Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

known to have been killed and at least
5000 are homeless.
The strike at the Pennsylvania engi-
neering works at Newcastle, Pa, was
settled on the 18th, and the entire
force of 500 men resumed work on the
18th. The terms of settlement were
not given out.
Isaac Markley, a wealthy farmer, OF
Marshalltown, Ia. arrested last May
charged with the murder of his wife,
and out on $4,000 bail, committed sui
eide. on the 18th, by hanging.
The directors of the New York mari
time exchange gave a reception and
banquet to Sir Thomas Upton, on the
18th. at the exchange
While lea 'ing Bar Harbor, Me-, on
the 18th, in a thick fog, the battleship
Massachusetts struck a ledge of rocks
off the western end of Egg rock, sus-
tanning considerable damage. 1t is ex-
pected she will be sent to Brooklyn
navy yard for repairs, as several of her
forward plates are cracked.
A bill was passed, on the 18th, by the
senate of the Georgia state legislature
prohibiting whipping of female pris-
oners at the state prisons.
Post Office department officials have
about reached the conclusion that
George W. Beavers, the indicted for
mer chief of the salary and allowances
division, is a fugitive from justice.
A returned mining prospector who
has spent the last four years in the
Mackenzie Basin, arrived at Vancou-
yer, b. c., on the 18th. He brought
with him a portion of the silk which
undoubtedly went into the construction
OF the balloon used by Andre, the
aeronaut who made a dash for the
north pole in 1897.
The fishing boat Silver Spray was
discovered in Canadian waters of Lake
Erie, on the 18th, by the Canadian
revenue cutter Petrol. Capt. Chris
Chau Of the Silver Spray tried to make
a run for it, and succeeded in getting
away, but in a badly battered condi-
ton, as the Petrol turned loose on him
with all her guns.
AT a meeting in Bloomington, ILL.,, on
the 18th, of the executive council of the
Modern Woodmen of America, Ralph
Johnson, of Lincoln, Neb, was appoint
ed supreme organizer.
Nesuv.us was again causing intense
alarm, on the 18th, eruptions of the
volcano being very heavy. From a
fresh opening a. the base of the prin-
cipal crater two streams f lava were
issuing which within a few hours COW
cred a wide tract of ground.
w. F. Fox, who IS wanted in Ala
bama for the killing of a man named
Stuart on an excursion train heal Cam
den, Wilcox county, Ala, was arrested
at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 18th,
and was taken rack to Alabama for
trial.
Engineer j. Fl. Averlll, Jr., and Fire
mar William Hair, both of Asheville,
N. c., were killed and Brakeman w. B.
Sheriff., of Swannoa, N. C., was fatal
ly hurt, on the 18th, in a freight wreck
on the Southern rail DAD.
The cutter yacht Wenona1, owned by
Samuel Roosevelt, OF New York, a
cousin of the president, arrived at New
Haven, Conn, on the 18th, badly dam
aged, having been in collision with the
fishing steamer Falcon.
Father M. P. Bowling, S.. j., was, on
the 18th, elected to succeed himself as
president of Creighton college, at Oma-
ha, Neb., by the general of the province
Of Missouri.
Henry H. Holloway, secretary and
treasurer Of tie Penn Mutual Life In
Co, died suddenly, on the 18th,
at Atlantic City, N, ]. He was 40
years old.
James ]. Jeffries again demonstrated,
at San Francisco, on the night of the
18th, that he is a better man physically
than James j. Corbett after a fistic
argument lasting ten rounds.
Dollar wheat" was a reality on the
Minneapolis (Minn.) market on the
18th, for the first time since 1898. It
was cash wheat, and there were sales
at that figure, and later $1.01 was bid
and $1.02 asked, with no sales.
Albert Edward Batson was executed
at Lake Charles, La, on the 18th. for
the murder of the Earl family of six
persons, at Welsh, La, in February,
1902. He protested his innocence to
the last.
A new use for the versatile China
man has been discovered and put into
practice by the New York street car
companies. John is now riding the
length and breadth of Manhattan in
the capacity of 'spotter" and is doing
"velly we'll"
David Taylor, colored, who claimed
to be about III years of age, died at
Salina, Kas., on the 14th. He was born
in North Carolina about 1887, and was
q slave for almost seventy-ive years,
or until the civil war.
An east-bound passenger train on 'she
Pennsylvania railroad ran off the
Northern railway crossing at Van
Vert, o. Engineer Charles Eaton, OF
Fort Wayne, was killed; Fireman A.
W. Boggs, of Fort Wayne, was proba-
bly, fatally injured and several postal
clerks were injured. The passengers
were not hurt.
DR.. II. j. Hamilton, United States
marine hospital surgeon at Laredo,
Tex, completed his Investigation, on
the 18th, of alleged cases of yellow
fever at Monterey, Mexico, and has ad-
vised the Washington authorities that
there is not a case of yellow fever there
or In the surrounding towns.
The commissioner general Of the
land Office at Washington, D. G., on the
14th, withdrew from entry $50 1000 acres
Of public lands in northwestern Colo.
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