Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-02-11

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The jury, after being out forty hours,
acquitted Eddie Slattery, at O'Neill,
Neb., on the 9th, who was charged
with the murder of Henry Shaw. Shaw
was killed March 6, 1903. Slattery's de-
Tense was that Shaw was accidentally
killed while he was attempting to take
a shotgun away from him.
James B. Colgate died at his home,
at Yonkers, N. Y, on the 18th, after an
illness of several months. MI. Colgate
was born in New York, in 1918. Mr..
Colgate was the first to organize, dur
ing the civil war, the New York gold
exchange, of which he was, for many
years, president.
Edwin Anderson, former captain of
police at Sioux City, Ia, was SEN
fenced, on the 9th, to pay a fine of $500
and serve six months in Jail for taking
a bride from j. II. Bigelow, a slot ma
chine man. The sentence was the
limit under the law.
In a fight at the Coal Creek (Tenn.)
depot, on the It'll, three miners were
killed and three ~bystanders wounded,
by two guards employed by the Coal
Creek Coal Company. Later a deputy
sheriff, who went to arrest a guard,
was killed.
By a decision handed down at Vic
toria. B. c., on the 9Th, Edna Wallace
Hopper, the actress, was defeated in
her efforts to break the will of her
stepfather, Alexander Dunsmuir, and to
secure a portion of the Dunsmuir mil
lions.
The pOstoffiCe department, on the
9Th, %annoUnced that all rural free de-
livery carriers in the United States
would have a holiday on the 22d,
Washington's birthday. There are ap-
proximately 10000 of these carriers.
Washington Taylor, quartermaster
general of the grand camp of Confed-
crate veterans, of Virginia, fell down
a stairway of his residence and frac-
tured his skull, and died on the 9th,
without regaining consciousness.
Secretary of State Hay returned to
Washington, D. c., on the 7th, from
T~hOmasville, Ga, where he had been
recuperating for the past few weeks.
He seemed almost entirely recovered
from his severe indisposition.
Judge Thomas F. Upton died at
Bloomington, ILL.,, on the It'll, aged 10
years. He was a circuit judge for thir-
teen years and a member of congress
from 1877 to 1879.
DR.. Charles w. Dodd. a prominent
physician and local Swedenborgian
leader, died suddenly, on the It'll, at
Cincinnati, o., from apoplexy.
Senate-After listening to speeches
by Mr.. Hopkins and Mr.. Clay in sup
port OF the Panama canal treaty, the
senate, on the Sth, passed the bill
granting assistance to the proposed
Lewis AMI Clark exposition, at Port
land, Ore. The bill was amended so as
to close the exposition on Sundays,
and the provision for a permanent me-
mortal to Lewis and Clark was elm
mated. The senate, at 5:35 p. M, adj
JouA y L liz Jus dCDdlVu
at length the proposed loan of $4,600,-
900 to the Louisiana Purchase exposi-
ton at st. Louis as provided for in the
senate amendment to the urgent def
cheney bill, and it was still pending
when the house adjourned. The house
non-concurred in all other amend
ments except that providing for analyz-
ing and testing at the St. Louis fair,
under direction of the geological sur
vey of the Goals and lignites of the
United States, in order to determine
their fuel values. With the loan
amendment still pending, at 4;55 the
house adjourned.
In an alteration on a railway plat,
form at Lewiston, Mo-, 80 miles from
Quincy, ILL.,, Noah Bowles, town mar
shall, was shot and killed by William
Pittman, who subsequently committed
suicide. 1t was alleged that Pittman
was intoxicated and had terrorized the
passengers on a train from Labelle to
Lewistown, Mo.
LII tlo ulSLTlCl court dC CTlppl6
Creek, Col. on the 9Th, Judge Lewis
overruled the motion of eX-Congress-
man John M. Glover, of Missouri, for
dismissal of the charges of assault
with intent to murder Sergeants Dit
tlemore and Smith of the Colorado ma
tional guard.
Gustav Marx, se~lf-confessed partici-
pant in the Chicago car barn murders,
turned aside from this co~-defendants,
Peter Neidermeyer and Harvey Van
Dine, at the opening of the trial of the
thee men, on the Sth, and offered to
become a witness for the state.
Col. ]. Frank Supplee, a competent
authority on factory statistics, on the
Sth estimated that the number of per.
sons thrown out of employment by
the Baltimore md fire would reach
$4,000. Others estimated the enforced
idleness at greatly more.
Inspector of Buildings Preston, Of
Baltimore, Nd, made a careful study,
on the Sth, of the district which had
been burned in that city, and placed
ne building loss at $3.50, 100000.