lined with cellulose, to exclude
water in case they are pierced by a
shell. She has no other armor. She
carries five 10-inch rapid-fire guns,
eight 6-pounders, two 1-pounders and
four Colts automatic guns. The in
dicated horse power will aggregate
4,5O0, the engines being triple expan-
sion. Six water tube boilers will sup
ply the necessary steam. The coal
supply, 700 tons, will give this ship
a radius Of action at ten knots of y
900 knots without coaling. Thus, she
could steam from San Francisco to
Manila without stopping for coal.
| The Des Moines is designed for hard
service, without fancy qualities. Some
what special consideration has been
| given to her strength, and the scant-
lings are unusually heavy. She has
no ram, and the use of wood is con-
fined to the minimum, only the main
deck being planked. The ammunition
supply will be unusually large, in
GLIDING $50 rounds for each of the
main 5-inch guns and 500 rounds for
the 6-pounders, all smokeless powder
Distilling plants and ice machines fiji
the vessel for tropical service, and she
has six electric ammunition HOSTS
and winches and blowers, and every
one Of the latest design that a vesse.
of this size can carry. Four hundred
and fifty men can be accommodates
on the Des Moines, although her reg
ular crew is 1863 men, SO that she car
be used to advantage to carry reliet
crews to foreign stations or for sim
Var service.]
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
SHIP ON FIRE AT SEA.
For Eighteen Hours a Fire Ragged
in the Clothes Room of the
Steamship st. Paul.

New York, Sept. 21.-The American
line steamship St. Paul, which arrived
Saturday, reported that on the voy-
age a successful fight had been made
against a fire, which ragged for IS
hours in the clothes room. The fact
that the ship was afire was kept from
the women passengers, although the
men Of the first cabin were made
aware of the possible danger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
Missouri w. c. T. U.

The state convention of the Mis-
souri, w. c. T. u, at Springfield, re-
elected all of it's officers, The only
contest was between Mrs. Belle c.
Kimball and Mrs. Clara Hoffman for
president. The ballot resulted in
favor of Mrs. Kimball by II to At.
Other officers were chosen as follows:
Corresponding secretary, Mrs. Ella ID.
Morris; recording secretary, Mrs. EN-
ma II. Robinson; treasurer, Mrs. Jul
liza Glazier. The president. appointed
Mrs. May Woods, of Mount Vernon,
vice-president, and Mrs. Robinson APP
pointed Mrs. Eva o. Smith her assist
ant.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
Deaths Due to Deadly Germs.

Two deaths occurred at the city
hospital in st. Louis, the other day,
which were peculiar in that both
were caused by the incubation of
poisonous animal germs, which medi-
cal skill could not dispel. Fred Cum
mings had eaten of half-cooked pork
which was impregnated with a deadly
bacilli that greatly puzzled the ply
s%icians. A few hours afterwards Hen
nv Dryer died from an aft1iction con-
tracted in handling the hides of sheep
thought to have been impregnated
with anthrax, peculiar to that AMI
NAL.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
MISSOURI A NEWS.


Mrs. Melissa Rice Gilliland, SO. 81
Warrensburg. She was the first wom-
an to settle in Johnson county. She
was born in Tennessee and moved
with her parents to lafayette coun-
ty in 1920. She was married in 1881
to Rev. George Gilliland, who died in
1855. They settled near Rose Hill on
the first farm marked out in johnson
county. Mrs. Gilliland YVES the
mother of six children, only one of
whom, J.. A Gilliland, of Warrens-
burg, is living.
Mrs. Hannah l.. Lucas, "a, wife OF
City Auditor C. B. Lucas, of st. Jo-
seph.
NJ. J. Moss, near HARDWOOD, Vernon
county. He was one of the early set
tiers of Vernon county and was wide
ly and favorably known.
1. B. Fletcher, So, of Salisbury, OF
ervou collapse.
Mrs. Joseph Eckles, IS, of Memphis
after a long illness of catarrh OF the
stomach.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
JEALOUSY and Revenge.

Jamestown, Pa, Sept. 22.-David
Gouchner,, a well-known young man,
shot and seriously wounded Miss Leo
rena Winnebrenner, aged II years,
neal her home in ~Conemangh, near
this city, Sunday night. and then sent
a bullet into his own heart, dying in
stantly. Jealousy and a desire for
revenge are given as the causes foe
the act
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The Des Moines is the largest YES
sci ever launched in the waters of
Massachusetts bay, and is the first
of the government ships under on
struction by the Fore River Co. AL
though the weather was cloudy, and
at times threatening, the day was
practically, for Quincy, a holiday,
while the attendance of a large COM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
The Work of Bad Boys.

A f~our-year-old boy in Kansas City
who had been missing from home for
"a hours was found locked in the
closet of a vacant house. He was
naked and almost hysterical. On in
vestigation it was found he had been
made a prisoner in the house by some
older boys as a joke. In a little while
longer, it is said, he would have died,
or his mind have become unbalanced.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
Anxious to BE Annexed.

New York, Sept. 21.-More than l.
900 Of the leading residents of these
islands, including merchants, plant
ers and householders, have petitioned
the Danish mystery to expedite the
transfer of the islands to the United
States, cables the Herald correspond
emf at ST. Thomas, D. w. /.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Speaker d. B. Henderson,, on the
18th, announced his declination of the
nomination for reelection to congress
from the Third Iowa district. He gave
as a reason that his views on the
tariff question were at variance with
those of his party in the district.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
Danish Island. sale Assured.

Copenhagen, Sept. 21.-The results
of the elections of members to the
landsthing (the upper house Of the
rigsdag), as officially given out, as
sure the ultimate sale Of the Danish
West Indies to the United States.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

A firm in Hartford, Conn, was
awarded the contract, on the 10Th, for
furnishing stamped envelopes and
newspaper wrappers for the post of
fee department for the four years
beginning January 1, 1903, for which
they will receive upwards of three
million dollars.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

c. S. Marshall, aged %, railroad
agent at Wales Mine, Jefferson coun-
ty, was killed by being caught in the
fly wheel of a gasoline engine.s
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The marriage license office was es-
tablished in st. Louis in 1881. On
September is, 1902, the one hundred
thousandth license was issued.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The Kentucky court of appeals, or
the 10th, sustained the injunction
granted by a lower court restraining
the Southern Athletic club from corl-
Quoting the proposed fight between
McGovern and Corbett, and the fight
will not be held in Kentucky.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The transport Logan, which sailed
from Manila on the 10th, brings With
her Brighten. Fred D. Grant, who has
been assigned to the command of the
department of Texas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The Alabama republican executive
committee, on the 18th, decided that
hereafter negroes will not be admit
ted as delegates to republican con-
ventions in that state.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Burial services were held, on the
10th, over the body of Lieut.. Morris,
who shot himself on board the cruis-
err Olympia, at Boston, after which
the body was sent to Kansas City,
Mo, his former home, for burial.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

James Gatewood, employed on the
construction of a s~ky-scraper in st.
Louis, was struck by a barrel filled
with brick, which fell five stories, and
only slightly injured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Lieut.. Peary, the Arctic explorer,
who has just returned from his last
trip, brought a polar bear, a musk OK,
a walrus, an Arctic hare and a fine
Eskimo dog for the geological garden
of Central park, New York.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
He was D~esponacnt.

st. Louis, Sept. 21.-Edward Cowen,
respondent on account Of business re-
verses, hanged himself in the bath
room at his home. 2644 Olive street.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

A letter received by the governor of
New Mexico from the relief party
sent to the Mimbres valley flood suf-
ferers, says the crops are laid waste
and people are living on decayed corn
and beans.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
Want n 100000 Poorhouse.

A petition is in circulation in john
son county asking the county court
to submit at the election on Novem-
Der 4 a proposition for a special tax
levy to raise $4,000 to build a new
county poorhouse.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Louis Won Reucau, a German mining
expert, was imprisoned for 80 hours
in a tunnel in Grose mountain, Colo
RADIO, but was found uninjured by a
rescue party.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

While returning from school, on the
18th, at Williams station, Mich, three
little boys stopped to play in an ex-
cavation on the roadside. The earth
became loosened and several tons of
it came down on them, crushing them
to death.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
Record Broken ut Kansas City.

Twenty-eight thousand cattle were
received in Kansas City, September
Is, the greatest drive ever known
there. Highest previous record, 49,
961 head.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Chicago, Sept. 21.--The Bremner
bakery, a plant controlled by the Ma
tional Biscuit Co., has come to terms
with its striking employees and the
strike Of the 200 cracker packers
came to an end.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
HANGED at LakevilIe, Ark.

Lakeville, Ark, Sept. 21.-Jerre Car
ter, colored, was hanged in the Jail
yard here, Friday. The testimony up
on which he was convicted was pure
Nv circumstantial.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Mrs. Thoburn, wife of Bishop Tho
burn, of the Methodist Episcopal
church, died at Portland, Ore, on the
10th, from illness contracted in India
while a missionary there with her
husband,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
Sues for Part of an Ear.

A. L. Pemberton, a young business
man of Warrenton, has sued John
Thiele for $4,000. He and Pemberton
fought, and the latter lost part of
an ear.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Secretary of State Hay has ap-
pealed to the powers of Europe to
force Roumania to observe the obli-
cations of humanity and ameliorate
the frightful condition of the Jews
in that country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Congressman Littlefeld, of Maine,
announced, on the 18th, that he would
be a candidate for the speakership of
the house, to succeed Hon. ID. B. Hen
derson, of Iowa.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Marie Henrietta, queen of the Bel
gians, died suddenly at Spa, Belgium,
en- the 18th. She had been i'll for sew.
eral months.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Patrick O'Donnell has sued the st.
Louis Transit Co. (~street carr for
$40, 900. O'Donnell alleges that a con-
ductor knocked three of his teeth out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The Sovereign Grand Lodge I. o. O.,
r., in session at Des Moines, Ia, on
the 18th, repealed the amendment to
the constitution adopted at Indian
apolis in 1901 admitting members of
mixed Indian and white blood.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Republican conventions were held
in Connecticut, New Hampshire and
Alabama. on the 18th, and in all OF
them President Roosevelt was in
dorsed for nomination in 1904.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
Examinations for State Certificates


During August State S~uperintend-
emit Darlington conducted eXamina-
tons for state certificates at the fol
lowing places. The numbes OF teach
ers at each place is given in figures:
Cape Girardeau, Z; Columbia, 155;
Jefferson City, 10; Kansas City, Sc;
Kirksville, "A; Monroe City, 30;
Springfield, So; Warrensburg, 15S;
Webb City, IS. Total examined, 622.
Thirty of these, representing S6 Il
ties, raised their limited certificates
to unlimited. One hundred and
twelve, representing So counties, com
pleted the requirements for a limited
five years certificate. About 200 took
only a part of the examination and
hope to finish at some subsequent ex-
animation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The officials of the state free m
ployment bureau declare the demand
for help of all kinds exceeds the sup
ply and better wages are being Of
fered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

An expert of the agricultural de-
partment at Washington figures that
the corn crop of Missouri will be
close to 260, 00O, 900 bushels.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

A report from United States Consul
Heeman, at Odessa, says the Russian
wheat harvest is exceptionally large,
and that all crops, with the exception
of f1axseed, are the greatest in the
last ten years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The residence of John D. Rockefel-
Ter, at Pocantico Hills, Westminster
county. N. Y, was destroyed by fire,
on the night of the nth, the loss be-
ing estimated at $4,000. .
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The two-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. A. Hirsch, of Monet, while
playing in the back yard, fell into an
omen cistern and drowned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
The Turkey Crop Reported Light.

The turkey crop is reported light
in Missouri this year. In some parts
of southern Missouri not Is per cent.
of the usual number will be mar
keted.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Fred L. Cheathan, 20, was shot and
killed by Policeman John Bannon. at
Joplin. Cheatham ran when the Off
Ger went to arrest him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25
T~hreshing Machine Fell On Him.

Fl. T. Woods, a farmer Of Miller
county, was killed, a few days ago,
near Bagnell, by a threshing machine
turning over on him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

The rescue steamer Windward, hav-
ing on board Lieut.. Peary, the Arctic
explorer, reached Sydney, Cape Bre-
ton, on the 18th. Peary says that
while he did not gain the object of
his quest he made valuable discov-
cries and he feels certain that the
north pole can be reached.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Elias Sarver, aged 70, . pioneer resi-.
dent Of Harrison county, was fatally
rored by q bull.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

An unknown man went into a bank
at skagway, Alaska, on the 10th,
with a revolver in one hand and a
dynamite bomb in the other and de-
manded $4,000. The teller reached
for a gun, when the robber dropped
the bomb on the floor, wrecking the
bank and injuring himself so badly
that he died soon after. The bank
clerks escaped through a window.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

AT Birmingham, Ala, on the 10Th,
rs persons were killed and as many
more injured BY a panic in q church
in which a negro convention was be-
ing held. A fight, mistaken for a fire,
started a stampede, which could not
be checked until police and fremen
succeeded in releasing the negroes
from their pinioned positions IN the
entrances. All the deaths were either
from crushing or suffocation
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-25

Nicholas Fish, a banker of great
wealth, and at one time minister to
the court of Belgium, died at a hos
pital in New York, on the 10Th, from
the effects Of a blow or fall received
in a saloon where he had been drink
ing with two ONE and a private
detective named Sharkey. Sharkey
was arrested, charged with homicide,
but claims that Fish's death was
caused by q fall.