Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-08
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The Illinois state fair, at Springfield,
closed on the Sd. The total receipts
for the week were $50, 900, exceeding
the receipts of 1901, the next best year,
by over $13 900. The attendance was
greater on every day than on the cor
responding day of former fairs. This
was a demonstration of uneXampled
progress and prosperity in Illinois.
Chicago's centennial celebration
closed on the night of the Sd in a blaze
of fireworks. which illuminated the
largest crowd ever assembled on the
lake front. Estimes of the number
which witnessed the greatest fireworks
display seen in Chicago since the
Worlds fair ranged from 100000 to
125, 900 persons.
j. G. Harris, city judge of Hobart,
Okla, was arraigned, on the Sd, on Is
counts, charging him with receiving
money from gambling houses in pay
ment for allowing them to operate in
that city. 1t was charged also that
he protected gamblers from arrest for
a financial consideration.
An estimate was made, on the Sd,
that this years cotton crop in Okla
homa and Indian Territory would
amount to 523, 756 bales, based on the
reports made by the various railroad
companies traversing that section.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who has been
i'll in Buffalo, N. Y, was reported, on
the 4th, to be rapidly Receiving from
her illness. Her physicians said she
would be able to leave for her winter
home in New York soon.
President Roosevelt, on the Sd, be-
gan his message to the regular session
of congress. He will prepare two mes
sages-one to te extra session to be
called November 8, and the other to
the December session.
Broom corn prices were reported on
the Jump in the locality of Paris, ILL.,,
and a prominent dealer and manufac-
turer expressed the belief that $l25 per
ton would be reached in the near
future.
! The town of st. Charles, in Winona
county, Minnesota, was almost COM
pletely wiped out by a tornado on the
4th. Seven persons were killed and
2S were injured, many of them seri-
ously.
! The remains of ]. M. Wilson, the gov
! eminent storekeeper who was buried
; beneath the ruins of Cornings' distil-
, lery, on the 3D., at Peoria, ILL.,, with six
| other men, was recovered or the 4th.
David Nation, divorced husband of
Carrie Nation, died, on the Sd, at Med
lcine Lodge, kas.
With the exception Of two shafts,
the miners in the eight mines in the
Springfield, H., subuistrict who went on
strike. on the Sd, because the operators
had failed to comply with the law re-
Iquiripg the building of wash-houses, re-
turned to work, on the 9TH. 1t was
Isaid the men returned to work by direc-
Ition of the Illinois executive board of
tne United Mine Workers.
Reports from Negaunee, Mich, on the
9th, state that the town of Even, Mich,
was struck by a tornado, and that half
of it was laid waste. A number of men
working on the roof of a schoolhouse
were blown off, one being killed and
four fatally hurt, beside several who
sustained lesser hurts. Loss, 5000, 900,
1t was announced, on the 9Th, that
Mexico, Mo-, was to become a terminal
OF the Chicago & Alton and also the
burlington, which is building a new
line into that city from Old Monroe
The two roads VIII use the track joint.
ly, and this will give the Chicago
l Alton a short cut into st. Louis.
} The J.. C. Fletcher Candy Co, O
l Kansas City, Mo-, went into bank
ruptcy. on the 5th, and q receiver wa:
l appointed by the United States dis
trict court. The liabilities were givel
, at Sligo, 900, and the essets were sai(
to be in excess Of that amount.
! Fifteen new indictments were brough
! in by the supreme court for the Dis
9 trict of Columbia, on the 5th, as tn
= final result of the investigation in tn
9 post Office department. Several of thes
findings were against persons VIII
had already been indicted.
. Enoch l.. Cowart, cashier of tn
Navesink National bank, of Red Bank
= N. j., pleaded guilty, on the 9Th, to tw
: charges. one of them embezzling $40.
. 200, and the other in aiding Of the max
ing of false reports to the treasury.
Albert M. Wetter, proprietor OF tn
Massilon Sand and Stone Co., Of Masil
: Ion, o., and a director Of the Obi
" State bank, committed suicide in hi
:, office at the bank, on the 9Th, by shoot
= ing himself through the heart.
The st. Louis fair opened on the 5tf
and despite the threatening weathei
= attendance was fully as large as 0
! previous first days, while the exhibit
: in number and excellence, have scarce
: ly ever been excelled.
According to statements made, on th
y 9Th, by the physicians In attendant
!. upon Archbishop Kain, Of st, Loui
: who Is a patient at ST. Agnes san
tarium, in Baltimore, Md, his cond
tion was unchanged.