Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-08-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Complying with the request Of the
state department, Admiral Sigsbee, at
San Juan, has been directed to dis
patch a war vessel to Monte Christi,
San Domingo. This was done at the
suggestion of Mr.. Dawson, the Amer
lean minister to San Domingo, and the
inference is that trouble is impending
in that country.
A bomb thrown into a crowd OF
Italians in East One Hundred and Fiji.
ty-first street, New York, injured a
score or more persons, and led to the
arrest of Vincenso Donetto, who for
some time has terrorized residents OF
the Italian districts and extorted
money from them by threats and acts
of violence.
All the labor unions in Chicago have
Endorsed the stock yards strike. The
Chicago Federation of Labor, which
is composed of every labor organiza-
ton in Chicago, and has a membership
of nearly 800, 900, adopted resolutions,
on the 7th, pledging the moral and
financial support of the federal body.
The London Times correspondent at
Toxic, under date of August 7, says
that the Japanese have captured COM
manding positions north and north
east of Port Arthur at a distance OF
1850 yards from the main line of Rus
sian defense.
An official report received at st. Pc
tersburg from Lieut.-Gen. T. Stoessel,
commanding the military forces at
Port Arthur, says that the Japanese
were repulsed with tremendous loss
in a three days fight from July rs to
July %.
The British expedition to Thibet is
eacamped a mile from the sacred
mountain of Potala, on which is STU
ated the Dalai Lama's palace, and in
the immediate vicinity of the Dalai
LeEna's private gardens.
During a riot near Swift's packing
plant, in Kansas City, Mo-, on the
9Th, John ]. Willis, a n%on-union ne
go employed at Swift's, fired five shots
into a crowd, woupding three men, n
seriously.
The freighter City of Berlin, with
about 5000 tons of iron on board, col
lided with an unknown boat in the De-
troit river, north of Belle Isle, on the
7th, and sank. The crew was taken
ashore.
Fire, o. the 9Th, destroyed the City
hotel and five business houses at Gid.
den, la. A. w. Hobbs and his brother,
who were sleeping at the hotel. lost
their lives.
President Roosevelt has declined to
Interfere in the case of John w. Bur-
ley, a negro, confined in the jail OF
the District of Columbia under SEN
tence of death for the crime of GRIM
inal assault, the victim having been u
little girl Az years old.
A clerk in the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad Office at st. Louis,
while checking freight cars in the
yards, on the 18th, found in a car the
body of a man, apparently rs years OF
age, who had been dead for at least a
week.
The advisory board of the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butchers On
ion of North America, at a meeting on
the Sth, decided to order a strike in
New York and vicinity. Between g.
900 and 1000 men will be called out.
Fire in the five story building at
Nos. 251-257 Main street, Buffalo, N.
Y, on the 9Th, caused a loss estimated
at $500, 900, and for a time threatened
the Academy of Music next door,
where a play was being produced.
The mayor Of Milwaukee has been
invited to select a young lady to
christen the protected cruiser to be
named after that city, and which will
be launched September 10 at the Union
iron works, San Francisco.
Gen. Wade, commanding the Phil
ippine division. has cabied the war de.
partment that the newspaper reports
that SO Filipinos were massacred al
Malabang about May IL, were entirely
without foundation.
Sam s. Wright, of Upton, Ia, who
} bolted his instructions at st. Louis il
order to second the nomination o
Judge Parker for president, has beer
bounced from the notification commit
tee.
East-bound Vandalial passenger No
81 struck a broken rail at Plainield
ILL.,, on the 9th, and five cars left tn,
= track and were burned. Several pas
sengers were injured, but none killed
A cloudburst in Fisher canyon, tire
= miles north of Trinidad, Col, on tn
7th, caused the loss Of two lives an
flooded mines and other property /
and adjacent to the canyon.
i. An attempt was made, on the Stl
to wreck the Atlantic express on tn
D., Union Pacific railroad at Ahsay st,
ton, between Rock Springs and Gree
= River, Wyo.
The heaviest earthquake which Ne
Zealand has experienced in mar
= years, occurred, on the 7th, at 1922
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