Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-04-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
personal AND GENERAL.

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number of killed is unknown, though
one entire family of eight persons is
known to have been killed.
Capt. George w. Bever, capitalist, of
Cedar Rapids, Ia, died at Ocean
Beach, Cal, on the Sth.
DR.. G. A. Collamore, prominent ply
sician of Ohio, died, on the Sth, at his
home in Toledo.
The plant of the Terre Haute (Ind.)
Shovel and Tool Co., was burned, on
the Sth, loss. $4,000.
The United States monitor Arkan-
sas left Memphis, Tenn, on the sth.
for ST. Louis.
The c~zarina of Russia was reported
seriously ill with peritonitis on the
Sth.
Mayor Wells of St. Louis, on the
10th, after careful consideration of
the evidence on which "F. Seymour
Darlington" the bogus English lord,
had been sent to the workhouse by
Police Justice Daniel O'Connell Ira
cy, two months ago, ordered his re.
lease.
A Manila dispatch Of the 10th,
brought the news of the capture of
tie Moro stronghold, Blcolod, on
the island of Mindanao, after a gal
liant charge by Capt. Pershing's force
and a hand-to-hand fight, in which
fully 100 Moros, including the datto
Of Panandungan, were killed and a
large number wounded. Only three
American we're wounded.
The cause of the premature eXplo-
sion of the shell in a 12-inch gun on
the battleship Iowa, which caused the
loss of the three lives and the injury
of five seamen, is said to have been
a defective fuse. The Iowa will have
to go out of commission and undergo
extensive repairs.
Bruce Marcum, white, aged ~ years,
a scion of an old and respected fam
lily, but too lazy to enjoy good health,
vas convicted, under the vagrancy
law, at jackson, Ky, on the 10th, and
sold into servitude for six months for
$3.50.
At the Pennell inquest at Buffalo.
on the 10th, the last statement of
the dead lawyer, in which he protested
his innocence of the Burdick murder,
was read. Judge Murphy rendered a
verdict to the effect that the theory
that Pennell committed suicide had
not been established.
George Howard, alias Joe Kirby,
who, with George Cole, hel1 up the
Burlington express near Homestake,
Mont, a month ago, was found guilty
at Butte, Mont. on the 9th. The pro-
ceeds of the robbery were So.
Charles McKim shot his wife four
times. at Bedford, Ia, OH the 9th.
then shot himself, as he was about to
be arrested. Both will probably die.
The shooting followed a quarrel.
Martha Guinan attempted to lake
the life of David Henry, at Lead, s.
D., OH the 9th, and then committed
suicide by taking a dose of strychnine.
Jealousy was the cause.
A dispatch from Manila, on the 9th,
stated that Gov. Taft, who has been
lying i'll there for several weeks, has
gone to Benguet, a mountain resort.
C. F. Clyne, of Stafford, Kas., was
nominated, on the 9th, by the demo-
Gratis of the Seventh congressional
district to succeed Chester !. Long.
Heinrich Pariser, a money lender,
Of Berlin, was sentenced, ON the 9th,
to two years Imprisonment and to
pay a fine of So, 500 for usury.
Unusually high temperatures were
recorded in Kansas on the 9th. At
Abilene 90 degrees was the mark, and
at Concordia 80.
The Nebraska legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9th. The feature Of
the session was the adoption IF a new
revenu law.
The funeral of Mrs. Porter, wife OF
the United States ambassador, held
at the American church in the Rue
de Berri, Paris, on the 9th, was an
impressive ceremony, the heads Of
the French government, the members
of the diplomatic corps and many
representatives of the American col
ony participating.
According to the scheduled itinerary
the monitor Arkansas is due to reach
st. Louis on the 27th. She will go UP
the Ohio river as far as Evansville,
Ind, on her way up, the stage Of wa
ter being sufficient for the purpose.
Miss Josephine Mcneil, of Carlin-
Vile, ILL.,, was the honor graduate of
the class of 1908, at the forty-fifth
annual commencement of the Home
opathic medical college Of Missouri,
held in the Pickwick theater, st. Louis,
on the 9th. Miss Mcneil had taken
the Gilbert prize for the best essay.
Thirty-nine years ago the father Of
Miss Minnie Peterson died of small
pox at scipio, Ind. Miss Peterson
died of smallpox, on the 9th, having
taken the disease just two weeks af-
ter she opened an old trunk contain
ing her fathers clothes for the first
time since his death.
VIM. FL. Turley, who shot and killed
Frank Murray on May 80, 1899, in
Johnson county, ILL.,, and escaped, was
killed by a train at Martel, o., on the
10th. He had been going under the
name Of William Henry.
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