Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-31
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
Personal AND GENERAL.

Arnold Kroeger, who was arrested
in San Francisco, on the Gath, charged
with embezzling post office funds in
Prussia, has acknowledged his guilt.
DR.. j. P. Webb committed suicide
at Springdale, Ark, by shooting him
self with a pistol.
w. S. Crum, United States marshal
for Kansas, died at Oswego, Kas., on
the oath.
The New Orleans grand jury, on
the Gath, returned three indictments
against ]. NJ. Sullivan, Herman Pohl-
and William Mangin, employed
by the roadmaster's department Of
the Illinois Central railroad, charging
them with counterfeiting and forging
time checks on the road.
Judge Jackson, at Parkersburg, W.
Va, declined to sentence Mrs. Mary
(Mother) Jones to prison for violat'
ing his injunction, is he did not de-
sire to give her an opportunity to
pose as a martyr. Several men, found
guilty, were given jail sentences.
When President Roosevelt visited
the national guard camp at Seagirt,
N. j., on the oath, the military guard
refused to recognize the badges of
the secret service men who accom-
panied the president, declaring that
they were competent to protect the
national executive from all harm.
Earl Winnings, 16 years old, of Ma
con county, ILL.,, rode six miles into
Decatur in 20 minutes, on the 24th, on
his bicycle, dismounted and remarked
that he had made the quickest time
made in that township. No sooner
were the words out Of his mouth
than he fell dead.
Boisy Bryant, a negro, will have a
unique taking off when he is hanged
at Abel, Ga, on august %. He will
be launched into eternity by the hand
of a white woman, the daughter Of
the man he murdered, who begged
the privilege of s%pringing the trap.
The cattle importing house of B.
Duran, in Havana, failed, on the
24th, for nearly 100000. Two gener-
al commission houses in New York
are said to have been caught for
$15o,000 and placed in an embarrass-
ing condition. Several firms in Ha-
vana were caught for varying
amounts, from $1,000 to over $780,
900.
The International Press congress
at Berne, Switzerland, voted to ac-
cept the invitation of American press
organizations and the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition authorities to hold
a session in st. Louis, in September,
1904.
There was an advance in the re-
tail price of anthracite coal in New
York, on the gath, to SO a ton. for
all sizes. This is an increase of so
cents a ton to the users of domestic
sizes, and of Is cents a ton TO the
users of steam sizes.
Kinney Owen, a pioneer farmer.
aged 70, dropped dead on the front
porch of his residence near Red Bud,
ILL.,, on the gath. He had resided at
the home place since birth, and was
a charter member of the local mason
ic lodge.
A desperate street fight occurred
on the street at GreenviIle, Miss, on
the night of the oath. Only six shots
were fired, but Neal Conley was shot
through the heart and killed; Thos.
Burns shot through the kidneys and
fatally wounded; Ed. Schrawber shot
through the left shoulder and Capt.
Quinn through the right hand.
One hundred and eighteen fresh
cases of cholera were reported at
Cairo, Egypt, on the 25th.
An immense crowd warmly greeted
w. j. Bryan and his party at Angus
ia, Me-, on the 25th.
At Riverton, Ill, on the night of the
25th, John Brown and Robert Rubley,
miners, engaged in a fight, in which
Rubley cut Brown terribly with a
knife, from which Brown will proba-
bly, die. Rubley is village treasurer
and township collector.
Five persons were killed and a
number seriously injured in a train
wreck, on the 25th, on the Sierra
railroad, 70 miles south of Nogales,
Ariz., when two passenger coaches
and a Pullman car toppled over an
embankment.
Jeffries and Fitzsimmons fought
for the heavyweight championship at
San Francisco, on the 25th, and JEFF
fries was the victor. Up to the eighth
round Fitzsimmons had all the best
of it, but in that round he paused
with his guard down to speak to JEFF,
fries, who took advantage Of the op'
%portunity offered and dealt his op'
ponent two terrific blows which
knocked him to the floor, from which
he could not rise at the call of time
Charles Renner was arrested at st
Joseph, Mo-, on the 25th, on suspi
cion of having taken part in the deatf
of one James Pyle, who was assassi
mated six weeks ago.
All the planters Of the larger
West Indian islands are talking of an
nexation to the United States.
Six men were hanged in Arkansas
on the 25th, each for murder, two be
ing white and four colored.
The engine of a north-bound trail
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Pau
road was derailed on the night of thu
25th, near Hastings, Mimi, and tn
fireman and a tramp were killed.
Harry A. Faulkner, member of tn
st. Louis house of delegates, was de
clared guilty, by a jury, on the s5tf
of perjury and his punishment ixe
at two years in the state penitentiary
A motion for a new trial was mad
and the prisoner released on bond.
At q meeting Of the trustees of tn
Methodist Episcopal church, south, a