Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-07-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

hleu an dhluaNlt LOT an appear 10 the
supreme court.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
Canadian Pa rifle. early on the 21st,
between two freights on the west end
Of the long Canadian Pacific bridge
over the river at Gait, Ont. Several
persons were killed.
For three hours, on the 22d, the
plant of the j. l. Case Machine Co.,
at Racine, Wis, valued at $4,000, 900,
was in danger of total destruction by
a fire which damaged the plant shop
to the extent of $125,000.
Sir Thomas Upton challege cup,
presented by Sir Thomas to the Co
rinthian Yacht club, of San Diego,
Cal, as a prize cup in races on the
Pacific coast, arrived on the 22d.
While a gang of 20 men were hoist
ing a heavy piece of sheet iron at the
new smelling works at Ananconda,
Mont, on the 23d, the structural steel
inside the fiue gave way and the walls
bulged, burying the entire gang in
the debris.
The paper mill owned by Case &
Marshall, at Woodland, Conn, was
damaged 100000 by fire. on the 22d,
according to estimates made by the
members of the firm.
Samuel Allison Parsons, who shot
and killed his wife at their home, $40
Winstanley avenue, East ST, Louis,
Ill, on the 21st, was held to the grand
jury on the 22d.
Hot winds began to blow. on the
22d, at Hutchinson. kas., the first of
the season. The thermometer reached
105 at two O'Clock.
Gen. Cassius Marcellus Clay, ambas-
sador to Russia under President Lin
coin, noted abolitionist and author,
died at his home, White Hall, in Madi-
son county, Ky, on the Cpd.
E. S. P~illsbury was, on the 22d, ap-
pointed attorney for the Santa Fe
railroad to succeed the late Judge
Sterry, who died at Los Angeles, Cal.
The counter proposition made by
the striking ~unionists to the Kellogg
company, of Chicago, that the latter
reinstate within 30 days all the strik-
ers who applied for reinstatement
within five days was emphatically re-
jected by the Kellogg company on the
23d.
Every boiler maker and boiler MAX
ers' apprentice in the employ of the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Oma-
ha road struck, on the 23d, and the
total number is about one hundred
and forty-five.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Grace harrington
was, on the 23d, granted a divorce
from "I.ord' Frederick Seymour Bar
rington, who is low under arrest in
st. Louis county, Mo-, charged with
murder.
Lawrence Summerield, who, the
police say, is wanted by the New
York authorities on the charge of
grand larceny, was arrested in Phila-
delphia on the 23d.
A woman registering as Mrs. Col
well, of Chicago, attempted suicide at
the Frankfort hotel, Cleveland, o., by
asphyxiation on the 23d.
1t was announced, on the 23d. that
in spite of the hot winds in central
Kansas, corn was not damaged to
any great extent.
An open switch caused the Missouri
Pacific fast express train No. l to col
Tide with the real end of accommoda-
ton train No. 5 in the yards just east
of the depot at Sedalia, Mo-. on the
23d.
William Ahern, an Irish comedian,
well known on the vaudeville cir
cults, died at his home at Kansas City,
Mo-. on the 23d, of consumption, aged
80 years.
Judge Ryan will, on the 27th, pass
sentence on five e~X-members of the
house of delegates who have been con-
victed on charges of bribery and per-
jury in st. Louis.
Many of the eastern college stu
dents who were lured to Kansas by
stories of good wages in the harvest
fields, are stranded 1000 miles from
home, having discovered that the ap-
peal for help at good wages was a
first class bunco game.
Dennis and baltimore, counted by
the police as two of the most expert
safe-blowers and bank robbers in the
country, both of whom live in Chi
cago, escaped from Jail at Waukesha,
Wis.,, on the night of the 22d.
Earl Whitney and Claude O'Brien,
the youthful murderers of A. B.
Chinn, were hanged at Lexington,
KY, on the Gath. The prisoners were
attended by Father Cunningham, of
Louisville, and Father Boland, of
Somerset.
The treaty providing for the acqul-
sition by the United States of the
Danish West Indies officially died on
the oath. If Denmark should conclude
to sell the islands to the United
States, it may be possible to revive
the provisions of the treaty which has
just failed.
The navy department has decided
to assign Capt. William S. Cowles to
the command of the battleship Mis-
ooull. Sttpbs SoNltS ID bllc DlOtlltE-lH-
law of President Roosevelt and at
present is on shore duty.
Word was received in New York,
on the oath, that Gen. j. II. Hobart
Ward, a special term clerk of the SUI
preme court, had been killed by being
run over by an Erie railroad train in
Monroe county, N. Y. Gen. Ward wa
a veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars. and was so years old.
W. L. Ashton, describing himself us
an American journalist and author,
who was arrested in London last
month on the charge of forging
checks for$2,600 in the name Of Laird,
Scholes & Co., Of Philadelphia, was
sentenced, on the oath, to seven years.