Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-04-09
AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


The flood situation in the lower
Mississippi valley began to improve
on the 31st.
The strike of smelter men at Colo
RADIO Springs, Col, was settled on the
31st.
The grand jury at Seattle, WASH,
on the LIST, presented majority and
minority reports. Both reports rec
commended the resignation of the
mayor and chief of police and init
mated that the public would be bene-
fitted by the resignation of a majority
OF the council.
Former President Cleveland, on the
list, denied that he would visit Colo
RADIO and the Pacific coast after at
tending the Worlds fair dedication in
st. Louis. He said he would return
direct to Princeton, N. j., his home.
Mrs. Sturms shot and fatally
wounded Albert Tatro, an ex-convict,
and shot Charles Forkner through the
thigh, at C%oncordia, Kas., on the 1st.
The men were trying to break into
her house.
A man supposed to be a Chicago
clerk was found murdered at Belle
PLANE, Ia, on the 31st. His throat
was cut, his head crushed and his leg
broken.
Several students were injured at Eff
tingham, ILL.,, on the 1st, where a bat
tie was fought between the college of
photography and Austin college for
the possession of a IL
In the illinois senate, on the 1st,
parker's resolution for the investiga-
ton of the Office of the attorney gem
eral, H. ]. Hamlin, was laid on the
table by a vote of 27 to 2.
DR.. Theodore j.. B%luthardt, of Chi
cago, was appointed, on the 1st, Unit
ed States consul at Barmen, Germany,
vice Max Bouchsein, of Illinois.
Col. Edmund C. cambridge, U. S. A.,
retired, died in Washington, D. c., on
the list, of heart trouble and compli-
cations incident to old age.
The Henry James-Ten Eyck prize
at Yale was awarded, on the LIST, to
William Pickens. colored, whose home
is in Little Rock, Ark.
Minister Merry, on the 1st, reported
to the state department in a cable
gram that martial law has been pro-
claimed in Nicaragua.
Mrs. Olivia Worden, widow of Ad-
miral John L. Worden, died at her
home in Lakewood, N. j., on the list,
aged SO years.
President Roosevelt began his $4,000
mile tour, on the 1st, in one of the
finest special trains ever run out of
Washington.
The award of the anthracite coal
strike commission went into effect on
the list throughout the anthracite
coal region.
Col, Jonathan II. Miles died sudden
ly at his home at Miles Station, Ma
coupin county, Ill, IN the I'd, aged IS.
Col. Miles was at one time a business
associate of former Gov. Stanard. ct
Missouri.
Ten American fishing vessels which
have been frozen into the ice field
since January II, at Bay Island, N. F.,
were reported in a perilous position
on the I'd. Provisions we're running
low.
A mob attacked Gov. Reyes of the
state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, at Mon
terey, on the I'd, land stoned him, Po-
lice were called, and four men were
killed during the riot.
A severe snowsuorm began early on
the I'd in Colorado. Many snow and
landslides occurred in the mountains,
doing much damage to railroad and
mining property.
A fight broke out in a mission hos
pital in Seattle, Wash, on the I'd, and
three men are at deaths door as a
result.
One person was killed and eight
Others injured in a panic in which 20
families were driven into the street,
caused by fire in Il New York tene-
ment on the I'd.
Iowa democrats gave a Jeffersonian
banquet at Des Moines on the I'd. w.
j. Bryan and former Vice-President
Stevenson were the principal speak
ers.
Philip FL. Sternbergh, vice-president
and treasurer of the Kansas City
(Mo.) Bolt g. Nut Co., died there Of
pneumonia, on the I'd, aged 3s years.
b. e. Reed, right eminent grand
of the Masonic order Of
Wisconsin, died of Bright's disease at
Chippewa Falls on the I'd.
John McQuade, for SO years treasur-
er of Tammany Hall, died in New
York on the I'd.
George Edward Mills, business part
ner Of the son Of DR.. Richard G. Flow
er, was arrested in New York, on the
Sd, on the charge of attempting to
bribs Assistant District Attorney
Garvan, who is the prosecutor In tho
case against DR.. Flower.
Herbert Bowen, representing vene-
zuela, emphatically rejected, on the
Sd, a clause in the arbitration pro-
tocol which sought to make venezue-
10 pay the cost Of the blockade. Mr..
Bowen's reply was cabled at once to
Europe.
Prof. b. #. Marsh died in Helena,
Mont, on the Sd, aged ss. He made
the first survey Of lands within the
present limit of Montana. He was
born in Vermont in 1915.