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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
-FOUR FIREMEN persisted
Results OF a Fire and Explosions In
n Six-Story Factory Butidins
In New York City.

New York.-Four gallant fremen
persisted ard about a score OF 1remen
and citizens were injured, Monday, in q
fire accompanied by a series of explo-
sions that demolished a six-story fac
tory building at Bedford and Downing
streets, in the Greenwich village dis
trict ON the lower west side of the city.
That the damage, which is estimated at
from 100000 to $500, 900, was not far
greater, was declared by Chief Croker
to be due to the explosions which shat
tered the building and crushed the
blaze beneath tons of debris at the mo-
ment when the flames were completely
beyond control and threatening to
sweep the entire block. One fireman
was taken out of the building alive. but
died almost Immediately. The bodies
of his three comrades were recovered.
The dead are:
Foreman John Walsh and Firemen
George C. Cristman, Thomas L. Hal
pin and ]. Healy, all of Engine Com
pany No. IA. Firemen Jacob Cohen
and Lewis F. Call, also Of engine IA.
were burned and bruised and removed
to the hospital. The other persons in
jured were, for the most part, employed
in the factory, jewellers in the adjacent
tenements and persons passing in the
street who were struck by falling
bricks or fragments of glass. None of
these was seriously hurt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
RACE TRACK MAN HELD UF
A Case of ViruIent Smallpox Deve1-
oped On n Trip From Los An
geles to Chicago.

Chicago, Ill.--Mr. Edward, Jasper
a well-known race track official, is in
the Chicago isolation hospital suffering
with. smallpox, where he was taken,
Thursday, together with Mrs. Jasper, on
their arrival in Chicago from Los An
geles. Mr.. Jasper is secretary of the
Los Angeles Jockey club, and at the
close of racing at Ascot park he and
Mrs. Jasper started for Chicago, where
they have lived for many years. Dur
ing the journey Secretary Jasper was
taken i'll, and was examined by a ply
stefan, hut his malady was no pro-
nounced smallpox until he stepped off
the train here Thursday, and was inter
cepted by officers of the Chicago health
department.
According to the health officers, Jas
per has the disease in a virulent form.
Although there is yet no signs of the
disease having attacked Mrs. Jasper,
she was taken to the isolation hospital
along with her husband.
Mr.. Jasper was for many years con-
nected with the Chicago race tracks in
an official capacity, and is known to
horsemen all over the country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
THEIR OLD KENTUCKY HOME
PREPARATION FOR HoMEcoM-
ING WEEK IN LOUISVILLE.
Thousands of Native kentuekians,
Residents of Other States, Are
Expected 10 Participate.

Louisville, Ky.-From the numerous
responses and acceptances already re.
ceived it is estimated that several
thousand visitors will be in Louisville
during the Homecoming week" reun-
ion, June Is to II, arrangements for
which are nearing completion. An
elaborate programme has been prepared.
The address of welcome at the formal
exercises will be delivered by Hon.
Henry Watterson, and the response
will be by former Gov. David r. Fran
els, of Missouri. The statue of Stephen
Collins Foster, the author of my Old
Kentucky Home" erected by the PEN
MES of Kentucky schoolchildren, will
be unveiled, as also will be one of Dam
iel Boone. Among the ex-Kentuckians
who will appear on the programme dur
ing homecoming week are John G.
Carlisle, William Lindsay, Preston H.
Leslie, Thomas T. C%rittenden, former
V~ice-President Adlai E. Stevenson,
Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom, Associate
Justice John NJ. Harlan, of Washington,
and many others.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY
Five Arrests Made in Connection
With the Enterprise Bank Fail
ure in Pittsburg, Fa

Pittsburg, PA number of arrests
nection with the failure of the Enter
prise bank. Forest Nichols, private
secretary to w. H. Andrews, and
George l.. Rallston, Charles Menzener
and Edward T. Mcmillan, former clerks
in the bank, were arrested on charges
of conspiracy to defraud on information
made by Special Bank Examiner Ed
ward P. Moxey.
George E. Cook, an alleged partner
of Cashier Clark in several real estate
deals, was also arrested.
Nichols and Rallston gave bail in
$4,000 each. The other two are ex-
pected to furnish bail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
SAW HER ASSAILANT HUNG
Mrs. Dan Norman Witnessed Execu-
ton of Curtis Jackson, Who As
sauIted Her, at Poplar Bluff.

Poplar Bluff, Mo.-In a steady,
pouring rain a crowd numbering hun
dreds stood inside the stockade erect
ed in the courthouse square and saw
Curtis Jackson, a 17-year-old negro
boy, legally hanged on the %forly-ninth
day after his crime, for an assault on
a white woman. The husband of the
injured woman sprung the trap at a
signal from the sheriff, and the wom-
an herself witnessed the execution.
The crime was committed February
2. The next day the criminal escaped
lynching only because the sheriff or
dered the arrest of the woman's hus-
band, who led the mob. On February
20 he was convicted and q days later
he was hanged without having made
an appeal to a higher court, and with
out having asked the governor for a
respite. .
Jackson showed no emotion or fear
and walked firmly to the gallows be-
tween two negro ministers. When the
sheriff asked him whether he had any
thing to say, he said:
Gentlemen, l wish to say that l did
not get justice. | am prepared to meet
this death. | am prepared to meet my
God in Heaven"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
MlsPAoEL GETS TWO YEARS
Former Cashier of st. Charles (M0.)
Savings Bank Convicted BY
Friends on Own Testimony.

st. Charles, Moon Friday Anton
F. Mispagel, who admitted on the wit
ness stand that he had falsified the
books of the st. Charlesi savings bank,
of which he was cashier, and had thus
concealed a shortage for years, was
found guilty of embezzlement and
sentenced to two years Imprisonment.
Mispagel was convicted by his own
testimony, according to the jurors, who
were all his personal friends. His ad-
mission that he had sworn to state
ments made to the secretary of state,
when he knew those statements en-
bodied false entries made to cover up
a shortage, more than Offset his decla-
ration that he had not profited by the
shortages and his explanations that
the money was lost through lad loans
through errors of judgment and not
by 1heft.
Fourteen informations were filed
against Mispagel after his arrest. He
was tried on but one of these informa-
tons, which covered various sums ag-
gregating $4,000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
TRUNK MYSTERY SOLVED
Woman who Passed as NcVickar's
Wife Arrested-She Lays the
Crime to Joe Miller.

San Francisco.-The grewsome mys-
terry connected with the finding of the
dead body of Albert N. McVickar, in a
trunk at the Southrn Pacific station at
Stockton, on Saturday night, has prac-
tically been solved. The identification
of the body, coupled with the fact that
a woman who passed as McVickar's
wife, but whose real nam is Mrs. En-
Ledoux, left Stockton shortly after
the tragedy, was followed, Monday, by
the arrest of the woman at Antioch, in
Contra Costa county. Mrs. Ledoux
made the following statement:
I'VE had all been drinking and Nc
Vickar and | were drunk. McVickar
had lots of money and Joe Miller gave
him carbolic acid. Then I don't know
just what happened. Miller and l put
the body in the trunk and sent it to the
depot.
Miller got all he money" she con-
tinued, "and | do not know how much
there was; but he got it."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
RoRT. sPRloos CONVICTED
He Was the Proprietor of q "White
Slave Pen In New York-Re- :
INT For Sentence.

NeH York.-Thursday, Robt. Spriggs,
colored. proprietor of a resort where, it
is alleged, white women were detained
against their will, was found guilty by
a jury of the offense of abduct.on
Spriggs Wa remanded until Thursday
for sentence. The extreme penalty in
such crimes is 20 years Imprisonment.
The testimony Of the women wit
nesses was to the effect that they had,
while intoxicated. been led to the
Spriggs resort, and there, behind barred
windows and doors, been held prisoners.
One woman testified that she had
been an inmate of the house under these
conditions for five years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
TO SAVE NIAGARA FALLS
Recommendation Of American Wa
terways Commission Sent to
Congress.

Washington.-Needed and %appropria-
ate legislation for the preservation
of Niagara Falls is recommended in
the report of the American water
ways commission, sent to congress
Saturday afternoon by the secretary
of war.
The report recommends that legis-
lation be enacted that will limit the
withdrawal of water from the Amer
lean side to 10000 cubic feet per sec
ond, this provision to remain in force
two years, and then become the per.
manent law of the land. In the
meantime Canada shall enact legisla.
ton limiting the diversion of water
on that side of $4,000 cubic feet per
second.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
A MORE HOPEFUL FEELING
Belief at Alseciras That Another
Fortnight Will See the Sign
ing of a Protocol.

Algeciras, Spain.-Both the Ger
mar and the French delegates to the
conference on Moroccan reforms say
that the outlook for an agreement is
eminently hopeful, but neither would
make a more definite statement. The
representatives of the neutral powers,
however, assert that the principal work
of the conference had been virtually
concluded, and that a settlement was
imminent, but said there might possibly
be minor bitches in connection with
the details owing to the necessity to
infinitely lay down the terms in order
to avoid future controversy, thus pro-
longing the operations of the signing
of the protocol another fortnight.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
STRICKEN IN HIS PULPIT
Rev. j. b. Lentz, a Latter Day Saints
Preacher, Killed BY Lightning
While Preaching.

Carson, Ia.-While he was engaged in
preaching to his congregation, Sunday,
Rev. J. B. Lentz, pastor of a Latter Day
Saints church at this place, was struck
by lightning, which caused his death
within half an hour. The bolt des-
cended during a hard thunder storm
and was communicated to the preacher
by a chandelier hanging directly above
his head. The shock threw him to the
floor in an unconscious state, while
many persons in the audience were par
TALLY stunned. After nearly everyone
had fled from the building Lentz was
carried ont, but failed to regain con-
seriousness. The church took fire, but
it was saved. Lentz leaves a wife and
two children.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

\ very simple experiment, made by
an eminent bacteriologist, determines
in a startling name the potential
dangers associated with accumula.
tons of dust in living rooms. A pin.
point was used to convey as much
dust as so small a vehicle will carry.
This yielded no less than 1000 colo
MES OF living germs, when cultivated
on gelatine, and although, fortunately,
every species was not representative
of disease, yet the majority were pc
tent sources OF decomposition and dan.
ger to health.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
.CRANDPAPA ROCKEFELLER
StoriS Brings a Boy to the o of
the Noted Standard Oil
Magnate.

New York.-On Wednesday q fine,
healthy, blue-eyed 11-pound boy
opened his eyes upon the world for the
first time in a house in Vest Fifty
fourth street, and is heir presumptiVe
to the greatest fortune in the world,
for the baby, at its christening, will
be John D. Rockefeller Ill.
The son born to Mr.. and Mrs. John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., gratifies NE Of the
dearest wishes OF its grandfather, who
has hoped for a male heir 10 lis son
ever since the latter's marriage to Alb
BILE G.. Aldrich.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

A considerable fish trade has been
built up with Cuba since the wal with
Spain, Gloucester exporting large
quantities of cured pollock to Cuba as
we'll as to Porto Rico. The general
field of demand has grown largely with
improved methods of refrigeration and
transportation, heavy shipments being
made to the west to fill the demands
made by the increasing foreign popu-
lation of western cities, to whom the
use of fish on fast days is an import.
ant item.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
CHARGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Indictment Returned Against Rev.
Louis Kelly, ut Peoria, ILL.,, the
Late Rev. simmons Partner.

Peoria. Ill.-Rev. Louis Kelly, the
well-known Baptist minister, who was
a partner with the late Rev. Geo.
Simmons in the defunct Peoples sav-
ings bank, was indicted for embezzle-
ment by the grand jury Wednesday
afternoon. The Indictment charges
that Kelly received deposits on Mon
day, February S, the day before DR..
Simmons committed suicide, when he
knew that the bank was insolvent.
Recent developments in the case have
shown that the bank held notes signed
by Kelly and Simmons, with a face
value of 1921, 900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
KANSAS CITY, KAs., GRAFT
Testimony That, For Forty Dollars,
"a Man Was Permitted to Give
Prize and Chicken Fights.

Kansas City, Mo.--Incident to the
custer proceedings aeainst County At.
torney Gibson at Kansas City, Kas.,
S. E. Peate. secretary of the Ba.bers'
union of that city. testified that he
paid $40 to M. H. McHaie, the alleged
collector for the county attorneys Of
fee, for the privilege Of giving a prize
fight and a chicken fight.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

The American colony in Rome is
suffering from a tax on vanity. The
municipal authorities have increased
the income tax of American residents,
not on any actual return of income,
but based entirely on external sym
toms of the wealth of each inhabitant.
The tax agent files all the society
papers, and, as it is found that the
Americans in society like to have their
dances and dinners noted in the pa
pers, the agent simply taxes the Amer
lean in accordance with the luxury Of
their entertainments.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
TORNADO IN OKLAHOMA
Thousands of Dollars Worth
of Damage Done.

Perry. Okla.-At least three per-
sons sustained severe injuries and thou
sands of dollars worth of property was
destroyed in q tornado that struck the
neighborhood south of Billings, Okla,
late Sunday night. Mr.. and Mrs. James
Russell were critically hurt as they lay
in bed. The house was literally blown
to pieces over their heads and they were
buried in the ruins. Mrs. Sam Merri-
field sustained serious injuries in a
similar manner.
The cloud was seen first south Of
Billings. 1t split, half funnelling to-
ward Red Rock and the other sweeping
down north over Ceres.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

Few persons outside those in army
circles are aware of the fact that
the government has in the artillery
corps of its regular army on wheels
guns that are capable of throwing a
projectile Weighing Is pounds a dis.
lance Of nine miles and still be eff
fectiye. Such guns are those of the
Sixteenth Battery, siege artillery, sta
toned at TT. Leavenworth. and this is
the only battery in the world with
such big howitzer barrels, and 1t has
but four Of them. The entire gun and
carriage weigh 10000 pounds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
TRAIN WRECK IN WYOMING
Ten Killed and Seventeen Injured
When Northwestern Train Goes
Through Gut.

Cheyenne, Wy0.-A work and pas
senger train went through a cut on the
Northwestern railway, 20 miles north
west of Casper, Wyo., Monday morn
ing. Ten persons were killed and II
injured. Railroad bridges are washed
out and surgeons were sent to the scene
in wagons.
Most of the killed were Austrian la
borers on their way to a grading camp.
They were in a caboose, which fell in
the river, and a car, loaded with a
heavy tank, fell on the caboose, drown
ing the ~unfortunates like rats in a
tran.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

Steve Van Allen, of Jamaica, who
has been doing all sorts of stunts with
a small caliber rife at a show in New
York, set to work the other day to
make a new record at 1000 glass balls.
Last year Van Allen beat the record
of DR.. Carver, which was $40 broken
out of 1000, by breaking 928. He used
a smaller ball than DR.. Carver. He
thought he might not be successful,
but after he had smashed a few hun.
dred he warmed up to his work and
made the new record 936.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

Pacific coast army officers are
greatly interested in the announce
ment of Gen. Greeley, chief United
States signal officer, that, as a result
of exhaustive experiments, receivers
have been perfected that will enable
the army to intercept and read the
messages sent by any system of wire
less telegraphy now in use. With the
receivers in question the United
States Signal corps claims to have
placed its code Of secret intercommu-
nication ahead Of that of the naval
system. The invention is absolutely
secret, and is to remain SO.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
A grewsome discovery was made in

A grewsome discovery vas made in
a railway carriage running between
Dresden and Berlin. On a recent trip,
several passengers having tried to
open the door of a lavatory at the
end of the carriage, the guard was
called, and, on arriving in the station
in Berlin, had the door broken in. The
body Of a man was then discovered
hanging from a peg in the wall. His
railway ticket was dated early in Jan.
uary. The corpse had evidently &C.
companied the train back and forth on
its journey for several weeks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
JAMMED INTO A BIG TRUNK
The Noiy of Albert N. McSickar
Found In II Trunk At IA Rnil-
way station in Stockton. Cal.

Stockton, Cal.-The railway bag
gageman at the Southern Pacific sta
tion discovered the remains of a man
about 50 years old jammed into a large
trunk. Officers who have been working
on the case assert that the mar was
placed in the trunk while yet alive.
Developments show that the dead
man was Albert n. McVickar, who had
been employed as timberman in the
Rawhide mine at jamestown, Tuolume
county. The police are now endeavor-
ing to locate Mrs. McVickar, who was
in the city with her husband.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

London has 1000 ships and 5000
sailors in its port every day. 1t has
upwards OF $4,000 persons annually
taken into custody by the police. 81.
600 persons living in its common lodg.
ing-houses, $4,000 persons annually ar
rested as drunk and disorderly, and
one-third of the crime of the country
is committed within its radius.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
CENTURY MINE DISASTER
A Thorough Canvass of the District
shows That 23 Are Dead and
About q Score Injured.

Phillip, w. Va.-The revised
death list of the Century mine disaster
has now reached 90 while 20 or more
are injured. officials of the company
report that % bodies have been re-
covered and that but one more Is in
the mine. A thorough canvass of, the
district was made by representatives
of the coal company, and all the en-
ployes have been accounted for but
one, who is thought to be buried be-
meath a pile of debris in the mine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
ALLEGED CASE OF GRAFT
Brewery Agent Charges That COun-
" Attorney Collected Money For
Granting Joints" Immunity.

Kansas City, Mo.-John T. Steele, for
upwards of two years agent in Kan
sas City, Kas., of a brewing company,
testified in the Gibson custer hearing
in that city, Thursday, that for many
months he paid James S. Gibson, county
attorney, three dollars a month for each
Joint or illicit saloon owned by the
brewery in Kansas City as a guaranty
of immunity from prosecution. Steele
also testified that Gibson demanded five
dollars a month, but on a compromise
reduced the amount to three dollars.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
II q persons name gets on the Eng

II q persons name gets on the Eng
lish registry Of voters, however i'm.
properly, ne has al ~indefeasible right
to vote. Thus 1t happened In the re-
cent election that a woman voted for
a member Of parliament In another
case, ct Rayleigh, in Essex, a school
boy-James Griggs, II years Old
found himself legally entitled to claim
a vote. At the polling station the lad
presented himself on the day Of the
election, and satisfying the officials in
charge Of his identity with the person
named In the register. was allowed to
vota.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

The greatest known depth of the
sea is In the mid-Pacific ocean, and is
recorded as 5,269 fathoms-31,61 feet
or 66 feet short of six statute miles.
This sounding was Obtained on the
United States steamship Nero, and it
is greater than any elevation on u
continent, or, 81 far as known, in the
world
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

DR.. David T. Day, a government ex.
pert. has created a new industry in
the northwest. After months of pa
tient investigation he has proved that
the common black sands Of the Pacific
coast are rich in useful minerals, and
that good steel can be made from this
sand. Manufacturers OF placer ma
chinery are now devising improved
mining apparatus for working the
sands
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29
HAS SEEN HER BEST DAYS
Reported Structural Weakness of
the B%attleship Oregon Caused
BY Heavy Gun Fire.

Honolulu.-The renowned battleship
Oregon, which is returning to San
Francisco for repairs. has arrived here
from the orient. 1t is reported struc-
tural weakness developed under the use
of heavy guns. For some time, it is
understood, there has been an order
not to use the 13-inch guns.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

Evansville, Ind.-Upon plain evil
dence that they had buncoed a Ken
lucky farmer out of $500 in a game of
seven-up, John Miller, Harry Butler
and Edward Smith were fined by Po-
lice Judge Winfrey sums a~ggregating
50, 900, with the costs added.