Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

At last a typesetting machine Is to
gain a place in the government printing
office at Washington. Public Printer
Palmer has perfected arrangements
whereby twenty-five M~ergenthaler and
twenty-eight Lanston machines will be
installed in the big shop, and when
congress opens again next December
the Congressional Record for the first
time in history will not be set up by
hand.
Fire horses from every city In the
country have been invited to compete
for prizes in connection with the inter-
national horse show at the Worlds
fair in st. Louis. This is the first time
that the fire horse has had a place on
the prize list and the first time that
the brave steed has appeared before the
critical gaze of exposition judges.
The commission charged with the
preparation of the currency system of
Panama has reached an agreement
which establishes a coin equivalent in
fneness and weight to the dollar of the
United States as the standard, and
which also makes the United States
dollar legal tender in Panama.
Sheriff G. D. Harris, of st. Croix
county, Mimi, was shot and killed on
the 18th while attempting to make an
arrest on an Omaha train near Fall
Creek, Wis. The man who did the
shooting, whose name is unknown,
jumped from the moving train and es-
capped.
On the 18th each" Mulhall, live stock
agent of the Rock Island system, con-
nected with Cummins' Wild West con-
gress on the Pike at the Worlds fair,
shot and wounded three men in an al
tercation which took place in front of
the show.
Robert McElrath, who lived at Den
mark, Ill, diel two weeks ago as a
result of milk sickness. Since then all
five of his children have taken sick.
Two are dead and the doctors say the
others cannot live.
The $50 employees of the Erie rail-
road at Huntinton, Ind, who have been
suspended during the last six weeks,
have received an order from the gen.
eral superintendent to return to work.
Ike Copeland, rs years old, died on
the 18th at Eddyville, Ky. He was said
to have been the only negro confeder-
ate living in the state. He lived in a
home given him by Gen. H. B. Lyons.
Moses johnson, colored, OF Ports
mouth, O., was electrocuted at the Ohio
penitentiary on the 18th for the MUIR
der of Edward Test, an insurance agent.
On the goth two persons were killed
and eve Others injured, one fatally,
by the partial collapse of the four
story brick building at Third and Dell
aware streets, Kansas City, Mo-, occu-
pied by the Block Preserving Co. The
collapse was caused by overlooking.
On the Goth, Carey Snyder, son of R.
M. Snyder, of Kansas City, Mo, the
promoter and former banker, pleaded
guilty in the criminal court of holding
up and robbing a pawn broker. He
was sentenced to three years in the
p~enitentiary, but was parolled.
Representatives of Jeffries and Mon
roe have each placed So, 500 with Har-
ry Corbett, as a guarantee that the
pugilists will appear in the ring at San
Francisco, in the last week of August.
Each will post an additional 81, 900 Au-
gust 1.
Jacob Both, Of Lincoln, Neb., a la
borer, was arrested on the goth, and is
in the county Jail charged with at
tempting to wreck the Denver flyer On
the Burlington. The attempt was made
near the town of Denton.
Two children of Worley Ellis, Of
Ainsworth, Neb., Harold, aged three, and
Maud, aged 16 months, were killed, and
a third, Violet, aged five years, fatally
injured by a switch engine in the Bur-
lington yards on the goth.
Philip Krantz, an engineer, jumped
from the Brooklyn bridge, on the goth,
and escaped unframed. Krantz is I'M
der arrest, charged with attempted
suicide, but denies that he had any in
, tention of taking his life.
The big No. 2 hoist of the Ontario
mine, located near Park City, Utah,
was totally destroyed by fire on the
goth, throwing 200 men out of employ
ment and causing a nominal loss OF
about s400,0 600.
An order was issued in the probate
court at New Haven, Conn, IN the
Goth, directing William j. Bryan, as
!, executor. to pay over to Mrs. Philo s
l Bennett SIS, 900 in lieu of her dover
> rights.
Under date of June 20, Vice-Admiral
Skyrdloff sent the following message
to the emperor: 'The cruiser division
. has returned to Vladivostok without
losing any men or sustaining any dam
age"
q James Gentry, who formerly lived in
Austin, Tex, is fighting in the Jap
anese army against Russia. He first
entered the Japanese army as a scout
and now ranks as captain.