Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-26
AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

state in tie union assembled in the
Hall of Congresses at the Worlds fair
in st. Louis, on the 10th, and began
the nineteenth annual convention of
the National Editorial association.
An official report was received at st.
Petersburg, OF the Goth, to the effect
that Gen. Rennenkamp of the First
Cossacks fell on the japanese columns
advancing on ~Feng-Wang-Chang on
Wednesday. and that the Japanese
were compelled to retreat a distance
of II miles.
The Illinois Republican state owen
ton decided, on the Goth, to take a re-
cess until the 31st. The delegates were
woru out and were DESTROYS of getting
a little rest after their vain efforts,
through 80 ballots, to select a candi-
date for governor.
No gentle diplomacy will figure in
this governments dealing with the sui
tan of Morocco in regard to the kid
naping of Ion Perdicaris, an American
citizen, and his English stepson, who
were kidnapped near Tangier, on the
night Of the 18th. The navy will be
called upon to back up demands for
his release.
An alleged trustworthy report has
been received at imperial headquarters
in Toxic that the Russian cruiser b.
gatyr ran ashore outside of Vladivos-
tok in a heavy fog and was destroyed.
This is the first loss of the Vladivos-
tok squadron. Russians deny the re-
port.
Alfred S. Ready, who had been con-
nected with the John Dere Plow Co., at
St. Louis, for 16 years as credit man,
engaged a Don at the Studt hotel at
Creve Occur Lake, Mo. on the Goth,
and committed suicide an hour or so
later by shooting himself. The weapon
used was q rifle.
, The General Federation Of Women's
clubs assembled in St. Louis, on the
18th, with a very large attendance. The
convention gave promise Of being m
interesting one.
The London Central News cprre-
spondent at BaFu reports a serious
fight between Armenians and Turkish
troops at Chelcuzan, in the district of
Mush. The Turks lost 1876 in killed and
wounded, while the Armenians had
their leader and many others killed.
The countess Cassini announces that
the proceeds of the recent Russian Red
Cross bazaar in Washington, was some
thing over ST., 1000.
Mary Biszack, wife of Stephen Bis
Yak, the man supposed to have been
s%trangled and thrown into the Illinois
and Michigan canal at Chicago, on the
14th, has been set free by the Brighton
Park police, although detectives still are
seeking evidence against her.
Judge VIM. M%argrave, 80 years old, the
Oldest justice of the peace in Fort
Scott, kas., is dying at his home there.
Judge Margrave has been in service
for the past so years.
Mrs. M. B. Copeland, of GAS East
Long street, Columbus, O., having tied
her ~tive-year-old daughter to her left
arm and wrist, on the 18th, jumped
from the Rich street bridge into the
Scioto river, and both were drowned.
No cause is known for the act.
On the 10th fire destroyed the Per-
rine hotel and boarding stables at
Oklahoma City, Okla, involving a loss
Of $4,000. Guests of the hotel all
escaped without injury.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri has Of
fered a reward of 5000 for the arrest
and conviction of the unknown men
who robbed the bank of Metz on the
18th.
Former Senator James K. Jones,
chairman of the democratic national
committee, will leave Washington, on
The 22d, for st. Louis, to conclude de-
tails of arrangements for holding the
democratic national convention.
Vice-Admiral Togo, in a report re-
ceived at Toxic, on the 18th, told of
the loss of the Japanese battleship
Hatsuse through contact with a mine,
on the 18th, to the southeast of Port
Arthur. On the same day, during a
dense fog, the Japanese cruiser Kasuga
rammed the cruiser Yoshino and sent
her to the bottom. About 600 lives were
lost with the two vessels.
An unoonfirmed report from New
Chwang, on the 18th, said that the
Japanese army from the Yalu had been
driven back to Feng-Wang-Cheng. An
other report said that the Russians
had lost 1000 men during an engage
ment at Hsin-Ye1-Cheng.
The next annual convention of the
National Editorial association will be
held in Guthrie, Okla. Maj. w. w.
Screws, OF Alabama, was elected presi-
dent Of the association at the closing
meeting in st. Louis.
The Worlds Press parliament, the
greatest assemblage of Journalists in
the history Of the world, held its open
ing session in Festival hall at the
Worlds fair, st. Louis, on the night
VI LlC lJll. IAoSEIllDltu OIL Tie TOS-
trum sat the press representatives of
35 nations. In the pit and galleries
were the editors Or literary celebrities
of every state and great city in the
Unitod States.
A man supposed to be one of Bill
lings' $4,000 diamond robbers was ar
rested at Miles City. Mont, on the
18th. He was trying to sell a diamond
and, it is alleged, swallowed it when
officers arrested him. He was given an
emetic, but the diamond was not re-
covered.
The Washington police are investl-
eating an incident which occurred on
the plaza of the capitol, on the 18th,
in which an attempt was made, before
a moving picture machine, to imper-
senate President Roosevelt giving as
%sistance to a pretended negro in dis
tress.
Judge J. A. Yantis, for 1G years dean