Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-03-03
MISSOURI A NEWS.


$4,000 Wolverines will attend tina
Worlds fair.
Separate quarters will be provided In
the Indian reservation for Geronimo
and Chief Joseph, the two most noted
Indian chiefs now alive. Both have
led warriors against the United States,
and both are actually prisoners, but
are accorded much freedom.
The completion of the largest pipe
organ ever built has been announced.
1t is a special exhibit, and occupies a
large room specially built to contain
it in the festival hall. The organ has
las stops. There are 10000 pipes. some
of which are five feet square.
Mrs. Mary Baker G.. Eddy. founder
Of the present day Christian Science,
has contributed $1,000 to the fund
raised by popular subscription to en-
able New Hampshire to be adequately
represented.
Twenty woodmen from Maine are
raising the mammoth log cabin that
will be the Pine Tree states pavilion.
The site is in a thickly wooded section,
and the Maine loggers appear thor
oughly at homo.
The first order for the new Louisiana
Purchase exposition stamps calls for
the printing of 90, 000, 900 one-cent
stamps bearing the portrait of Robert
R. Livingston, and 225, 900, 900 two-cent
stamps bearing Thomas Jefferson's
portrait. The stamps will be placed on
sale at every United States post office
on May l..
The last stages of the preparations
of the st. Louis Worlds fair are now
under way, and in several buildings
the installation of exhibits has already
begun. Carload after carload Of ex-
hibits have been placed in the respect
i've buildings in the last few days, and
the work of unloading and arranging
Is all that remains for the exhibitors.
The builders have finished their
work on Connecticut's building at the
Worlds fair, and the furnishings are
being installed. The building is a
replica of the Sigourney mansion at
Hartford. The main entrance was re-
moved bodily from the original struc-
ture and installed in the Worlds fail
reproduction.
Entire Family Poisoned.
P. S. Crawford purchased arsenic at
Tiff City, to be used in making medi-
cine for his hogs, and upon arriving
at home put the poison in a new
empty baking powder can. His wife
mistook the arsenic for baking powder
and made biscuits with it. In about
a half hour after breakfast members Of
the Crawford family became sick, one
after another, and they soon ascer-
tanned that the poison had been used
All at once drove to Tiff City fol
medical aid. Mrs. Crawford and the
mother Of P. S. Crawford died in
short time after arriving at Tiff, City
and his SON., Bert Crawford, is not ex.
pected to live. Mr.. Crawford and his
eldest daughter at last report were ir
a precarious condition.
Auditor Allen Sustained.
The supreme court in banc denied
the writ of mandamus applied for by
former Marshal Reese of the cour
against State Auditor Allen, to MAKE
him audit an expense account of $365,3'
for going to Wallace, Idaho, to arres
E. M. Edmonston, wanted in Missouri
for bigamy. The court held that hi
was acting as the messenger of thu
governor, that the court had no juris
diction to allow fees for services out
side the state, and that the governor
must order the claim paid.
Arkansas Wood Exhibit.
John Crowley, of Little Rock, Ark,
who has been working for four year
collecting the different kinds of Ar
kansas woods, has completed the task
The exhibit has been arranged in tn
form of a library. Mr.. G. A. A. Deane
land commissioner of the Iron Noun
tain, has purchased the exhibit iron
MI. Crowley and will take it to the ST
Louis Worlds fair.
Mark Dunn Must Hang.
Gov. Dockery notified Martin Spen
Ger, sheriff of Buchanan county, tina
he would not interfere with the lay
taking it's course in the case Of Mar
Dunn, the st. Joseph murderer, unde
sentence to hang March II. The gov
srnor has made a thorough investiga
ton of the records in the case and find
nothing to warrant executive clemency
warrant for Theate Man.
A warrant has been issued for til
arrest of AL ]. Ryerson, assistant treas
urer of the Lyceum theater, st. JOSEPH
charging him with embezzling $40(
His whereabouts are unknown. HI
populations are said to amount t
5 1000.
Took CarbOlic Acid.
In a fit of temporary insanity, tn
result of i'll health, Amos B. Ayre'
. prominent in st. Louis wholesale dr.
, goods circles, committed suicide b
drinking carbolic acid.
Long River Career Ended.
Capt. Edwin A. Sheble, aged "a, VIII
had commanded "a boats On the Missi'
sippi river during his life, died at b
home in ST. Louis.