Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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Thousands Of people assembled at
Orcharl Knob, the famous battle
ground northeast Of Chattanooga.
Tenn, on the 10th, to witness the ded-
ication of the monument erected by the
state of Connecticut to the Fifth and
Twentieth Connecticut volunteer regi-
ments.
President Roosevelt has given orders
for a thorough reorganization of the
steamboat inspection service OF New
York following recommendations made
in the report of the government COM
| mission appointed to investigate the
| Slocum disaster.
Steel workers employed in the rail
and sheet departments of the Illinois
Steel Co.'S plant at South Chicago
have been notified that when the pres
ent wage agreement expires, January
l next, it will not be renewed.
The meeting of socialist deputies
called at Rome to consider the propo-
sition OF resigning in a body as a pro-
test to the government broke up in dis
order without any definite action being
taken.
DR.. Wiley of the bureau of chemistry
asserts that IS per cent. of the whisky
| sold in this country is adulterated, not
even the clubs and hotel bars being
fraa from, Iouuprada goods
A sleeping car attached to a passen-
ger train plunged down a steep en-
bankment while running at full speed
lear West Fork, Ore, on the 18th, in
juring several persons.
The escutcheon of the Russian con-
sulate at Milan, Italy, has been de-
faced and burned. An exiled Russian
anarchist is suspected of having COM
mitted the outrage.
It was reported, on the 18th, that Don
jaime, son of the pIetender to the Span
| ish throne, wa thrown from his horse
and injured at the Russian %headquar.
tiers in Manchuria.
Robin Terry, James MCGEE, Mont
Harding and Barry A. Gilbert, convicts
| at the Michigan state penitentiary, es-
capped from that institution on the
10th.
Miss Dora Meek, of Centralia, ILL.,,
whose long sleep of six months puzzled
the medical world, died, on the 10Th,
from the effect of an attack of measles.
William Scott Worth, brigadier-gen-
eral, U. S. A., retired, died at the home
of his nephew, DR.. John T. Sprague, oil
Clinton, S. l., on the 10th.
A passenger and freight train collid-
ed near Portland, Col, on the 18th, and
Is persons were injured.
At the request Of the king OF Bel
GUM, Col. Henry |. Kowalsky, Of the
San Francisco bar, and a personal
friend of King Leopold, called at the
White House, on the 18th, and pre-
~sented the reply of the federation for
the defense of Belgian interests abroad
to attacks made on the government of
the Congo Free State.
President Roosevelt, on the 18th, re-
moved from Office Robert S. Rode, SUI
pervising inspector of the steamboat
inspection service, second district, To-
[cated at New York, on account Of the
disclosures in the report of the nation
al commission appointed to investigate
the Gen. Slocum disaster.
The house of bishops, one of the leg
islative bodies of the Episcopal gen.
eral convention, in session at Boston.
on the 18th, adopted an amendment to
. the canon on marriage and divorce
!, %torbidding the remarriage of any di
3, vorced person.
An %incendiary fire, on the 18th, in
q big five-story double-decker tene
, ment house in New York city in the
: Williamsburg ghetto, caused the death
: of five children and a woman, the fata
, injury of six little n and the injury
of six more.
, The foreign Christian Missionary
society began its sessions, on the 18th
/, In the old exposition building, in st
Louis, thus marking the second serie!
|of meetings in connection with the In
a ter Christian Missionary convention.
q The United States court OF appeals
on the 18th, affirmed the finding Of tn
. lower court, which in January, 1909, Il
q st. Louis, convicted John P. Dolan
Frank Carrot and Thomas E. Barre
a of naturalization frauds.
Reports of the fighting at Port AL
: thur show that both sides have dis
played the most stubborn courage
: while Gen. Stoessei has been Away
careful to save his men as far as pos
sible.
. It is estimated that with the oper
: ing Of the quail hunting season in OF
lahoma, on the 18th, fully 5000 hum
= ers were in the field. The birds ca
! not be taken out of the territory.
Herman Weibel, a retired farmer,
= years old, committed suicide in Il
Y. woods hear West Plains, Mo, on tn
17th, by hanging himself. He Is p
D lieved to have been insane.
In the fighting Of the 18th, the Ru'
slams captured several Japanese cal
non which had been particularly tro'
blesome.