Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS

LATE NEWS ITEMS
Maj. Sylvester, the superintendent OF
police of Washington, has announced
that he has destroyed all the films Of
the moving pictures taken a day of two
ago by theatrical parties on the east
front of the copitol building, when
President Roosevelt was impersonated
in the act of raising a fictitious negro
into his carriage. The police authori-
ties say that this closes the incident.
Alfred Morgan, of Vineland, N. j.,
aged IS years, said to be a relative of
j. P. Morgan, was burned to death at
his home on the 22d. His house was
discovered on fire, and an attempt was
made to rescue him, but the flames
spread so rapidly that this was impos-
sible. Mr.. Morgan was a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania.
AS a result of an explosion in the
two drying rooms of the Lake Shore
Novelty Co.'S plant at Findlay, O., on
the I'D, seven persons are known to be
dead, five are so seriously hurt that re-
covery is believed to be impossible, and
y or Is are injured badly.
David Rothschild, former president
of the Federal bank of New York, has
been found guilty of grand larceny in
the first degree. He was accused of
inducing persons to deposit money in
the bank after he knew it was insolv-
ent.
After gambling all of his personal
effects. Tyee Hocum a Nislually reser-
walton Indian, staked his klootchman
and lost her. The authorities learning
of the affair, forced the victor to return
the wife to the husband.
Mrs. W. 3. Caldwell, wife of DR.. W.
B. Caldwell, of Monticello, ILL.,, has
been asleep for % days and nights, and
all efforts to awake her have been una
yailing, Her case is attracting the at
tention of physicians.
The Ulster county poorhouse, three
miles from New Paltz, N. Y, was to-
tally destroyed by fire on the 22d.
Three inmates who are missing are
supposed to have been burned. The loss
is placed at $500
The conviction of Frank H. Burgess,
a sailor, who shot Capt. G. B. Town
send Of the schooner Charles X. Buck
ley in a quarrel over wages, was af-
tirmed by the court of appeals of New
York on the 21st.
The Brady Union Stock Yards Co.
at Atlanta, Ga, was placed in the
hands of a receiver, on the 21st, on Pc
tition of creditors. The liabilities are
placed at $125, 900; assets $780, 900.
In the federal court at Hannibal,
Mo-, Oh the 23d, the cases of Charles
L.. Blanton, Of the treasury department
at Washington, and j. B. Vernon, of st.
Louis, under indictment charging bri-
berry in connection with post office sites
in Missouri, were continued to Deem
Der. Investigations are being conduct
ed which are said to show that their
operations extended into Arkansas.
President Roosevelt has issued an
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departments to comply with the law in
the District of Columbia against per-
hitting dense smoke to issue from
chimneys and wherever necessary to
install smoke consumers, or make other
necessary changes in the machinery of
public buildings.
Jesse L. Jewell, state senator, went
to trial in the criminal court at Kan
sas City, on the 23d, upon a charge of
soliciting a bride for his vote and the
votes of other senators upon certain
baking powder legislation pending in
the Missouri legislature of 1903.
More than 10000 Dunkards, mem
bers of the old German Baptist de-
nomination and representing every
part Of the United States, are holding
their annual conference at the Fill
Bun farm, six miles northwest of Day
ton, O.
Hester Jackson, a negro woman of
Washington, d. G., who claimed to be
1908 years of age, is dead in that city.
She was the widow of a negro preach
er, Rev. Noah Jackson, and the date
of her birth is given as March 4, 1886.
A decree has been issued by Presi-
dent Castro Of Venezuela, expelling
from Maracaibo ten Spanish Capuchin
monks, who preached in favor of the
establishment of clerical power over
civil society.
Harry r. Geer, one of the b%est-known
bicyclists in st. Louis and holder of
many motorcycle records, died on the
22d. His death followed a sudden at
tack of illness which originaed a few
days ago.
Yukon navigation has opened, and
10000 goldseekers are rushing to the
gold fields Of Alsek, Tanama and
Nome. Steamers are plying on the up
per Yukon from Lake Lebarge to Daw-
son.
The greatest excitement prevails in
Harrisburg, ILL.,, wei the discovery of
oil in the heart of the city, a half block
from the public square, on the prop
erty of L. s. Barger, o jeweler.