Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-07
OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

posed reduction of ten per cent. in
wages, to take effect January 1.
Oscar G.. Murray, first vice-president
Of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.,
was, on the Goth, elected president of
the company, succeeding L. F. Loree,
who resigned to accept the presidency
Of the Rock Island company.
The Westinghouse Electric and Man
ufacturing Co., OF New York city, on
the Goth, purchased a controlling in
terest in the Lackawanna & Wyoming
Valley Rapid Transit Co., paying
therefor about $4,000, 900.
Piebe Ulberg and his daughter, Mrs.
ida Dwiggins, of Georgetown, Mich,
riding in a sleigh, were killed, on the
18th, by a Holland & Lake Michigan
.nterurban car, at Grandville, Mich.
The pudding department of the
Spang-Chalfant mills, at Etna, Pa, re-
sumed work, on the Goth. Four hun.
lred employees returned to work after
I shutdown Of eight weeks.
AS a result of the high price of cot
ton, 10000 men, women and children
employed in textile mills in Philadel-
phia have been laid off indefinitely.
Andrew Patullo, NJ. P, of Wool
stock, Ont, committed suicide, on the
10Th, at London, Eng, where he had
been visiting. He was formerly pro-
prietor of the Woodstock (Ont.) SEN
.inel-Review.
Miss Louise Brega, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles w. Brega, of Chi
cago, was, on the 29th, united in mar
riage to Capt, Ralph Haweis James of
the Royal North Lancashire regiment,
London.
Police Commissioner Greene, of New
York city, sent his resignation to
Mayor Low, on the 29th, to take effect
December 81 or January 1.
Francis E. White, who was we'll
known in medical circles, died, on the
10Th, at Jamaica Plain, Mass, a sub
lrb of Boston.
About $50 people were killed in ten
minutes, on tie Both, during a fire in
the %Iroquois theater, the newest and
largest, and, as far as human power
could make it, the safest theater in
Chicago. A few of these people were
burned to death, while many were
suffocated by gas and scores were
trampled to death in the panic that
followed the mad plunge Of the fright
ened audience for the exits.
Postmaster-General Payne, on the
30th, appointed Edward F. Kimball, of
Massachusetts, superintendent of the
money order system of the post office
department. Mr.. Kimball had been
in charge of that branch of the serv-
ice since the removal of j. T. Metcalf,
during the post office investigation.
Northern Pacific Express No. 4,
east bound from Seattle, Wash, struck
a broken rail 1876 miles west Of Mis-
soula, Mont, on the 30th. Seven cars
were deraiIed, including two Pullmans.
The passengers were badly shaken up,
but meme was badly injured. Traffic
was delayed several hours.
Two plaster models for the McKin-
ley monument, one weighing a half ton
and the other 300 pounds, were re-
ceived, on the 30th, at the Canton (O.)
office OF the National Mckinley Memo,
rial association. The larger one was
from New York, and the other was
from Washington, D. C.
William Jennings Bryan was a pas
Benger on board the White Star liner
Celtic, which sailed from Liverpool, on
the 30th, for New York.
The Labelle iron works, the big in.
dependent corporation of Steubenville,
o., posted notices, on the Both, stating
that when resumption takes place in
January there would be a general re-
vision of wages, amounting to a ten
percent. reduction.
Chief Musham of the Chicago fire de
partment decided, on the 10Th, to com
pei union laborers of the fire depart
ment to withdraw from unions or re
tire from the city's service.
Detlef Evans, a German farmer liv
ing near Denison, Ia, administered
poison, on the Goth, to his 1S-months
old child and mis- wife. The child died
but the mother will recover Evans i:
under arrest.
Grant Drury, a well-knowr farmer
of West Liscomb, Ia; was arrested
on the Both, charged with wife murder
Mrs. Drury was supposed to have com
mitted suicide, December 6.
John Bennett, convicted of murder il
the first degree for killing his wife a
Oberlin, o., on October 8, was, on tn,
goth, sentenced to be el%ectrCcuted OIL
April Is.
1t vas reported, at Washington, q
c., on the 30th, that Secretary of Stat
Hays condition was better than a
any time during his three weeks i'll
ness.
Charles Morgan, aged II, was al
rested, on the LIST, at the instance @
Post Office Inspector Edward s. LIZ
land, on a charge of using the mail
for purposes of blackmail. Morga
threatened to blow up Burlingto
trains with dynamite unless pal
$4,000. A decoy package led to hi
capture neal Watson. Mo.
Fire, On the LIST, at Bethlehem, Pa
damaged the large union depot of tn
Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia
Reading railroads. The United State
Express Co. removed in safety all va
uab1e packages and over 5000 600 1
money to the Wilbur bank. The dan
age amounted to many thousand do
lars.
The Morning Star thresher factor,
at Napoleon, o, was destroyed by fir
on the list; loss, $4,000.
The Arlington hotel, at Brainer,
MINI, was damaged $4,000 by fir
on the list. There were about !;
-..oaku .-I pos . kf~.z c,1nt o1up,.t.