Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-04-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LAIE NEWS ItEMS
Lieut.. Charles Faulkner. son of for
mer Senator Faulkner, of West VII
ginia, was placed in confinement on
orders of Maj. Pitcher, at Skagway,
Alaska, on the 29th. Faulkner is &C
cusad of obtaining money under f.lse
pretenses.
Robert Fl. Wilson, driver of a hose
carriage, was killed almost instant
ly, and Capt. Sanford Thompson, Lieut..
Harry Weaver and Adam Rupert
were injured in responding to a fire
call in Pittsburg, Pa, on the goth.
William V. Mexican, who for nearly
twenty years was editor in chief of
the Public Ledger, died at his home in
Philadelphia, on the Goth, at the age
Of SO years. He served as President
Buchanan's secretary.
Luther Mays and William Lindsay.
farmers, quarreled yer a quantity of
squirrels at Cumberland, I. T., on tn,
goth, and Lindsay shot Mays dead.
Lindsay surrendered, and asserts he
fired in self-defense.
Capt. Coffin and IL men, who will
take part in the Zeigler Arctic expe-
dition, arrived at Tromsoe, Norway,
on the 10th. The repairs to the expe-
dition's steamship America are COM
pleted.
The remains of Sir Hector MacDon-
aid, the British officer who committed
suicide in Paris rather than face
charges of immortality, were taken to
Edinburgh, Scotland, on the Goth, for
burial.
A big ferryboat belonging to the
Central Railroad of New Jersey
caught fire, on the 29th, and was
hauled into midStream to save other
craft. The boat burned to the waters
edge.
Gustavus F. Swift, president of the
Swift Packing Co., died at his home
in Chicago, on the Goth, of internal
hemorrhages resulting from a su1gi,
cal operation. Mr.. Swift was 63 years
old.
Robert N. Baker, of Worcester
Mass, and John B. Kenerson, OF
RoXbury, Mass, freshmen at Dart
mouth college, were drowned in the
Connecticut river on the Goth.
Herman Bowman Esher, of Chicago
a Yale university student, killed him
self in New York, on the Goth, because
he had been told that he could not re
cover from consumption.
E. o. Keefe, a wealthy resident o
Mantle, ILL.,, escaped from the insane
hospital at Jacksonville and wa
killed by n train near Woodson, Ill.
on the Goth.
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia
on the 3Oth, sold his rights and it'll
of his publication, Everybody's Maya
zine, to the Ridgeway-Thayer com
pany, which is composed of Erman j
Ridgeway, John Adams Thayer ant
G. w. Wilder.
The vote of bituminous miners il
Indiana on the ultimatum of opera
tors that last years agreement !
signed, was canvassed at indianapolis
on the 30th, and showed a majority il
favor of rejecting the ultimatum.
A stylishly-dressei woman frcn
London fired three shots at M. Marco
|, Provost, the French novelist, in Paris
on the 30th, because he refused t,
= recognize her. He disarmed the Won
t an and escaped injury.
3 Mrs. S. L. McQuown was robbed Q
5000 which she had just taken fror
the bank in Marion, Ind, on the 30tl
, by two men who took the none
from her pocketbook which was hang
: ing from her belt.
Forest McCord, driven insane b
fear of arrest on the charge of di'
i turbing the peace, cut the throat {
a his sweetheart, Miss Charity Stort
n and killed himself at Bournville, G
on the 30th.
The car of Russia, on the 30th, T.
v ceived Thomas w. Cridler, represents
tive of the st. Louis exposition, an
expressed his personal interest az
It sympathy with the objects of the e.
N position.
n The heart of Vail Wood, while
was undergoing a surgical operate
at Missoula, Mont, on the got
, stopped beating, and in half an no,
Il he suddenly returned to life and w
II recover.
Seventeen restaurants were clos
o. in Denver, Col, on the 30th, by
" strike of 500 union cooks and waiter
d The trouble arose over the emplo
ar ment of non-union cooks.
A. Vice-Admiral Courrejolles, who col
manded the French forces at Tai
IN and Tien Tsin in the recent China e
petition, died in Paris, France, on Il
3Oth.
Fl. Patterson, a ranchman, visit,
II. his divorced wife at Durango, Col,
n the 3Oth, and shot his little daught
r. through the Heart AID killed himse
be Luke James, aged so, a hotel keep
\ at Bonilla, s. d., threw himself und
"a a train at Huron, on the 30th, and W
At instantly killed.
~ The J. G. Mattingly distillery,
Louisville, KY, was destroyed by fl
ON the 3Oth, causing q loss Of $4,000