Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-02-18

W. w. Buchanan, United States min
lister to Panama arrived in the New
York, on the 9th, from Colon. Mr..
Buchanan said he would probably not
return to Panama as the representative
of this country.
An investigation, on the 9th, of the
ruins of several of the banks and trust
companies of Baltimore, Md, in the
section destroyed by fire, disclosed the
fact that their vaults and contents were
absolutely intact.
The banquet which was to have been
held at Cleveland, o., on the 18th, as
the concluding feature of the annual
meeting of the Ohio Republican league,
was abandoned because of the serious
illness of Senator Hanna.
Lincoln's birthday was observed il
Chicago. on the 18th, by the Marquette
club with a banquet and public meet
ing at the Auditorium hotel. Secre-
tary of the Treasury Shaw was the
principal speaker of the evening.
United States Minister Powell report
ed, on the 18th, by cable to the state
department from San Domingo, under
date of the 9th, that it was reported
in the capital that a battle had been
fought in Sanchez and many people
killed,
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Senator Daniel, of Virginia. intro
duced a bill in the senate, on the 18th
appropriating $40, 900 for the compile
ton of the Jefferson Memorial object
lesson road from Charlottesville, Va,
to Monticello, the grave Of Thomas
Jefferson.
Gov. Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa, was
the principal speaker, on the 18th, at
the annual Lincoln day banquet given
by the Minneapolis (Minn,) Flambeau
club. Five hundred persons listened
attentively to Gov. Cummins' speech on
'"rhe Iowa Idea"
Gustav Marx. ~self-confessed p"artici-
pant in the Chicago car barn murders,
turned aside from his ~co-defendants,
Peter Neidermeyer and Harvey Van
Dine. at the opening of the trial of the
three men, on the Sth, and offered to
become a witness for the state.
In the district court at Cripple
Creek, Col. on the Sth. Judge Lewis
o~verruled the motion of ex-Congress-
man John NJ, Glover, of Missouri, for
dismissal of the charges of assault
with intent to murder ~Sergeants Dit.
tIemore and Smith of the Colorado ma.
tional guard.
Acting Chief Moran, of the United
States secret service, announced. on
the 9Th, the discovery of a new coun-
terfeit %ten-dOllar national bank note
on the Third national bank of Rock
ford. III. 1t was a Photographic produc-
ton on two pieces of paper with silk
threads between them.
A deal was closed, on. the 18th, where
by the state land board of Wyoming
sold 10000 acres of land in the Big
Horn country to Apostle Woodruff and
a syndicate of Mormons. The Mormons
propose to start big irrigation projects
and settle the land with at least TWEEN
ty thousand Mormons.
The Kansas department of the G. A.
r. directed the Lincoln day programme
in Topeka, Kas., on the 18th. Col. L.
w. Waters, of Kansas City, made an
address. Gen. Nelson A. Miles was to
have been present, but was detained by
the serious illness Of Mrs. Miles.
News having reached the state de-
partment at Washington, D. c., on the
18th, that the Jiminez rebels were tear
ing up the American railroad between
Puerto Plata and Santiago, in San Do
mingo, the state department caused a
warship to be ordered to the former
port.
Word was received il Chicago, on
the 9th, of the death in Florida of Mrs.
Mary Abbott, for several years literary
editor of the Chicago Herald, and later
of the Chicago Times Herald. She was
the mother of Mrs. Peter Dunno, wife
of the creator of "Mr. Dooley,'' and
was herself well known in literary cir
cles.
In an alteration on a railway plat.
form at Lewistown, Mo-, 80 miles from
Quincy, Ill, Noah Bowles, town mar
shall, was shot and killed by William
Pittman, who subsequently committed
suicide. 1t was alleged that Pittman
was intoxicated and had terrorized the
passengers on a train from Labelle to
Lewistown.
Frank Jones, said to be a notorious
outlaw, was instantly killed by two
members Of a sheriff's posse, on the
18th, in the northwestern part of Mon
tana. Jones, it is alleged, was the
leader Of a gang that has terrorized
cattlemen and stockmen in that valley
Tor ten years. Rewards "aggregating
81, 800 were standing for Jones' capture
dead or alive,