Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
LATE NEWS ITEMS

LAT: NEWS ITEMS.
President Roosevelt, John Muir and
Rangers Leidig and Leonard camped
in the Bridal Veil, on the nth, near
the banks of the MERGED, in the
Yosemite valley. He resumed his
journey northward on the 18th.
The full text of the formal charges
of Irregularities in the administra-
ton of postal affairs preferred by
Seymour W. Tulloch, formerly cash
Ter Of the Washington city post office,
was made public on the 18th.
Mabini, the Filipino politician and
leader, was given q public funeral in
Manila on the 18th. Eight thousand
natives marched from Mabini's house
to the church and thence to the
grave. Aguinaldo attended.
The carriage and wagon builders of
Philadelphia, who went on strike on
March 2 for higher wages and short
ell hours, reached an agreement with
the employers on the 18th.
Lightning struck the Methodist
church at Rocklin, ILL.,, while services
were in progress, on the 18th, and
three persons were seriously burned.
All will recover.
Deputy Constable Tom Vaughn was
instantly killed and Constable Dan
Graham seriously injured by an out
law named Smith, at Douglas, Ariz.,
on the nth.
Annie Steinhainer, 81 years of age,
committed suicide in st. Louis, on
the 18th, because she had q%uarreled
with her sweetheart. She took car
bolic acid.
While fishing in the Tippecanoe riv-
er near Warsaw, Ind, on the 18th,
Kyle and Frank Miller found The mu-
tilated and partly-naked body of a
man.
The pope, on the 18th sent to Coun-
tess Spottiswood Mackin, of st. Louis,
Mo-, one of his white caps as a pres
ent for the Academy of Nazareth, Ky.
Searching parties, on the 18th,
secured the vicinity of Lena, Ind, for
the negro who is thought to have
murdered Mrs. Hauck Stewart.
Thirty-two men were injured, on
the 18th, during a street car strike
riot at Bridgeport, Conn. Attempts
to run cars were abandoned.
The national convention of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
began, on the 18th, a ten days secret
session in Denver, Col.
The annual session of District No.
6, Of the Jewish Order of B'Nai Birth
convened at Temple Israel, in Omaha,
Neb., on the 18th
Postmaster-General Payne, on the
18th, sent letters to the comptroller
of the treasury, auditor of the post
calling their attention to statements
made by eX-Cashier Tulloch. The let
ters ask for an explanation.
w. w. Montgomery, charged with
bigamy in Iowa, Nebraska and Okla
homa, and who escaped, on the 18th,
after killing Jailer Jerry Emerson,
was re-captured underneath the resi-
dence of Mrs. Kate Wyeth at Guthrie,
Okla, on the 18th.
Chief-of-Police King and Alderman
j. c. st. John were arrested at Colo
RADIO Springs, Col, on the 18th. The
chief is charged with having secreted
u,itnnuSas aud tha ,1J,r,, ,,.+I l,u-
ing accepted a bride.
Judge Kirkpatrick, at Trenton. N.
j., OF the 18th, rendered a decision
Setting aside the verdict of $500
awarded Henry Il. Johnson, a colored
minister, because he was refused a
seat in a parlor car.
Johnny Connors and Alexander Nc
C%arren, charged with conspiracy to
defraud by means of fake" foot
races and larceny, were surrendered
by their bondsmen, ON the 18th, at
Springfield, Ill.
The first national convention of the
poets, humorists and photographers of
the American press opened in Balti-
more, Md, on the 18th, with a re-
ception to the members at the Jour
~nalists' club.
j. IL. Franklin, a young farmer, was
arrested at Watson, Mo-, on the 18th,
charged with attempting to extort 49,
BOO from the Burlington railway by
threatening to dynamite a train.
Gov. Yates of Illinois, on the 18th,
signed the Mueller bill, known as the
Chicago traction measure, which gives
that city the privilege OF municipal
ownership of street railways.
Ex-Lieut.-Gov. Clay Knoblock, of
Louisiana, was killed by a barber
named Garault at Thibodeaux, La, on
the 18th. Witnesses say the barber
acted in self-defense.
Clarence Fl. Venner, a Boston bank
or, who was a~djudged in contempt of
court at Springfield, ILL.,, for refusing
TO produce certain books, paid a ST.
900 fine on the 18th.
The twenty-ninth biennial conven-
ton of the Order of Railway Conduc-
tors ended at Pittsburg, Pa, on the
18th. E. i. Clark was reelected grand
chief conductor.