Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-11-19

assistance of the police, at Chicago, OF
the 18th, the second day of the strike
without damage to the cars or injury Il
the non-union men who operated them
f. B. Neal, assistant ca4hier of tn,
Merchants national bank, one of the
~wealthiest citizens of Jackson, Miss.
and a state senator, committed suicide
on the 18th. He had been i'll for SOM
time.
The Texas state court of crimina
a. peals, the highest tribunal in Texas
decided, on the 18th, in favor OF the
anti-poolroom law, which knocks Out
all kinds of gambling on horse racing
in Texas.
The contract for the erection of the
Mississippi state building at the st
Louis Worlds fair was let, on the
18th, for $15, 900. The building is tc
be a replica of the Jefferson Davis
home at Beauvoir, Miss.
Nearly I'LL tt III Gu hclhih"eAchN
of postmasters were sent to the senate
by the president on the 10th. Among
them were the following: Illinois
George E. Wideman, Zion City. Iowa
Alonzo B~risson, Davenport.
Speaker of the House Cannon, on the
10th. reappolnted Ascher G. Kinds, OF
Maine, as clerk to the speakers table
and selected l.. ". Busbey, correspond.
ent of the Chicago Inter Ocean, as pri.
vate secretary to the speaker.
The engagement was announced, Oh
the 18th, of Gen. Thomas l.. James
president of the Lincoln national bank
OF New York city, who was postmaster
general under President Garfield, tC
Miss Edith Colborne, of Stratford-on'
Avon, England.
Theodore Roosevelt Signet, the TWEEN
tieth child born to w. H. Signet, dice
on the 18th, at the family home, at Nc.
Keesport, Pa, aged five months, Upor
being notified that this child had beer
named after him, the president sent il
a check for 500.
John Alexander Dowie returned from
New York to Zion City, near Chicago
en- the 18th, and, in spite of a showing
of 1876 converted Gothamites for a $240,.
900 expenditure DR.. Dowie emphatic
ally declared that his trip had been an
overwhelming success.
Postmaster-Genera Payne, on the
18th, directed the dismissal Of Anna
Dreyer, Samuel Kober, Jospeh Kreyel
and Birdie Knott, clerks in the St
Louis post Office, for alleged conspiracy
to secure the removal Of Postmaster
Baumhoff, of that city.
King Edward, who was born Novem
Der 8, 1871, celebrated his birthday il
Sa%ndringham, where there was the
usual dinner to the tenants of the es.
tate, at which the king and queen anC
other members of the royal family
handed round the dessert.
John ~. Brown, the defaulting cash.
Ter of the New Holland (Ohioy bank
who disappeared some time ago, anC
who was arrested in San Francisco
pleaded guilty to one Indictment, or
the 10th, and was sentenced to serve
seven years in the Ohio penitentiary.
The cabinet meeting in Washington
d. c., on the 18th, was devoted almost
entirely to the Panama situation. Pres.
ident Roosevelt's recognition of the
new republic, through his reception anC
exchange of courtesies with Mr.. Vanilla
received the approval of the members
Lawrence Somerfield, who was con.
yicted of grand larceny in connection
with an alleged swindle in copper min
ing stock, was sentenced, in New Yorl
city, on the 18th, to not less than two
years and six months nor more thar
six years and seven months in states
prison.
H. l.. Kaines, alias C. H. Miller, ant
H. A. Scott, said by the Chicago police
to be the cleverest railway ticket forg.
ers in the country, were arrested il
Chicago, on the 18th. Stamps, chem.
icals for altering tickets and blank or.
der slips were found in their room by
the police.
Suffer Bros, leaf tobacco merchants
with establishments in Havana, New
York, st. Louis and Chicago, went into
voluntary bankruptcy, IN the 9th. The
Chicago Title & Trust Co. was appoint.
ed receiver. The liabilities were placed
at 81, SOC, 900, with assets exceeding that
figure by $1,000, 900.
At the regular monthly meeting OF
the board of directors of the Worlds
fair, held in st. Louis, on the 10th,
Judge Franklin Ferriss was unani.
mously elected general counsel of the
st. Louis Worlds fair. He was also
e. cted a member of the board of d.
rectors, to succeed James L. Blair.
The Clyde line steamer Cherokee ar
rived at New York, on the 18th, from
Santo Domingo, with late direct intel
ligence Of the insurrection, and report
ed an exciting experience with a Do
minican m~an-of-war, by which the
steamer was stopped several times, on
one occasion Shots being fred across
her bow. On another occasion the ship
eluded the war vessel under cover Of
darkness.