Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

White river overtiowed its banks
at O'Brien station, near Seattle,
Wash, early on the morning of the
4th, and the people of the town were
awakened by water creeping into
their beds, but all were taken out in
safety.
C. W. Wood, a railroad engineer,
had his foot pinioned under a wreck
at St. Paul, Mimi, on the 4th, and was
being scalded by steam, when he took
a knife from his pocket and ampu-
tated his foot below the ankle.
A St. Louis Waterman, on the night
of the 4th, discovered a burglar in
side a restaurant stealing pennies out
of the Fresh Air Mission contribution
box, and after a sharp struggle land
ed him in the lookup.
The governors and ex-governors of
many western states will be present
at the grand ball to be given during
the convention of the National Live
Stock association, at Kansas City,
Mo-, January IA.
"Topsy," an elephant who had
killed three men and had recently be-
come unmanageable, was electro
cuted at Coney Island, New York, on
the 4th, 5000 volts killing her in ten
seconds.
The ~11-year-old son of Motorman S.
j. Bland was Il over and killed by
the car his father had just alighted
from, in Nevada, Mo-, on the 4th. His
mother also witnessed the accident.
St. Louis master plumbers, at a
meeting, on the 5th, agreed to pay
the increased scale of wages de-
manded by the union, and the men
returned to work on the 9th.
Forty Americans, among them Mrs.
L. z. Letter, of Chicago, mother of
Lady Curzon, attended a brilliant
function following the durbar, at
Delhi, India, on the 4th.
Charles j. Bell, professor of chem
istry in the University of Wisconsin,
died at %Somerville, Mass, On the 4th,
where he had been spending the holt
days with his brother.
Cold water forced down his throat
had the effect of awakening John
Fulcher, a negro prisoner, at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 4th, who had been
asleep for 159 hours.
DR.. Julius Kohl died at his home in
Belleville, Ill, on the 4th, aged 6
years. He was one of the oldest prac-
titioners in st. Clair county.
A stable boy and % horses were
burned to death in a fire at Dallas,
Tex, on the 4th.
In the senate, on the 9Th, a discus
sion on the coal situation occupied
the time until two o'clock. A num-
Der of bills on the subject were intro
| duced, causing a lively debate. The
omnibus statehood bill was taken up,
Mr.. Nelson (Minn.) speaking in oppo-
sition to it until four o'clock, when
the senate adjourned. LIN the house
the bill to create a general staff in
the army was taken up, and an at
tempt was made to pass it under a
suspension of the rules, but as a roll
call showed less than a quorum pres
ent, the house adjourned.
Capt. Marmaduke and the American
officers and crew of the Colombian
gunboat Bogota resigned at Panama
on the 5th, and their services being
no longer needed, the designations
were accepted. They will receive -four
months pay and transportation tc
the United States.
Isaac Studebaker, who raised a dis
turbance in a Dunkard church in thu
Deer Creek (Ind.) neighborhood, or
the 4th, was set upon by the pastors
son, and after a hard fight in from
of the altar the offending youth wal
knocked out and taken senseless tx
his home.
President Roosevelt, on the 5th, di
rected the appointment of Capt. Loui
b. Lawton, Twenty-sixth infantry
who was permanently injured by
wound at Tien-Tsin,i to be major il
the Judge advocate generals depart
ment.
: The United States supreme court
on the 5th, affirmed the validity of a
ordinance of the borough of Ne,
, Hope, Pa, requiring telegraph CON
Z panies to pay a license fee for pole
: and wires in the town.
, Col. Henry c. Forbes, librarian o
!. the Illinois state laboratory of mai
r ural history, died at his home in III
Eana, on the 5th. He commanded tn
q Seventh Illinois cavalry in the civ
4 war.
I A posse of citizens at Boeuf River
! La, on the 5th, ordered a colore
! mail carrier named Jackson not to rt
! turn with the mail on his rout,
: threatening him with death in case h
did.
!, Senator Clarke went on a specit
train from New York to Butte, Mont
y to be present at the funeral of h
daughter-in-law, on the 5th. III
:. "million dollar baby is doing well.
4 Bishop Gulstan +. Ropert, head (
the Catholic church in Hawaii, died {
Honolulu, on the 5th.