Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

sul-General Edward P. MacLean died
of pneumonia, at Paris, on the 18th.
While prospecting for zinc and lead
on the holdings of the Big Four Zinc
miles south of Harrisburg, ILL.,, on the
Sth, n. w. Ferguson struck a FIVE
Mining and Prospecting Co., eight
foot vein of the finest quality of
p~lumbago.
An official of the United States Steel
corporation reports that applications
to the amount of 26,400 shares have
thus far been made by over $4,000 en-
ployes who wish to avail themselves
OF the proposed proft-sharing plan.
The dropping of a burning match
into a vat of oil caused an explosion
and fire in a large manufacturing
plant in London, Ont, on the 9th,
which resulted in a property loss of
$500, 900.
Mrs. Anna T. Miller was convicted
at Columbus, o., on the 9Th, of using
the United States mails in an attempt
to blackmail prominent citizens, and
sentenced to Is months in the peni-
tertiary.
BY a decision of the Missouri SUI
,reme court, on the 9th, the sentence
of death by the lower court on John
Vinso was affirmed and he will be
hanged at Pierce City February 10.
United States Ambassador Robert
S. Mccormick and wife. arrived at st.
Petersburg, on the 9th.
Engineer King, living at Nation,
ILL.,, was badly hurt in q collision OF
the Big Four, near Moro, Ill, on the
9th.
DR.. G. F. shoey, a prominent physi-
clan of Medora, Ind, was burned to
death by the upsetting of a lamp in
his room at his boarding house, on
the night of the Sth.
The Indiana state senate passed a
bill, on the 9th, appropriating $1,000
for a sword for Admiral Taylor, com
mander of the battleship Indiana at
Santiago.
H. 2. III. Bromwell, u member OF
congress from the Charleston (Ill.)
district from 1865 to 1869, died at
Denver, Col, on the 9th.
Emil johnson shot and killed Miss
Beena Benson, at Virginia, Mimi, on
the 9th, because she had refused to
marry him.
Mgr. F~alconio, papal delegate to the
United States, called to pay his re
spects to President Roosevelt, OF the
9th. p
Capt. ". e. Gleason, of the Sixth in
fantry, U. S. A., died at Ft. Leaven
worth, on the 9th, of pneumonia.
Louis Baldwin, a well-known min
strel and comedian, died at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, on the 9th.
The southwestern limited, west
bound, and the Cincinnati express
east-bound, on the Big Four, collide,
head-on. near Bethalto, ILL.,, on tn
night of the 9th. Both engineers wer
probably fatally hurt and the firema
of the limited is missing, probabl
buried under the wreck. The passeI
gers escaped with a severe shaking VI
Germany's choice of city for th
Olympian games is st. Louis, not Oh
cago, and DR.. Gebhardt, head of th
German section of the i~nternationi
committee, has so informed Baro
Coubertin, head Of the French Sc
Etion.
Alfred Belt, the South Africa
fnancier, reputed to be the riche'
!, man in the world and n of the ear.
developers Of the Kimberly regio
was reported to be dying at johanna
burg, South Africa, on the 9th, whe:
he had been stricken with apoplexy.
. The offering of the administratit
: antitrust bill in the house, on II
= 9Th, by Congressman jenkins, was Il
!. occasion Of much surprise and no !
!. tic comment in administration circle
d as well as among the members of Il
senate and house.