Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-14
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tana exhibit at the 81. LOUIS falr.
Charles Jacobs, a shoe salesman,
representing A. ]. Bates & Co., of
New York, was chloroformed in his
bed at the Hotel Francis. Ponce, ?. R.,
on the 9th. and robbed of $1,000.
The state department received a ca
blegram, on the 9th, from United
States Consul-General McWade, at
Canton, saying that bubonic plague
is increasing in China.
j. T. Toohey, an Australian brewer,
died in Chicago, on the 9th, after a
desperate race with death. He was
attempting to reach San Francisco
to meet his son..
Seventeen prisoners, charged with
rioting at Braggs, 1. T., were taken
to Muskogee, l. T., on the 5th, and
locked up.
The new cup yacht Reliance was
beaten by the Columbia in about half
an hours sailing off Glencove, Conn.,,
on the 5th.
The American fishing schooner
Gloriana ran ashore on the cliffs at
Whale Cove, n. S., on the 9th, and Is
of the crew, including the captain,
were drowned.
The bill granting women the right
to vote was rejected in the Connecti-
cut house of representatives, on the
9th, by a vote of 105 to 60.
DR.. S. Fl. Rice. physician of Mem
phis, Tenn, committed suicide, on the
9th, at his home by shooting himself.
No motive for the act is known.
Col. Asa Philip Stanford, 81 years
old, and a brother of the late Senator
LELAND Stanford, of California, died
in New York on the 9th.
Secretary Shaw, accompanied by
Mrs. Shaw, his two daughters and
son, will sail for Europe July A.
George Burrier, wanted in four
states for robbery, was sentenced at
Clinton, Ia, on the 9th, to Is years in
the state p~enitentiary.
Col. Santos and Col. Marcelo Della
cring, leaders of the recent insurrec-
ton in Rial province. Luzon, have
been convicted, at Manila, of brigand-
age and conspiracy and have been
sentenced to death The supreme
court must review the case.
A large number of italian and Po-
lish residents who were fraudulently
naturalized in the st. Louis court of
appeals, within the past two years,
will forfeit their papers of citizenship
through the action of the United
States circuit court.
Great Britain has just proclaimed a
Monroe doctrine of her own, by mott
flying competing powers that any at
tempt on their part to establish naval
bases or fortified ports in the Persian
gulf means war with Great Britain.
Gov. Van SAINT of Minnesota created
a sensation at the state capitol, on
the 9th, by personally interfering
with members of the legislature who
were attempting to loot the house of
representatives chamber of desks and
chairs which they had occupied dur
ing the recent session.
2. T. Buchanan, aged 54 years,
president and treasurer of Buchanan
& Thorpe, wholesale fish dealers at
Tacoma, Wash, committed suicide,
on the 18th, by shooting himself be-
cause of business troubles.
A freight on the Illinois Central
was derailed near Morganfeld, KY,
on the 18th, and Engineer John S.
Hegog, Fireman Manion and Caesar
Hicks, a colored flagman, were killed.
Arnold j. Padgett, a prominent
politician and lawyer, was shot by his
son. David Fl. Padgett, deputy prose-
cutor, during a quarrel, on the 18th, at
Washington, Ind.
John T. Morrison, one of the best
known coal operators in the south
west, died at P%ittsburg, Kas., on the
18th, of Bright's disease.
Sheriff Power swore in so deputies,
on the 18th, at Omaha, Neb., and is
sued n proclamation to strikers and
the public generally that order would
be preserved.
Nine men were killed and five 9TH
ers injured, three of them fatally, on
the 7th, by a slide Of rock in the east
end of Tunnel No. 2 at Eggleston
Springs, Va.
A huge rock, on the 18th, fell from
cliffs along the west bottoms at Kan
sas City, Mo-, smashing a frame house
and killing an invalid woman.
Twelve men were burned to death
and eight slightly injured in a train
wreck so miles west of Port Arthur,
Ont.. on the 18th.
President Roosevelt was formally
welcomed to California, on the 7th,
by a crowd estimated at 10000 at
Redlands.
Ten or twelve persons were severely
injured and three business houses in
the center of Stockton, Cal, were
burned, on the sth, by an explosion
in the rear of a shoe store.
The airship constructed for the Lee
baudy brothers made a highly success.
full trip at Paris, France, on the sth.
The dirigible craft passed over a mum
her Of suburban towns.
Charles J. Fisk, senior member oil
the firm Of Harvey Fisk G. Sons, New
York bankers, was, on the sth, crit
icalay i'll at his home in that city.