Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-04-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS

LATE NEWS ITEMS
RI. Rev. Mgr. Michael Bouchet,
ricar-general of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Louisville, KY, died in that
city, on the 18th. He was stricken
with apopleXy while on his knees in
prayer Saturday night and passed
away after only four hours illness.
Announcement was made at Wash
ington, on the 18th, that Assistant At
torney-General James NJ. Beck ten
dered his resignation to President
Roosevelt before the presidents de-
parture for the west. Mr.. Beck will
enter a New York law firm.
John 7. Larsen, a sailor, became vio-
lently insane on the schooner Hall at
Newark, N. j., on the 18th, and tried
to murder the crew. He slashed An
drew M. johnson so he may die. In
running to escape Larsen fell over
board and was drowned.
Col. Bill Root, a frontiersman, q
companion through his life of "Butfa-
10 Bill" and a friend of Bill Nye dur
ing the latter's re%portorial days in
Laramie, died suddenly of herat fail
ure in his apartments in Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 18th.
The people in Monterey, Mexico,
after icing partisans of Francesca
Reyes, candidate for governor of
Nuevo Leon. were offered their lib
erty on the 9Th, but preferred re-
naming in prison to accepting the
terms offered them.
A shooting affray in which a nine
year-old boy was kille' and a woman
mortally wounded, an attempted muir
der, two suicides and two attempts at
suicide that may result fatally oc-
Cured in Buffalo, n. v, on the 18th.
County Commissioner Raymond and
wife were drowned while crossing
Blue Lick creek, near Henryville, Ind,
on the 18th. The waters had risen so
rapidly that their buggy was swept
away. Both bodies were recovered.
Four persons dead, two fatally hurt,
at least one missing and several 9th
ers slightly injured, is the record of a
head-on collision on the I~ntercolonial
railway which occurred on the 18th,
seven miles from Halifax, N. S.
A tornado crossed the counties of
Logan, Dewitt and Platt, ILL.,, on the
18th, fatally iniuring Clifford Haldsad-
ger, and killing his infant Sol. Several
persons were injured and Il number of
houses wrecked.
John Agea, one of the Oldest and
most distinguished engineers of Mex
leo, died in the city of Mexico, on the
18th.
The east-bound limited on the Balti-
more q Ohio railroad was wrecked
near Mansfield, o., on the 18th, in
juring Mrs. Fl. S. STRATEGY and infant
child, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Mary
Stanley. of Baltimore, Nd, and Mrs,
Frank c. Miller, en- route from En-
poria, kas., to Pittsburg.
Postmaster-General Payne gave out
a statement, on the 18th, in which he
announced that the investigation of
the affairs of the post Office depart
ment would be continued and that
any parties found guilty of wrong do
ing would be dealt with summarily.
Five men were killed and two seri-
ously burned by a gas explosion in
Mine II of the Kansas & Texas Coal
Co. at Carbon, /. T., on the 18th. The
dead: Floyd Oder, George Teek,
Frank McMullem, Jerry Kincaid and
0. A. Fields.
Marine Llanera was arrested in
Pampanga province, Luzon, on the
18th. He joined the revolutionary Or
ganization and accepted a commission
from that body after swearing allie
glance to the United States.
Developments, on the 18th, led Oma-
ha police to believe that there has
been committed a deliberate murder
and they are now looking for Frank
E. Knight, whose wife is missing.
Albert Huntington Chester, profess
sor of chemistry and mineralogy at
Rutgers college, died, on the 18th,
at New Brunswick, N. j., of pneu-
monia. He was So years of age.
Gov. Beckham opened his campaign,
on the 18th, for the democratic nomi-
nation for governor of Kentucky. His
opponents are Judge Breckenridge
land ex-Congressman Hendricks.
Mayor Harrison's plurality over
lGraeme Stewart fixed by the official
canvass, on the 18th, at Chicago, is T.
1879 votes, the mayor having secured
lag, POS to 1889 for Stewart.
Edward Cahill and Sub-district Pres
!ident Thompson, on the 18th, settled
the trouble existing at Litchfeld, ILL.,,
over the strike of the drivers, and the
miners returned to work.
Former Congressman Abner Tay-
llor, of Chicago, died in Washington,
ID. c., on the 18th, aged IA years. He
had been i'll for several weeks with a
complication of diseases.
A tornado in the vicinity Of Blocton,
ALA, on the 18th, wrecked houses and
ibid considerable damage to farming
property. The towns Of Coleanor and