Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The hotel of B. J. Even, principal
witness against Jet and White in the
Marcum murder case at Jackson, KY,
was destroyed by fire on the 14th.
Two wagoneers in the employ of the
Hargis brothers were arrested.
Ewen's loss is $4,000, and he is prac-
tically penniless.
John H. JAEGER was shot and killed
at Notre Dame university, South
Bend, Ind, on the 14th, by a watch
man who had ordered him from the
university grounds. jaeger was en-
gagged in fishing in a lake on the
grounds.
Inquiry after persons missing since
the washouts at Madison, Venice and
East st. Louis grows daily. At the
Emergency Home and Hospital, No.
2S10 Morgan street, st. Louis, on the
18th, 27 persons We're reported miss
ing.
Newton Harris. a farmer, who lived
four miles from Pittsfield, ILL.,, was as
sassinated in the presence of his wife
early on the 14th, by an unidentified
man. The assassin escaped. No mo-
tive for the deed has been learned.
Bishop J. c. Hartsell anoounced in
New York, On the 18th, that he would
begin his seventh Episcopal tour Of
the continent of Africa, sailing from
New York on the 18th.
Harry W. Voorhees,, formerly of
Detroit, Mich, was killed, on the 14tf1,
by a runaway log train at Kapowsin,
Wash. Mrs. C. S. Former was injured,
and died in so minutes.
Two children were burned to death
in a gasoline explosion, on the 18th,
at Milwaukee. A third was fatally
burned and six others were painfully
injured.
The formal opening of the TWEEN
tieth t~ri-ennial saengerfest of the
Northeastern Saengerbund of America
took place in Baltimore, Nd, on the
18th.
Mrs. Lettie Mason Quine, president
of the Woman's F@eign Missionary
Society of the Methodist church, died
the 18th, at her home in Chicago.
Arthur Beule, of Beaver Dam, Wis,
and law student in the Wisconsin uni
versity, was drowned, on the 14th,
while sailing on Lake Mendoza.
A cloudburst at Basalt, Col, on the
14th, caused a landslide which car
ried away a section Of the Colorado
Midland railway tracks.
DR.. j. Buchanan, while threatening
to kill his wife and children at East
man, Ga, on the 14th, was shot and
killed by his son
Judge Guy c. Scott, Of Aledo, the
democratic nominee for supreme
judge in the Fourth Illinois supreme
district, was declared elected over
Justice Joseph N. Carter, of Quincy,
by the state canvassing board at
Springfield on the 18th.
Within an hour of the hour set for
her marriage. on the 18th, at New Or
leans, Miss Hattie A.. Thomas COM
suicide by taking laudanum.
She left a note asking her family to
pray for her.
Henry Shayhorn, aged 80, shot and
killed his wife, on the 18th. and then
suicide at the home of his
daughter in Philadelphia. The couple
separated about four years ago.
Thomas F%anlon, a New York attor-
ney, tried to drown himself, on the
18th, at Pasadena, Cal. where he had
for his health. He was cap
tured and placed in a hospital.
The body of Gen. McCook was in
tered in Cincinnati, on the 18th, a
battalion of the Third United States
infantry according the distinguished
soldier military honors.
Rev. Jas. P. Maloney, the Oldest
priest in service in Cleveland, o., and
prominent in Catholic educational cir
cles, died or the 18th, of pneumonia,
aged "A years.
Prince Peter Kara-Georgevitch was
proclaimed king in Servia, on the 18th.
at a meeting held in the building
where the late king and queen were
assassinatcd.
The liberty bell was started, on the
18th, on its journey from Philadelphia
to Boston, where it will be n feature
of the celebration of the battle of
Bunker hill.
Fred Mink, who killed Newton Har-
ris and shot his step-mother to death
at Pittsfield, ILL.,, on the 18th, was cap
tured near the scene of the tragedy
the 18th.
Bishop McClosky, of the Catholic
diocese of Louisville, KY, issued an
order, on the 18th, against dancing
and the use of intoxicants at picnics.
Frank Kiefer, Of Dayton, O., stepped
into an understaker's Office there, on
the 18th, and shot himself in the right
He will probably die.
The town of Heppner, Ore, was
entirely destroyed by a cloud
burst, on the 14th, and probably five
hundred people drowned.
The first international convention
Of cement workers met in San Fran.
on the 18th.