Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-14
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Booker T. Washington, while in Bos.
ton, on the 10th, expressed great sur
prise because he had been quoted by
Capt. Richmond P. Hobson, at the ma
tional democratic convention, as hav-
ing suggested in a recent address be-
fore the National Educational associa-
ton in st. Louis that white people and
colored people should attend the same
schools and churches in the south.
Seventeen persons were killed and
about fifty injured in a collision which
occurred at Midvale, N. j., or the 10th, |
when a regular passenger train on the
Greenwood Lake branch of the Erie
railroad ran into an excursion train
that had stopped to take water.
The jury selected by Coroner Will
lam A. Gray, of Montgomery county,
ILL.,, to investigate the Wabash wreck
at Litchfield, on July 8, has fixed the
number of dead at 25. Twenty of the
dead were identified, II remains uni
Identified and four are missing.
Thousands of persons witnessed the
arrival at Plymouth Eng, on the 10th,
of the most powerful German fleet ever
seen in Great Britain. Eight battle
ships and seven cruisers steamed into
the naval base on a visit of courtesy,
amidst deafening ~salutes.
Gen. Torral, who commanded the
Spanish garrison at Santiago, Cuba,
when that place surrendered to the
United States forces, died, on the 10th,
in an asylum for the insane. He be-
came insane brooding over the capitu-
lation at Santiago.
On the 10th, Earl Dennefeld, aged
II, and Owen Stone, aged II, were
drowned in a pond in Kansas City Kas.,
while bathing. The Dcnnefeld boy
ventured beyond his depth, and Stone
persisted while trying to saw his com
rade.
Nicholas J. Schlupp. for so years a
resident of st. Joseph, Mo-, died at his
home at that place, on the 10th, Of
Bright's disease. He was v~ice-presi-
dent of the st. Joseph Brewing Co.,
and was wealthy.
According to a cablegram received
in Washington, M. Fernand Du Mar
theray, the Swiss minister to the Unit
ed States, has been transferred from
Washington to Austro-Hungary by his
government.
Former Mayor Broderick Heinze, OF
Davenport, Ia, died of apoplexy, on
the 10th, in New York. He was a
prominent member of the American
Bankers association.
Secretary Grimes Of the Oklahoma
live stock commission was notified, on
the 18th, that the department OF agri-
culture at Washington has granted a
concession for a dipping plant at Raj
ston, where southern cattle may be
dipped in crude Beaumont oil prepara-
tory to shipment across the quarantine
line. This is the first station of its
kind outside of Texas, and will IA
cilitate matters for cattle feeding on
the Indian reservations.
The house of representatives of Cuba
met, on the 10th, and passed the senate
bill appropriating $4,000 for the ex-
penses of the Cuban exhibit at the st.
Louis fair. 1t also passed a bill EN-
powering the president to appoint q
committee to pass upon the remaining
protested army payment claims. The
committee will have three months in
which to finish it's work
The effectiveness of the Guatemala
ants in checking the ravages of thu
boil weevil in the cotton fields has beer
tested, and Mr.. Cook, expert of the de
partment of agriculture, in a telegram
: to Secretary Wilson, on the 18th, an
nounced that the ants promptly de
: stroyed the weevil, and the Texas ant
as well.
} Mayor Harrison of Chicago has de
> clared that prize fights Of every sort
including contests under the guise o
glove contests" must cease in tina
l city. He summoned Chief of Polio
i O'Neill and gave strict orders that tn
: mandate must be enforced.
BY an order issued at the war depart
ment, Brig.-Gen. Frederick Funsto
. has been detached from command G
the department of the Columbia an
placed in command of the department
= of the east, a post temporarily held b
Maj.-Gen. Corbin.
1, Most of the Fall River (Mass.) col
n ton mills resumed operations on tn
l. 18th, after a ten days shut dow
Is Many of the manufacturers are trim
n of the curtailment policy, which he
been in force over nearly four month
A general strike of the employees
1t all the big packing plants ~throughot
the country was ordered, on the lit
l. by Michael J. Donnelly, president
D. the Amalgamated Meat Cutters an
Butchers Workmen Of America.
"a Pinkerton detectives have positive
Ia identified the body of a train robbie
"a who committed suicide near Newcastl
Col, on the 9th, to avoid capture,
that Of Harvey Curry, alias Logan,
native Of Dodson. Mo.