Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
BY the breaking of one of the spans
of the suspension tramway across the
Truckee river at Lawton Springs, five
miles west of Reno, New, on the 18th,
four young people, Maurice Jacobs, a
young business man of that city; Miss
Mcmillan, daughter of a prominent
business man of Reno; Mrs. E. S. EIDE,
Jr., and a Mr.. Kingsley, Of Chicago,
were precipitated from the car into the
swollen stream and drowned.
On the 18th, Joseph Lilliger, aged
Y, a wealthy resident of st. Joseph,
Mo-, was beaten by robbers at his home
in the northern suburbs, and is be-
lieved to be fatally injured. Lilliger,
his wife's son, Joseph Lilliger, Jr,
aged 25, were all beaten into insensi-
bility by three men, who believed a
large sum Of money was concealed on
the premises. The robbers got nothing.
E. E. ~Limbocker, of Logansport, Ind,
fell into the Arkansas river at Van
Buren,, Ark, on the 14th, and was
drowned. He had just made an assem-
sion of 5000 feet. He was fastened in
his parachute and could not extricate
himself, and drowned before assistance
could reach him. His body was recov-
cred within one hour.
Mrs. Carrie Nation declares that she
had stopped smashing saloons, and she
says she is for Gen. Nelson A. Miles
for president, because he was a prohi-
bitioniat. Mrs. Nation says she pro-
poses to build a w. c. T. U. institute
like the one she has erected in Kansas
IN every state.
The Nodaway Valley Oil, Gas & Min
eral Co. sustained a loss of $1,000 at
Burlington junction, Mo-, by the unex-
pected strike of a gas well while boring
for oil. The gas flow, which is large,
was ignited, and an explosion followed,
wrecking the derrick and doing much
other damage.
Two mass meetings, on the 18th, n
for women and the other for men,
services in several church and an even
ing meeting at City Convention hall
ended the thirty-ffth international
convention of the Y. NJ. C. A. of North
America at Buffalo, n. Y.
The Farmers bank at Metz, Mo, IS
miles northwest OF Nevada, vas en-
tered by robbers, on the 14th, and safe
was blown to pieces with nitro-glycerin.
It. is stated they secured the entire on
tents, amounting to $500 in money.
A heavy rain fell over Nebraka and
western Iowa or the 18Th, the pre-
cipitation being az inches for IL
hours.
The Chicago Federation of Labor has
adopted a resolution requesting mem
bers of unions affiliated with it to re-
fuse to permit their names to appear
in the forthcoming city directory. 1t
is charged in the resolution that the
firm publishing the directory has
publicly expressed a determined oppo-
sition to organized labor in general by
its efforts to maintain a so-called open
shop"
The preliminary skirmish in the
democratic state convention at Santa
Cruz, Cal, on the 18th, was Vol by
the forces opposing the sending Of a
delegation to the national convention
instructed to support the candidacy of
Congressman w. R. Hearst for the
presidency.
The coal mine in the gulch is now in
full operation at the Worlds fair at
st. Louis. Many visitors have taken
advantage of the opportunity to travel
into the depths of the earth for 1000
feet and study the operations of coal
mining.
The Moros who attacked the Amer
lean troops in the Philippines on May
8 and killed two officers and a number
of men may be severely punished by
Maj.-Gen, Wood, who is marching on
the band with a force of $50 officers and
men.
Gen. John B. Sanborn, a civil war
veteran, died at st. Paul, Mimi, on the
18th, aged rs years. Death was due
to old age. Gen. Sanborn was an uncle
of Judge Walter H. Sanborn, of the
United States circuit court Of appeals.
Sixteen released prisoners VINO re-
turned from Fort Smith, Ark, on the
18th, where they spent 80 days in Jail
for selling liquor, were met at the Fris-
co station at Holdenville, /. T., by a
brass band and $50 citizens.
On the 18th the United States army
transport Sherman, which had on board
the Twenty-ninth regiment Of infantry
and two companies of coast artillery
from Honolulu, arrived at San Fran
cisco.
James Mcdonald, who has been in
the Bloomington Gnd.) jail since Feb
ruary, on the charge of numbering Miss
Sarah Schaffer on January 81, was
placed on trial, or the 18th, for his
life.
Because of the failure Of the joint
scale committee to reach a satisfactory
agreement, $500 coal miners in sub
district No. 6 at GAINESVILLE, o., went
out on a strike on the 10th.