Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-02-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Fire, on the 18th, destroyed the en-
tire grand stand and about one-third
of the board track known as the Walls
burg IN. j. bicycle track, which was
one of the most famous in the country.
Henry Young, a fireman, was killed.
The loss was about $4,000.
On petition of creditors, Judge Kohl
saat. of the United States district
court of Chicago, on the 18th appointed
Ryerson D. Gates and Henry l.. Will
son receivers for the American Male
able Iron Co. The company was in
c%orporated with a capital of $780, 900.
and the plant is located at Chicago
Highlands, Ill.
The Salvation army will hold me-
mortal services for Senator Hanna, on
the Dist. at the national headquarters,
in New York city, conducted by Com
mander Booth-Tucker. Senator Hanna
mad for years taken a keen interest in
the work of the Salvation army.
Three hundred cases of typhoid fe-
yer were reported, or the 18th, in Wa
tertoWn, N. Y.
Jules Lombard, 80 years of age, of
Omaha, Neb,, was, on the 18th, admit
ted to practice of law. He was a ia
nous singer years ago, and sang during
Lincoln's campaign and at his funeral.
Rev, Anna II. Shaw was elected, on
the 10Th, president of the National
Woman's Suffrage association.
Frau Krupp observed the birthday
of her late husband at Berlin, Ger
many, on the 18th, by giving $25 each
to 1000 workmen who had been rs
years in the service of the company
and by donating $125,000 to the work
mems hospital.
Mrs. Jacob Antoniassi and five chill
dren were burned to death, on the
18th, in a fire consuming the house in
which they lived, near Croton, N. Y.
The explosion of an oil lamp caused the
fire.
The work of clearing the streets in
the burned district of Baltimore, Nd,
was completed on the 18th. City En-
gineer Fendall said that permits would
be issued to rebuild in sections OF the
burned district where no changes in
the building lines were to be made.
The train bearing the remains of
for Cleveland, O., on the 18th. On the
train were all the members of the late
senator's family and a number of per-
sonal friends.
The jury in the case of James Reed,
charged with the murder of Glenna
Hines, at Omaha, Neb., last September,
on the 18th returned a verdict of muir
der in the first degree, and recon-
mended that Reed be imprisoned for
life.
John Norwood Clark, aged 80, longer
a continuous member of the Odd Eel
lows than any other person, died, on
the 18th, at Iowa City, la. He Joined
the order at Baltimore. Md, in 1897.
The house committee on military af-
fairs, on the 18th, heard Col. c. A. Ed
wards, U. S. A., and Representative
Slayden, of Texas, in favor of the Sc
lection of Fort Sam Houston, Tex, as
a permanent military camp.
Geo. B. Jennings, president of the
Jennings Adjustable Shade Co., was
shot and killed in his office, on the
18th, in Brooklyn, N. Y, by Frank Nc
Namara, superintendent of IL of The
departments of the Elgin Watch Co.
factory, at Elgin, Ill.
The German steamer Bayonne, bount
for Gibraltar, which grounded IL thu
Delaware river so miles below Pki'a
delphia, was fioated, IN the 18th, ap'
proceeded under heG own steam, ap
parently uninjured.
Congressman James NJ. Miller wa
renominated, on the 18th, by the re
publican convention of the Fourtl
Kansas district, at Emporia, Kas.
Fred Hunnell, of Des Moines, la
suffering from a fatal bullet woun,
above the heart, inflicted, on the 10TH
by William Burgoyne, a bartender O
Kansas City, Mo-, in a quarrel, furtive
ly took morphine and died on the op
Grating table. Burgoyne was arrested
]. Fl. Schneider, of Tucson, Ariz
who was indicted and arrested
Washington, d. c., for alleged con
plicity in public land frauds in tn
west, was released, on the 10Th, froi
custody under $4,000 bonds.