Iron County register., 1903-03-26
NEWS and NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

niversary at Princeton, n. j., on the
18th.
Charles Cecil, 10 years old, and Har-
ry Wilkinson, aged 12, were arrested
at Marion, Ind, on the 18th. on a
charge of attempting to wrecka train
/. n. Page and n. c. Hickox, on the
18th, against refused to tell the Mis-
souri, legislatures bribery Investigate
ing committee where they got $1,000
bills
Prof. L. A. Weaver, the head of an
educational institution at Asheville,
5. L., was sent to Jail, on the 18th,
because he refused to be vaccinated.
Col. Henry S. Cohn, veteran Ger
man editor, dropped dead of apoplexy
at Louisville, Ky, on the 18th.
Hamilton Fish was appointed assist
ant treasurer of the United States at
New York on the 18th.
a train jumped a trestle at Guelph
Ont. on the 18th. Forty persons were
slightly injured and little child was
drowned.
Calvin Price and jeremiah Graves
were arrested at Marion, ILL.,, on the
18th, charged with killing Mrs. Nellie
Reichelderfer.
Henrietta W. Brewer, wife of
Bishop Brewer, of the Episcopal do
cese of Montana, died, on the 18th, of
heart failure, aged 60.
Wilbert McAlpin, of Whittemore,
Ia, charged with using the mails for
fraudulent purposes, was placed in
Jail at Sioux City, Ia, on the 18th.
DR.. Benjamin Thomas Whitmore,
once prominent st. Louisan, has
been indicted in New York for at
tempted extortion.
Two passenger trains were caught
in the flood opposite Memphis, Tenn,
on the 18th, and supplies had to be
conveyed on handcars to the passen-
gers.
The German reichstag, on the 18th,
adopted the appropriation of $375,O0O
for the st. Louis Worlds fair, being
the first quota of the $75O,0O0 to be
appropriated to defray the expenses
of Germany's exhibit at the fair.
The hearing in the case OF the
United States against the $40O 0OO,OOO
Northern Securities Co., formed for
the purpose of consolidating the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific and
Burlington railways, began, on the
18th, before Judges Caldwell, San
born, Thayer and Van Devanter of the
United States circuit court at st.
Louis.
The worlds largest elephant, Jingo,
% years old and weighing six tons,
died on board the steamer Georgia,
en- route from Liverpool to New
York, and was dropped overheard.
He was valued at $4,000.
The supreme court of Missouri, on
the goth, handed down an opinion, in
the case of the state against the meat
packers, for unlawful combination,
imposing a penalty Of $1,000 on each
firm, with costs, in default of pay
ment of which within 90 days to be
forbidden to do business in the state.
President Francis of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Co., made anoth-
er important capture on the 20th
when he met and conquered all the
prominent magazine publishers, who
unanimously agreed to put his name
on their lists and work assiduously
for the success of the fair.
Six persons were killed and num-
Der injured as the result of n collision
between the big passenger steamer
Plymouth, of the Fall River line, anl
the freighter City of Taunton, in
Long Island sound, early on the
morning of the Goth. The Plymouth
reached New London in badly dam
aged condition.
The jury of award in the Philadel-
phia Mckinley memorial competition
has selected five models as worthy of
the $500 in prizes offered to contest
ants. The memorial will be in the
form of statue of the late pres-
dent, will cost 100000, and will be
placed in Memorial hall in Fairmount
park
Official returns show that the Vic
torian wheat harvest in Australia,
this season will average only one
quarter bushel per acre, owing to the
drought. This is the lowest average
in 2S years.
The Venezuelan congress assembled
in Caracas on the 10Th.
The food situation at Memphis was
considerably improved on the 10th.
The Woman's Suffrage association
convened in New Orleans on the 10th.
John Cusey, aged 81, a former state
senator, died at Bloomington, ILL.,, on
the 10Th.
Work was begun, on the 10Th, on
two half-mile railway tunnels in
Taney county, Mo.
Coal cars ran away at Johnstown,
Pa, on the 10TH killing three men and
iniuring nine others.
Gov. Peabody of Colorado appoint
ed an advisory board, on the 10Th, to
settle the strike at Cripple Creek
Four men were killed and rs horses
suffocated in mine explosion at
Glace Bay, Cape Breton, on the 10th.
Whitaker Wright, the English pro-
nioter, who is wanted in London, was
denied bail in New York on the 10th.
A relief train reached Marion, Ark,
on the 10th, but the inhabitants who
were held by the flood refused to
leave, believing themselves safe.
After ratifying the Cuban reciproci-
ty treaty the senate adjourned sine
die at Is minutes past five o'clock Oh
the 10th.
Whitecaps whipped Henry Matthias
at Nashville, Ind, on the 10th, be-
cause, as they said he was too lazy
to work.
Discovery was made, on the 10th,
that the son of President Palma Of
Cuba and Miss Mabel Jacobs were Sc
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