Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-19
Iron County Register.
D. ELI D. AXE.

lhoNTON. MISSOURI
The business section Of Lafollette
Tenn. burned on the 10th. Tnirty-fv'
buildings were destroyed. Loss, 5000,
900.
The Seryian government has decided
to demolish the old palace, which was
the scene of the murder of King Alex
ander and Queen Draga.
Henry Miller, at present United States
consul at New Chwang, China, has
been appointed consul general at New
Chwang, without increase of salary.
John Brown, of Richardson, n. d.
is under arrest, charged with killing
his 12-year-old son while in a fit OF
anger. The father buried the body i'm
mediately. 1t has been exhumed,
Ernest Terah Hooley, whose meteorie
career and company promoting a few
years ago astonished the financial
world, has been arrested in London on
the charge of conspiracy TO defraud.
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Reports say that while the rumoI
that q revolution has broken out in
Hayti is false, there is general discon-
tent in the republic, and a revolution
is momentarily looked for.
It has been definitely decided that
Sir Henry M. Stanley, who died May
10, will not be buried in Westminster
Abbey. A memorial service will be
held there on the day of the funeral
May II.
Secretary Edward Jarnigan, of the
Potter Paper Co., and his wife, were
found dead in their home in Chicago
on the 10th. Appearances indicate that
both had swallowed poison and then
turned on the gas.
Secretary of State Hay left Washing
ton, on the 18th, for St. Louis, where
he is to represent the president of the
United States and deliver the address
Of welcome to the International Press
congress on the 18th inst.
A petition to GOV. Peabody and
Mayor Wright of Denver, Col, to order
out the national guard to preserve Or
der at the election in that city is be-
ing circulated, and has been signed by
hundreds of citizens.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Eaton, a sister of the
late President Benjamin Harrison. died,
on the 18th, at North Bend, a suburb
Of Cincinnati. She was a granddaughter
Of President William Henry Harrison,
who was a pioneer in that part Of
Ohio.
Subscriptions in London to the JAP
anese loan of $50, 900 900 have closed.
1t was estimated that the loan was
over-subscribed twenty times. There
was a great rush to subscribe, and an
enormous number Of applications for
small amounts.
James N. Abeel, convicted of forging
the name of ]. B. Van Every, vice-pres-
ident of the Western Union Telegraph
Co., to a note of Introduction to Miss
Elanor Anderson, was sentenced by
Recorder Golf of New York to the Ell
mira reformatory.
Gov. Herrick of Ohio has ordered a
court martial in connection with the
recent riots at Springfield. at which
time the negro Dickson was lynched.
No information has been given out as
yet regarding the persons to be sum
moned before the court martial.
Henry j, HeEsack, of st. Louis, who
was charged with numbering his ia
t~her-in-law, August Raphael, of No
2273 South Tenth street. on March Is
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree by a jury in Judge McDonald's
division of the circuit court on the 10th
The battleship Missouri returned to
Old Point, on the 18Th, after her final
acceptance trial at sea. Members Of the
inspection board, who came ashore af-
ter the vessel dropped anchor, said that
the tests were satisfactory, and that
the big vessel was up to all the re-
quirements.
The body of a man who had evi.
IDENTIFY been murdered was found in the
Illinois and Michigan canal at Chica-
go on the 18th. The corpse was badly
decomposed. A gag had been placed
across the mouth and two heavy sec
lions of steam pipe had been attached
to the right arm.
Admiral Walker, president of the
Panama Canal commission. received a
telegram, on the 18th, from John Find
ley Wallace, of Chicago, general man
ager Of the Illinois Central railroad,
accepting the appointment of chief en-
gineer in charge of the construction
of the canal. Mr.. Wallace will receive
a salary Of S25,0 a year.
In the Tyner-Barrett case, p. V. Key
ser, a clerk in the post office depart
ment and formerly secretary to Gen,
Tyner, identified a considerable amount
Of correspondence, including that which
related to E. j. Arnold & Co, Of st,
Louis, Mo, a turf-investment company,
which was represented before the post
office department by Mr.. Barrett.
The Nebraska grand lodge, knights
of Pythias, on the 18th adopted a reso-
luton barring from membership gamb-
lers and b%artenders. This ruling was
made some time ago by the state grand
chancellor, and the resolution adopted
on the 18th confirms that ruling. It
a1e,n nroyidpS that all Such memhn~g