Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-01-09
NEWS SUMMARY.


Miss Iona Dunlap. on trial at Aledo'
Ills, for the murder of Allie Dunn, has
been acquitted.
An original copy of the New Eng
land Primer" sold in Philadelphia last
week for $4,000.
Factories at Trenton, N. j., are on
the verge of closing, because of the
shortage OF coal.
Seven people were injured in col
lision IN Chicago between cable train
and an electric car
Nine hours will hereafter be consid'
cred a working day in all of the iron
works of Portland. Ore.
The evacuation of Shanghai by for
eign troops is complete, the last of the
German troops being started for home
last week.
Letters of administration of the es-
tate of the late Bret Harte have been
granted. The total value of the estate
is placed at $1,000.
Ira d. Sankey, who used to travel
with Evangelist Moody, is in poor
health, and has been ordered to give
up his home on Long island for dryer
climate.
After being buried in cave-in In
a mine near Victoria, b. c.; for over Q
year, the bodies of Pumpman T. G.
Nichols and Chinaman have been
recovered.
Five men entered the First National
bank of Arlington, Ills. early Sunday,
bound and gagged the night watch
man and leisurely blew open the vault,
securing $4,000.
Manuel Range, editor Of a Manila
paper, has been sentenced to six
months Imprisonment at hard labor
and to pay fine Of $1,000 in gold for
libeling General Bell.
Nothing has been heard in Wash
ington from either London, Berlin or
Rome in the nature of an answer to
President Castro's amended PROPOSE
ton relative to arbitration.
A stipulation was filed in the Unit
ed States circuit court at st. Paul, set
ting the federal suit against the North
ern Securities company for trial during
the February term of court.
A quantity of dynamite exploded in
one Of the gangways in the Oak Hill
colliery, one mile north of Minersville,
Pa, instantly killing three miners and
severely injuring a dozen others.
Presidents Roosevelt AZ accorded de
honor of a portrait in the Almanach dc
Gotha for 1903, which has just made it's
appearance. This edition is the 140th
in the history of this compilation.
Brakeman Cochran, injured in the
collision between the northbound flyer
from New York and a wild engine
near Shelburne, VT, is dead. The
other persons injured are doing well.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Equitable Loan & Security com
pany of Atlanta, Ga, bond invest
ment company which carried on an
extensive business in all southern
states.
During a drunken quarrel in Peoria,
ILL.,, James OLeary of Omaha received
injuries from which he died at a hos
pital His slayers, Henry Roders, J.
w. Pute and supposedly Frank How
ell, were arrested.
In Wilmington, Del, Secret Service
Agent George Foster of Washington,
after a long investigation, succeeded
in locating a counterfeiters' den at 528
West Second street, and 1t was raided
by the police.
The strike of the rubber workers and
other unions, which tied up the plants
of the Morgan & Wright and the Me.
chanic Rubber company at Chicago
for the last two months and threw
1900 workers out of employment, has
been settled.
A baby, born to Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.
Tulon, who live on a farm near Cherry
creek, about one mile and half from
Chester N. Y, has a full set Of teeth
and long flowing black hair. The
youngster shows every evidence of be-
ing a healthy child.
President Palma is quoted by Ha'
vana Discussions as saying that Min
lister Squiers could assure the Amer
lean government that the Cuban treaty
would be accepted without opposition.
There are known to be twenty votes in
favor of the treaty, and four against it.
John Noffseiger, the Oldest resident
of Dakota county Neb. and in his 96th
year, is dead He headed a colony
from Canada which settled in Ne
braska in 1856. Mr.. Noffseiger was a
member of the fifth, sixth and seventh
sessions OF the Nebraska legislature.
The fire loss of the United States