Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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The attempt Of Louis P. Doerhoefer.
a wealthy resident of Louisville, KY,
to break the worlds "a hour automo-
bile record of 861 miles, on the 18th,
was frustrated by an accident, which
wrecked the machine and resulted in
the injury OF his assistant, Frank
Katz, an expert a~utomobilist.
A committee of so young women OF
Portland, Ore, has taken up the work
of d~isposing of the Lewis and Clark
centennial coins made by the govern
ment. as a part of the governments
appropriation to the exposition, the
coins to be sold for twice their face
value.
Rev. Albert Reiuhart, aged 38, pas
tor Of Holy Trinity church at Somer-
set, O., and editor of the Rosary, a
church magazine, published by the
Dominican order, was stricken with
paralysis, on the 18th, just as he had
finished mass, and was still at the al
tar.
W. S. Champ, secretary to William
Ziegler, and who was in charge of the
relief expedition sent to search for the
Arctic exploration steamer America,
arrived at Tromsoe, Norway, on the
18th, on board the steamer Frithjof,
He failed to find the America.
: A terrific storm of rain and wind
swept central Illinois, on the 18th, the
rainfall in IS hours being almost three
inches. Hundreds of acres of corn
were flattened by the wind, and will
be a total loss. There was much dam
age by lightning.
The first Chinese child to be born at
the Worlds fair grounds at st. Louis.
arrived On the 18th in the Chinese vii
lsge. 1t is a boy, and its mother is
the wife of First Vice-President Moy
Han, of the Chinese Concession Co.,
on the Pike.
During the momentary absence of
Cashier C. H. Miller, an unknown
thief entered the Rock Island freight
office at Atlantic, Ia, on the 18th, and
made off with $1,545 from the cash
drawer.
The announcement is made that
Judge Alton B. Parker will not go on
a speech-making tour, but that he will
make all his speeches from the veran.
da at Rosemont.
Mr.. Ernest c. Hartwig, cashier Of
the First national bank of Buchanan
county, Mo-, was probably fatally hurt
In a runaway on the 18th.
Prince Herbert Bismarck Of Ger.
many died, on the 18th, at Friedrichs.
ruhe The end was painless.
The municipal council at The Hague
mas rejected the measure providing for
utilizing part of The Hague woods for
the Carnegie Palace of Peace. The
council, however, is willing to provide
another site for the arbitration head
quarters.
The Western Supply Co., Is West
Randolph street, Chicago, one of the
largest farm implement jobbing firms
in the middle west, was, on the 18th,
placed in the hands OF a receiver by
Judge Kohlsaat, in the United States
court.
The Bath iron works and the Hyde
windlas works, at Bath, Me-, the prop
erty of the United States S~hipbuilding
Co., were sold, on the 10Th. by order
of a decree entered in the United States
district court for New Jersey, June 30
last.
Henry Guitar, a half-breed Omaha
Indian, is under arrest at Decatur,
| Neb., charged with the murder, on the
18th, of his father, Stephen Guitar.
The killing is said to have resulted
from a quarrel over a bottle of liquor.
The Atlantic express on the Union
Pacific railway was wrecked six miles
west of Junction City, Kas., on the
10th, and a score or more persons in
jured, six of them seriously, as a result
of spreading of the rails.
Wearing q rich robe and inter, mod
eled after those of ancient Jewish
high priests, John Alexander Dowie,
on the 10Th, proclaimed himself John
Alexander, First Apostle of the Chris
tan Catholic church"
The grand jury of the Charlottesville
Wa.) corporation court, on the 10Th
J returned a true Indictment against
ex-Mayor McCue, of that city, for the
murder of his wife, Fannie M. McCue
on September last.
The work of dismantling the Lenl
commenced at the Mare island navy
yard, on the 10Th, under the direction
of Gunner Shuttleworth.
The body Of Prince Herbert Bis
marck, who died ON the 18th, will b.
buried in the vault beneath his fathers
mausoleum.
The %Iroquois theater, in Chicago
where nearly 600 persons we're burned
to death last December, was reopened
on the 10Th.
Seven persons were injured, one d
them fatally, in a street car accident
on the 10Th, at st. Joseph, Mo.
The sovereign grand lodge, lndepen.
DENT Order Of Odd Fellows, convened in
San Francisco on the 18th.