Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Personal AND GENERAL

uSut 1T NdESOH Wy. NtN.
Pat Donovan, a rancher and poll
tician at Clinton, Mont, was shot and
fatally wounded by three highway
men on the 10th. Donovan returned
the fire, killing one robber and severe
Iy wounding another.
j. j. Frey, of Sedalia. Mo-, for sew
eral years general manager of the
Santa Fe railway, and prior to that
general superintendent of the Missou-
ri, kansas& Texas railroad, was pro-
nounced in a critical condition, on
the 10th, with uraemic poisoning.
Woodmen in convention at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 18th, elected as
head consul, \. Il. Talbot, of Nebras-
ka; head adviser, d. B. Horne. Iowa;
head clerk, C.. W. Halves, Illinois;
head banker, p. r. Smith, Missouri.
James W. Wilson, a forger who dis
appeared at the Joliet penitentiary,
was found concealed inside the walls
the 18th. He was without food for
a week.
President Roosevelt wound up his
tour of the continent, on the 10th, in
a visit to the University of Virginia,
at Charlottesville.
Chauncey Dewey, Clyde Wilson and
W. ]. Mcbride, charged with the MUIR
der of the Berry family, at st. Fran
els, Kas., were, on the 18th, bound
over to the next session of the dis
trict court without bail.
Acting Gov. Mckenzie of Illinois re-
ceived a message from Mcclure, Alex
ander county, on the 18th, stating
that 1000 people who were victims Of
the flood, were homeless and in need
of food and provisions.
David W. Wallace, United States
deputy surveyor and clerk, committed
suicide at his home in Independence,
Mo-, on the nth, shooting himself
through the head. He was Respondent
over money affairs.
Memorial university, Mason City,
Ia, founded by the Sons of Veterans,
closed its first year, on the 18th, and
the first graduate was James Leggett,
II colored man whose parents were
slaves.
Fire destroyed the Northwestern
Felt Shoe Co.'S plant at Webster, City.
Ia, on the 10th. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $36, 900.
Three outlaws, led by Ben Cravens,
for whom $1,000 in rewards are Of
fered. stationed themselves in a lone
ly wood, on the 18th, near Guthrie,
Okla, and held up 100 men and wom-
en-. The robbers secured $500 in mon
ey and selected nine good horses.
The general store of S. S. Sensen'
baugh d Co. at Aurora, Ill. was dam
aged 100000 by fire on the 18th. Ad-
joining buildings were endangered,
and four engines went from Chicago
to assist the local fire department.
The grand jury at Bloomington, ILL.,,
on the 18th, returned six indictments
against citizens of Lincoln and Logan
county on charges of buying and sell
.ng votes at recent elections.
The secretary of state of Illinois,
on the 18th, licensed the incorporation
of the Great Western Glass Manufac-
turing Co., located at Ottawa. The
capital stock is $1,000. 600.
Eli Julian was arrested at Benning-
ton, l.. T.. on the 18th, charged with
the murder of his father, Solomon
Julian, a weIl-known citizen living in
the Choctaw nation.
DR.. Isaac Newton Love, formerly of
ST. Louis, dropped dead on the steam
ship Aurania, on the 18th. as the ship
was in sight of New York.
Louis j. Kaufman. vice-president Of
the American Federation of Roman
Catholic societies, died in New York
on the 18th.
Two men said to be Bud Fair and
Frank Ellis robbed the Adams Ex-
press Co. at Webb City, Mo-, on the
18th, of $4,000 consigned to the Car
t~erville bank. Both men were cap
tured and the money recovered.
Representatives of four great trans
Atlantic steamship lines held a con
ference in New York, on the 10Th,
to devise means for the prevention of
the operations of professional gam
blers on shipboard.
The ministry of in Wen
ma, announced, on the 18th, that Aus
tria had decided to officially partici-
pate in the st. Louis exposition.
Developments at Heppner, Ore, on
the 10Th, showed that the Hepp1er
death list will exceed first estimat $.
1t is believed that the number of bod
les actually found and identified will
easily reach 200.
The pope did not hold an audience,
on the 10th, much against his own
wishes, as he said he would immedi-
ately be reported as dying, (which
am not" he added, emphatically.
Assistant Secretary Armstrong, of
the treasury department, issued a cir
cular letter, on the 10th, carrying in
to effect, beginning July l, the pure
food act approved March 3, 1903.
HButId pbNll bdl WI, WIN idu DcCu
on trial at Sheridan, Wyo., for the
murder of her father-in-law, James
Stull, was acquitted on the 10th. The
defense was emotional insanity.
The king and queen of England en-
tertained 800 persons at a ball In
Windsor castle on the 10th.
An illinois Central passenger train
collided with a freight at Raymond
Ia, on the 10th. Ten persons were
killed, including both engineers and
fremen and a mail agent.
Several high-salaried railroad Off.
Gals donned overalls at Kansas City
Mo-, on the 10th, and began trucking
freight in place of the striking freight
handlers.
The Modern Woodmen de ,ided al
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 10th, tt