Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Thousands of educators from all
we the country reached Boston, on
the 5th, eager for the great conren-
ton of the National Educational As
ISOLATION. which begins its annual ses-
sion on the 9th.
Sixty-five loaded cars, the transfer
house and other property belonging
to the Baltimore e. Ohio railroad at
Chicago Junction, o.. was destroyed
by fire on the 5th. Loss, 100000.
Twenty-Five brave policemen at
Evansville, Ind, twice prevented the
lynching, on the 5th, of Lee Brown,
the negro, who killed Patrolman
Louis N. Massey.
While schooling a three-year-old
horse to take a hedge jump on his
farm at Hampstead, L, l., on the 9Th,
James l.. kernochan was seriously in
jured.
A mob composed of 300 white people
at Peoria, ILL.,. on the 5th, sought
the life of Minnie Pearl. colored. who
brutally whipped a small white boy.
A waterspout of immense proper
tions struck in the vicinity of Green's
burg, Pa, on the 5th. 1t is known
that 20 persons were drowned.
A. c. Cass, of Denver, Col, first vice.
president and traffic manager of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., died at
Redstone, Cal, on the 9Th.
Thomas De Paul, of New York city,
finding his wife with another man at
Atlantic City, N. j., on the 5th,
stabbed her. She is dying.
George killiam, of Springfield, ILL.,,
died, on the 9Th, as the result of be-
ing struck by a Chicago. Peoria & St.
Louis train.
The military company sent to Nor
way, S. c., returned, on the 5th. They
had no clash with the negroes. The
town is quiet.
The main building of the Hammond
packing plant at st. Joseph. Mo-, was
burned on the 5th. Loss, 81, 500, 900;
fully insured.
Elias Trimble, an old resident of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, lost his life in an
effort to save a boy from drowning
on the 5th.
Robert keeton, of Lexington. Ky,
shot and killed Sam Brown in a quar-
rel over a woman on the 5th. Keeton
escaped.
Four men in Leadville. Col. were
caught in a blizzard on the 9Th. One
had his face badly frozen.
L. A. Moore, secretary of the city
of Dallas, Tex, was shot and killed.
on the 9Th. bv his son.
William Rudolph, who, with George
Collins. robbed the Union bank on
26, 1902. and killed Pinker-
Detective Charles j. Schumacher
January "a, escaped from the st.
Jail on the 9th.
Before the firemen could arrive sis
ters of charity from the House of
Good Shepherd in Kansas City, Mo-, on
9th, assisted in fighting a fire that
destroyed the sections house at Mount
Mary's cemetery.
Thomas w. Lawson filed, in the
Massachusetts supreme judicial court,
on the 9th, his declaration in the suit
he has brought against the Bay State
Gas Co.. of Delaware. for 81, 100000.
Over twelve hundred of the 1900
employees of John and James Dobson
carpet mill, Philadelphia, on the 9th
to return to work. No conces-
sions have been made by the firm.
An issue of $4,000 of 20-year five
percent. gold bonds was voted by
the directors of the Litchfeld & Madi-
son Railroad Co. at a meeting held in
ILL.,, on the 9th.
Mrs. +. L. st. John, a prominent So
woman and church worker, was
killed. on the 9th, in New York, by
being thrown into the rapid transit
subway by an electric car.
Admiral Dewey, on the 9th. re-
IS president of the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial association. aud
Nelson a. Miles has been
to succeed him.
Gov. Peabody of Colorado, On the 9th,
removed George w. Thatcher as com
missioner in chief, and Van T.. Rouse,
rs member and treasurer of the Colo.
RADIO Worlds fair board.
Joseph j. Gill, republican, of Steu-
benville, o., on the 9th, sent his resig-
to Gov. Nash as the member
of congress from the Sixteenth con-
gressional district.
At the request of Receiver Smith,
OF New York, Lewis Nixon, on the 9th.
consented to remain as president of
the United States Shipbuilding Co.
AT a meeting of the trustees of the
Stanford university, California. on the
9th, Judge Leib, of San Jose, resigned
as president of the board.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean Flint Glass Workers, union con-
vened, on the 9th, in Cincinnati. with
800 delegates present.
As q result of the breaking of tina
Oakford Park (Pa.) dam, on the 9Th.
20 persons are known to be dead and
16 + missing.