Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

EA e VIEWS tIEMSt
Mrs. Ann barrow, whose death &C.
Cured at Kirksvflle. Mo-, of the 10th,
was the oldest person in Adair county,
being IS years l month and 20 days old.
She was married Is years ago. She was
quite active and attended church serv-
ices regularly until three weeks ago.
One more of the men shot by Twigg,
the maniac, on the 18th, at Winfield,
Kas., died on the 10th. He was Elmer
Farnsworth, who had been in business
there for 20 years. He was the first to
fall. The total number of dead includ-
ing Twigg, the murderer, is seven.
Announcement was made, on the
10th, of the coming marriage of Miss
Bessie Anthony, western mi golf
champion, to Mr.. Bernard S. Horne, Of
Pittsburg, Pa. The marriage will take
place in November at the home of Miss
Anthony's parents in Evanston, Ill.
Hundreds of Mississippi Choctaw In
dams are emigrating to Indian terri
tory in accordance with an act of con
gress passed last year which requires
these Indians to settle at Ardmore, |.
T., in order to secure an allotment Of
the value of 800 acres.
Camden, Ark, suffered a 500, 900 fire
OF the 10Th. Among the buildings de-
stroyed is the Camden compress, the
third largest in the United States. The
loss is placed at 500, 900. There is a
strong suspicion of incendiarism.
Cashier Enoch l.. Cowart of the sus-
pended Navesink national bank, at
Redbank, N. j., confessed, on the 18th,
to Bank Examiner w. A. Mason, who
is acting as receiver, that he embezzled
$40, 900 of the banks funds.
The pope received Archbishop Harry,
formerly of st. Louis, on the 18th, at
Rome, and discussed the situation in
the Philippine islands. Archbishop
Harry was consecrated Archbishop of
Manila, p. l., on the 18th.
Seventeen negroes were publicly
whipped at Whitesboro, Tex. on the
10th, because they refused to leave the
city when ordered to do so by the
whites.
Chief-of-Police M. A. Delaney of
Denver, Col, who was reported MISS
ing from Springfield, Ill, is in Chicago.
His daughter, Miss Mayme Delaney, re-
ceived word from him on the 18th,
President Roosevelt addressed visit
ing members of the Holy Name society
OF Brooklyn at Oyster Bay, N. Y, on
the 10th.
An earthquake, early on the 18th,
made st. Louis tremble and frightened
many residents. No damage was done.
For the first time in the history OF
the country the president of the Unit
ed States reviewed and inspected in
time of peace a great fleet of United
States warships. The ceremony was a
magnificent and impressive naval spec
tacle. The review occurred on Long
Island sound two miles and a half off
the entry to Oyster Bay, N. Y, on the
18th.
The third annual exhibition of the
Missouri state fair opened at Sedalia,
Mo-, on the 18th. The five new build
ings constructed this year have been
fully completed and are nearly filled
with exhibits. There was a complete
readiness this year for the opening,
and the fair is said to be the best m
held since it became a state institution.
st. Louis and Salt" Lake City, Utah,
are the chief competitors of Denver,
Col, in the contest for the meeting
place of the national G.. A. R. encamp-
ment in 1904. All three cities are max
ing strong fights, but talks with many
delegates indicate that st. Louis stands
a good chance of capturing the prize.
Grasshoppers were so thick in Red
Lodge, Mont, on the 18th, that they
were plastered on the locomotives OF
the trains and the wheels were so Slip
perry that when the engines stopped it
was difficult to start them again. They
have eaten the range bare.
Pat Rodgers, one of the six men who
broke from the Butte MONT Jail on
the 8th, wrote a letter, on the 18th, in
which he said he would give himself
up If City Detective Murphy would
fight him a duel. Murphy accepted the
challenge.
A head-end collision took place, on
the 18th, on the Carthage-Joplin cleo
trio railway three miles from Carthage,
Mo. Motorman Joseph Baker was
killed, Motorman Ed. Hedge fatally
hurt and rs other persons seriously in
jured.
The pope, on the 18th, gave 100000
for distribution among the poor Of
Rome. The pontiff seems to have
quite recovered his health, as he is
giving more audiences than before he
suffered from his recent fainting fit.
A flag floated from the Chicago His
torical Society building on the 18th
almost the only reminder to Chicago
that 1t was the city's n hundredth
birthday.
The printing plant Of the Laning
company, at Norwalk, o., was prac-
tically destroyed by fire early on the
18th. Loss, 800, 900; fully insured.