Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

President Roosevelt will appoint
Mai. Micah jenkins, an old army COM
rade. as collector of internal revenue
for the district of South Carolina.
At Good Ground, l.. l., on the I'd,
Louis Disbrow pleaded not guilty to
the charge of numbering Clarence
Foster and "Dimple" Lawrence.
A performer in a spectacular open
air show at Louisville, Ky, on the
night of the I'd, fell from a height
of 100 feet and broke his back.
A reunion of the soldiers and sail
ors of southern Illinois will be held
at Carbonate or September 1912.
A tornado struck a section of Wis.
consin neal Racine, on the I'd, and
did great damage to houses, stock
and crops. One man was killed and
several injured.
King Edward passed another quiet
day on the I'd. His improvement con
tinues daily.
An express train on the Chicago,
Rock Island e Pacific was held up by
robbers near Dupont, ILL.,, on the
night of the 3D., and Express Messen'
ger Kane was shot and badly wound.
ed. Officials say that but little booty
was secured. Detectives are on the
trail of the robbers.
Desperadoes entered the small sta
ton of Blackwell, Mo-, on the night
of the 4th, beat the operator, b. d.
Johnson, until he was insensible,
robbed him, and made good their es-
cape. Johnson is seriously hurt.
By an explosion of gas at st. Louis,
late on the night of the Sd, Mrs. Rob
ert COLI and her daughter Martha
were killed, and Mr.. COLI and Tillie
Slime, a domestic, were injured, the
former it is thought fatally.
A railroad train struck a picnic
party at Riverside park, Sioux City
Ia, on the 4th, killing two of the
number and seriously injuring two
others.
Robert Holbrook, an aeronaut, was
killed at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, on the
4th, by failure of his parachute to
open. He fell four or five hundred
feet.
Rafael Romero, a Mexican, who
served as a scout in the Indian wars
under Generals Miles, Custer, Lawton
and Phil Sheridan, died near Ell Reno,
Okla, on the Sd. He served also in
the civil war.
The Fourth was celebrated by
Americans at the European capitals
In the usual manner. At Manila
President Roosevelt's amnesty proc.
lamation was read.
King Edwards condition continues
so satisfactory that, beginning July
g., but one bulletin a day, at nine
o'clock u. m, will be posted.
j. Irving Pearce, for many years
proprietor of the Sherman house
Chicago, died, on the 4th, aged Z;
years.
In a collision between electric cars
near Gloversville, N. Y, on the 4th
IS persons were killed and 30 injured
Fern Rhodes, II years old, was shot
oy an unknown party at Belleville
ILL.,, on the Sd, and fatally wounded.
Col. George A.. Shallenburger, a dis
tinguished soldier of the civil war
died at Washington on the 4th.
A bronze tablet in memory of the
three martyred Presidents-Lincoln
Garfield and McKinley-presented t,
the West Side New York; Youn,
Mems Christian association by Pete,
Winchester Rouss, Sol of the lat,
Charles Broadway Rouss, was I'm
yelled on the 4th.
Lord George Hamilton, British sec
rotary Of state for India, ANNOUNCE
that the Indian government has re
fused to grant to the Standard Oi
Co. a license to prospect oil lands il
Burmah.
A dispatch from Evanston, Wyo
on the night of the 4th, said: "Sno,
has been falling here for "a hours
and in the mountains it lies on tn
ground to a depth of three to 81.
inches. The mercury fell to ~freezini
point"
Pleasant weather, on the 4th, KEEP
hundreds Of Kansas farmers in tn
wheat fields, the first opportunity i
a week to cut the grain, which /
Jood r;na and m1rt he anvad WITH