Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-04
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

@tAs6 NEWS ttctViSs
iowa prohibitionists, on the 2sth,
nominated the following ticket: Gov
ernor, j. P. Hanson, Mahaska county;
lieutenant-governor, J.. II. Scull, Hem
ry; superintendent of public instruc-
ton, ]. A. Ward, Polk; railroad com
missioner, E. Dewey, Woodbury.; at
torney general, William Orr, Page.
In the case in bankruptcy in the
United States district court at Spring
field, ILL.,, S. L. Schwartz was ordered
discharged, on the 2sth, as receiver
of E. ]. Arnold G. Co., the St. Louis
get-rich-quick concern. Investors will
get two cents on the dollar.
Two unknown men entered the Of
fee of A. C. Kendall, manager of the
Secret Service union, in Kansas City,
Mo, On the 2sth, threw pepper in his
eyes and escaped with $500 in bills
that were lying on his desk.
Advices were received at Constanti-
nople, on the 2Sth, conveying the in
formation that 1000 persons had been
killed and 500 houses wrecked by an
earthquake on April 20 at Melezgherd,
Asiatic Turkey.
The republican county convention,
at Cleveland, o., on the 2Sth, adopted
resolutions indorsing the administra-
ton of President Roosevelt and rec
ommending his denomination and
election in 1904.
Ed. Fairman, formerly of St. Louis,
was acquitted, on the 2sth, of the
charge of killing John Switzerland, at
Powell, 7. 7. The tragedy occurred in
1898 over remarks made concerning
Mrs. Fairman.
Ed Briggs, a rural mail carrier, and
Ed Helstrom attempted to cross a
small stream near Mcpherson, Kas.,
on the 2Sth, and were drowned. Leo
Wells, of Emporia, was also drowned
at that place.
Jere j. Hannigan, on the 2Sth, was
found guilty and his punishment fixed
at five years imprisonment in the
p~enitentiary for his connection with
the Suburban railway bribery deal in
St. Louis.
a two-story brick building in To-
peka, Kas., collapsed on the 2Sth. Ed
ward Larsen, Joseph Jackson, John
Thomas, Carl johnson and NJ. o.
Charlesburg were badly injured.
The Supreme Court of Honor, in
session in Kansas City, Mo-, on the
asth, increased death rates, and ap-
propriated $4,000 for a headquarters
building in Springfield, III.
A mountaineering hog supply, 1900
head, was received on the Sioux City
(Ia.) market on the 2Sth.
The United States supreme court
on the I'd, refused to grant a writ OF
habeas corpus in the case of Whitaker
Wright, the financial operator, who
is awaiting eXtradition on charges OF
fraud made in England. The opinion
affirms the decision which held that
the crime alleged is an e~xtraditable
otfense.
The food situation at Topeka, Kas.
began to improve on the I'd, with The
decline of the Kansas river. At Kan
sas City the situation was practically
unchanged. At st. Louis merchants
OF the levee began moving goods into
second stories in preparation for the
%oncoming rush of waters.
J. p. Morgan & Co., of New York
announced, on the I'd, that a MAORI
ty of the common stock of the st
Louis g. San Francisco road had beer
deposited with them under the term!
of the Rock Island purchase, and tina
the plan is now operative.
A tornado, on the I'd, dealt deatl
and destruction to the city of Gaines
vile, Ga, killing at least one hundred
people and wounding $50 more. Tn
tornado then swept around to New
Holland, a suburb, where 33 peopl,
were killed.
Nick Wargand, a young farmer re
siding a mile north of M~ascoutah, Ill.
while r%eloading a revolver, on the I'd
accidentally discharged the weapon
the bullet lodging in his wife's breast
Mrs. Wargand's wound is serious.
Commemorative Attorney Byrd, O.
the I'd, announced, at jackson, Ky
that he would ask for a change O
venue in the trials of Curtis Jett an
Tom White, under indictment TO
murder in the feud cases.
In a street fight at Potomac, iii
on the 1st, Dell Roe was killed an
his brother, John Roe,' seriousl,
wounded by Boone Baty. There ha'
, been a feud of long standing betwee,
: tho parties.
, The remains of Superintendent I
f. Egan, of the Great Northern raj.
road, who was lost in the mountain
of Montana while hunting, Novembe
: 4, were recovered on the I'd.
! Democrats elected IA candidates j
! the Cook county (Ill.) judicial cleo
ton, held on the I'd, and the republic
ans elected only four. Judge Hanec
: was among the defeated.
: Steps were taken, on the I'd, by tn
: United Presbyterian assembly, in SCI
3 sion at Tarkio, Mo-, to place 4s5 ne'
! missionaries in the foreign field witt
in the next few years.