Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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A committee from the Grand Army
of the Republic visited Pre- tiaent
Roosevelt and Po8tmaster-Gcnerai
Payne, on the 9th, in the interest OF
legislation in favor of veterans of the
civil war in appointments, retentions
or promotions in the public service
over other persons.
The charred body of Mrs. Florine
Henry, wife of Philip S. Henry, q
wealthy coffee merchant, was found
in the ruins of the family residence,
in New York, which was destroyed by
fire, on the 18th. A servant girl
jumped from a fourth-story window
and was killed.
The Filipino people are averse to
Gov. Taft leaving the islands, and a
great popular demonstration, in
which 5000 men marched, took place
in Manila, on the 18th, with the OBJ
iect of inducing him to remain.
An engineer on the Knoxville q
Ohio railroad was found dead in his
cab, on the 18th, with his hand grasp
ing the throttle, in which condition
he had been sitting while the train
ran a distance of eight miles.
A burglar who had stolen $500
worth of jewelry at Council Bluffs,
la, on the night of the 10th, emptied
his revolver at two pursuing police
men and made his escape.
William d. Beckett, q prominent
lawyer of Omaha, Neb. was found
frozen to death on the roadside, five
miles from the city, early on the
morning of the 18th.
Eleven Cinnamon were overcome
by coal gas in a room in Providence,
Il. L., on the 18th, one of them being
dead when found and two others in a
critical condition.
The emigration from Germany last
year amounted to G6,SS4 persons, an
increase Of 63,5S6 over 1901, the ma
| jority of them coming to the United
| States.
Very severe weather was expert
! enced through the northwest, on the
18th, the thermometer going down to
eight below zero at Bismarck, N. d.
John B. Henderson, Jr., of New
York, formerly of Missouri, and Miss
Angelica Crosby are to be married Mt
Charleston, w. Va, on February IL.
Lydia Dwyer, ten years old, sui
cided by poison at Ottumwa, Ia, on
the 18th, because her mother would
not let her play with other girls.
A 1ive-foot vein of plumoago was
disco,cred in Saline county, Ill, on
the 18th.
In the senate, on the 18th, a lively
debate occurred between Messrs. Aid
rich, Vest and Carmack over an eff
fort made by Mr.. Aldrich to secure
a postponement of the Vest resolution
requiring the committee on finance to
report a bill removing the duty on
coal, Mr.. Vest expressing the belief
that to allow its postponement would
mean it's defeat. After a large num-
Der of private pension bills had been
passed, the senate adjourned out of
respect to the memory of the late
Representative Tongue, of Oregon.
In the house a resolution was adopt
ed to authorize the committee on
merchant marine and fisheries to in.
vestigate the coal situation. No 9th
er business was transacted, the house
at nee adjourning out of respect to
the memory of the late Representa-
tive Tongue, of Oregon.
Secretary of the Navy William H
Moody was seriously but not danger
ously injured at the naval academ,
, grounds, Annapolis, Md, on the 18th
by jumping from a carriage in which
= he was riding, the horses attached t.
: which were running away at the time
John Mitchell and other officials 0
: the mine workers union issued a cir
: cular, on the 12th,. to the local unions
urging the members to exert them
selves i'll every way to increase tn
output of coal in order to relieve tn
stringency of the market.
e The coolest weather of the winte
e prevailed in many parts of the sout
n on the 18th, but little suffering W.
y reported, as the supply of fuel wa
generally sufficient to meet the d.
?. mand.
Ie A railroad train crashed into
l. sleigh at a grade crossing near Sta
le ford, N. Y, on the 18th, killing one
al it's five occupants, injuring two fata
n ly and two severely.
= Ten full-blood Indians were a
rested and placed in Jail at South M
" Alester, l. T., on the 18th, on IL
81 charge of having killed Douglas A
y len, a white hunter.
The New York tax assessmel
Z. books, made public on the 12th, sho
that Andrew Carnegie leads the list
personal property assessments, wi
. $4,000, 900.
There were six deaths from II
!. plague at Mazatlan, Mexico, on Il
= 18th, and eight on the 18th.
A landslide at Nan Kin, on the 12t
resulted in the drowning Of 200 Chin
men.