Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-27
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The printing plant Of the Effingham
CHI Publishing Co, capital stock ST.
| BOG, publishers of the Jeffersonian, a
democratic weekly, was sold to Post.
master Richard F. Lawson, editor OF
the American Postmaster, who will
continue the local newspaper, changing
the name to the McKinleyan, and its
politics accordingly.
In the case of Matte E. Leslie VS.
G.. w. Chase G. Son Mercantile Co., Of
Platte City, Mo-, the jury, on the 22d
gave plaintiff $4,000 damages. Miss
Leslie had jumped from a three-story
factory while it was on fire. The
building was the property Of the com
pany.
The st. Jacobs Qll.) state bank was
incorporated, on the 22d, with a capita,
stock of $25, 900, all of which was sub.
scribed. Fred Sahler was elected pres
ident, l.. A. Spies, vice-president, anG
Rufus Pike, cashier. The bank will be
ready for business about September |.
At Wrights, Tenn, William H. Eus.
minger, of Bowling Green, Mo-, wa.
awarded $3.50 damages against John l.
Simpson. 1t was charged that Simpson
broke off a love match by spreadins
reports that Eusminger had a wife liv.
ing in Missouri.
Reliance, on the 22d, off Sandy Hook
N. j., duplicated the victory of her an
c%estor, America, 50 years ago, by run
ming away from Sir Thomas Lipton's
third Shamrock, and in weather tina
the Irish knight had prayed for.
A fire broke out in the Quincy en-
city stables, on the 23d, causing a loss
of something more than five Thousand
dollars, which was quite well covered
by insurance. A valuable stallion anC
two other horses were burned.
H. p. Ricketts,, editor of the Mem.
phis Scimitar, was found dead in bee
at the Kaiserhoff hotel, in Chicago, OIL
the 22d. He had been i'll for severa,
days, and his unexpected demise was
attributed to heart disease.
The packing house of the Ontario
Powder Co., Tweed, Ont, was blown
up, on the 22d, and three men were
killed. The explosion broke many
plate-glass windows in the town ang
injured buildings,
Chas. Poor, a Wabash brakeman
whose home was at Moberly, Mo-, was
killed by a west-bound passenger train
at Montgomery City, Mo, on the 23d
Lord Salisbury, England's EXPIRE
mier, died at Hatfield house, his coun.
try residence, on the 22d, surrounded
by his children and zeal relatives.
Frank De Witt Becker, n OF the
oldest locomotive engineers in the
west, died, on the oath, at st. Louis. He
ran the first engine on the Michigan
Central railway out of Detroit to jack
son, Mich, in 1854, and was, until dis
abled, in continuous service with the
Baltimore & Ohio, st. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern and Chicago &
Alton railways. He served rs years
WIN the latter
No action has yet been taken by the
Officials of the wal department at
Washington, D. c., on the request Of
THE Merchants Bridge Co., of st. Louis,
to extend the time for a reply of the
company to the departments order re-
questing them to show aus why the
bridge should not be confiscated to the
government for violation of charter
under which the bridge was construct
ed.
The hearing of the case of Whitaker
Wright, the head of the defunct Lon
don and Globe corporation, who was
arrested in New York and %extradited
to England, was resumed before Alder
man Smallman. in Guild Hall, London
on the Z4th. Wright was calm and in
good spirits and was well groomed
case, and the court room was crowded
The attempt of the hoteNand restau'
rant employees to tie up the Chicago
restaurants, on the oath, proved a fail.
ure, not a single establishment having
been compelled to close for lack Of
help. Out Of the 5000 members of thu
different unions ordered on strike no
over ten per cent. responded to thu
summons.
acting Secretary Of State Loomis ha!
received two cablegrams from Ministe,
Beaupre, at Bogota, the latest datet
August Is, conveying the information
that efforts are still being made to flint
a way to revive the canal treaty.
A negro, William G.. Pettifore, o
Trenton, N. j., on the oath, named hi
twenty-seventh child Alice Roosevelt
in honor Of the presidents daughter
Pettifore was born in slavery. Tween
ty of his children are living.
The Bank of Dalton, Mo-, with a cap
ital stock of $4,000, was chartered a
: Jefferson City, Mo-, on the Gath, b
Secretary Of State Cook. The stock
holders are Thomas r. Hamilton, r. W
| Coll and others.
Among the passengers on board tn
, steamer Cymric, from Liverpool an
Queenstown, which arrived at Ne,
!. York, on the oath, were Senator Depev
Mrs. Depew and G. M. Depew, Jr.