Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-02-11
By ELI ID. AXE


Andre Matteson. once editor of tn,
Chicago Times, died, on the 5th. q
his home in Highland Park, III.
The League Of American Municipal
ties will hold their annual conven
ton in East st. Louis, ILL.,, on Octobe
4, . and 6.
More than 10000 acres in Rout
and Grand counties, Col, were thrown
open for settlement, on the 4th, by the
state land board, including coal, agri
cultural and mineral lands.
The senate voted. on the 5th, il
favor of loaning the st. Louis World;
fair $4,000, 600. The exposition com
pany agreed to pay Uncle Sam bacl
out of the first gate receipts.
Admiral Schley, who had been suf
fering from an attack of grip at Wash
ington, D. c., was very much better OF
the 18th. He was able to leave his bee
and BREAKFAST with his family.
Adjt.-Gen. Scott, on the 4th, issuet
an order granting permission to thu
First regiment, Illinois national guard
of Chicago, to attend the Louisian;
Purchase exposition at st. Louis, Jul,
1923.
The official call for the Prohibition
national convention, which is to con
vene in indianapolis, Ind, on June 29
was issued, on the 4th, by Oliver W
Stewart, chairman of the nationa
committee.
The order of Mayor Mcclellan o
New York city to close the Grant
opera house was complied with, OF
the 5th, by the management. A stroni
force of police was present to enforce
the order if necessary.
Charged with robbing the body OF
woman victim of the Chicago Iroquoi
theater fire, Louis Witze, a saloo.
Keeper, was, on the I'd, found guilty
T. Mccarthy and Charles Conway wer
convicted of aiding Witze,
Rev. Amos Dresser, a retired Con
gregational minister, died, on the 4th
at his home near Lawrence, Kas.. aget
81 years. He was of the frs
graduates of Oberlin university, be
ing a member of the class of '33.
A charter was granted at Topeka
Kas, on the 9Th, to the Arkansas, Mis-
souri, & Kansas Railroad Co., capita
$780, 900, to build a line southeasr
from Chanute. Kas. Boston capitalists
were reported to be behind the com
pany.
The senate committee, on the 9Th
authorized Senator Nelson, of Mime
sofa, to report favorably on his bill
to provide for the construction o.
roads in Alaska, for the maintenance
of schools and support of insane anC
destitute persons in the territory.
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Charles NJ. Levey, for two years
general manager of the Burlington rail
road lines in Missouri, was, on the
9Th, made assistant to President How
ard Elliott of the Northern Pacific
railroad, to take charge of the prop
critics west of the Rocky mountains
Following the lead of Gov. w. J
Bailey of Kansas, who withdrew from
the race for governor, Morton Albaugh
chairman Of the republican state cen.
trail committee during the last three
campaigns, on the list announced thai
he would not be a candidate for re-
election.
William C. Whitney went to his
final rest, on the 9Th, in the presence
of his family. relatives and friends in
the many walks of life in which the
late secretary of the navy had passed.
The simple ceremonies were held over
the remains in Grace church, New
York city,
The Canadian Pacific railway officials
at Montreal, Can, announced, on tbs
I'd, that the company had been con-
demned by a British judge in Hong
Kong to pay to the Chinese govern
ment $3.50, 900 for the sinking of a Chi
nese gunboat by one of their steamers
the Empress of Japan.
After a brief sitting, the supreme
court Of the United States adjourned
on the LIST, to meet again on the 23d
The adjournment was for the purpose
of affording opportunity to give con-
s~ideration Of cases which have been
argued, including the Northern Sc
curities merger case.
Last rites were performed, on the
81, at the Seminary of the Sacred
Heart, Chicago, over the remains OF
Madame Margaret Knapp, a widely.
known member of the Sacred Heart
community. Madame Knapp was 9
member Of the well-known family Of
that name in st. Louis.
Judge Lucien Salisbury died at his
home on Walnut Hill farm, near Ken.
ton, O., on the Sd, aged 80 years. He
was the founder of Salisbury, Mo-, ant
served four terms as a member of The
Legislature of that state. While a res
ident of Missouri he also served or
the common pleas bench.