Iron County register., 1904-06-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
1t Is stated at Lisbon, Portugal, that
the United States cruisers Baltimore,
Olympia and Cleveland will not come
to Lisbon, but will stay at Tangier,
pending @ settlement of the difficulty
arising out of the detention of Ion
Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley, re-
spectively citizens of the United States
and Great Britain by the bandit Raj
suIi.
Liberty bell reached Milwaukee on
q special train over the Chicago, Mil
walllkee & st. Paul railway on schedule
time on the 9Th, and was viewed dur
! ing its stay of about two and one-half
hours by several thousand persons, in
Gliding large number of school chill
dren. There was no formal programme.
Curtis McClin, a cripple, who is
wanted at charlottesville, Mo-, on a
charge of murder, was arrested at
Grand Tower, H., and while being
taken to "hobes to be turned over to
the Missouri officials, made his escape
through the car window by jumping
from rapidly-moving train.
1t has been ascertained that Mrs
Nan Patterson, who was arrested by
the police Of New York city in con-
nection with the shooting, of Caesar"
Young, the turfman, is a Washington
ID. O. girl. Her father, John B. Pat
terson, is well well known in real es-
tate circles of that city.
Instead OF nine dead as first report
ed, II is now known that IA men lost
their lives in the fire and explosion
at the Coming distillery at Peoria, ILL.,,
on the 4tE. Eight more bodies have
been removed from the ruins, four of
whom were identified.
Tie barge Loreberry, of the Philadel-
phia e. Reading Coal Co., was sunk off
Vineyard Sound lightship during a
dense fog, on the 5th, through col
liSion with the steamer Tallahassee, Sa-
va1nah, for Boston.
DR.. J. W mbson, married, was
shot and killed, on the 4th, at Weston
Mo, by Julius Rumpel, saloonkeeper.
Rumpel gave himself up. Rumpel
claims Simpson was too friendly to-
ward Mrs Rumpel,
Families who propose to cast their
lot on the Rosebud reservation, which
will soon be opened to settlement by
the government, are going to Bonesteel
at the rate of so day.
George NJ. Philips, who won renown
as engineer on the collier Merrimac
sunk by HobsOn at the mouth of San
tiago harbor, died on the 9Th at his
home in Cambridge, Mass.
The department of agriculture az
Washington has been advised that DR..
Cook, who has discovered in Guata-
mala an ant that is fierce enemy of
the boil weevil, has started by the
overland route for the cotton fields,
carrying colonies of ants. with which
experiments will be made in the
weevil-ravaged sections.
J. E. Marcell whose forgeries of
100000 wrecked the Highland bank,
at Highland, Kas has been sentenced
to 35 years in prison, five years on
each of the seven counts, and began
serving time in the penitentiary on the
9th. He was placed as an apprentice
under Emrnet Dalton, the former out
law and bank robber.
Potatoes are selling at the highest
prices on record in New York, and
housekeepers are told there is no i'm
mediate prospect that they will be
cheaper. New potatoes are selling on
the dock for s6,25 barrel, so cents
above any previous record.
Ninety-three Englishmen, who are
to make a five weeks tour of the
United States and Canada, including
visits to St Louis Buffalo, Niagara
Falls, Washington and other places of
interest, arrived in New York, on the
9Th, on the Celtic.
Thirteen men were killed by the ex-
plosion of an internal machine at the
caiiroad station in independence, Col,
on the 9th, and seven others were se-
riously injured. Eleven men were
killed outright, and two died later
from their wounds.
Caesar Vivian, Porto Rican stu
dent at Dickson seminary, Williams
port, Pa, was drowned in the, Sus-
quehanna river while swimming. His
parents had just landed at New York,
en- route to witness their sons gradu-
alton.
On the 4th tornado near Conan
che, |. r., destroyed several houses.
Four persons were seriously hurt, but
no deaths are reported. The school
house at Williamsport was iemol-
ished and heavy damage to crops
done.
Mrs. Samuel M. Clemens, the wife
OF MARK Twain" the American au-
thor and lecturer, died of syncope at
Florence, Italy, on the 5th. Half an
hour before her death she had con-
versed cheerfully with her husband.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, who, for the
last fortnight, has been the guest of
friends in st. Louis, returned to Wash
ington on the 9Th