Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-10-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Frank NJ. Flagg, ticket agent of the
Illinois Central railroad at Texas
junction, on the Cape Girardeau
branch, has disappeared from his Of
fee, and the contents of the money
drawer are also gone. He is thought
by some to have been murdered.
After wandering in the Sierra
Madre mountains with a party OF
friends for 20 days, most of the time
without food, United States Consul
Garrett returned to his post at New
Laredo, Mexico, on the Goth.
p. L. Kimberley. a student at the
State Agricultural college, at Ames,
Ia, was killed, on the Goth. by falling
from a train on which he was steal
ing a ride from the city to the col
lege grounds.
A man was killed at Cold Spring
Harbor, N. Y, on the night of the
25th, while holding an apple on his
head to be shot off by q professional
marksman of a travelling company of
showmen.
Gen. Dyrenforth, commander-in-
chief of the Union Veterans union,
has issued an appeal to veterans of
the civil war to organize into a
brotherhood for mutual protection.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the Goth,
the Polish, Lithuanian and Slavish
members of the Mine Workers union
presented President Mitchell with a
gold badge and gold watch.
A number of French a%eronauts met
in Paris, on the 26th, to devise plans
under which to complete for the $780,
900 prize offered by the st. Louis ex-
position management.
AS a result of continued heavy
rains, five blocks in the city of
Brunswick, Ga, were under water, on
the goth, and considerable damage
was done.
An automobile and a trolley car
collided at Yonkers, n. Y, on the
goth, with the result that % per-
sons were injured, three of them Sc
riously.
In a game of football at Staunton,
Ill, on the Goth. Edward Schmidt was
so badly injured that he died while
being taken to a ply s%ician's office.
Seven persons were injured, two of
them seriously, in a collision between
"a locomotive and a trolley car at
Chattanooga, Tenn, on the Goth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the
well-known woman sutfragist, died In
New York, on the Goth, old age being
given as the cause of death.
The anthracite coal strike commits
sion held it's first meeting, in Wash
ington. on the 27th. The time and
method of proceeding with the inves-
tigation were discussed, and the COM
mission decided to begin it's work on
the moaning of the Goth, making an
examination of the mines and the
homes of the miners in the vicinity
of Scranton, Pa.
At Riverton, Ind, on the 27th, New
ton B. Staugh, the postmaster, shot
and killed Herbert McCannon, the
sweetheart of Sadie Staugh, daugh-
ter of his slayer. McCannon is said
to have threatened to kill the entlre
family before he was slain.
About a thousand students of the
Michigan agricultural college went OF
a strike, on the 27th, because some
of their number had been SUSPENDED
for violating an cdict of the faculty
against engaging in a freshmen
sophomore rush"
;. At a ball game at Belfontaine, 0.
on the 9th, one mar was passing al
open knife to a companion, when
foul ball struck his hand and drov'
the blade into his side, severing al
, artery and killing him almost in
stantly.
Robert Thompson, a convict in tn
, Nebraska p~enitentiary, whose tern
expired on the 27th, was turned we
to officials from the Dominion o
, Canada, who were armed with extra
! dition papers, and taken to Toronto.
Percy Walton, the militiaman VIII
accidentally killed a boy at Anok;
Mimi, while shooting at a target, an
was tried on a charge Of manslaugf
ter, was acquitted by a jury, on tn
27th.
Arrangements have been made fo
quartering a company Of Rurales an
a band which the Mexican govern
ment will have at st. Louis during til
entire time of the Worlds fair.
Mrs. T. N. McNutt died very SUI
denly at Pana, ILL.,, on the 27th. HI
husband was killed, on the 23d, /
falling into a coal mine, and she ha
OIL been Frustrated since his death.
o. Conductor Forest was fatally il
10 jured and six other trainmen bad
~ hurt in a collision between freigl
trains on the Rock Island road, ne,
Brighton, Ia, on the 27th.
NJ At Omaha, Neb., on the 27th, Ante
Y Christensen was sentenced to life il
prisonment for the murder of b
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