Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

stone park, Ralph Pulitzer, son of Jo-
seph Pulitzer, publisher of the New
York World, on the charge of illegally
killing game III that state.
Tom J. Johnson, of Cleveland, was
nominated for governor of Ohio, to-
gether with a full state ticket, by the
democratic state convention, at Column
bus. on the Goth. John II. Clarke, of
Cleveland, was Endorsed for United
States senator.
The damage to farms in Nemaha and
Marshall counties, Kansas, by the
~cloudburst, on the 25th, is placed at
$500, 900. Great quantities of hay,
wheat and oats in stack, besides wheat
and corn in bins, were swept away,
while many farmers lost ali their, cat
tie and hogs.
Two persons, H. H. Larue, of Corn
ing, and A. r. Fash, a Clinton Qa.)
horseman, lost their lives, on the 9th,
while attempting to rescue a number
of persons from the Council Bluffs
Qa.) fair grounds, which were sudden
ly flooded. Larue was electrocuted
while pushing a boat under an electric
light wire, and Fash was drowned.
Miss Mary Jenkins, the 17-year-old
daughter Of William A. Jenkins, an
architect of Denver, Col, fell owe a
steep cliff on a Notwithstanding eX-
petition, on the 25th, at Decker Springs,
and was killed.
The Fort Smith & Western railroad,
on the 25th, filed with the Oklahoma
territorial secretary a first mortgage
for S., 1000, 600 in favor of the Mercan-
tile Trust Co., of New York.
Before a great crowd Of spectators at
Readville, Mass, On the oath, and with
the track and weather conditions per-
feet, Lou Dillon paced by Peggy from
Paris and Carrie Nation, trotted a
mile in two minutes, a new worlds
record.
Two cloud-bursts, on the 26th, de-
stroyed hundreds of thousands dollars
worth of property in Council Bluffs,
la. The storm turned the streets of
the city into torrents, and hundreds OF
families in the lower districts of the
city were removed from their homes
with difficulty.
David G. Williams, aged SO years,
ago, died at Cambria, Wis, on the Goth,
died at Cambria, Wis, on the Goth,
from blood poisoning, which resulted
from the bite. Mr.. Williams was a
member of the lower house of the last
legislature. He served in the civil a
Rufus Cornell, president of the five
state banks in the Kiowa-Commanche
country, oklahoma, is charged with
selling $64, 600 forged warrants to the
Guthrie national bank and several
thousand to the Capital national.
The Northern Pacific liner Victoria,
which arrived at Tacoma, Wash, on
the eth, from the orient, brought in a
consignment of orchid bulbs from Ma
Mia, P. L., which were forwarded to
st. Louis to be exhibited at the fair.
These bulbs were sent out from Manila
by the government, and a very rare
specimen of the orchid and worth
many thousands of dollars.
B. +. Davis, president of the First
national bank Of Park Rapids, Mimi,
was drowned in Fish Hook lake, on the
9th, while sailing with a party of
friends. A squall snapped off the mast,
knocking Davis into the water. He
drowned before help could reach him.
A Missouri, Kansas & Texas pas
senger train struck a freight train
which had not cleared the main track
at Rhineland, Mo-, on the 9th. Fred
Daniels, fireman, of New Franklin, Mo,
was killed, and Engineer Burk serious
ly injured.
At Kent, Ia, on the 9th, the engine
and II cars of a freight train on the
Burlington road went through a bridge
that had been weakened by the high
water, carrying down with it the en-
swimming to shore.
Capt. Edward Nathan Burton, the
last of the old-time lake captains, who
sailed the "unsalted seas before many
of the present-day vessel men were
born, died, on the 9th, at the home OF
his daughter, Mrs. H. |. Proctor, in
Ogdensburg, N. Y.
David l.. Murdoch, once district
judge of San Diego county, CAL, died
at the home Of his sister of a nervous
affection, aged CT years. Judge Muir
dock was born in Illinois and served
through the civil war in an Illinois
regiment. He leaves two brothers, DR.
e. P. Murdoch, of Chicago, and J. T,
Murdoch, of Streator, Ill.
A decidedly new turn in the case OF
theSUnited States vice-consul, William
G. Magelssen, at Beirut, Syria, who was
reported to have been assassinated or
the 23d, developed, on the 2Sth, whel
it became known that the report was
incorrect, and that, although Mr.. Mag.
elssen had been shot at he had moi
even been injured.
Six suits involving 1000 acres Of
land, valued at $40, 600, 900, were flee
with the district clerk of Hardin coun'
ty, Tex, on the 2Sth. The claim is al
legged to be %one-fourth interest in sub
divisions of the 1,O00-acre Brown trac
on which there are numerous oil wells
A monster mountain engine explod.
ed at the Southern Pacific shops al
Tucson, Ariz., on the 28th. The man
gled remains Of G. G. Mayfeld, the fire
man in charge of the boiler, were
found so yards away. One entire en-
Of the shops was demolished.
Southern Pacific passenger train No
4 was derailed by "a defective switch
nea Promontory, Utah, on the 2Sth
Eight of the ten cars left the track, tn
baggage, two express cars and a da.
coach being completely demolished. M
one was killed.
While the condition of Senator Han