Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-03-19
NEWS AND NOTES..
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ted Judge George l.. 1aple, OF Men
don, for supreme judge for a term
of ten years, to succeed Judge Frank
A. Hooker.
Mrs. Arthur Pencil, who was in
iured in the automobile .ccident in
Buffalo, \. V, which caused the death
of her husband, died, on the 18th,
without regaining consciousness. An
examination of the automobile dis
proved the suicide theory.
John Gill and Charles Schley were
found not guilty on a charge of
larceny at Springfield, H., on the
18th, and were Immediately rearrest-
ed on fugitive warrants from Butte,
Mont, where they are wanted o n
charges of forgery.
The Cloth Casket Workers and
Trimmers' union began a strike for
higher wages in Chicago, On the 10th,
and six of the leading concerns that
manufacture undertakers' supplies
were tied up.
Arthur Il. Pennell, a prominent fig
ure in the Burdick murder investiga-
ton at Buffalo, was killed in an auto
mobile accident on the 10th. His wife
was fatally injured.
Two hundred mlchinists employed
in shops of. the Kansas City Southern
railroad at Pittsburg, kas., quit
work, on the 18th, as the result OF the
failure of the company to accede to
a demand for an increase in wages.
In a collision between a passenger
train and a freight at Rankin station
Ky, on the 18th, Engineer E. W. Bon
ham, Fireman Ben Myers, Conductor
E. S. Bramwell and Mail Clerk James
Nolan were injured.
Announcement was made at Wash
ington, on the 18th, at a meeting held
by South American diplomats, that
Andrew Carnegie was ready to tinan-
cially aid the inter-continental rail-
way project.
Five hundred students engaged in
a class battle at Purdue university,
Lafayette, Ind, on the 18th. Police
filled a patrol wagon with ringleaders
among the belligercnt students.
At Kansas City, on the 18th, police
used revolvers in quelling riots result
ing from thestrike of transfer drivers
for higher wages. No one was seri-
ously injured.
The bill creating a new text book
commission to select books for pub
lie schools for the next six years was
defeated in the Missouri legislature
on the 18th. So also the Jim Crow
car bill.
Five small boys lighted a stick of
dynamite at Buffalo, n. Y, On the
18th. Three of the boys are not ex-
pected to live.
The Cuban congress-, on the 18th.
ratified the reciprocity treaty with
the United States.
Ice gorges in the Platte river broke,
on the 18th, thus improving the Hood
situation.
Mike Karlosky was killed, John
Foegk was fatally crushed and two
other workmen were seriously hurt IN
an explosion at the Republic iron and
steel mills at East Chicago on the
10th.
The Kansas senate, On the 10th, de-
cided to make an investigation OF the
supposed merger of the Frisco rail
road lines.
President Roosevelt's formal accept
ance of the invitation to attend the
centennial anniversary of the pur'
chase of the Louisiana territory was
received in st. Louis on the 18th.
The Arkansas house failed to pass
on the 10th, the senate bill to appro
pirate $75, 900 additional for an Arkan
sas exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase
, exposition.
The Kansas house, on the 10Th
passed the senate bill prohibiting the
E use of slot machines in Kansas. Gov
Bailey says he will sign the bill.
| Fourteen bodies were recovered, OF
/ the 10th, at Clean, N. Y, where an OF
/ train exploded the night previous
Fourteen persons are seriously in
jured.
Carrot Hedeen, a notorious noon
sinner, was stabbed to death by hi
brother, Riley Hedeen, in Polk coun
ty, Tenn, on the 10th.
t Two Mrs. G.. B. Evans ant
Mrs. II. S. Myers, took the places O.
their husbands, n%on-union men, ant
drove trucks about Kansas City, OF
the 18th, in defiance of the striking
transfer company's drivers.
Mabel Green, aged q. whose hom
is believed to be at Lacon, Ill, com
mitted suicide in Chicago, on the 18th
by .inhaling gas. A broken engage
l. ment is said to have led to the SUI
eide.
Gov. Yates of Illinois received a
appeal for aid for the food sufferer
"a at Shawneetown, on the 12th, an
sent Assistant Adjt.-Gen. Ewart
that place with 100 tents.
~ Adelbert A. Ames, former mayor
Minneapolis, decided, on the l2th, {
return to that city and stand trial o
a charge of bribery.
Eight men were killed in a battI
il between rival turpentine camps nea
lie Orange Springs, Fla, on the 18th.
m The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthr
r. . epnell, killed in an automobile a
cident at Buffalo, N. Y, were shippe
to Mr.. Pencils old home in Mail
10 on the 18th.
Mrs. Seth T. Paine, whose name hi
OF been mentioned in connection wit
OF the Burdick murder case in Buffal
lit N. Y, quietly left that city on Il
rs 18th.
A sudden rise in the North Fo,
:. and Elkhorn at Norfolk, Neb., bro
the dyke, on the 18th, and the toy
~ was saved only by heroic work.
The Chicago limited, west-bour
~ on the Illinois Central railway, W
wrecked at Pomeroy, ILL.,, on the 1a'