Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-04-02
NEWS AND NOTES..
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Miss Elise heasoner has been sp-
pointed eastern press representative
of the St. Louis Worlds fair, in place
of the late Julian Ralph. Originally
Miss Reasoner was Mr.. Ralph's as
sistant.
A lone highwayman killed IN armed
messenger on a stage near endocino,
Cal, on the gath. The driver, amid a
rain of bullets, escaped with the
treasure chest.
Judge Halsey, in the circuit court
at Milwaukee, on the Gath, rendered
an opinion to the effect that s~o-called
blacklists are privileged communica-
tions.
Louis Kohl, aged 23 years, shot and
killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Kate
Stacktole, and dangerously wounded
his brother-in-law, Harold Stacktole,
II years old, at the Stacktole home in
Cincinnati, on the 24th, because his
wife refused to see Dim.
The president decided, on the 25th,
to appoint f. NJ. S~teinhart, an Illinois
man, to be consul general at Havana
General Auditor H. c. Clements of
the Texas Southern railroad, and of
the Delaware d Western Construction
Co., died at his home in Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 25th, aged "a years.
jefferson H. Jones, a retired naval
officer, died in his apartments in
Philadelphia, on the Gath, aged 70
years.
Ruth Zeigler, aged 25 years, lately
a public school teacher of Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, committed suicide near
Saratoga, Cal, on the Gath, drowning
herself because her fiance had re-
quested the breaking of their engage
ment.
Moses Fowler Chase, the central fig
ure in an Indiana will case, was found
in a private sanitarium in France on
the 25th. He is pronounced incurably
insane. ...
Former County Surveyor Louis En-
RIGHT and E. c. D%euscher, an attorney,
were arrested in Chicago, on the 25th,
charged with making fraudulent land
deals.
A broken rail wrecked a Santa Fe
passenger train at Lakin, Kas., on the
25th,and every car except n left the
track. Conductor Pond was badly IN.
jured.
The Woman's Suffrage association
adjourned at New Orleans, on the
25th, after selecting Washington as
the next place of meeting.
DR.. r. c. Flower was indicted fol
grand larceny in New York, on the
25th, and locked up in the Tombs in
default of $4,000 bond.
George Nelk, who killed his mother
was declared sane and convicted OF
murder in the first degree in Phila
delphia on the 25th.
Five hundred barrels Of burgundy
wine were shipped from San Jose
Cal, to Antwerp and London on thu
25th.
President Roosevelt was invited, OF
the 25th, by representatives of thu
Typographical union in Washington
to open the internationa convention
on August 10. The president pre-
Used to do so, if in the city at tina
time.
A brother of Sir Hector MacDonal
the British officer who committed sui
eide in Paris, on the 25th, arrived il
that city on the goth, and decided t.
bury the remains in French soil.
The National Council of Women o
the United States convened in New
Orleans on the 26th. No trouble aros'
oven the color question as ne negr'
delegates were in attendance.
Rev. J. C. Grimes, attempted to xii
himself with a revolver while attend
ing a Methodist conference at AL
toona, Pa, on the Goth. He was SUI
fering from melancholia.
An anti-cigarette bill passed III
Wisconsin assembly on the goth. l
prohibits the manufacture of or sal
of cigarettes or cigarette paper, an
takes effect July 1 next.
Louis A. Monette was sentenced t
the penitentiary for two years, a
~Texarkana, Ark, On the goth, 70
breaking into the Jail there Will
hunting for a friend.
Robert Winscott was married t
Mrs. Mary Harmon at Bowling Greer
Ky, on the Goth, and died while re
ceiving congratulations immediatel
after the ceremony.
The plants of the American Bicycl
Co. and the India Rubber Co. wer
totally destroyed by fire at Akron, @
on the goth. The total loss is est
| mated at $250,00O.
Francis Hare, a political leade
among the Chickasaw Indians, and hi
wife were assassinated by an Ill
, known person at Ravia, l. T., on tn
night of the goth.
Senator Parker introduced a resol1
I ton in the Illinois legislature,
e Springfield, on the Goth, to investiga'
: the expenditures of Attorney-Gener
Hamlin's office.
: The inquest into the death of Edwi
g L. Burdick, at Buffalo, n. Y, close
on the goth, without discovering ey
dence sufficient to point out the mu
. derer.
:. Gov. Yates, on the goth, appoints
= William M. Mounte, of ~Carlinville,
= member of the Illinois commission
. the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
A strange plant at Glenwood, Ii
killed two children On the Goth. Thu
a ate the roots. A third child was in
critical condition.
Peter Luttrell and wife, both pc
II eighty, were murdered by unknov
persons near McMinnville, Tenn,
re the 26th.
Delegates from educational insti'
lions in Illinois met at Bloomingtt
. on the 27th, and adopted a code
~ v,,Iac andip RI D1aca athletics on