Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-17
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL. AMI GENERAL.

The tactical aspect of the campaign
in Manchuria has been altered by the
freezing over of the Hun river, which
is now passable for men and material
on the ice.
In Raleigh county, Va, Eddie Mes
sick and John Hillard quarreled, on
the Sth, after a political argument,
when Messick pulled a revolver and
shot Hillard dead. A brother of the
latter, who appeared about the same
time, was also shot and killed by
Messick.
AS the result of a quarrel growing
out of stock depredations. York Grover
was shot to death by Henry Virgins
at Caldwell, Tex, on the Sth.
A Toxic dispatch of the morning OF
the 10th said that Gen. Stoessel had
asked for an armistice at Port Arthur.
1t is hoped by the Japanese that he
will capitulate before the place is taken
by assault. The object of the armistice
asked for was not stated.
James B. Storm, county treasurer at
Prescott, Ariz., was, on the 9th, found
locked in the steel vault of his office,
bound and gagged, with $4,000 missing
from the cash funds of the treasury.
Mr.. Storm had been in the vault 16
hours when found by his daughter.
There is some talk in Washington Of
probable changes in the cabinet after
March 4 next. 1t is thought that Sec
rotary Shaw may retire, in which case
it is predicted that Hon. George B.
Cortelyou stands next. 1t is stated with
confidence that Secretary Hay will re-
main at the head of the state depart
ment, and that Secretary Taft will
continue at the head of the war depart
ment.
Up to the morning of the. 10th Mis-
eouri appeared to be the only state in
doubt as to the result of the vote on
the national candidates. The repub-
licans claimed that Roosevelt had car
ried the state by $1,000, while the DEM
ocrats were insistent that the states
electoral vote would be saved to Par
ker.
Capt. Kirkwood and 30. members of
the crew Of the Inflated steamer Nine
ola arrived at San Francisco from the
orient, on the 9th, on the steamer Man
churia. The Mineola was wrecked
about three weeks before in Tegil bay,
off the coast of Siberia.
Japan, the land of the ~chrysanthe-
mum, was fairly outclassed by the dis
play of those flowers at the Worlds
fair, on the It'll, the opening day of the
flower show in the Horticultural build
ing. Japanese visitors declared it the
most interesting display of their ma
tional flower they had ever seen.
Five men were killed and % in
jured in a wreck on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois railroad near Clinton,
Ind, on the Sth.
The body of an unidentified white
nan was found in a cornfield near
the end of Ohio avenue, East st. Louis,
ILL.,, on the It'll, by persons living in
that vicinity.
Richard Gorety, a white soldier at
Jefferson barracks, st. Louis, was IA
tally stabbed, on the 9th, by Walter
barrymore, a colored cavalry corporal
An east-bound freight on the Balti-
more & Ohio road was wrecked, on the
10th, near McKeesport, Pa, and before
passenger train No. 3. from Cumber.
land, could be tagged, it plunged into
the wrecked cars which had been piled
up on the west-bound track. Engineer
Samuel Bits, of the passenger train
and his fireman, Samuel McMinn., were
badly hurt.
Three persons lost their lives, q
were injured, nearly half a hundred
were overcome by smoke, and an equa
number rendered homeless as q re
suit of a series of fires in various part'
of New York city on the 10th.
One man was killed and three per
sons injured as the result of a collision
between a Missouri Pacific passenge,
train from Joplin, Mo-, and a work en-
CINE, near Kansas City, Mo-, on tn
10th.
Safeblowers entered the Churchvill
bank, ii miles west Of Rochester, n
Y, on the 10th, exploded seven charge
against the safe and secured $4,000.
There was a light fall of 10Y a
Kansas City and in southwestern Mis-
souriNon the 10th, the first of the sea
son.
The Lokal Anzeiger (Berlin) printe
a Toxic dispatch, on the 10th, sayin
, that Gen. Nogi, commanding the TROOP
before Port Arthur, was fully empov
cred to negotiate with Gen. Stoesse
,, the Russian commander, for the SUI
, render of Port Arthur. The capituls
!, ton of the fortress was expected to o.
cur at any time.
The London Daily Telegraph's CO..
respondent, with Gen. Oku, cables, III
= der date of November 8: Last nigl
the Russians made several determine
{ attacks upon Lamu Ting n 81
a Ching Pu, but we're repulsed vii
g heavy losses. The artillery laid tt
villages in ruins"
A dlspatche from Colorado Spring
Col. at 3 a. M, Of the 18th, said tn
e, the town of Anaconda, in the Cripp
Creek district, was in danger of d
n struction by fire. One block had
ready been burned, and the flames
that time were beyond control Of Il
local fire department.
At a height varying from 1,400 fe
to two miles. wireless messages we
J. successfully received by the occ
pants of the basket of a balloon viii
made an ascension from the World
lie fair grounds in st. Louis on the Iii
The experiment was the first Of
Of kind ever made In America.
d. One Of the results Of the rece
d.. election. 1t Is minated. will be t