Iron County register., 1904-11-03

The United States supreme court ha
been asked to decide whether pig lea
is contraband of war, and the questio
was argued before that tribunal on tn
27th.
Mrs. Ray M. Krauss pleaded guilty q
Hartford City, Ind, on the 9th, to tn
murder of her step-daughter, and wa
given a life sentence in the peniten
tiary.
The Japanese made another fierc
assault on Port Arthur, on the 27tf
capturing two more forts. A Russia
battleship in the harbor is said to hav
been badly damaged.
Workmen tearing down bluff o
the Missouri river front at the foe
of Lydia street, Kansas City, Mo-, o
the 25th, came upon the skull of ma
todon with seven-foot tusks.
Reports received on the 9th sho
that the Russian squadron fired on {
least two merchant vessels in th
course of their voyage through th
North sea and the English channel.
Ed Geers, the veteran driver an
trainer, was thrown from sulky at Bi
tings' park, Memphis, Tenn, on tn
26th. One leg was broken, and it i
feared that the other was also frac
tured
The Iowa Baptist convention, in ses
sion at Marshalltown, on the 9th, il
strong resolutions, declared agains
the divorce evil. The ministers pledget
themselves to remarry only innocen
parties.
Notices were posted at Mahanoy City
Pa, on the Goth, announcing a suspen
sion of work at the collieries of thu
Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iro1
Co., in the Schuylkill region, until fur
ther orders.
Judge Alton B. Parker, the demo
cratic candidate for president, will
make three speeches in three states
according to an announcement made
on the 26th, by the democratic nationa
committee.
A broken rail caused the derailmen
Of Missouri Pacific passenger trair
No. AZ. three miles west of Neal, Kas.
on the 25th, resulting in the injury O
rs persons, only eight OF whom were
seriously hurt.
During the absence from home ot
the parents, three small children ot
Jesse Owens, well-to-do farmer liv
fng near Coralea, Okla, were burned
to death, on the 25th, in fire which
destroyed the house,
The benefit performance given, on
the 9th, by the theatrical managers
of st. Louis in Exposition music hall
for the Police Hero fund was one OF
the most successful affairs ever given
for charity in that city.
Col. w. F. Cody returned to America
from England, on the 2Sth, accompa-
MED by Chief Iron Tail and band of
Sioux Indians. At an entertainment
on the steamer, a feature Of the pro-
gramme was war dance, in which so
of the Indians tooly mart
Starting against nine-mile-an-h hour
gale, Capt. Thomas s. Baldwin's air
ship California Arrow" on the 25th,
sailed from the aeronautic concourse
at the Worlds fair, Is miles through
the air into Illinois, but it didn't sail
back, the motor getting out of order.
Judge Alton B. Parker, on the 2Sth,
made a spirited reply to the sponsors
Tor the administration who have OBJ
tected to his charges of extravaganza
against the Roosevelt regime, and hi
assertions that the trusts were con-
tributing lavishly to the republican
campaign fund.
A dispatch from Hull to the London
Times, on the 25th, says that the cor
respondent, as the result of his investi.
cation, is of the opinion that the at
tack on the British trawlers by the
Russian second Pacific squadron was a
deliberate act, perpetrated with knowl-
edge Of its character.
Fewers' concert hall, on West Mad
ison street, Chicago, was destroyed by
fire, on the night of the 9th. The fire
started at the rear Of the stage, and
caused the death of Henry Schlater by
suffocation. and Michael Burns and
Charles Frair were badly burned.
Burns will probably die.
Admiral Rojestvensky, who arrived
at Vigo, Spain, on the 26th, says that
his squadron was attacked by torpedo
boats In the North sea; that he saw
no fishermen and did not know any
damage was done. His story differs in
several details from that told by an.
other officer of his squadron. -
War between Russia and Great
Britain has been averted, and the set
tlement Of the only points in dispute
regarding the attack by the Russian
second Pacific squadron on British
trawlers on October 21 has been re-
ferred to an international commission
under The Hague convention.
The Sac and Fox Indians in eastern
Oklahoma have voted to retain their
Indian lands rather than accep. the Il.
dian departments ruling in regard tc
their SALE The money received from
the sales Is to be kept by the agents
and paid to the Indians at the rate oi
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