Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Stung to desperation by the action Of
his wife in instituting suits a%ggregat-
ing $4,000 against saloonkeepers who
sold him liquor, and, it Is believed,
partially unbalanced as the result of
p%rotracted dissipation, John P. Lilly,
publisher of the Weekly Herald of Sui
livan, Ill.,, and one of the b~est-known
newspaper men in eastern Illinois, COM
mitted suicide, on the Oath, by taking
morphine.
There was a sensational scene in the
bull ring at San Sebastian, Spain, on
the Gath. At the moment of a projected
fight between a bull and tiger, both
animals broke loose and stampeded the
spectators. The attendants, in firing
on the animals, struck and wounded
several Of those present, including the
Marquis Pedal, the vice-president Of the
senate, Marquis Quito, and a French
tourist.
Fire, which started on the river
front in the Handy Bros Manufacture
ing Co.'S lumber yard at Bay City,
Mich, caused $50, 900 loss on the Gath.
Handy Bros. had about 5000, 900 feet Of
pine lumber ready for their factories,
over 5000, 900 feet of which was de-
stroyed. Handy Bros loss is $4,000,
covered by insurance.
Atchison, Topeka e. Santa Fe pas
senger train No. G., e%ast-bound, from
Colorado, was partially derailed five
miles west of Kinsley, Kas., on the
23d, while running at a high rate of
speed. Express Messenger Sewell, Of
Kansas City, was killed. Several other
persons were seriously injured.
Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal
secretary of state at Rome, has ten
dered his resignation, owing to the hos
tility of the cardinals, who are said
to accuse him of rendering impossible
an accord with France. 1t is said the
pope has refused to accept his resig-
nation.
The Japanese government has con-
tracted with a smelter company, OF
Joplin, Mo-, for 1000 tons of spelter.
1t is se.id the spelter is to be used in
building Notifications and battleships.
1t will take the smelter a month to fill
the order.
AS the result of an explosion of dyna-
mite under a street car at Houston,
Tex, on the 23d, five persons were hurt,
one seriously. A. T. Smith had his
head hurt, and is thought to have re-
ceived internal injuries.
Judge Parker is to be formally mott.
fed of his nomination for the presi'
dency on August 10.
Fourteen persons were injured al
San Sebastian, Spain, on the oath, in
the panic at the fight between a tiger
and a bull, including Countess Podras
Lisaritury, Deputy Urpuijo, the Marquis
Pidal, v~ice-president of the senate and
former Spanish ambassador at the vat
lean, and an American, whose name is
W. F. Livingston, of New York. The
managers of the fight are severely
blamed.
Wilson Barrett was buried at West
Hampstead, London, on the Gath. Sew
enty-fve carriages followed the hearse,
while wreaths SEM by theatrical peo-
Pile filled a second hearse and several
carriages. Most of the leading men,
bers of the profession were at the
grave.
Mrs. Blanche Madden, % years old,
wife of Edward Madden, the song writ
er, of New York, committed suicide, on
the 25th, by taking carbolic acid. She
had recently been an inmate of an in
SAINT asylum hospital. She was Miss
Fischer, of Los Angeles, Cal.
The disaster to the excursion steam
er Gen. Slocum, in which nearly
thousand lives were lost, never would
have occurred if one of the deck hands
had retained his presence Of mind, ac.
cording to the opinion Of former Fire
Marshal Thomas F. Freel.
The battleship Ohio, which was bull
by the Union iron works, Of San Fran
cisco, was given a preliminary speed
trial, on the 10th, on the bay. 1t is sale
that her performance exceeded thu
most sanguine expectations of hel
builders.
Two persons were killed and severa
injured in a collision between south
bound Big Four passenger train No. L
and a west-bound 2rospect-Blake cleo
trio car at Washington and Missouri
streets, Indianapolis, Ind, on the 25th
After a legal battle Of several years
Admiral Dewey and his men VIII
fought the battle of Manila are to re
ceive their prize money on account 0
the capture of the Don Juan de Austri'
and other Spanish property.
1t is learned from a trustworth,
source that the fortune left by the lat
Paul Kruger, the late president of tn
Transvaal, is between e75O,00O an
R1,0O0,0 900. 1t consists chiefly Of Euro
pean securities.
w. X. Logan, Of Fort Worth, Tex
a former policeman. shot and Instant
killed an unknown man in Logan's res
taurant, on the oath. The killing wa
over i've cents.