Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-14
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


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Fire at Ottawa, Ont, on the 10th.
destroyed hundreds of houses and mill
lions of feet of lumber. John White,
who had been released from the peni-
Tertiary, was caught near where the
fire was first discovered and placed
under arrest.
Gov. Yates of Illinois, on the 9th,
vetoed the senate bill providing for
the examination, registration and Ii
censing of nurses and the regulation
of institutions which graduate or
confer degrees OF diplomas on nurses.
Herman M. Blasdell, of North Col
Inns, N. Y, and his wife were so badly
burned in a fire which started from
a gas explosion and which destroyed
their home, on the 10th, that they
died a few hours later.
The capture of Curtis Jett, charged
with the assassination of J. B. Mar
cum, in Jackson, Ky, was accom-
plished without bloodshed on the 9th.
He is now in the Clark county Jail at
Winchester.
Mrs. N. A. Long, of Frankfort, Ind,
and her ~five-year-old daughter. are
dead, and a three-year-old son is per-
haps fatally burned as the result of
an oil lamp explosion on the 10th.
Forty-eight German agriculturists
who are making a tour of the United
States inspecting live stock and pack
ing house conditions, were received in
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 10th.
A passenger train on the Southern
railway jumped the track, on the 10th,
at White Pine, Tenn. Engineer Rob-
ert B. Holloman, of Knoxville, was
crushed to death.
The quarantining of transports
bound for San Francisco, was resumed
at Manila, on the 10th, on account of
the cholera. The epidemic is making
gains in Luzon.
Mrs. Mary V. Baker, wife of ex-
United States Senator Lucien Baker,
died at her home in Leavenworth,
Kas., on the 10th, as the result of
apopleXy.
All efforts to reach a settlement of
the laundry strike in Chicago, on the
10th, failed, and a disruption of the
ranks of the employers association is
expected.
One mar killed, two trains wrecked
and business badly tied up resulted,
on the 10th, from the Mobile & Ohio
railway strike at jackson, Tenn.
Albert Robert, cashier of the gov
eminent ice plant in Manila, was ar
rested, on the 10th, on the charge of
embezzling $4,000.
An ultimatum was, on the 18th, sent
by the trainmen's committee declin-
ing the concessions offered by General
Manager Ward of the Great Northern
and insisting upon the original de-
mands of the men with regard to
double headers" The situation Is
critical.
The body of Mrs. Mary Augusta
Harper Lynde, who disappeared from
her home two weeks ago, was found
floating in the North River, at New
York, on the 18th. She was the
daughter of James Harper, founder of
the Harper publishing house.
Magistrate Leydat, on the 18th, o n
.cluded his investigation of the Hum
bert fraud ease in Paris, France. and
has decided to commit Thresa Hum
bert, her husband and her brother for
trial on the charges of forgery.
Keepers of Chinese gambling houses
in Honolulu were arrested, on the
18th, charged with attempting to bride
Deputy Attorney-General Andrews to
permit gambling. They offered him
$4,000 a month.
Crazed from liquor and the in
formation that his mother was dying,
Edward Clark, switchman, shot and
killed his wife and seriously wound
ed his son, on the 18th, at Kansas
City, Mo.
Reports that President Marroquin
had been compelled to resign Office on
account of political troubles were cur
rent at Panama, Colombia, on the 18th.
The canal treaty may be affected.
Post office inspectors, on the 18th,
completed an investigation of the
Washington city post office. The re-
suits of the inspection have not been
made known.
Washburn college, of Topeka, Kas.,
ION the 18th, selected Ernest b. Conant,
|of Chicago, as dean of the new law
school which the college will establish
this summer.
The state department, on the 18th,
notified the department of agriculture
that the foot and mouth disease has
again broken out in the Argentine Re-
Public.
Secretary Hitchcock, on the 18th,
visited Oklahoma City, Chickasha, Law
ton and Anadarko. He is scheduled
to arrive in Washington on the 18th.
Sixteen hours rain fell, on the 18th,
over the northern part OF Missouri,
doing great good to crops.
A freshmassacre was reported from
Russia, IN the 18th, in which 200 Jews
were slain.