Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

showed that a battle would probably
be fought somewhere near the line
between Panama and Colon within
the succeeding few days, and that,
generally, the situation there was
critical.
Forest fires were burning over the
Cascade and coast ranges from Brit
ish Columbia to the California line,
on the 18th, destroying millions of
feet of timber, many farmhouses,
barns and considerable live stock.
Two people are known to have lost
their lives, others are missing.
Leopold, King of the Belgians, has
signitied his intention of visiting the
United States during the St. Louis
Worlds fair, and looks forward with
pride to being the first king to set
foot on the soil of the great Ameri-
can republic.
Sons of Henry c.. Frick and H.
Clay Pierce were arrested at Man
chester, Mass, IN the 18th, together
with their chaffeurs, for scorching
VII thC VI lldI CIbNs II was
claimed by the arresting officers that
they were running over twenty miles
an hour.
The president, on the 18th, an
nounced the appointment of George
w. Ray to the vacancy on the bench
of the United States district court
for the northern New York district.
Treasury officials call attention to
the fact that the gross gold in the
treasury, on the 12th-$577, 5O4, 430-
indicated a new high-water mark of
government holdings.
Maj.-Gen. Corbin, on the 18th, de-
livered to the German emperor Presi-
dent Roosevelt's message about the
St. Louis Worlds fair, and Emperor
William said that he would see that
Germany had a good representation,
81 will send you a large party" he
added, pleasantly.
William Waldorf Astor's daughter,
Gwendolin, aged nine years, born
shortly before her mothers death.
died of consumption at Cliveden, En-
gland, on the 18th. Her body will be
taken to New York for interment by
the side of her mother.
Mrs. Ella Hall was present at the
hanging of Boisy Bryant at Sparks,
Ga, on the 18th. She wanted to spring
the trap that should avenge her ia
theirs (Marshal Hyers) murder, but
compromised on cutting the body
down and taking the moose as a
souvenir.
Mrs. James helms, of Rock Island,
died in a dentists chair at Taylorville,
ILL.,, on the 18th, while having a tooth
extracted. Death resulted from chic
reform, which was administered as
an anaesthetic.
Mrs. William NJ. Stewart, wife of
United States Senator Stewart, of Ne
vada, was killed at Alameda, Cal, on
the 18th, while riding in an automo-
bile with two gentlemen companions.
The automobile ran into a telegraph
pole and Mrs. Stewart was thrown
against the pole with such force that
death soon followed.
Alexander r. Shepherd, former gov
ernor of the District of Columbia.
and who did much to beautify the
national capital, died at Batopilas,
Mexico, on the 18th, where he had
large mining interests.
At Pierce, Neb., on the 18th, Gott-
leib Neigenfind shot and killed his "a
vorced wife and her father and seri-
ously shot her mother, and made his
escape, pursued by a sheriff's posse.
In a battle between moonshiners
and revenue officers in Mcdowell
county, w. Va, II moonshiner was
killed and M wounded, and a rev.
enue officer seriously wounded.
John Green Sanders, colored, was
hanged at Marion, Ala, on the 18th,
from the same gallows on which his
brother was hanged for the same
crime in March last.
At Butte, Mont, on the 18th, John
Taylor shot and killed Pat earn v,
believed to be insane, who had been
running about the streets shooting at
every one in sight.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th,
appointed Prof. Andrew Draper, pres
ident of the University of Illinois, to
be a member of the board of Indian
commissioners.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
L. Fair were inferred at Laurel Hill
cemetery, San Francisco, on the 18th.
The body of ePter Cauley, a one
armed man was found in the river at
st. Louis, on tie 18th, standing up
right in the water, the legs held fast
in the sand. He came from Cincin.
natl.
Fire at Sonora, Sutto . county, Tex,
on the 18th, destroyed an entire bust
ness block, with an estimated loss of
$1OO, 900.
The republican congressional con-
vention for the Twentieth Illinois dis
trict, on the 18th, nominated James
H. Danskin, Of Jacksonville, for con-
gress.
The troops sent to Eldorado, ILL.,,
by Gov. Yates, to protect coloreu
people there, had a serious encounter
with a mob IN the evening Of the
18th.
At Sioux Falls, s. d., on the 12th,
j. P. Harrington shot and killed his
divorced wife and then tent a bullet
into his W brain.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who has
been on a hunting and fishing trip in
the west, returned to Oyster Bay on
the 18th.
The entire oil field OIL Spindletop, al
Beaumont, Tex, was reported OF fire
on the morning of the 18th, and il
was feared that all the property or
the hill would be destroyed.
There was . fall Of snow in the