Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-08-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS

LATE NEWS ITEMS
The disappearance OF Willard s. AL
len, treasurer of the Ministers Aid So
ciety, with 5000 of the funds, has
caused a profound stir in Boston
church circles. 1t has developed that
he gambled in securities with the
church's money and fled when the
panic swept all his money away.
AS the result of a runaway at Rich
wood, Wis, on the 9Th, Louis Welkert,
of that place, was seriously injured, his
wife was killed instantly and their
children were fatally injured. The
horse ran away on a hill, dashing into
a tree and wire fence, throwing them
out.
A bride of four months was slain
while asleep by her husband at Lancas-
ter, Pa, on the 9th. After sending two
bullets through her heart he swallowed
morphine and it is thought he can not
live. He says they had agreed to die
together. O..
An American firm has contracted to
furnish Russian -four mills with $780,
600 worth of machinery. The output
of the mills will be increased within a
year to 1900 barrels a day, suppressed
ing the supply of flour from America.
A heavy rainstorm, preceded by fierce
winds, prevailed over central and east
ern Oklahoma on the 9th. In the east
ern part of the territory much dam
age was done to farm property. The
rain was needed for corn and pastures.
Sheriff Whitlock, of Danville, ILL.,,
answers Gov. Yates letter concerning
the riot and lynching there, declaring
that sameone in authority should al
ways be left at the capital to act in
such emergencies.
Shamrock I'LL, Sir Thomas Lipton's
cup challenger, was taken into dry
dock without accident at the Erie
Basin, New York, or the 9th, and the
work of getting her ready for the races
was begun.
During a heavy thunder storm ~
the 9th, a meteor fell in The north part
of Chickasha, I. T., with a blage of
light and a shower of sparks which lit
up the country for miles around.
A democratic convention at J%routon,
o., adopted resolutions, IN the 9th, de-
handing that the death penalty be in
f1icted in all Doodle arb bribery cases.
Deputy Marshal Wiley lIaines was
shot and fatally wol led in q running
battle, OF the 9th, with outlaws near
Pawhuska in the Usage nation, l. T.
Tom Horn and jim McCloud escapei,
from the Jail at Cheye lna, Wyo., On
the 9th, after ~ovcrpoWering the jailor,
but they were soor .eclptured.
David p. Barrows, chief of the bureau
of Non-Christian Tribes, was, On the
10th, appointed successor to General
Superintendent Bryan of the bureau of
public instruction at Manila, p. l., who
has resigned the position on account Of
illness. Mr.. Barrows is a native of Illi-
nois, and was appointed to the bureau,
which he has just vacated, in Septem-
Der, 1900.
George B. Day, PRESIDENT of George
town college, N. Y, on the 10th, ten
dered his resignation to the board of
trustees, to be effective September 1, in
order that he may accept the position
Of secretary to the home mission board
of the Southern Baptist conventions,
with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. g,
Lord F. Seymour Darlington, &C.
cused OF the murder of James P, Nc
Cam at Bonfils Station, in st. Louis
county, on the night of July IS, was
held without bail to await the action
of the September grand jury by Justice
Isaac w. Campbell at the preliminary
hearing in Clayton, on the 10th.
w. c. jerks, who for 80 years has
been prominent in the lumber business
of the northwest, died at Lacrosse,
Wis, on the 10th, of paralysis, aged Sc
years. He was a descendant of Jetel
jerks, who made the first iron furnace
in America and who also made the dies
for the first American coins.
The annual session of the Interna-
SlUldl lypObIdpllSu ulioh pOSoh ~
Washington, d. c., on the 10th. In his
annual report President Lynch urges
union men to be tolerant of employers
associations, hoping that thereby bet
ter conditions may be brought about.
Delegates passing through Kansas
City, Mo-, en- route to the national G
A. r. encampment at San Francisco
evince a decided sentiment in favor o
Gen. Miles, just retired from the heat
of the United States army, as the mex
commander-in-chief of the g. A. r.
Bulgarian rebels destroyed, on tn,
10th, Is villages in Turkey, killing
many of the villagers before the ar
rival of Turkish troops. The insur
gents threaten to destroy all the Tur
kish railroads.
Gov. Durbin of Indiana, in a letter t
President Roosevelt, on the 10th
warmly commends the attitude Of tn
latter toward lynchings. Gov. Terrell
bf Georgia adds his commentator Q
the idea.
The American squadron, under Rear
Admiral Cotton, has arrived at Gibral
tar, from Lisbon, on its way to VILE
franche, southern France.