Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-29

On the goth, Gov. Dockery of Mis- !;
souri, offered a reward of 5000 for the I
arrest and conviction of the murderers
of Mrs. Kate Lauman, in St. Louis =
county. 2
The number of yellow fever cases
in Laredo, Tex, were given, on the 22d,
in the official bulletin, as follows: New
cases, II; deaths, /. Total cases, 497;
total deaths, SO.
The condition of Senator Foraker .
who was taken i'll at S~andusky, o. on !
the 2lst, was reported much improved ;
on the 22d. His physician stated that !
the patient would soon leave his bed ;
The convention of the Army and
Navy union of the United States came
to a close at Pittsfield, Mass, on the
Esd, with the election of Hugh H.. HEN
ry, of Weehawken, N. j., as national
commander. '
Notice was posted at the Youngstown {
(Ohiol works of the Carnegie Steel Co. {
on the 23d, that operations would be
resumed on the 25th. The works have '
been closed for some time. About 5000 {
men were affected. |
Charles Kratz, the fugitive from st t
Louis, under indictment for bribery [
and perjury, was arrested, on the 22d,
and is held for extradition, under Or I
ders from the federal government, at 6
the City of Mexico.
On the 22d, Charles H. Bacon, presi- :
dent of the Exchange bank, which
ceased business in L%ockport, ILL.,, on the
21st, was reported at the point of death.
Heart failure and excitement over the
failure was given as the cause. ,
The coroner's jury, at Normandy, 1
Mo, on the 21st, returned a verdict
finding that Mrs. Kate Lauman came
to her death at the hands of a person
or persons unknown to the jury. 1t
further declared that robbery was the
motive.
Samuel H. Decker. for Sc years a
doorkeeper of the capitol, in Wash
ington, D. G., died on the 2lst. AT
the battle of P~erryville, October s, 1862,
both his arms were shot off. Shortly
after that he was appointed a capitol
doorkeeper for life.
By the general shutdown of the
Amalgamated Copper Co. properties a,
Butte, Mont, on the 23d, from l3,O0U
to Is, 900 men were directly thrown out
of employment, and others were indi-
rectly affected, SO that the grand total
reached 10000 men.
The business portion of Redwood
Falls, Mimi, suffered a $130,000 loss
by fire, on the 22d, which started IN
Hotel Francois. The guests of the
hotel lost all of their personal belong
ings, and some of them barely es'
capped with their lives.
Police Captain Samuel J. Boyd, in
dicted, on the goth, by the st. Louis
federal grand jury on 80 counts, charg-
ing participation in the naturalization
frauds, was suspended, on the 2lst
Chief Kelly appointed Capt, E. p
Creecy to succeed Capt. Boyd.
At a meeting of the passenger rep
resentatives of the western lines, held
in Chicago, on the 21st, it was decided
that a rate Of $50 from Chicago to the
Pacific coast should not be made again
for any convention or gathering, and
a minimum rate of $3.50 was agreed
upon.
Thomas Barclay OF Paris and Lon
Ion, formerly president of the British
chamber of commerce, who was in
Washington, D. c., On the 22d, eX-
pressed himself as favorable to the re-
newal of the efforts to secure an arbi-
tration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain.
Postmaster-Genera Payne, on the
21st, removed from Office Michael w.
Louis, superintendent Of supplies OF
the post office department; Louis
Kempner, chief of the registry division
of the third assistant postmaster-gen-
erals office, and G. G. Terry, a clerk
in the post office department.
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w. H. Smith, in Jail at Basin, Wyo.,
confessed, on the 18th, to completely
IN mobbing the Jail at Basin last July,
when German and Walters, two MUIR
derers, were shot and killed by the mob
and Deputy Sheriff Prince killed and
Deputy Mead was wounded. Smith
gave the names Of IS other men in
the mob.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago, on the
21st, gave notice of his intention tt
stop all forms of race course gambling
and to proceed against the handbook
evil through the revocation of licenses
of all saloons in which that form of
betting evil was permitted. The infor-
nation on which the mayor acted was
collected by secret service men.
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President Roosevelt, Oh the 10Th, au-
thorized the statement that there was
no truth whatever in the rumors of
difference of opinion between himself
and Secretary Shaw or among men,
bers of the cabinet growing out of the
report which was made to him by
Charles J. Bonaparte and Holmes Con-
rad of their Investigations into charges
affecting the postal service.
Police Captain Samuel J. Boyd,
Thomas e. Barrett, former marshal OF
the ST. Louis court of appeals and g
member of the democratic state COM
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