Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-03-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Attempts were made on the goth,
without success, to raise the British
submarine boat No. A l., which was
run down by the Donald C,lrrie line
steamer Berwick Castle on the 18th.
The principle damage appears to have
been done to the coming tower, which
shows the marks of the collision. The
hull of the vessel appears to be intact
A mob of masked men stormed the
jail at Cleveland, Miss, on the 18th,
and secured possession of Fayette
Sawyer and Burke Harris, two negroes,
charged with the murder of Sid Killum,
a negro porter. The prisoners were
taken to the scene of the murder and
hanged from the railroad bridge.
John Kauke, IS years old, one of the
founders of the University of Wooster,
at Wooster, O., died suddenly of heart
disease on the goth. Mr.. Kauke was
a trustee of Wooster university from
the beginning of the school to the date
of his death, and was the first to en-
dow a chair in the university.
Fire, on the night of the Goth, Quilted
the box factory owned by M. Molitor
and J.. P. Hummel and the Greve
Show Print Co.'S plant, both located in
a four-story building at the corner of
Milwaukee and Huron streets, Milwau;-
kee, Wis. Damage about $100, 900.
Lady Curzon, wife of Lord Curzon Of
Keddleston, viceroy and governor-gen-
eral of India, gave birth to a daughter
in London on the 10Th. Mother and
child are doing well. Lady Curzon is
a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi z.
Letter, of Washington, D. G.
The German bark Mona collided with
the English ship Lady Cairns of Dub
lin bay on the Goth, The Lady Cairns
sank in a few minutes. Her crew of %
were drowned. The Mona, which was
much damaged, was assisted into Dub
lin harbor.
W. R. Rex, a prominent young poll
tician of st. Joseph, Mo-, died on the
night of the Goth with pneumonia, af-
ter an illness of less than a week. He
was 40 years old, and for many years
lived in Chicago.
The Washington State Press asso-
citation, on invitation of the st. Louis
fair board, will hold its annual meet
ing on May 20 in st. Louis, within tho
grounds of the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position.
An explosion of a gas tank in a res
taurant owned by Chopper Brothers, at
Pittsburg, Kas., on the Goth, injured
six persons, three of them seriously,
causing a property loss of $1,000
Senate-Consideration in the senate,
on the Dist, of the bill for the purpose
of a site and the erection of a building
for the departments, state, justice and
and labor, was made the &C.
casion for adverse criticism of the
architect who planned the White House
offices. Messrs. Teller and Hale led
the charge on the architect and Mr..
defended him. During the
X lhll5 a lulltDON vi W pdooNu
.... House-After being in session an
hour and twenty minutes the house adj
jOurned out of respect to the memory
of the late Charles w. Thompson, who
died Sunday. Consideration of other
business was objected to by Mr.. Will
Jams, %whereupon Mr.. Wiley, of Ala
bama, announced the death of his col
league, Hon. Charles Winston Thomp-
son, and offered the usual resolutions
of sympathy and respect, which were
agreed to. The speaker appointed a
committee to represent the house of
representatives at the funeral. AT 1:2O
O'Clock p, m. adjourned until Tuesday.
A trolley car, on the Dist, ran
through a minstrel parade at Keokuk,
Ia, probably fatally injuring James
Barandi, hurting five other persons
and destroying nearly all the musical
instruments and costumes of the band.
William Cahill, motorman, has been
arrested on a charge of assault.
The American line steamer New
York, which grounded on the goth off
Cape La Hague, and afterwards collid-
ed with the British troopship Assaye,
will go into drydock. The damage
which the New York sustained through
the collision with the Assaye is all
above the water line.
The cases involving the controversy
between the Western Union Telegraph
Co. and the Pennsylvania Railroad
Co. over the formers right of way
along the railroad, were set for hear
ing in the United States supreme
court the first Tuesday Of the next
term of the court.
In the county court of Buffalo, N. Y,
on the 21st, Judge Emory sentenced
Charles H. Callahan, the ticket scalp
er convicted of forging transportation
tickets, to Auburn prison, for less than
mi year and not more than three
years.
Two thousand operatives employed
In the Arlington cotton mills in Law.
renee, Mass, were notified, on the
21st, that a reduction varying from five
to ten per cent. in wages would go into
effect on March 20.