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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Notified His Children.

81. J. Robertson, aged IS, died at
Joplin from the effects of % cents
worth of morphine, taken with sui
cidal intent. Mr.. Robertson notified
his six children at the dinner table
that his recent domestic troubles
with his second wife made life unen-
durable, and that he had taken the
drug and would take more if neces"
sary. Robertson was well known in
Joplin, where he had been engaged
in mining for the past 20 years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Pleased with the warships.

st. Petersburg, June 30.-Command-
er G. d. HARDER, the United States
naval attache at Paris, who arrived
here a fortnight ago in connection
with his official duties, has been cor
daily received by the czar, who ex-
pressed to the officer his entire salts
faction with the Russian warships
which have been built by the Cramps.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
A Distressing Sight.

st. Louis, July lone of the most
distressing sights witnessed here in
many years was that of the river,
Sunday, filed with wheat in the
shock that had been washed out of
the fields by the overflow caused by
the heavy rains. The bottom land
farmers have suffered serious losses.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Threshing wheat at Bloomfield.

Wheat threshing is in full blast in
the vicinity of Bloomfield, and will
average from Is to rs bushels per
acre; quality good, and will test from
81 to 81 pounds per bushel. The pros
poets for a good corn crop were new.
err better.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Landlord Shoots His Tenant.

DIR. Louis Zorn, a retired dentist,
who owns much property in Kansas
City, shot and mortally wounded Al
bert Sechrest, a tenant, as the re-
suit of a dispute over the payment of
rent. The two men had had several
%quarrels and DR.. Zorn went to the
Sechrest residence, No. 2S05 East
Ninth street, and made demands,
which were refused, and the shooting
followed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Found Fathers Dead Body.

Frank Burrows, a blacksmith. Of
No. 3139 La Sale street, st. Louis,
drew a razor across his throat in a
fit of dependency, and was found
dead by his t~en-year-old daughter,
Alice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Crushed by Threshing Machine.

Ora Palmer, a single man about "a
years of age, was caught between the
engine and the separator of a thrcsh-
ing machine at the farm of Fred
Flesh, about six miles north of St.
Charles, and crushed to death.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Boone County Murder Mystery.

The Boone county officers have
been notified of the killing of Arch
Buckner, about two miles south of
Rock Bridge, Boone county. A good
deal of mystery surrounds the kill
ing, but all parties agree that the
shooting was done by Dave Grant.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Aged Couple Sought Altar.

Ernest Walje, aged "a, a wealthy
farmer, returned home, Pilot Grove.
with. a wife, formerly Mrs. Augusta
Ploge, aged 60, of South Omaha, whom
he met through an advertisement in
a matrimonial paper.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

At the Sunday-School association
convention at Denver, Col, on the
27th. Rev. r. b. Tyler, of Denver, was
elected president. The reports of the
general secretary and treasurer
showed a tlourishing condition of the
association.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

The amended extradition treaty be.
tween the United States and Mexico
is not retroactive and will not affect
Charles Kratz, the St. Louis fugitive.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

U~nseasonably cold weather contin'
ued in Iowa up to the 24th, overcoats
being rendered necessary. The seri-
of the crop danger VISA fur.
Their augmented by au inch and a
half of rainfall within 20 hours.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Want a Big Steel Plant.

The St. Louis Manufacturers asso'
citation has started a movement to
secure the new $4,000, 900 steel plant
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton for St. Louis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Accidentally Poisoned.

Mrs. J.. T. Woodruff, wife Of the
proprietor of Hotel Windsor. st.
James, accidentally drank carbolic
acid, thinking it was medicine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

After being out As hours the jury
in the case against Thomas Alexan-
der, charged with stealing cattle,
was dismissed at Maryville.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

John T. Rapp, school teacher, JUS
tice Of the peace and politician OF
Wellston, st. Louis county, commit
ted suicide with carbolic acid.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Accidentally Killed.

J. C. Ferguson, a frescoer, well
known throughout the west, was
killed at his home in st. Joseph by
the accidental discharge of a toy
rifle, the property of his son.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

Vienna, June 30.-The Paris Vienna
automobile race was won by Marcel
Renault. He covered the distance
from Paris to Vienna in Is hours and
% minutes, at an average speed Of SO
kilometers (about fifty-one miles) an
hour.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

President Roosevelt attended the
commencement exercises at Harvard
on the 18th. In his address he allud-
ed feelingly to King Edwards illness.
He spoke highly of Governors Taft
and Wood and Secretary Root.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

James Woodruff, employed with a
construction crew on the Frisco rail-
road. near st. James, was seriously
injured by being crushed under o
loaded truck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
state Examination of Teachers.

State Superintendent of Public
Schools w. T. Darlington
that he will hold examinations for
state certificates at Columbia ON July
II and IS, and at Warrensburg on
July Is and 10.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
old Soldiers Reunion.

The Barry county Society of Old
Soldiers and Settlers will hold their
annual reunion at Cassville, on Au.
gust 10, 20, 81 and 20.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Fought over Crap Game.

Charles Otis and William Hobson,
both negroes, fought over a crap
game in St. Louis, and Otis was fa-
tally stabbed. "a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Distributing Fish.

Frank P. Yenawine, president Of
the Missouri fish commission, is dis
tributing 100000 grayling fry in the
streams of the southern part of the
state.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

The record of the court-martial
proceedings in the eases of Maj. Wal
Ter and Brighten. j.. II. Smith was
received by the war department on
the Goth. 1t will now go to the pres
ident.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid took
formal leave of Lord L~andsdowne,
the foreign secretary, on the goth.
The American special embassy will
now dissolve.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

The Portuguese troops have gained
a decisive victory over the rebels in
the upper Zambesi region of Portu.
guese East Africa. The rebellious
chiefs were captured and decapitated
and their heads were sailed and con.
yeyed to the capital of the colony.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

New York,June 30.-With an Amer
ican flag futtering from the reel the
last wire making up the four cables
of the new East river bridae has
been put in place.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

The war department is advised that
Rowland Whitney, first lieutenant Of
Philippine scouts, died Of cholera,
June 81, at Batangas, Luzon.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

While a funeral was being held in
a church at Pine Rio, in the province
of Orense, Spain, on the Gath, the
building was struck by lightning, and
as a result 25 people were killed and
35 were injured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

Admiral Dewey was a witness be-
fore the senate committee on the
Philippines on the Goth. His state
ment made an important addition to
the history of the surrender of Ma
Mia. He denied emphatically that he
ever recognized ~Aguinaldo's govern.
ment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

The total cholera deaths to the
god in the Philippines are as follows:
Manila, 1907 cases and 1,2s1 deaths;
provinces, SASS cases and 6,272 deaths.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

Oxford university, on the 24th, con-
ferred the honorary degree of doc
tor of civil law en- Joseph IL. Choate,
the United States ambassador to
Great Britain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

Mrs. C. II. Foster, two miles east
Of Palmyra, was gored by a COW, and
it is probable that her injuries will
ROY fatal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

Civil government will be estab-
lished in the island of Mindoro and in
the island of Parngua, and will be re-
established in Batangas province,
Luzon, July 4.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

The town of Mercur, Utah, a gold
mining camp, was destroyed by fire
on the 25th. 1t had a population of
1850. The loss viii be between $780,
900 and 81 ,000, 900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

The prolonged drought in Texas
was broken, on the 27th, by copious
rains from Dallas to the gulf.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

A furious storm swept over a por-
ton of Indiana on the 25th. Two
lives were lost and a large number
of people injured. The property loss
is estimated at So, 100000. A great
many farm houses and manufacture.
ing establishments were destroyed,
Crops are ruined, the storm leaving
desolation in it's wake.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

St. Louis, July Further reports
from the territory covered by the ex-
~cessive rainfall during the past week
indicate that the loss will be enor-
nous, though it is not possible at this
time to give anything like an accur
ate estimate. The greatest damage
undoubtedly has been wrought in
southern Illinois in the territory i'm
mediately tributary to st. Louis,
whole fields of wheat in many in
stances being washed away, while
that left standing is i'm danger of be-
ing ruined before it can be cared for.
Oats which were ready for harvest
were beaten down and thousands of
acres will be a total loss. Many
fields of corn in bottom lands have
been submerged and the growth of
that on uplands has been retarded
by the cold weather. In Missouri the
damage seems not to have been so
great though the rainfall has been
very excessive, having seldom been
equaled in June. Reports from In
diana indicate that the loss i'm that
state will be almost as great as in
Illinois.
In Kansas and Nebraska the work
of harvesting has been suspended.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

William Riecke, aged IS, while
working on his farm near Ionia, Pet.
tbs county, was killed by lightning.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

The Orinoco Steamship and Trad.
ing Co., an American concern, made
representations to the state depart
ment, on the Goth, to the effect that
its business vas being seriously in
terfered with by a blockade of tho
Orinoco river by the Venezuelan gov
eminent. Is asks that a gunboat be
sent to protect its interests.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

Fl CROP DAMAGE.
Impossible Yet to Estimate the Loss
to Farmers by the Rcccnt
Heavy Rains.

st. Louis, June 30.-It is impossible
at this time to estimate the loss to
the farmers in this vicinity due to
the storms of Saturday and Sunday.
Reports are coming in very slowly,
and at the Merchants exchange,
whose members are usually the first
to receive accurate reports of crop
losses or gains, were withiut reliable
information of the extent of the
damage.
The losses to the farmers in the
American bottoms will be very large,
owing to the overflow of Cahokia
creek and Wood river, but it is inn
possible at this time to estimate it.
The territory of greatest loss to
the farmers is in the vicinity of the
towns of Carpenter, Wanda, Ed
wardsville, Poag, Peters and Alton
and East Alton.
Cahokia creek went out of all
bounds and the levee that was built
to guard the farms along it's length
was broken in numerous places, put
ting the district completely under
water.
1t is doubtful if anything can be
saved by the farmers in this district.
In some places Cahokia creek is two
miles wide. Sunday night the water
rose two feet and drove the farmers
who were endeavoring to protect the
levee away from their work. The de-
VISITATION of the farms in this vicin-
ity is said to be complete.
Above Wood river a great amount
of wheat was washed into the Mis-
sissippi river by the water that
rushed down the hills onto the bot
tom land and flowed over the banks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
Progress Entirely Satisfactory.

London, June 2o.-King Edwards
physicians announced at twenty min
utes of ten tonight that the royal
patients progress was entirely salts
factory. No further bulletins will be
issued tonight.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

At midnight on the 25th King Ed
wards condition was satisfactory,
and he made a decided improvement.
The feeling at the palace was very
hopeful. While his condition gives
hope to the doctors, they still say sew
days must pass before the danger Is
over. Late on the 25th it vas report
ed in London that Prince George was
to be appointed regent, as urgent
public business made this step nee
essary.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

The latest bulletin issued from the
bedside of King Edward, at II p. m.
of the 27th, reports his majesty's
condition as in every way satisfac-
tory. 1t said he had a comfortable
day and made substantial improve
ment. The doctors regarded the dam
ger of pe%ritonitis as almost past, and
believed his majesty's recovery to be
entirely probable.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

Miss Jane Toppan, who was, on the
23d, declared insane, has confessed
that she had killed during her career
as q professional nurse no less than
81 human beings. This statement was
made to Judge Fred M. Bixby, senior
counsel at the trial at Barnstable,
Mass, when Miss Toppan was
found not guilty by reason of in
sanity on the charge of numbering
Mrs. Mary d. Gibbs. Judge Bixby
said also that Miss Toppan had adj
mitted that she had set fires and
committed other serious acts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

King Edward VII. was stricken
down, on the Gath, by a disease
known as perityphlitis, and an opera
ton was performed. 1t appears to
have been successful, as the royal
patient was resting easy at last re-
ports, though in a critical condition.
The coronation ceremonies were in
definitely postponed, and the costly
decorations in London had to be ia
ken down.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03
KING CONTINUES 70 MEND.
Reports From Buckingham Palace
Afford Strong Hope For King
Edwards Recovery
the LOCAL DISCOMFORT DECREASING.
Bulletin Announcing Tha the King
Was Out of Immediate Danger
the Cause of General Rejoicing
The Departure of Royal Reia-
tives a Good Sign.

London, June 29.-LaSt nlSnt pdSsec
with less incident at Buckingham pal
ace than any night since the opera
ton was performed on King Edward.
There were fewer watchers outside
the palace, the public apparently hav-
ing accepted the official announce
ment that the king has passed the
point of immediate danger.
The following bulletin was issuet
at nine o'clock this morning:
"The king feels stronger, in spite
of some discomfort from the wound,
Nothing has occurred to disturb the
satisfactory progress the king is
making"
The bulletin was not expected until
ten o'clock; consequently the few
persons who were passing in the
neighborhood of the palace were the
only ones attracted to the announce
ment. When the footmen had posted
the notice, however. the crowds soon
increased, early churchgoers stop
ping to read the latest news and pass
ing on with expressions of thankful
ness.
A bulletin posted at the palace at
four o'clock this afternoon said the
kings progress was in every way sat
isfactory and that the local discom-
fort had decreased.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-07-03

Twenty-three residences were de.
stroyed by fire in East Dallas, Tex,
ON the oath, and over n hundred
people were made homeless. Fire
man John Clark was overcome by
heat and died. Eight other men and
women were overcome by the heat
and injured. The property loss will
reach fully $4,000, and the insurance
in most cases is very light.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-11-06

boy wonders OF the Democratic side
of the house, will not be a member Of
the next congress. What has happened
to rob the public service of this rising
young Kentucky statesman nobody
seems to know. II will be recalled
that Mr.. Wheeler distinguished him
self at the last session by violently as
saultiug Prince Henry of Prussia,
which royal parsonage was then near
ing these shores as the kaiser's ommis-
ssry and the nations guest In a
lurid hurst of eIoduence the Ken
tuckian denounced the emperor
brother as little Dutchmsn, and
from the depths of his naughty Demo
cratic soul declared that he would not
honor this scion of Old World monar.
chy BY shaking his hand when he ar
rived here. In word, Mr.. Wheeler
despaired utterly of the continuance
of republican institutions by reason of
the fact that the prince of Prussia had
been invited to visit this country as
the nations guest, and it is suggest
ed that the Kentuckisn has retired
TO private life to prepare for the
crash and wreck which he believes are
impending"
For the enlightenment of the inquir-
ing correspondent it is stated that
Congressman Wheeler is now at home
in Paducah, Ky, erjoying lucra-
tive practice as attorney for one of
those soulless, oppressive aud infinitely
sordid corporations that Congressman
Wheeler and other wonderful products
of the modern Democracy are so con-
fident have undermined the welfare
and prosperity of the nation. And he
seems to be doing we'll, and doubtless
in time will develop one OF those evil
dences Of growing prosperity that re-
Quire an enlarged vest and shirt front,
and will forget the DAYS he used to
have to make Prince Henry speeches
and skin the trusts and corporations
for the plAcation of q olamorous,
bloodthirsty constituency down in the
Gibraltar district.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-11-06

by the board Of health are not law. A
law cannot be changed except by the
legislature or the legislative body that
made it. The rules of the health
boards, which Judge Lightfoot, in Or
der to give some semblance of reason
sbleness to his opinion, CONSTITUTES to
be laws" are nothing more than Or
ders, and may be one thing today and
another tomorrow, which could not be
the case IL they were Flaw" ANY
one knows that such rules cannot be
laws, and that if they are not laws,
then the board Of health has not been
invested with the power TO make
laws, and has made no laws in this in
stance. And il this is true, Judge
Lightfoot's opinion is wrong, for it is
based principally, as stated above, on
the presumption that the board of
health by authority of the legislature
has made claws" when the legislature
had no constitutional right to grant il
such power II will be generally
agreed with the judge that the board
has no right to make laws, but it will
not be agreed with him that the board
In issuing an order to have children
vaccinated made a claw" 1t simply
issued an order, and the Legislature
says that when such orders are not
c beyed the offender shall be fined.
Surely the judge does not know
more than all the members of the leg.
islature who framed the law, the en-
inent judges who have since passed ON
the various features Of IL, and many
of the best attorneys of Kentucky.
Only recently court at Louisville de-
oided that the board Of health had
right to forcibly take man to the
pest house aud keep him there, civil
liberty, divine rights, and all. And
he was taken there solely on an order
of the board of health. and this court,
which is higher one than Judge Light
foot's, held that the board had the
authrity to do 1t. In other words,
that court decided that the board Of
health can DO almost anything it
deems necessary Judge Lightfoot de-
cides that it can do practically moth
ing. The Kentucky board of health
ana the county board of health cannot
afford to let the opinion stand.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-11-06
YIVER0S ESCAPES AGAIN.
GOVERNOR GENERAL OF PAN.
ANA GETS AWAY FROM
THE REBELS.

Panama. Nov 6-The governor gen
eral. viveros, who was made a prison.
er at Tumsco1n 1901 and taken from
there by the rebel general Herrera to
Aqua Dulce, whence he escaped in
January Of this wear, to he captured
agair at the second battle Of Aqua
Dulce, has again escaped from the reb-
els. He reached Panama this morn.
ing.
Gen. Viveros brings information
that Gen. Morales Berti, who surren.
dered to Gen. Herrera at Aqua Duloe,
Gen. Gomez and other veteran officers
are now being held at Chiriqui,
where they suffered much from tho
privations of captivity.
Gen. Herrers's army at present con.
sists of 1000 men, including the gov
eminent prisoners, who have been in
corporsted in it. The rebel army, ac-
oordiDg to viyeros, is enoamped from
Agua Dulce to Choirrera
Admiral Casey visited Acting Con.
sui Ehrmann this morning.