Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-04
AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Marcel Renault, the celebrated
French automobilist and manufacture
n of racing machines, died at Poitiers,
On the 9th, as the result of injuries
received during the rac from Paris
toward Madrid on the Gath. He is the
seventh victim.
Mrs. Lizzie Mccormick, indicted for
murder in the first degree, was ar
raigned in Memphis, Tenn, on the
9th. She pleaded not guilty.
The Iowa state convention of pro
hibitionists met at NJ arshalltown, on
the eth. Rev. ]. Gaven Ness, d. D., OF
Mount Vernon, presiding.
Northwestern Ohio was visited, on
the 9th. by one of the worst storms
in its history. The damage done in
Toledo is estimated at $4,000
Twenty-Five explosions in the plant
of the Indiana Powder Co., at Fanta,
net, lud., on the 27th, killed one mar
and fatally injured two others.
Edward West, SIS years old, the
first teacher of a public school in the
territory of Wisconsin, at Milwaukee,
in 1887, died, on the 27th, at Appleton,
| Wis.
a collision on the Southern railway
neal Bryan, Ala, on the 27th, resulted
in the death of three engineers, four
fremen and enc brakeman; the de.
struction by fire of - loaded freight
ears and eight empty cars.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Los Angeles, Cal, IN the 9th, Sc
lected Buffalo as the next place oil
meeting.
Jack II. Jennings, 27 years old, OF
Urbana, O., was electrocuted while
working so feet in the air at Hunting,
ton, W. Va, On the 27th. His body
came in contact with a live wire.
A mob at ~Bluefelds, w. Va, or
the 9th, forced officers to accept
bond for two young men, who hac
been arrested for bad conduct, and re
lease them from the city jail.
A negro attacked Mrs. j. c. Lind
wife of a farmer living nea Yates
Centre. Kas., on the 27th, on a coun'
try road. He was arrested and placed
in jail.
John Barbaglia, the Italian politi'
clan. who was convicted of naturaliZa'
ton frauds in the federal court at 80
Louis, on the Goth, has made a partia
confession to United States District
Attorney Dyer and his assistant, Bert
Nortoni, and it is expected that wheI
they have got through with him they
will have a line on some of the prom
met politicians who were behind the
scheme.
On the authority of the German
navy department, it is stated that
Germany will participate in the nava
display which will take place at Hamp
ton roads in connection with the open
ing of the Louisiana Purchase exposi
ton in May, 1904.
Harley j. Howe, aged 60, a scale
manufacturer, died of heart disease
on the eth, at Rochester, n. Y.
The British steamer Huddersfielt
rollided with the Norwegian steamer
Tito while on a trip between Antwerp
and Grimsby. on the morning Of thu
27th, and soon ~foundered. Of those
on board 90 Austrian and Italian i'm
migrants persisted.
Two unknown men entered the of
flee of A.. c. Kendall, manager of thu
secret Service union, in Kansas City
Mo-, on the 2Sth, threw pepper in hi
eyes and escaped with $500 in bill
that were lying on his desk.
Advices were received at CONSTANT
nople, on the 2Sth. conveying the in
formation that 1000 persons had beel
killed and 500 houses wrecked by al
earthquake on April 20 at M~elezgherd
Asiatic Turkey.
Ed. Fairman, formerly of St. Louis
was acquitted, on the 2sth, of tn
charge of killing John Switzerland, a
Powell, I. I. The tragedy occurred il
1898 over remarks made concernin,
Mrs. Fairman.
~ two-story brick building in Tc
peka, Kas., collapsed on the 2Sth. Ed
ward Larsen, Joseph Jackson. job
Thomas. Carl Johnson and NJ. {
Charlesburg were badly injured.
The Supreme Court of Honor, j
session in Kansas City, Mo-, on tn
2sth, increased death rates, and al
propriated $4,000 for a headquarter
building in Springfield, Ill.
A mountaineering hog supply, 7,3O
head, was received on the Sioux Cit
Qa.) market on the 2Sth.
President Roosevelt, on the 2Stl
planted a tree in Boise, Idaho, on tn
state house grounds near the on
planted by President Harrison in 1S9,
The United Presbyterian general a,
sembly met in Tarkio, Mo-, on tn
2sth. DR.. ]. +. Cowan, of In~dianapoli
was elected moderator.
The body of John Cavanaugh, age
is years, was found, on the goth, nea
Scranton, Pa, at the spot indicate
in a letter left by Mary McAndrev
the young mans sweetheart, VIII
committed suicide by taxing carbol
acid. Their parents had objected t
, their marriage.
Two street cars collided in Oman
Neb., on the 29th, injuring about fl
teen persons. Those most seriousl
injured were Harry Straight, BERTH
Bielsteih, George Bruchruk, job
Weiss, w. H. Robinson and Anr
SCHNEIDER.
During a violent storm at Che
bourg, France, on the goth, lightnir
caused the explosion of three SUI
marine torpedoes at the west entran'
to the harbor. No damage was don