Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-06-11
E VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Coast line was wrecked near Sumter,
S. c., on the 3D.. Conductor Glenn
ents and four negro passengers were
killed.
The treasury department, on the
Sd, announced the appearance OF a
new counterfeit, a Photographic re-
production of the $50 issue of the Ma
tional State Bank of Metropolis.
President Roosevelt put in a busy
day in Illinois on the Sd, making nine
speeches at different places, in spite
of transforms.
The ocean race of 24S~ miles for
schooner yachts of the Atlantic Yacht
club, was won, on the Sd, by the
Kiawassa on time allowance. The kia-
wassa finished at 4:57:27 a. m.
The Millers' National federation
convened, on the Sd, in Detroit, Mich.
Transportation rates are to be con-
sidered.
Tw~enty-eight houses were de-
stroyed by fire at Hull, Ont, on the
Sd.
High water paralyzed the street car
service at Hannibal. Mo-, on the Sd,
and left the city in darkness. The
Mississippi river went nine feet above
the danger line.
The war department is advised thai
the gap which separates the two
Alaskan telegraph lines is almost
closed and the wires should be in OPP
Grafton by the middle of June.
In a cloudburst southwest of Nez
Perez, Idaho, on the Sd, hail fell to a
depth of 20 inches, and two persons
were drowned by a food of water
which poured through Lawyers can
yon.
The first conference of the state
and national boards of health, undo
the act of July /, 1902, began at Wash
ington on the Sd. Surgeon-General
Wyman of the Marine hospital service
presided.
Pope Leo Mi. has ordered the
Vatican printers to carefully repro
duce all his encyclicals and different
pontifical acts. and forward them as
a gift to the president of the United
States.
Grand river broke through the levee
at F%unston's slough, near Brunswick,
could be heard for a mile, and the wa
ter spread into a body seven miles in
width.
John Dennis, a negro, was lynched
in Greenville, Miss, on the 4th, for
assaulting a young woman. The
Iynching was witnessed by many
women who We're out shopping.
James Wright, alias Charles Mailer
was arrested at Wilburton, l. T., on
the 4th. 1t is alleged that on Febru'
airy 1G, 1895, at Salt Lake City, Utah
Wright murdered three boys.
Secretary Hay, on the 4th, received
a cablegram stating that 100000
Chinese in Kwang-Si province were
starving to death, and appealing for
help from Americans.
j. ID. Fay rowed from Columbia
Mo-, to Jefferson City, on the 4th, the
feat being made possible by high wa
ter. Columbia is II miles from the
Missouri river.
Seven dead bodies were found a
Topeka, Kas., on the 4th. All were
victims of the flood. A railway sta
ton was converted into a morgue.
Myron T. Herrick, Senator Hanna's
neighbor. was nominated, On the 4th
for governor of Ohio, by republican:
in convention at Columbus.
The Milliken university at Decatur
H., was dedicated on the 4th. TIL
principal address was delivered b.
President Roosevelt.
At Piccadilly, N. b., on the 4th, TIVE
men were burned to death while try
ing to save cattle from forest fires.
Forest fires in Aroostook county
Me-, on the 4th, destroyed IA miles o
the Bangor & Aroostook railroad.
The fire situation in the Adiron
dacks, on the 4th, was more seriou
than at any time since tn, fires be
gan.
The receding waters at Kansas City
Mo-, on the 4th, exposed 1880 hog
and 300 cattle that had been drowned
August w. Machen, former superb
tendent of the free delivery service @
the post office department, was indict
ed in Washington, on the 5th, charge
with sharing profits on government
contracts.
VIM. Boston, aged 22, was foun
dead in the yard of his home nea
Lexington, KY, on the 5th, with a blu
let in his forehead. The presumptio
is that he was shot by burglars.
Colonial Minister Doumergue a
Paris, France, received a dispatc
from the governor of Martinique, o
the 5th, announcing that Mount Pele
is again active.
7 Mrs. Robert Scatter, at Seattl
} Wash, was chloroformed and robbie
7 of about 81 900, on the 5th, in he
apartments in the McCombs block.
Rev. Jacob Chapman, the oldet
: alumnus both of Phillips Exeter aca'
envy and Dartmouth, died IN EXete
N. Y, on the 5th, aged 80.
a The laundry strike, which begun
, Chicago May 1, was settled on the st
a All grievances are to be submitted
\ a board of arbitration.
The forest fires in the vicinity
a Lakewood, N. j., somewhat abated {
0 the 5th. Large tracts of timber la1
have been ruined.
!. Gen. Vim. M. Patton, a prominel
:, railroad contractor, died at his hon
! in Columbia, Pa, on the 9Th, aged S
:. VIM. NJ. Bell, an eccentric bachel
who lived alone in squalor on /
. farm near Caro-, Mich, was found de-
a in bed on the 5th. Nearly $4,000