Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-11-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The lowest temperature reported, on
the 18th, in Louisville, Ky, was 10
degrees. A child was frozen to death
neal Newport, Ky.
One thousand dollars a day was the
pay of Representative T. H. Ball, of
Texas, who served but three days in the
present congress, but who was entitled
to draw $4,000 in salary and mileage.
Mr.. Ball resigned to devote his atten-
ton to private business.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th, re-
ceived an invitation to attend the Lin
coin day banquet of the Marquette club,
of Chicago, February Y next. He eX-
pressed regret that he would not be
able to accept the invitation.
James Lynch, convicted of the muir
der of Col. Godfrey Prouse, whose Pc
tition for a new trial was recently de-
ned by the supreme court of Utah, was,
on the 18th, re-sentenced to be shot
On January IS rcXt.
While preparing for his wedding,
which was to have taken place in Chi
cago, on the 10Th, Charles Edmond
Ross, a well-known insurance man
was stricken with acute dementia, and
he was taken by his brother to a. pri-
vate sanitarium in Cincinnati.
The Egan (Pa.) State bank was
closed, on the 18th, by Public Exam
liner Heminway. The deposits amount
ed to $40, 900 and the loans to Sac, 900,
The shutdown was caused by poor col
lections.
John X. Brown, the New Holland
(O) bank wrecker, was taken to the
%penitentiary at Columbus, o., OH the
18th, by Sheriff Hoover, to serve seven
years. He was given clerical work.
Col. Robert NJ. Sands, one Of the
most prominent surviving officers 81
tie confederacy, died at Mobile, Ala.
on the 18th, after two weeks illness
aged rs.
Lawrence Davenport was found no
guilty of murder by a jury in the cir
cult court at Belleville, ILL.,, on the 10th
after an hours elaboration. He killed
his brother-in-law, Hugh Wilkerson, a
their home in East st. Louis in Sep
TENDER.
The National Live Stock exchang'
convened at Fort Worth, Tex, on tn
10Th. The delegates represented ex
changes in Chicago, st. Louis, Omaha
Neb., st. Joseph, Mo. Peoria, ILL.,, an
other towns.
A Jury at New Orleans, La, in tn
last of Lou w. Lyons, for the assassin
alton of District Attorney ]. Ward Gur
ley, returned a verdict of guilty, on tn
18th, and sentenced him to die on tn
gallows.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, on th
10th, appointed Frank Hayman, of Hus
tonia, Mo, a member of the state boar
of agriculture, to succeed N. H.. Ger
try, of Sedalia, who resigned.
Dexter A. Knowlton oled at Freepor
ILL.,, on the 10Th, aged so. He was we
known in banking and religious circle
throughout the west.
Henry Seton Merriman (Hugh STOW
ell Scott. the novelist, died, en- tt
10th, in London, from appendicitis.
Judge Halsey, of the superior cou
Of Milwaukee, Wis, on the 10th, d
cided that a newspaper had the right
criticise the work Of an artist so lol
as 1t did not personally attack the al
let himself. The decision was in
case in which a sculptor sued a new
paper for heavy damages because OF
critical article published in referen
to a model prepared in the competiti'
for the making Of a monument.
The officials Of the foreign office
n st. Petersburg said, on the 10th, tn
. hus3ia doubtless would recognize Pa
m in due time, and would welcor
. the construction of a neutral canal,
her commerce would share in the &c
q eral benefit derived therefrom.
/ United States Senator Charles Di'
rich started from Washington, D.
for Omaha. Neb., on the 21st, to 81
render to authorities because Of t
n indictment on a charge of conspira
o in connection with post office patrc
age.
The National Live Stock exchanI
: in session at Fort Worth, Tex, on t
: goth, elected George w. Shannon,
Chicago, president. st. Louis v
y chosen for the convention Of 1904.