Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-21
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the ltelchlln murder ease.
Vim. L. Congdon, a wealthy lumber
dealer, on the 18th, committed suicide
at his home in Chicago by shooting,
owing to i'll health.
Six hundred men were thrown out
of work at the Mueller factory, in
Decatur, ILL.,. on the 18th, by a strike
of 80 core makers.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th, de-
livered an address in San Francisco on
trade and expansion to several thou
sand Californians.
Miss Laura Strickler, stenographer,
leaped from the third story of a hotel
in Chicago, On the 18th, to escape, as
she says, from Il broker who had ta-
ken her to the hotel. Her condition is
critical.
Horace p. Taylor, president of the
Oakland national bank, died, on the
18th, at his home in Chicago. He was
Is years old.
S. +. Middleton, assistant secretary
of II > treasu y under President Lin
coin, died suddenly at St. Paul, Mimi,
on the 18th, presumably of heart dis
ease
William II. Jackson, member of
congress from the First Maryland dis
trict, announces that he will ask for
the discGntinuance of the post Office
at Qu~indocquia. in Somerset county,
to which Andrew J. Day, a negro, was
recently appointed,
The Commonwealth, the largest bat
tleship a%tioat, was launched at Govan,
on the Clyde, on the 18th. She will
carry a crew of 755 men. The Com
monwealth is of 1850 tons displace-
ment and her engines are to be of 49,
600 horsepower.
Miss Katherine Martin, the daugh-
ter of one of the swell social families
pended by the faculty of the cathedral
school, one of the exclusive schools
Tor females, because she wrote a par
ody on the "Mr. Dooley" song, but
worked the names of members of the
faculty of the school into the lines.
George f. Spencer. u clothing mer-
chant, recently from Birmingham, Ala,
was shot and killed at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 18th, by Patrolman .Flana-
gan while resisting arrest. Flanagan
was also shot. Spencer had been an
noying women.
W. W. Montgomery, ain alleged biga-
mist, shot and killed Jailer Jerry En-
erson, at Guthrie, Okla, on the 18th,
and was in turn shot by Emerson's
wife. Montgomery, though wounded,
escaped.
Judge Lee Estelle, Of Omaha, Neb.,
was, on the 18th, elected state COM
mander of the G. A. r., and John
Lett, of York, se1iior vice-commander.
Ten women were badly injured in IA
street car collision at Indianapolis,
Ind, On the 14th. Mrs. Winnie Field
er, of Peoria, ILL.,, was hurt seriously.
The Federal Salt Co. was fined ST.
600 in the United States court at San
francisco, On the 18th, for violating
the Sherman antitrust law.
). {. Allen, a pioneer of Honolulu,
died, on the 18th, of heart disease,
aged IL years. Aliens fortune was es-
timated at $4,000, 900.
Gov. Yates Of Illinois, on the 18th,
vetoed a measure increasing the sal
aries of circuit court judges on the
ground of economy.
Joseph Riley, of Hot Springs, Ark,
was killed and at least twenty per-
sons injured, one fatally. in a wreck
on the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf
road near Hot Springs, Ark, on the
14th.
Gen. Shafter was, on the 14th, elect
ed department commander of the G..
A, II. for California and Nevada.
The strike at the Deering harvester
works in Chicago was settled on the
14th.
Detective j. A. Sweeney, of Cincin-
natl, reached Memphis, Tenn, on the
10Th, with a warrant charging Mrs.
Lizzie Mccormick with the murder of
an express company employe who died
from the effects of drinking poisoned
whisky.
George Kettler, who, as Baron Won
Kettler, was worth half a million dol
lars in Hanover, Germany, was found
dead in bed, on the 18th, in his shoe
shop in Argentine, Kas. Indications
point to murder.
Among the effects of the man who
sent the Internal machine to the Gu
nard line dock in New York was a
piece of paper on which was written
in French: "The destruction of the
Naronic was complete. Mr.. LeBrun,
who made the box, has this moment
gone to Chicago" The Naronic was
never heard from after leaving Liv-
erpool February II, 1893.
The memorial arch erected to the
memory of the 10 missionaries of the
American board of foreign missions
who suffered martyrdom in China in
1900, was dedicated at Oberlin, O., on
the 14th. The dedicatory address was
delivered by Rev. Frank S. Fitch, d.
d.. of Buffalo, N. Y.
Frederick w. Hollis, of New York,
who was rendered, by President
Roosevelt, the position of umpire to
act in the settlement of the claims of
Germany and Italy against Venezuela,
has declined the appointment, owing
to pressure of private business.
Shortly after four o'clock in the af-
ternoon of the 14th, the post Office at
Kossuth, Ia, was blown up and Post
master Hedges killed, his body being
torn to pieces. No one was at the
post office building except the unfor-
innate postmaster at the time.
The services Of the women immigra-
ton inspectors appointed three
months ago, at New York, under the
operation of the civil service law, were
discontinued on the 18th.