Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1904-12-09
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Fire in the fifth floor of st, Mary's
hospital at Pueblo. Col, on the Both,
did $4,000 damage and caused much
excitement. Most of the patients were
removed from the building, and some
of them are suffering from shock.
William H. Woodward, president of
the Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co.,
OF ST. Louis, one, of the largest con-,
Germs of its kind in the. west, dropped
dead of heart disease on the goth. :
One man was hilledrand several were,
injured, on the Goth, by an iron beam
which fell from the roof of the Park
building in New York into q ttrong Of
people passing through Nassau street,
The beam, weighing 500 pounds, was
being hoisted, when it slipped from its
fastenings and fell to the ground,
Acting Secretary of War Oliver has
directed the discharge, without hon.
or" of Private John T, Smith, hospital
corps, stationed at Fort Mott, NJ J;.,,who,
is said to have married a negress, and
whose discharge was recommended by
Gen. Grant. 49,
Nan Patterson, the actress, awaiting
trial charged with the killing of her
lover, Caesar Young, was, on the 30th,
reported i'll in the ToInbs prison with
tonsilitis. III
AT, a meeting Of the Cuban cabinet,
on the Both, it was decided to set aside
the credit of $4,000 for the erection of
a hospital for infectious diseases at
Santiago.
Michael Kelley has sold his coal in
terests near Danville, ILL.,, to an east
ern syndicate for $3,200,000.
Mrs. George Henry (Grandma) Gil
bert, the Oldest actress on the Amer
lean stage, died in her rooms at the
Sherman house, Chicago, on the I'd,
shortly after having suffered a stroke
of apoplexy. Mrs. Gilbert was SO years
Of age. 80:
Fire, which broke out about mid
night, on the I'd, destroyed or dam
aged Ancient Rome" "Old st. Louis"
Fair Japan" QUO Vadis% and "On
the Bowery," Pike concessions on the
st. Louis Worlds fair grounds, and
threatened. for a time, to do still
greater damage. Arthur G. Dunn was
arrested while trying to extend the
fire into the Hereafter" Three Japan
csc were injured.
With confirmation of the news OF
the loss of 203-Meter hill and the fall
ure of their forces to recapture it, the
Russian, war Office is prepared to hear
of the fall of Port Arthur at any time.
Chief Justice Robinson of the Mis-
souri, supreme court issued tempo
rary rule in prohibition against Judge
Foster, of the st, Louis criminal court,
to prevent him from proceeding with
the trial of Edward Butler in his court
on the charge of bribing Charles T.
Kelly to leave the state and avoid tes-
tifying against him in the Doodle
cases. -syss -+, ..,
Gen. Porforio Diaz was inaugurated
president of the Republic of Mexico
for the seventh time, on the 1st under
the most suspicious circumstances
The Japanese having accomplished
the capture of 2O3-Meter hill, overlook
ing the harbor of Port Arthur, are in
position, as soon as they get the
necessary guns mounted, to destroy OF
drive out of the harbop the remnant
of the Russian feet. 4
The last night on the Pike at the
Worlds fair in st. Louis was scene
Of revelry. Gayety reigned supreme
from the time the lights were turned
on until midnight The presence of q
large force of police, mounted and on
foot, Jefferson guards and armed pa
trolls of the Sixteenth United States
infantry kept any disposition towards
rowdyism in check. stta F..
President David r. Francis anG
Treasurer William H. Thompson Of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co
were the recipients of costly souvenir.
at the hands Of the directors on the
closing day, consisting of 500-piect
solid silver table services costing SIT,
900 and $4,000 respectively. The pre-
sensations were made at the public
ceremonies on the Plaza of st. Louis
The attendance on the closing day
of the Worlds fair, "Francis day,
was about 225,O0O, making the total at
tendance during the seven months, il
round figures, 1S,500000, The da!
: was an ideal one for December,
A head-on collision, between two
trains on the Danyille g. Western di
vision of the Southern railway a
StoSesland, Va, on the LIST, resulted il
the death of Fireman o. G., Mnter, o
Stockton, and Sam Staples, "a coloret
brakeman.
An explosion, on the LIST, at the I'm
. ion Electric Light & Power Co.'s plan
at Tenth and st, Charles streets, st
Louis, wrecked all the dynamos ant
generators in the building, and left I,
part of the city in total darkness. "
The top works of the central shat
of the Woodside Coal Co, locate,
south of Springfield, III, caught fire
on the 1st, and were destroyed.
President Roosevelt announced, oil
the list, that he would appoint grand
son of Gen. Stonewall Jackson to Yves
Point.
Three msu were killed by a head-ol
collision of Rock Island freight train
near Peabody, Kas., on the list.