Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-03-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


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Former President Grover Cleveland,
Justice d. ]. Brewer, of the United
States supreme court; Rev. Newell
Dwight Hills, of Plymouth church,
and Rev. Frank G~unsaulus, of Chica-
go, spoke at a great mass meeting in
Brooklyn, on the Sth, held to raise
funds for a Henry Ward Reecher me-
mortal.
d. r. Francis, president of the st.
Louis exposition, arrived in Berlin on
the Sth. Herr Lewald, the German
commissioner to the exposition, has
begun the regular publication of a
circular giving information about the
st. Louis exposition for exhibitors.
Hon. James II. Blount, for 20
years member of congress from Geor-
gia and afterwards commissioner
paramount to the Hawaiian islands
during the second Cleveland term,
died at Macon, Ga, on the Sth, of con
g~estion of the lungs.
While running at high speed in an
effort to make up lost time, passen-
ger train No. 4, on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad, was badly wrecked
22 miles south of Birmingham, Ala,
on the Sth. So far as known only five
persons were injured.
George L. o. Perry, the negro lad
indicted for the murders of Agnes Nc
Phee at SomerviIle and Clara Morton
at Waverly, Mass, died at the Cam
bridge Jail, on the Sth, form nervous
exhaustion.
An officer was killed at Waterbury,
Conn.,, on the 6th, during an attack
on a n%on-union street railway crew by
eight masked men. The motorman
and conductor were severely injured.
Chris Benson, the murderer Of
Jailer Merrill, at Olympia, Wash, was
captured, on the Sth, by Sheriff Mills
and a posse a few miles from the city.
He was hiding in a deserted mill.
The island Dominica, d. w. l., ex-
perienced a series of distinct seismic
disturbances on the Sth. Severe and
prolonged shocks of earthquake are
being felt. Uneasiness prevails.
Six persons were burned to death
and n was fatally injured, on the
Sth, as the result of a fire in a small
hotel at Letter, a mining town near
Elkins, w. Va.
w. Bourke Cochran, who is ill at
Assouan with broncho-pneumonia,
was reported, on the Sth, as progress
ing favorably. His strength is well
maintained.
Senator T. ]. Gibson, of Br%anchville,
Ind, died, on the Sth, of heart dis
ease, after a short illness.
President Roosevelt. on the 9th, ap-
pointed Ralph Earle Sampson, son Of
the late Rear-Admiral William 7.
Sampson, and j. Woodward Philip,
Son of the late Rear-Admiral John w.
Philip, of battleship Texas fame, to
the naval academy.
The monitor Arkansas, commanded
by Commander Vreeland, left Annap-
oils, on the 9th, for Hampton Roads
on her way to st. Louis, to take part
in the dedicatory ceremonies of the
St. Louis exposition, April 30 next.
The general assembly of North Car
on the 9th, appropriated $4,000
for "a state exhibit at the Louisiana
purchase exposition. 1t is thought
that private subscriptions will in
crease the appropriation to 100000.
Scores of lives were lost and a large
number of persons injured by the *
plosion of an oil train near Clean, N.
Y, on the 9th. Some of the bodies
were burned beyond recognition, only
the trunks and skulls remaining.
At Singer, La, Inez Nichols, aged
six; Nathan Hyatt, eight, and Joyce
Hyatt, aged five, fell from a foot
bridge across a little stream which
had been swollen by recent rains and
were drowned on the 9th.
Gen. Jas. Winning Mcmillan, a mem
Der of the board of review of the
pension bureau and a veteran of both
the civil and Mexican wars, died at
his home in Washington, D. c., on the
9th, aged II.
A resolution was introduced in the
Kansas senate, on the 9th, recon-
mending that when the new battle
ship Kansas is launched the christen-
ing shall be made with water instead
of wine.
George L. Uthoff committed suicide
in St. Louis, on the 9th, by shooting
himself after quarreling with his
wife. He was the son of +. G. Uthoff,
a Doodle witness against r. M. Sny-
der.
Henry Thomas, a negro who at
tempted to assault the ~ten-year-old
daughter Of Porter Keene, was
lynched neal Paris, Fla, on the 9th,
after having admitted his guilt.
The municipal election in Charles
ton, w. Va, on the 9th, resulted in the
election of c. E. Rudesill, mayor, and
the full republican ticket with the ex-
ception of one councilman.
The general officers Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, to whom
was left the selection Of the conven-
ton city, settled, on the 9th, on Gin
c%innati, November 10 to is.