Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-10-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


Another operation was performed,
on the 2Sth, on the abscess on the leg
OF President Roosevelt. The surgeons
made an incision with a knife into a
small cavity, exposing the bone,
which was found to be slightly affect
ed. The operation was a successful
one, and the doctors feel confident of
his speedy recovery.
Unknown parties, on the night of
the 27th, made an attempt to destroy
the family of Columbus Walton, Of
South St. Joseph, Mo-, by exploding
several sticks of dynamite under the
steps of the house. The building was
destroyed, but the family miraculous
ly escaped.
Tom Clark, alias Will Gibson, a ne
gro, was burned at the stake by a
mob at Corinth, Miss, on the 2Sth,
he having confessed to the assault
and murder of Mrs. Carey Whitfield,
a white woman, in August last.
The United Federation of Catholic
Societies is circulating a petition
throughout the country asking Presi-
dent Roosevelt to use his good offices
in bringing about a settlement of the
coal strike.
Alice Bibeau, a seven-year-old child,
fell into ii steam-condensing well at
Anoka, Mimi, on the night of the
aSth, and was literally parboiled,
death resulting before she could be
rescued.
The British steamship Claverdon,
which arrived at San Francisco, from
Hamburg, on the 2Sth, reports the
loss of five of her crew by a hurri-
can which swept her decks on Au-
gust 81.
Col. j. Il. Elwood, of DeKalb, has
resigned as a member of the Illinois
Worlds fair commission, and M. B.
Madden, of Chicago, has been APP
pointed by Gov. Yates in his stead.
Unknown parties shot through a
window, on the night of the 2Sth, at
Browns Station, Boone county, Mo-,
and killed Ed Chapman, the railroad
ticket agent at that place.
Because she refused to marry him,
Joseph Emers shot and seriously
wounded Miss Rosa Borodofsky, at
Vicksburg, Miss, on the 2Sth, and
then fatally shot himself.
A life statue of Louis Kossuth, the
Hungarian patriot, was unveiled at
Cleveland, o., on the 2Sth, in the pres
ence of $4,000 people.
Three earthquake shocks were felt
ON the night of the 9th in the de-
partment Of Savoie, France.
Invitations were sent out, on the
Goth, by the city council of Detroit,
Mich, to the governors of all states
in the east, middle west and north
west, and the mayors of principal
cities, to send delegates to a confer
ence to be held in that city, October
9, to discuss ways and means of Sc
curing a supply Of anthracite coal.
Rufus Cantrell, a negro, made a
confession at indianapolis, on the
goth, that he was one of a gang of
ghouls who had been robbing graves
in that city for several months past.
His confession duplicates a promi-
nent physician, a demonstration of
anatomy and two attaches of a medi-
cal college.
EnntJ VOLTA thn rotnJ E,,arn1 ,N,,aI
list, was found dead in his house at
Paris, France, on the morning of the
Goth. He had been asphyXiated by
fumes from a stove in his room. His
wife was also seriously injured and
rendered unconscious, but later re
covered.
Adjt.-Gen. Smith, of Illinois, report
ed to Gov. Yates, on the Goth, that he
had just returned from a trip of in
v~estigation at Eldorado and had
found the situation still serious, and
that the negroes want the troops to
remain for their protection.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw,
on the goth, issued a statement in
which he said that the banks would
hereafter not be required to carry a
reserve against government deposits
secured by government bonds.
At the Methodist preachers weekly
meeting in New York, on the 29th
resolutions were adopted calling on
President Roosevelt to appoint q
commission of mediation to settle the
coal strike.
On the 2Sth, at La Center, Wash, q
druggist named Davis, actuated by
jealousy, set fire to a rival drug store
owned by a woman, then set fire tt
his W store and persisted in the
\ flames.
Representatives Of commercial con
Germs held a meeting at Copenhagen
on the 29th, to take action looking tc
the securing of an exhibit by the Dan
ish government at the st. Louis expo
sition.
Ten thousand people are homeless
as a result of the cyclone, on the
2Sth, on the island of Sicily.
President Roosevelt, on the 29th
was reported to be progressing salts
f~actOrily.