Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-08-04
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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The forthcoming report Of the Unit,
ed States geological survey will show
that the United States exceeded all
previous records in the production of
coal in 1908. The total amount of the
output of the coal mines of the country
during that year was 359, III 81 tons,
an increase of nearly 100000 tons,
or 10 per cent. over the preceding
year.
M. Won Plehve, the Russian minister
of the interior, who was assassinated,
was buried IN the 31st, and in every
city and hamlet of that vast empire,
church bells were tolled and masses
and prayers said for the repose of the
soul of the murdered minister.
After a week of mental anguish,
during which he continually wept and
prayed, Frank Benedetoo, of Chicago,
who murdered his wife during a fit of
jealousy, committed suicide in his cell
in the county jail, on the 31st, by hang
ing himself.
Perhaps The oldest person in the
world to kill himself was Isaac Webb,
aged 81, of Kokomo, Ind, who died, on
the 30th, from swallowing carbolic
acid. The family believes he took the
poison by mistake for medicine.
Attorneys H. N. Hawkins and John
Fl. Murphy, counsel for the Western
Federation of Miners, are devising
ways and Means to enable the deport-
ed Cripple Creek miners to return to
their homes.
Twenty-three persons were hurt as
Tie result of a rear-end collision, on the
31st, between two large trolley cars on
the shore line of the Cleveland East
ern & gainesville railroad near Not
tingham, O.
The three plants of the International
Harvester Co., at Chicago, closed
down, on the LIST, for an indefinite De-
riod, and $4,000 workmen are thrown
out of employment.
The state bank at White Pigeon,
Mich, capitalized at $251, 900, and one
of the Oldest financial institutions in
the southern part of the state, has
closed it's doors.
The father of Eugene Schumann, the
of Gen. Bobrikoff, governor
general of Finland, has been taken to
st. Petersburg under an escort of gen.
darmes.
Fire, on the 91st, destroyed the es.
adjustment of the Shilbest Mercantile
Co. at San Francisco. Loss, $125, 900.
The American Federation of Labor
has promised to support the Fail River
(Mass.) strikers.
Owing to the annual taking account
If stock and to extensive repairs in the
mint at Philadelphia, the mints of tho
United States were almost entirely idle,
10 far as coinage was concerned, in
July. There was no gold coinage or
of minor pieces. The silver
amounted to only $455 ,519 in
subsidiary coinage, and $1,2S4,0 900 in
Philippine pesos.
Robert E. Pattison, who was twice
elected governor Of Pennsylvania on
he democratic ticket and twice con-
of Philadelphia, died, on the
st, at his home in Overlook, a SUBJ
lrb of Philadelphia. Pneumonia, COM
with a weakness of the heart,
was the cause of death.
The Michigan Central elevator at To-
edo, O., operated by the Paddock
company, was totally destroyed
BY fire, on the LIST, at a loss of 5000, 900.
The insurance amounted to $189, 900.
The building contained $4,000 bushels
corn and $4,000 bushels of oats.
-Four men, two of them masked, held
Up the Diamond Special of the Illinois
Central for st. Louis, near Matesan,
ILL.,, on the list, and after getting sew
eral thousand dollars from the passen-
gers, stopped the train, jumped off and
All the officers and employees of the
.nickerbocker Steamboat Co., as we'll
Is the United States inspectors, indict-
by the federal grand jury in con-
nection with the Slocum disaster Of
June Is last, were admitted to bail on
The list.
Joseph Letters coal company has OBJ
tained a temporary injunction from
Judge Humphrey, prohibiting union
miners from entering upon the proper
ty at Zeigler, ILL.,, or interfering in any
way with the employees.
On the list, every telegraph operator
and all but two agents on the Neosho
branch of the Missouri, Kansas & Tex
railway system struck in compliance
with a general order of the Order Of
Railway Telegraphers.
The cotton mills of the Scott Manu-
featuring Co. at Lowell, Mass, were
shut down, on the list, for one month,
throwing out 1,640 operatives. The sus-
of work is due to the dull
goods market.
A score Of persons were injured, two
Of them fatally, in a head-on collision.
on the list, between two trolley cars
on the Boston & Worcester street
railway, three miles from Westboro,
Mass.