Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The body OF the young woman
found on the shore of Lake Michigan,
near Chicago, on the goth, has been
identified as that of Nellie Hughes,
of Chicago, and suicide is believed to
have been the cause of her death.
James Hope, a Creek Indian farmer.
living near E~ufaula, l. T., chopped his
wife's head off with an AK, because
she Joined a secret society against
his wish.
An aeronaut named Sartell fell 1000
feet from a balloon at the far
grounds at Homer, ILL.,, on the 21st,
and although badly injured he may
ecove
Crcsceus trotted a mile in 2:04A
at indianapolis, on the 21st, breaking
the record of 2:04h made by Nancy
Hanks in 1894.
Rufus G. Cravens and o. P. Nolan.
both deaf men, were struck and killed
by a railroad train near Kansas City,
on the 21st.
The TranS-Mississippi congress, in
session at st. Paul. has chosen Scat
tie, Wash, as the place of meeting in
1903.
The prohibitionists OF Iowa, in con-
vention at Waterloo, on the 21St,
placed "A state ticket in the field.
Charles Sieber, a wealthy cattleman
and n of the most prominent citi-
zens of Grand Junction, Col, was shot
and instantly killed. on the 22d, oy
Joseph Harris, of West Water, at IA
roundup on the Little Dolores river.
\ meeting of stockholders of the
Illinois Central Railroad CO., t. &u-
thorize an issue of $15. 000, 900 of new
stock, will be held October Is.
William Smiley, formerly a deputy
sheriff at st. Joseph, Mo-, and his
wife have been arrested in the Wichi-
TIA mountains, and taken to Lawton.
Okla, charged with the murder of Ed
ward VIM, on August IA.
Five children who were playing in
the sands at Filey, England, a water
ing place, on the 22d, were cut off by
the tide before their mothers noticed
the danger, and all were drowned.
Bishop Carrigan, of the Sioux City
Catholic diocese, on the 22d, appoint
ed Rev. B. C., Lenehan, of Boone, Ia,
vicar general, and Rev. J. Barron, of
Lemars, Ia. chancellor.
Henry Detwiler, formerly secretary
of the Union League club of PhiIadel-
phia, whose funds he is charged with
embezzling, was arrested at San
Francisco on the 22d.
Edward Boyce, former president of
the Western Federation of Miners.
will be the candidate of the socialist
party for governor of Colorado.
The forest fires in the Greenhorn
mountains, Colorado, have been eX-
tinguiShed by rain.
Russell Sage. the great %financier.
sounds a note of warning against
pushing great combinations of cap
ital too far. He declares they are a
menace, and will ultimately result in
a terrible panic when the people be-
come aroused.
Whatever hope was entertained
that j. P. Morgan, Bishop Potter or
the National Civic Federation would
interfere to speedily end the anthra-
cite coal miners strike, has been
thoroughly dispelled.
The Liverpool marine board, on be-
half of the government, has present.
ed to Capt. Freeman of the British
steamer Roddam a silver vase. in rec
ognition of his devotion to duty in
getting his vessel away from st.
Pierre, Martinique, when that town
was destroyed.
What is considered the biggest
roundup of green goods swindlers
e made by the federal authorities
in New York was made on the 21st.
Five men and a woman were taken
into custody and an elaborate green
goods plant was captured.
EX.-Corp. O'Brien was arraigned in
the District of Columbia supreme
court, on the 21st, and committed to
Jail on an indictment charging him
with perjury in connection with his
testimony before the senate Philip
pine committee. Bail was fixed at
S 5000.
The body of Wallace Bishop, the
dead leader of the mutiny in the
Kentucky state ~penitentiary, having
been unclaimed, it was buried in the
prison graveyard. Bishop was the son
OF respectable parents in St. Louis.
The war department is going to
buy a large number of horses at St.
Louis and Kansas City for use of the
cavalry troops returning from the
Philippines, it, having been found
o economical to sell the troops
horses in Manila than to ship them
back.
Gen. Franz Sigel, whose name was
a rallying cry for volunteers Of Ger
man birth in the war for the union,
died in his home, in the Bronx, New
York, on the 21st, in his nth year.
At Newport, r. L., on the 21st, Miss
Hendry McCalla, daughter of Capt.
Bowman H. McCalla, U. S. n, and
Lieut.. Arthur Macarthur, Jr., U. s..
n, son of Gen. Macarthur, were mar
ried.
Ten thousand letters containing
money have been stolen from the Min
neapolis post Office during the last
three years, and a single mail clerk,
Harvey S. Rogers, is said to be alone
responsible. He is under arrest.
Edgar Mann, r. M. Pierce and Ru-
fus Bell, of Hendersonville, Tenn;
Faiden Dodd, of Nashville, and Harry
Wherry postmaster of Hendersonville,
are charged with the murder of DR.. A.
Fl. Williams, on the night of April 10,
1896. A participant in the crime is
said to have turned states evidence.
King Alfonso of Spain, it is said,
has disregarded all the proposals of
his councillors that he marry a I'm