Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-10
LATE NEWS ITEMS,

Adit. Gen. Scott Issued an order, on
the 9Th, granting permission to enter
the state of Illinois fully armed n
equipped to Company H, F~ifty-fourth
infantry, of Burlington, Ia, for the
purpose of visiting the Soldiers and
Sailors association of Hancock coun-
ty during the reunion to be held at
Carthage September 9 and 10.
The University of Kansas, at Topeka,
will be equipped with a chair in jour-
nalism when it opens this fall, accord
ing to a statement issued, on the 9Th,
by Chancellor Frank Strong. In add
ton to teaching the various branches
Of journalistic work, lectures will be
given by newspaper editors and man
ayers.
Gov. Peabody of Colorado was threat
ened with assassination. On arriving
at his Office, on the 9th, he received an
anonymous letter, threatening to XIII
him if he dared to call out the troops
of the state in order to restore law
and order in the Cripple Creek district.
The letter was abusive in the extreme.
AS the result of the enormous raise
in insurance rates announced, the
packing companies having plants in st.
Joseph, Mo-, have been considering a
scheme for organizing a mutual COM
pany to protect their property from fire
and to escape what they term extortlon
by the insurance companies.
While passing Greenwich, ILL.,, at full
speed the boiler Of a locomotive pulling
a Kansas City fast freight train, west
bound, on the Chicago &c Alton railway
exploded, on the 9Th, killing Engineer
Frank ]. Upton, of Bloomington; prob
abb; fatally injuring Fireman G. G.
Keltner, of Bloomington.
Gov. Yates of illinois said that 1t
would be impracticable for various
reasons to have the Illinois national
guard modified at the Worlds fair in
st. Louis next year, instead of having
the encampment at Camp Lincoln.
Chancellor Strong, of the Kansas
university, at Topeka, Kas., was chos-
en-, on the 9Th, to superintend the
state educational display at the st.
Louis Worlds fair. The display is to
cost $15 5000.
During a severe storm which passed
over Shelbyville, ILL.,, on the 9th, John
Durbin and Clement Wagner were
killed by lightning at Henton, eight
miles north of Shelbyville.
The Paris store at Burlington, Ia,
was Quilted by fire on the 9Th. The loss
on the stock and building was $4,000.
Smoke and water caused a loss of $1O,-
900 to adjacent stocks.
A heavy snow storm ftl on the con-
tinental divide, Gu the 9th, and the en-
tire range was covered with several
feet of snow. The ~saguache lange,
comprising the Collegiate peaks,
Princeton, Harvard and Yale, all more
than fourteen thousand feet high, were
massive monuments Of immaculate
white. The temperature in the valley
was so degrees Fahrenheit.
Uncle Sans troops ard union men
at Leavenworth, Kas., on the 7th, fol
Lllt HISL IlluC III lHO DlotOly VI ''S "SJ
Joined hands in celebrating labor's
holiday. Two thousand union men ant
an equal number Of regulars OF al
branches paraded in the morning ant
INDUCED in a military carnival in thu
afternoon.
President Roosevelt was, on the 18th
accorded a magnificent reception b.
the citizens Of his own state. From
the moment of his arrival in Syracuse
N. Y, until he stepped aboard his spe
cial train to begin his return trip t.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, he was given a con
tinual ovation.
In the Labor day parade at Spring
field, ILL.,, on the 7th, delegations wer
!, present from Bloomington, Lincol
and other Illinois cities. In the after
noon a mass meeting was held at tn
state fair grounds, with addresses b
Gov. Yates and others.
Fireman Chester Keltner, Of Bloom
= ington, ILL.,, who was injured in the e,
v plosion of a Chicago G. Alton locomt
tive at Greenwich, on the 9Th, died
n Jacksonville, ILL.,, on the 9TH, being tt
second victim of the accident.
q Seven bodies have been washe
ashore between Port Jefferson an
Wading river, l.. l. 1t was suppose
that they were those Of sailors WI
l. were lost from a schooner that capsizt
IT in the storm Of August IS.
Curtis Jet, convicted Of the murd'
ID Of J. B. Marcum at Jackson, KY, wi
r taken to Cynthiana, KY. on the 1t
to stand trial for the assassination
IN Town Marshal James Cockrill, whit
began on the 9Th.
or Tommy Michigan, 10 years old,
he st. Louis, fell a distance Of SO feet fro
ed the Merchants bridge vialuct crossiI
It. the Chicago & Alton tracks in Venit
ILL.,, OF the It'll, and was instant
Of killed.
r. Mrs. Vitula Bowman Clifford, I
az several years editor of the Sedal
IN (Mo.) Morning Capital, died, on t
tn 9Th, Of diabetes. She leaves thr