Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-04-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS,

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
A report to the United States navy
department, on the 5th, from Com.
mander Turner of the cruiser Atlanta,
at Santo Domingo City, showed an.
other repulse to the government
troops, who made an attempt to take
the city from the revolutionists.
George Gillette died in Santa Cruz,
CAL, on the 5th, aged so years. He
came to the United States in 1912 as
a member of Lord Ashburton's suite
to negotiate the Ashburton-Webster
treaty for the northwest boundary of
this country.
George II. Guest, a travelling man
whose home is supposed to be at 1858
Wabash avenue, Chicago, died in Kan
sas City, Mo-, on the 5th, of morphine
poisoning. 1t is not believed that the
drug was taken with suicidal intent.
Mrs. Fannie Spencer Wilder, widow
Of Amherst H.. Wilder, died at her
home in st. Paul, Mimi, on the 5th.
Her malady dated from the death Of
her only daughter, Mrs. Cornelia d.
Appleby, January 20 last.
Mrs. Louisa Ames Van Weik shot
and killed herself in TIE Hotel Wash
ington, in Jersey City, N. j., on the
5th. She was 81 years old, a blonde,
and good looking. She left no hint
of why she sought death.
The United States consul at Canton,
China, telegraphed, on the 5th,, that
the famine in the Kwang 81 province,
resulting from the rebellion there is
serious. Thousands will die unless as
sistance is Forthcoming.
Officers, on the 5th, surrounded a
ranch neal Cordelle, Okla, and within
a brief time captured six of the re-
naming outlaws of the Bert Casey
gang, supposed to have robbed the
Leger bank of $4,000.
John Stephens was shot and fatally
injured and Ben p. Edens was shot
and dangerously wounded during a
battle with highwaymen at Washing
ton, w. Va, on the 9Th.
The immense storage house of the
Birmingham Fertilizer Co. in East
Birmingham, Ala, was destroyed by
fire, on the 5th, the loss being esti-
at 1925, 000.
Carl Uhlig, aged As, was killed at
Albany, Wis, on the 5th, by Il step
son named Richard Hartwick, aged 20
years. Hartwick surrendered to the
sheriff.
A grain elevator owned by the
"Nickle Plate railroad, in Chicago,
was destroyed by fire on the 5th. The
loss is $4,000.
Republicans elected their state
ticket in Michigan, On the 9th, Tom
l.. Johnson (dem.) was reelected
mayor of Cleveland, o.; Samuel NJ.
Jones (Ind.) was chosen mayor for
the fourth time in Toledo and repub-
hcans rerained control of Cincinnati
be re-electing Fleishman as mayor.
Rev. Heber Newton, on the 9th, re-
as pastor of the Stanford Me-
mortal church at Stanford University,
Cal. The definite reason for the res
lgnation are not known. Both DR..
and Mrs. Stanford refuse to
discuss the matter.
Mrs. Susan Updyke, charged with
causing the death of Andrew .Fas-
nacht, was locked up at Akron, O.,
the 9th. She admitted killing him,
that Fasnacht was playing the
part of a "peeping Tom" at her home.
A warrant was issued by the state
department, on the 9th, to the En-
glish authorities for the surrender Of
Robert Percy Moffat, charged with
embezzling $4,000 in Hong Kong.
is in Portland, Ore.
The Buffalo IN. " Commercial, on
the 9th, made the statement that Ar
thur R. Pencil, who was killed in an
automobile accident on March 10,
was a defaulter to the extent of from
to 100000.
Col. Henry M. Cooper, at one time
a figure in national politics, died, on
the 9th, at his residence in Chicago.
Cooper was a republican and for sew
eral years United States marshal at
Little Rock, Ark.
According to advices from Constan-
on the 9th, the Macedonian
revolutionary committee intends to
proclaim a general insurrection in the
provinces of Turkey about
April 20.
Three United States commissioners
Oregon were removed by order of
States District Judge Bellin-
ger, OF the 9th, due to Investigations
into land matters by special agents.
The Cuban congress reassembled at
on the 9th, and President
in his message, warned it's
members that their obligations to the
United States could not be evaded.
James G. Roberts, aged As, died sud-
1enly with heart disease in st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, on the 9th. For 20 years
he had been connected with the First
national bank of Buchanan county.
John D. Albrecht, the Oldest jeweler
Missouri, died at st. Joseph on the
18th,