Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-11

The old Order of German Baptists,
whose national conference closet at
Wakarusa, Ind, OF the Sd, voted moi
to permit their members to use tele-
phones in their homes.
The new capitol building at jack
son, Miss, erected at a cost of $1,000
600 was formally dedicated on the Sd.
The orators of the day were Chief
Justice Whitfield and Bishop Gallo
way.
Prof. ]. P. Leslie, the famous geolo-
gist of the University of Peqnsyl-
vania, died, on the I'd, at his home in
Milton, Pa. Prof. Leslie was rated as
one of the most expert biologists in
the world.
Announcement was authoritatlvely
in Washington, on the Sd, that Secre-
tary of the Navy Moody would leave
the presidents cabinet at the close OF
the present term and resume the
practice of law.
Details, received on the 4th, of the
bombardment and massacre at the
village of Smerdash, European Iur'
KEY, showed that hundreds OF women
and children were maltreated anc
murdered by Turks.
Alderman J.. Ferd Tellbuescher, OF
Quincy, H., was indicted, on the "a
by the grand jury on two charges o.
offering and accepting brides in con
n"ection with the passage OF compete
tive telephone franchises.
At Oxford, Miss, on the 4th, Fen
ner G. Baker was fined $50 and costs
and sentenced to six months in jan
for offering Fourth Assistant Post
master-General Bristow $500 for ar
appointment as postmaster.
While the west is suffering from 8
superabundance of water, the eastern
states are experiencing the worst
spring drought on record. During the
month of May less than one-third OF
an inch of rain fell in New York.
A perpetual injunction preventing
any combination of certain coal OPP
orators in Illinois and Indiana to sell
their wares through one distributing
agency and regulate prices was issued
by Judge Kohlsaat, in Chicago, on the
5th.
Mai. James Mclaughlin, represent
ing the government, closed a treaty
with the Uintah Indians in Utah, OF
the I'd, as a result of which 1,25O,OOl
acres of reservation land will bt
thrown open for settlement in DC
tober, 1904.
Taking advantage of the demand fol
ice in Kansas City and other towns
in the flooded district which have
been cut off from their usual sources
of supply, Chicago ice dealers, on the
Sd. raised their prices 50 cents pei
1000 pounds.
Second Assistant Postmaster-Gener.
al Shallenberger, on the I'd, remove
Svend Schibsby, of Kansas City, Mo.
a railway postal clerk, on the charge
of leading a movement of railway
postal clerks to secure payment fol
travelling expenses.
A baseball league in which all play
ers IRE members of Christian churches
or Sunday-schools, in which no one re
ceives a salary, and whose officers are
ministers, is the unique organization
recently formed by six Christian
churches in st. Louis.
Indictments were returned at Co
lumbus, o., on the 5th, against JohI
A.. Cobb, of cambridge, o., and w. ii
II. Miller, S. f. Struble and 0. W. j
Wolff, of Newark, o., for misuse o
the mails in connection with ALLEGED
fraudulent land deals.
The law enacted by congress ant
approved March 3, 1908, which prohlb
it's the naturalization of aliens VIII
disbelieve in or who are opposed to al
organized government or who are al
fIiated with organizations teachin
such doctrines, went into effect June
The Ferris wheel, one of the mai.
attractions during the Chicago World
fair, was sold at public auction on tn
OIL A i,,r1y lan1ap hid in tho hi
wheel, and the sum paid for the Ell
gines, boilers, buildings, etc, was 81
500. The wheel cost originally 1862
600.
The district executive boards of tn
United Mine Workers of America, o
the Sd, issued a call for a conventio
in Wilkesbarre, Pa, June Is, to decid
whether the miners shall suspen
work pending settlement of the diff
Guilty existing in the conciliatio
board.
Postmaster-Genera Payne has d
cided that the new rural free-delivei
routes, which were to have gone I'M
effect, under the Machen regime, Ju,
/, have been held up under stop o
ders, because only in that way ca
the deficiency be kept under the $1Ot
900 mark for the year.
Capt. Thomas B. Sims, owner of ii
steamer Lotus Sims, which vessel Il
officers Of the Stacker Lee claim
have defeated in the 900-mile ra
from st. Louis to Memphis and retul
last week, has issued a challenge Fl
a race over the same course, or
longer or shorter one, for a 500
stake.
Thomas w. McGregor, clerk
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