Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Organized labor in Chicago, through
Its central body, the Federation Of La
Dor, has passed a resolution appealing
to President Roosevelt to send federal
troops to Colorado to restore order IN
the Cripple Creek district. The reso-
luton, which declares that the lives OF
the miners are in danger under pres
ent conditions, was mailed to the presl-
dent.
The London Telegraph's Brussels
correspondent says he understands the
Congo state will shortly send q fresh
note to Great Britain rejecting the
proposal to establish consular tribunals
in the Congo state, and Offering to Or
der an inquiry into grievances to be
conducted by Congo state officials and
judges exclusively.
The Richelieu & Ontario Co $ steam
or Canada, bound from Quebec for
Montreal, came into collision with the
Dominion Coal Co.'S collier Cape Bre-
ton six miles below Sorel on the 18th.
At the time of the collision there were
ITO people on board the Canada. Five
were lost; the others were rescued.
The Erie Railway Co. has discharged
10 per cent. of its working force, or 1OS
mel. from it's shops in Susquehanna,
Pa. Similar discharges were made in
all the shops on the system. This is
the second discharge of 10 per cent.
within 80 days. The company is re-
ducing expenses in all directions.
Gov. Yates of Illinois has issued a
flag day proclamation, declaring that
Tuesday, June IA, is the anniversary
of the American flag, and asking that
the flag be displayed from every public
and private building in the state, and
that appropriate exercises be held in
the public schools.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, who
was painfully injured, on the 10th, by
being knocked down by a boy with a
bicycle. is considerably better. The
wound in the shoulder is painful, but
it is thought it will yield readily to
treatment.
William A. G. Miller, a prominent
lumberman of Detroit, Mich, commit
ted suicide on the 18th by shooting.
III health is supposed to have been the
cause of his rash act. He was a native
a Glasgow, Scotland, and was 81 years
of age.
An excursion train bearing 700 peo-
pie was run into by a switch Ell CINE
in the Minneapolis (Minn.) yards about
a mile from the Union depot, on the
18th, and it is reported that many per-
sons were killed and injured.
Lieut.. Nathaniel T. Bower, engineer
rorps at Fort Leavenworth, Kas.. was
killed, on the 18th, near the target
range. The officer was on his way to
the range to shoot, when a bolt Of
lightning out of a comparatively clear
sky struck his rife, which he was car
rying, passed through the arm into the
right breast and passed out through the
shoes. He was to have been married
in July.
What is believed is the most crush
ing blow trade unionism has received
in Rochester, N. Y, is the refusal of
3. Rothschild & Co. to renew their
agreement with the United Garment
Workers of America. This action
leaves the organization without a sin
gle factory Of Importance in that, city
Senator Beveridge of Indiana has re-
ceived official notice that he is to make
the first speech in the republican ma
tional convention, s%econding the nom.
nation Of Roosevelt. He will follow
former Gov. Black, of New York, who
will place the candidate in nomination
Miss Alice Roosevelt left Washing
ton, on the 18th, for Philadelphia
where she will be bridesmaid at tht
wedding of Miss Whelan. She will af.
forwards go to Hyde Park, New York
to be bridesmaid at the wedding of he,
cousin, Miss Helen Roosevelt.
In a natural gas explosion at Bed
ford, Pa, on the 18th, one mar wa!
: killed, another fatally injured, tn
: home of r. l.. Scheckels was wrecked
and property valued at $31, 900 was de
stroyed. Several persons had marrow
escapes from death.
Funeral services over the remains O
. Abner Mckinley were held at Canton
l O., on the 18th, at the residence 0
Mrs. Ida S. Mckinley, the home of tn
y late president. The interment was i
t the Mckinley plot at Westlawn GENE
terry.
q Forty-three members of the PHILIP
9 pine commission have arrived in Phi
D adelphia from Washington, accomps
n MED by Secretary of War Taft an
several army officers. The commissio
q will spend several days sightseeing.
Judge Kohlsaat, of the United State
district court, has appointed the Equit
lr able Trust Co. receiver of the Emil
le iron works, at East Chicago. Liabil
ties are said to be $140,0 600, and asset
> 800, 900.
The comptroller Of the currency hi
II issued a call for the condition Of IL
/ national banks at the close Of bushes
June 9.