Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS

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The marriage annulment suit OF First
Lieut.. Sidney 5. Burbank, L. S. A.,
against Mrs. Conception Burbank, nee
Vasquez, was called for trial in the
district court at Leavenworth, kas.,
on the Both, and a postponement was
granted until the October term of court
to afford time to bring the Filipino
woman here to defend herself.
John Sheehy, said to have been man
ager Of one of Sir Thomas Lipton's
stores in Limerick, Ireland, was arrest
ed, on the 1st, at Philadelphia, as he
stepped from the Belgian steamer
Friesland, from Liverpool, charged
with embezzling several hundred
pounds sterling from the famous
y~achtsman's establishment.
After a whole day of mourning over a
report that Express Messenger Marcus
De Groat had been killed in the
Kimmswick (Mo.) wreck, his relatives
in Council Bluffs, Ia, received a mes
sage stating that he was in a st. Louis
hospital only slightly hurt. De Greats
home is in that city.
John A. Delaney, who, the police say,
is wanted in st. Louis, New York,
Washington, and particularly by the
authorities of Baltimore, who charge
him with forgery, was arrested at the
Hotel Hanover, in Philadelphia, on
the LIST, after a sensational struggle
with two detectives.
The socialist party met in Chicago,
on the 1st, and organized a convention,
which will nominate candidates for
president and vice-president and frame
a national platform. The convention
consists of 230 delegates, every state in
the union being represent with excep-
ton Of Arizona.
Three large four-story office buildings,
with one smaller brick structure, &C.
cupied by produce and wholesale gro
Gerry dealers, were completely de-
stroyed by fire at Birmingham, Ala,
on the 1st, entailing a loss of $4,000.
The insurance is between $4,000 and
$780, 900.
The Virginia Navigation Co.'s steam
er Pocahontas, which has been plying
between Richmond and Norfolk, was
burned at her wharf, on the 30th, prac-
tically everything but her iron hull be-
ing consumed. The boat cost about
$3.50, 900.
Secretary Moody and a party Of
friends left Washington, on the I'd,
for a tour of inspection in southern wa
tiers. which will include stops at Guam
tanamo, Key West and Pensacola and
New Orleans.
D. P. Evans, of Bowling Green, O.,
started from the city hall, on the I'd.
for San Francisco, pushing a Wheel
barrow to pay an election bet. Evans
wagered that Mayor Johnson would be
elected governor Of Ohio last fall, the
loser to push a wheelbarrow across
the continent from Cleveland to San
Francisco and return, and also to make
the journey without money. Evans ex-
poets to earn enough to pay his ex-
penses en- route.
Judge Foster, of New York, on the
I'd denied the application of former
Judge Dittenhoefer, counsel for James
w. Goodman, under Indictment for as
sault on w. G. Greene, president of the
Greene. Consolidated Copper Co., for a
rowing commission to go west and tc
take evidence regarding the relations
between Greene and Goodman in thai
part of that country.
Judge N. Walter Nixon, in the dis
trict court at Pueblo, Col, on the I'd
issued on order restraining the ma
chinists of the Santa Fe at Denver
Pueblo, La Junta and Trinidad from
going on strike. No men had gone Out
there, and only a few had obeyed thu
strike order at La Junta.
A report from Pawnee City, Neb.
says one car of a circus train wa
burned there as the result of the ex
plosion of a gasoline torch. Foul
camels, three elephants, two sacred
cattle and a black bear persisted. TIT
loss is $50, 900.
A, cloud-burst in the Green range
eight miles south of Florence, Col, OF
the I'd, caused the Arkansas river tt
rise between eight and nine feet Their
in less than an hour. The unexpecte'
rush of water caused great damage,
James Brown, the Hawaiian unde
sentence to be hanged at independence
Mo-, on the 9Th, for the murder of hi
stepdaughter in 1899, will not be exc
cuted, Gov. Dockery having commute'
his sentence to life imprisonment.
Patrick Mcdonnell, a prominent con
tractor Of Duluth, Mimi, received wore
on the I'd, Of his appointment as ser
geant-at-arms Of the Democratic ma
tional convention. Mr.. Mcdonnell sal
that he would accept the post.
About 5000 workmen employed
the building trades in Philadelphia
were rendered idle, on the I'd, as til
result Of strikes ordered by local III
ions.
Word was received at New York, 0
the I'd, Of the death in London OF Edga
Fawcett, the author.