Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-21
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Jones, on the lotn, was the largest ever
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Nearly a dozen people were injured.
one dangerously, in the derailment OF
north-bound passenger train No. CT, on
the Paris-Cleburne line of the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe railroad, nine
miles south of Dallas, Tex, on the
18th. Thomas Gray, baggageman, of
Cleburne, was %pinioned under the
heavy safe and a trunk in the baggage
car, and suffered serious injuries.
With a display Of fireworks surpass-
ing that on the Fourth of July, the
Homestead steel works at Pittsburg,
Pa, started operation in full, on the
night of the 18th, with the employees
working double time. The plant has
been operating only about half time
for the past year.
The body of F. Kent Loomis, who
disappeared from the North German
Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm H.,
June 20, as that vessel was nearing
Plymouth, was found by a laborer, on
the 10th, at Warren Point, Bigbury bay,
some fifteen miles from Plymouth,
Eng.
The cotton mills of the Edwards
Manufacturing Co., at Augusta, Me-,
was shut down, Oh the 10th, for two
months. New machinery will be in
stalled and repairs made. About 1000
employees will be idle.
Secretary of State John Hay has
sent to the French embassy a letter ac-
cepting the decoration of the Legion of
Honor, which was conferred upon him
by the French government at the ma
tional festival, July IA.
Four deaths, and many serious pros
trations in Chicago, on the 18th,
marked that day the hottest day of the
season, causing suffering to millions
and driving thousands to seek relief
away from the city.
Delayed over "a hours by an acct
dent to her machinery, the steamer
st. Louis, from Southampton and
Cherbourg, arrived at quarantine, off
New York, on the 18th.
For their protection in East of an
attack by the strikers, the Cudahy
Packing Co, of Sioux City, Ia, on the
18th, distributed revolvers amons all
its non-union employees.
Iudpn AhVnpoto Dioh1 ,F +ha Tr,;Lo =
States navy, has decided that the
wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor
can not be raised without the formal
consent of congress.
Two hundred people were hurled to
the ground, on the 18th, at Brighton
Park, a suburb of Cleveland, O., by
the collapse of a %grandstand.
Leaders Of the democratic party con-
ferred for more than two hours on the
! 18th in the rooms of former Senator
D. B. Hill, at the Hoffman house in
New York, and at the close made pub
lie a statement to the effect that the
; craftsmanship of the National commit
tee had not been discussed.
Foreign Minister Delcasse received
Ion Perdicaris on the 18th, and confer
red l~engthily with him on the situation
in Morocco. M. Perdicaris expressed
his thanks for the French efforts lead
ing up to his release from captivity
and urged the necessity for energetic
action towards Morocco.
i William T. Richards, station oper
ator, and Ernest Heller, rear flagman
were found responsible for the wrecl
of a train On the Greenwood lake div
sion of the Erie railroad at Mijvale
N. Y, a week ago, by which 16 person
lost their lives and SO were injured.
Toliff Anderson, a wealthy retire
? farmer living at Linn Grove, Buen
/. Vista county, Ia, on the 18th, shot hi
, wife through the head, killing her in
stantly, and then sent a bullet throug
his own head. The shooting was don
in the presence of a daughter.
; Suits were filed in Kansas City, Kas
! on the 18th, by the county attorney (
: Wyandotte county, enjoining the Roc
!. Island and Kansas City Southern raj
way companies from reconstructin
, their temporary pile bridges across IL
Kaw river at Kansas City.
. During a riot of strikers in Paris o
7. . the 18th, several shots were fired, r
: sulting in the killing of four person
. and the wounding Of rs. The gen
armes, who attempted to dispense IL
q rioters, were stoned.
Q On the 18th, two boys, aged respe
lively 13 and 10, sons Of a farm
= named Trosp, were drowned viii
bathing in the Blue river. near Fai
: bury, Neb. The bodies were ecovere
' Byron and Ross Clutter. aged !
spectively % and IA years, of st. Mary
2 w. Va, were struck by lightning al
y Instantly killed, on the 18th, during
y severe storm.
y AS a result Of the strike Of the gre
y packing houses In the United States,
y Is expected that the retail price of be
y in England will be raised two pen
per pound.
y, The yacht race, on the 18th, frc
2 Dover to Ostand, Eng, was won by t
y American schooner yacht Ingom
Y (owned by Morton F. Plant, Of N,
y. York;.