Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-05-07
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

NNAhA ''' 49,
John II. Miller.
The young ladies of st. Louis jol-
lied Gov. Bailey of Kansas as he
passed in the dedication parade at st.
Louis, on the 30th, and invited him to
come to st. Louis and divest himself
of his bachelors degree.
Russia has apparently backed down
from her demands upon China in re-
gard to the cession of Manchuria,
using the convenient diplomatic sub
terfuge of denial of the accuracy of
the reports sent out by the press
agencies.
Brig. Gen. Fred D. Grant wa east
ly recognized by the old civil war
veterans as he led his brigade in the
dedication parade at st. Louis, owing
to his strong resemblance of his
illustrious father as he was known to
the soldiers in the latter part of the
war. The general had the finest
mount in the parade, Village Boy.
Ex-President Cleveland had no
cause to imagine that he had lost his
place in the estimation of the people,
Judging from the ann of his re-
ception by the vast throng that
crowded the building wherein the
Worlds fair dedication exercises
were held at st. Louis.
Elsie Barrett, who shot Bessie Pal
mer, the actress, in Chicago, last jan
uary, was, on the goth, found guilty
on the second count in the indictment
charging criminal negligence.
The case of James Howard, twice
tried and convicted as a principal in
the murder of Gov. William Goebel,
was submitted to the jury at Frank
fort, Ky, again on the goth.
Three persons were killed and four
others We're seriously injured, on the
Goth, by the wrecking of a Vandalia
passenger train in the railroad yards
at Terre Haute, Ind.
Stuart Robson, the veteran come
dian, died of heart disease at the Ho-
tel Savoy, New York, on the goth. lie
was 67 years old, and had been on the
stage for 81 years.
King Edward visited Pope Leo at
the vatican, on the 29th, going direct
from the British embassy in a closed
carriage.
The grand jury adjourned, on the
Goth, at Jefferson City, Mo-, to the
list, because of Worlds fair holiday in
St. Louis.
Six story buildings in the central
part of the Canadian 500 were de.
stroyed by fire, on the goth; loss
$100, 900.
In commemoration of the centen-
NAL of the signing of the treaty OF
the cession of the Louisiana territory,
interesting ceremonies were held, on
the 30th, in the old Cabildo, at New
Orleans.
Miss Ada Storey, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Hampton L. Storey, was
married, on the 30th, at Pasadena,
Cal, to Robert II. Ripley, son of Pres
ident E. P. Ripley of the Santa Fe
road.
Two masked men grabbed a pack
age containing $4,000 from Agent
Peterson, of the United States Elk
press Co., while a train was standing
at Britt, Ia, on the Goth, and escaped
Federal court at indianapolis, Ind.
on the Goth, refused to grant a writ
of habeas corpus in the case of Moses
Fowler Chase. The case goes to the
United States supreme court.
The Ottoman and Mytylene banks
in Salonica, European Turkey, were
destroyed by dynamite on the 30th
Several arrests have been made.
Paul du Chaillu, American author
and explorer, who was stricken will
partial paralysis, on the goth, died il
St. Petersburg on the 30th.
Frederick C. Fisher, who confessed
to burning his wife to death, wa;
sentenced, at Riverside, CAL, on thu
3oth, to be hanged July IA.
The plant of the Cresson powder
works, near Hollidaysburg, Pa, was
on the 3Oth, wrecked by an explosion
Nine workmen were killed.
George L. Lorillard, a son of tn
late Pierre Lorillard, was, on the 30th
appointed second secretary of lega
ton at Havana.
One life was lost and 10000 dam
age done by a fire at Loretto, Pa, OIL
the 30th.
United States Consul Landger wa
fined $3.50 and sentenced to prison TO
three days by the judge of a court a
Bolingen, Prussia, for disorderly con
duct in the court room where he wa
present as a witness.
James b. Wilson, editor and pre-
prietor of the Knights of Fidelit
News, national organ of the saloon
keepers, dropped dead, on the LIST, !
his Office at Indianapolis, Ind, froi
a stroke of apoplexy.
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain
Southern railroad, of st. Louis, on tn
list, filed with the secretary of stat
at Jefferson City, Mo-, a certificate c
increase of capital stock from $4,000
900 to $119, 0 $1,000.
Warrants for the arrest of 7. /
Cox, William Shinn, David Gray, Pix
Uranium, Lon Shaw, Lee Jackson an
Carl Palmer were issued at Bloomin,
Ind, on the list, on charge of whit
Gaping.
The grand jury at Jefferson Cit.
Mo-, began an Investigation, on II
list, into alleged attempts to hold-u
! stock yards people during the sessio
, Of the Missouri legislature.
} The b%arricaded monastery Of Il
: C~apuchins at Marseilles, France, W;
taken, on the LIST, by the police, wi
: arrested the friars and their symp
thizers within the building.