Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-17
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the Detroit & Toledo Short Line rail
road, which they jointly control.
In one OF C~hicago's prettiest resi-
dence districts United States revenue
officers located, on the 10th, and con-
fiscated an Illicit still of 1870 gallons
daily capacity, which vas doing a fine
business. Several barrels of unfinished
product were found, Samuel Barron, a
Jew, was arrested.
While walking in her sleep, on the
morning of the 10th, at Oklahoma
City, Okla, Fannie Soper was taken
for a burglar and shot in the side by
John Hubetka, a saloon keeper, and
dangerously wounded.
The Mckinley memorial statue will
be unveiled at Adams, Mass, on the
afternoon of Saturday, October 3. The
principal speakers will be eX-Secretary
of the Navy John D. Long. Senator
Bates and Lieut.-Goy. Gould. The
tatue is the result of public subscrip-
tons.
Stunned by the lightning shock when
the barn in which he was sleeping was
struck, on the night of the 10th, Fred
erick Doerr, % years old, was dragged
to safety by his uncle, William Doerr,
owner Of the barn, near Millstadt, Ill,
After a two days conference at Par
sons, kaS., between officials of the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas Railroad Co.
and committees representing its en-
ployes, an agreement was reached, on
the 10th, whereby so per cent. Of the
employees in the Sedalia shops were
granted an increase of ten cents a day
Wheat jumped, on the 10th, al
Coshocton, o., to the highest price ii
local markets for IS months, Is cents
Grain dealers said that farmers were
bulling the market.
A report was current in Kansas City
Mo, on the 18th, that the Kansas City
Southern railway had begun negotia'
lions for the purchase of the For
Smith & Western railroad, which has
119 miles Of road o in operation, eX'
tending from Fort Smith to Waleektt
Junction, l.. T., on the line of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railway.
Arthur j. Herbst was arrested anC
arraigned in New York city, on thu
18th, on a charge of fraudulent use o
the mails. He and Julius N. Nilsson, i
is alleged, opened an office in Chicago
and borrowed the name of the Western
Supply Co., Of that place, to secur'
goods on the credit of that company.
The responsible officers of the ad
ministratiOn at Washington, d. c., ar
convinced that war between Turke,
and Bulgaria, into which all Europ
may be drawn, is unavoidable. All the.
are doing now with regard to Turke,
is being done with a view to meetint
/ such q development of the situation.
Mrs. Grace Strohn, who inherits tn
property of her sister, Miss Isabell'
Clark, who committed suicide in Cali
fornia, on the 10th, is the wife of Fl. n
Stronn, an official of the Lagrang
Gll.) Gas Co. She received word, Of
the 18th. of her sisters death, and left
with her husband, for the west.
Harold Richard Vynne, newspape
man, novelist, poet, once editor c
Town Topics, and a queer figure in Chi
cago bohemian life, was declared in
sane and committed, on the 18th, t
the Dunning asylum. Excessive indul
gence in liquor caused his menta
weakness.
More than two hundred ticket agents
delegates to the annual convention
the International Association Of Tickle
Agents, representing practically ever
railway system in the country, were
session at Salt Lake City, Utah, on tn
11tn.
Two earthquake shocks were felt i
Portland, Ore, at 3:45 O'Clock p. IN. o
the nth. No damage was done as Ia
as known, although the largest brio
buildings were shaken quite severely
In a wreck on the High line of tn
Katy near Sutherland, johnson cour
ay, Mo, on the 18th, several Poop
were injured, three of them seriously
Count Tolstoi spent his s~eyenty-hf1
birthday in strict privacy among h
children at Tula, Russia, on the lit
He was in the best of health. The p
pers printed glowing eulogies OF Il
count on the occasion of his birthday.
Violation of the state law again
licensing resorts is the charge again
Claude Winter, mayor of Cairo, al
DR.. e. E. Gordon, a prominent phys
clan OF Cairo, ILL.,, who were placed u
!, der arrest on the 18th.
Orders granting three years leave
; absence to Commander Peary, OF t
navy, beginning April | next, were
sued on the 44th. He is now on du
at the bureau of yards and docks
Washington, D. c.
; William |. Dawson, a member OF t
! Illinois Legislature, died, of rapid CO
: sumption, on board a Rock Island ira
: near Mankato, Kas., on the 18th. n
Dawson uao been travelling for
! health.
Tricky jim Back, George Bolli
ger and C. G. Adams have been indi,
: ed at Cynthiana, KY, for perjury
having sworn falsely in attempting
: establish an alibi for Curtis Jet VIII
0 he was tried for the murder Of j.
g Macum.
0 A terrific gale swept the British isl
on the 10th, the velocity being abe
It 70 miles an hour, accompanied by Il
rental rain. Cable communication "
interrupted for several hours. EN-
y is believed to have suffered severely
. Kerry Williams, who was TAX
from the Chester (Ill.) prison, on
= role, by an Alton quarry owner, has be
: sent back to the prison at his wi
y quest, declaring that he was unable
y do the work required of him, as he v
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