Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The opposition to the compulsory
vaccination law led to fierce rioting in
RIO Janeiro on the 18th. The troops
repeatedly charged the mob, barricades
were erected, water and gas, mains
were cut, plunging the city into dark
ness, and street cars were burned.
The demonstration had every charac-
~teristic of revolution.
William Balfour and liver Johnson,
both of Omaha, Neb., were drowned in
Goose lake, on the 18th, while hunt
ing ducks. The men were in a boat
which. was too heavily loaded, and
when it tipped slightly they were over
balanced and thrown into the water.
.Adolph Weber, of Auburn, Cal, was
placed under arrest, on the 18th,
charged with the murder of his par
ents, sister and brother on November
10, and with having set the family resi-
dence OF fire afterward to conceal the
crime.
Eight persons were killed and five
injured, two seriously, in a head-on
collision, on The 18th, between Union
Pacific west-bound passenger train No.
8 and an e%ast-bound extra freight train
a short distance west of Azusa, Wyo.
An explosion of dynamite, on the
18th, wrecked the residence of Mayor
Fay at Virginia, MINI. 1t is supposed
to have been the result of his war on
saloonkeepers.
New York city was entirely cut off
from south and west, on the 18th, by
a fierce hurricane, accompanied by
rain and snow, which swept the At
lantic coast.
Capt. A. Leonard Hay, brother Of
Secretary of State Hay, and of former
! Mayor Charles E. Hay, of Springfield,
ILL.,, died on the 18th, at his home in
| Warsaw, Ill.
One outlaw is dead and another is in
Jail mortally wounded as the result Of
a desperate battle, on the 18th, be-
tween cattle thieves and officers near
Deeth, New.
The Russian cruiser Gromoboi, of
the Vladivostok squadron, is reported
to have struck a rock, on the 18th, and
returned to her berth in a sinking
condition.
Forty persons were more or less in
iured in a wreck of the Chicago Spe-
cial' on the Wabash, near the Mer-
chants bridge in St. Louis on the
18th.
The two-masted schooner Earculari-
us went ashore in a gale off the Mas
s~acEusetts coast, on the, 18th, and the
crew Of four men We're probably lost.
An attempt to settle the strike at
Fall River, Mass, on the 14th, ended
in a failure. All the cotton mills at
that place, which have closed because
of the refusal of the employees to accept
a cut of 121a per cent. in wages, were
opened, but only a small proportion OF
the laborers returned to work.
Miss Isidore Rush, the actress, lead
ing lady of the "Glittering Gloria
company, died of heart failure, on the
14th,. while bathing in the surf neal
San Diego, Cal death being due to the
shock caused when an immense wave
caught her and carried her into deer
water.
The American Federation of Labol
met, on the 14th, in Lyric hall, IL
San Francisco, in it's twenty
fourth annual convention. Delegate
from every part of the United State
and representatives from Porto Rice
England and Canada were present.
Russia will pursue the war in tn
far east to the bitter end, that is, unit
Russia has conquered" These were tn
opening words of an emphatic state
ment made at the Russian embassy l
Washington, on the 14th, by Coun
Cassini, the Russian ambassador.
The congressional committee, heade
by Congressman w. B. Hepburn, a
chairman, which was appointed to in
! spect the location of the Panama CO
nal, sailed, on the 14th, on the Unite
States transport Sumner for Colon.
3 Philip Weinsheimer, the former Ne
York labor leader, convicted of extol
, tion, vas, on the 14th, sentenced
state prison for not less than one yef
and eight months, nor more than tN
= years and eight months.
The coroner's jury, that investigate
! the Tercio (Col.) mine disaster,
Q which 10 miners were killed, return'
a verdict, on the 14th, to the effect tn
I the deaths we're caused by a dust e
2 plosion.
!, Pope Plus has granted authority
! the Mexican prelates and priests ia
. ing part in the great pilgrimage fro
that country to Lourdes, Rome and &
: Holy Land, to say mass on the ocea
Cardinal Mecenni, who was admin
: traitor Of the apostolic palace und
z Pope Leo Kill, died at the vatican
: Rome, on the 14th, Of paralysis VIII
I the consistory wal In progress.
! Pension Commissioner Eugene Wa
!, rendered his resignation to the pre-
dent, on the 14th, to take effect ia
uary 1