Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-06
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

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Q discovery that the labor press are re.
printing an alleged letter from Presi.
dent Roosevelt. bearing he latter's
, signature, 10 President Donneily of the
Meat Cutters union. The letter is
branded by the president as a clumsy
forgery, and no effort will be spared to
trace 1t to its source.
Thomas E. Watson. of Georgia. pop-
ulist candidate for president. suffered a
breakdown at Jackson, Miss, on the
z9th, and was urged by his physician
to take a long rest.
Field Marshal Oyama D to he
a past master in screening his move
menis from the enemy, who. notwith-
standing reconnaissance and FREQUENT
slrmishes, is unable to penetrate the
japanese screen.
The Atlantic county IN. J) grand
Jury on the 18th, returned indictments
against ten persons who are accused
OF bribery in the recent primary cleo
ton at Atlantic City.
While hunting cartridges. on the
@fth, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin was shot by Prince Othon of
nuremberg Waldenburg. and wounded
In both knees and one hand.
Special Judge Phelps, in the police
court at Lee, Mass, on the Goth, started
an international complication by fning.
on TWO separate charges of speeding
his automobile and contempt of court,
Hugh Quincy, third secretary Of the
British embassy at Washington.
Kew. d. P. G. Roberts, one of the
widely known Episcopal clergy
men OIL st. Louis, and for many years
pastor OF the Church of the Holy Com
munion, died, on the 2Gth, at his home,
In st, Louis, of old age. He was a vet
Gran OF the confederate army.
Notwithstanding the acknowledged |
desperate state of affairs in Port Ar
thur, Gen, Stoessel has no thought of
surrender. 1t is admitted that when
The warships make their sortie. carry
ing their condensing apparatus with
them, the water question will be most
serious.
j. j. Marty, cashier of the Long
lord (kas,) bank, committed suicide,
on the 9th, by cutting his throat.
h letter alleged to have been re-
celved by Michael j. Doanelly, leader
OF the meat strike, p%urporting to be
Ole written by President Roosevelt,
was copied from an editorial in the
rev York Evening Post of August l,
IN which ii was stated that it was
a letter which the president might
lave written with advantage to himself
and his country"
Two men, giving their names as Ed {
a2G Chas. Patterson, and claiming to I
ne brothers, who were in Jail at Fair
held. Ia, on a charge of burglary, made 6
tnelr escape, on the 28th, after beat ,
ing Sheriff ]. Wright into insensibility i
with an iron bar. ,
GATED horses from Missouri cap q
lured every prize in that event in the
(Neb.) horse show, on the ,
18th, winning III over some of the :
fnest saddle horses in Canada, as well a
as oyer many local horses. y
1t was reported from Mulkden, on the
zfh, that the Japanese had crossed h
the Hun river so miles northeast of +
town. ~
Heavy rains, on the goth, caused Sc a
rlous damage to railroads in western
leSas, New Mexico and northern a.
Several washouts are report. u
"a ON the Santa Fe in New Mexico, n
he most serious being at Eagle and Oh
Jas Cruces.
President Roosevelt sent the follow q,
ng telegram to Gen. lockwood Hoar, st
lt worcester, Mass, on the Both: "Ac- 6,
ept my most profound sympathy. The
oss is not yours only, but of all those an
tho believe in the lofty standard of h.
purity, integrity and fearlessness in oc
'ublic life"
Postmaster-General Payne had sew r,
raj sinking spells, or the 30th, but y,
.adh time responded to treatment. His
was reported as quite Sc IN
ioua. -
Viceroy Alexieff has been recalled to
t, petersburg, on the pretext that the a,
Ear wants information on the situa- or
on IN the far east from the viceroy's 90
r4 - ~ uu'h ~ according 10 fet
st. Petersburg dispatch, that Alexieff en-
I'll never return to Manchuria. on
AM, advices from the seat of war, ON ct,
lie 3uth, We're Indicative of active op-
'ations in the vicinity of Mukden. The So
japanese began an offensive movement, ~,
irving in the Russian outposts, after .p
were fighting. ~
Reports concerning conditions at and ~,
'ound Port Arthur are conflicting, one III
lying that many Russians are surren- =,
sr1ng and THAT the fall of the place is
IMMINENT, while another y the jap e.
lese have been repulsed and will be WI
'mpelled to sit down to a winter siege. ~,
A $4,000 fire occurred in Benton, ILL.,, -
the 29.th. Starting In the Arlington 40.
'tel, the fire took the historic Hudson
ouse, the Burriss building and the RI
d White row. the
The Shanghai correspondent of the on
,ndon Telegraph quotes a Japanese col
icer as saying that the killed and JOS
bundled at Port Arthur considerable
coed 10000 wr'
George Frisbie Hoar, senior United IN
senator from Massachusetts,, 70
at his home in Worcester on the sol
tn. sta
Postmaster General Henry G. Payne !
lying dangerously i'll ait the Airing der
hotel in Washington, and his re- on
very is hardly expected. anc
Members of the crew of the tug G. G. vi
Jerry, which arrived at Bellingham, hre
ash, ON the 10Th, from Alaska, report l
'hting a Russian gunboat anchored aen
Unimak pass in, the Alea,tian isIands Pun
l.. Gray, a resident of 81. .ne