Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-03-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The Omaha flyer on the Wabash
the crack ear St. Charles,
Mo-, on the 18th, and Mrs. ]. E. I. Nc
Gee, Mrs. Ella Cox, Council! Bluffs,
Ia; Mrs. j. L. Bennett, Memphis,
Tenn; Mrs. w. II. Smith, Kirksville,
Mo-; D. Truehoft, Des Moines, Ia; w.
NJ, Prickett, Mercer, Mo-; James Ca
nantsy. ]. L. Holbrook and W. c. See
ger, St. Louis, were injured.
\ working train with a crew of 60
men was dispatched, on the 18th, from
st. Johns, N. f., to attempt to clear
the railway line across the country
and cut out the express train which
has been snowbound in the interior
for the past 80 days.
Miss Julia Toombs, a 23-year-old
girl, was shot and killed, on the 18th,
at Providence, r. l., by VIM. Stevens
Morse, a rejected lover. Morse fired
four shots at her while she was on
her way to church and every shot
took effect.
J. Whitaker Wright, the London
promoter, who is accused of being
concerned in colossal frauds in con-
n@ection with the organization of vari-
Gus financial corporations, was ar
rested in New York on the 18th.
Two masked men attempted to rob
a fashionable restaurant i'll Pueblo
Col, on the 18th. DR.. J. +. Turner
was instantly killed and c. B. Bishop
was seriously wounded. The robbers
fled without securing any booty.
d. Il. Anthony, Jr., business man
ager of the Leavenworth (kas.)
Times, and a nephew of Miss Susan b.
Anthony, was nominated for mayor
by reclamation by the republican city
convention on the 18th.
Announcement was made by an Of
fetal of the trainmen's brotherhood
at Chicago, on the 18th, that unless
their demands for higher wages are
granted a strike will be ordered on
the Chicago & Alton.
Fourteen masked robbers visited
the home of Frank Reichelderfer, a
farmer, near Lima, o., on the 18th,
and took possession of the house.
They secured $1,000 in cash and valu-
able securities.
The Italian minister of foreign sf-
| fairs, on the 18th, notified Ambassa-
dor Meyer that Italy has decided to
officially participate in the St. Louis
Exposition, appropriating 100000 to
that purpose.
Henry Schlimm, a rural mail carrier
at Joliet, Ill, shot and killed himself,
on the 18th, on account OF poor
health.
Henry ". Carter shot Minnie Web
ster and killed himself in St. Louis
on the 10Th. After the tragedy, Car
ter's widow stated that the murdered
woman was Carriers daughter. He
left a note saying he had been be-
trayed.
The house, on the 10th, passed the
senate bill prohibiting the sale or Civ
ing away of cigarettes, cigarette pa
pers or cigarette wrappers in Missou-
ri to persons under IS years of age.
The bill now goes to the governor.
The St. Francis levee gave way at
Trice's Landing, Ark, on the 10th
and the waters of the Mississippi river
rushed through a three-quarter-mile
crevasse in the embankment with
roar that was heard for miles.
Miss Marion Burdick, daughter Of
the late Edwin L. Burdick, was a wit
ness at the inquest before Judge Muir
ply, at Buffalo, N. Y, On the 10th
Lawyers could get her to throw nj
light on the mystery.
Two killings on Sunday in Breathit
county, Ky, we're reported in Lexing
ton on the 10th. Bud Spicer was sho
to death by John Henglay and Bu'
Combs was shot in a general fight II
Jackson.
The 15-foot embankment of TIN
Texas d Pacific railroad at Bourgere
La, 80 miles below Vidalia, broke. o.
: the 10Th, and a gap two miles i
length was cut by the river in a fe,
! hours.
: By direction of Secretary Root tn
/. war department, on the 10th, bega
A compiling and publishing a complet
roster of the officers and enlisted me
, Of the Union and confederate armie
The name of the new cup defende
to meet the Shamrock III. will I
Reliance. This was officially al
= nounced by the secretary of the Ne
York Yacht club on the 10th.
!, Capt. Louis T. Bourie, whose famil
- has been connected with the histor
of Fort Wayne since the time of Gel
Anthony Wayne, died at Fort Wayn
Ind, on the 10th.
:. DR.. Julien Baker, a physician
Tarboro, N. G., shot and perhaps +
J, tally wounded DR.. H. L. Bass, of thi
J place, on the 10th, the result Of
old feud.
u. In the Punssian diet, on the 10th, {
! appropriation of $4,000 for Prussia
I, educational exhibit at the st. Lou
exposition was voted.
}. Former Congressman John w. Ca
dler, Of Brokline, died Of heart disea
at Providence, n. T., on the 18th.