Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-08-11
VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL. AMI GENERAL

leld up the Illinois Central Diamond
special, near Matteson, ILL.,, were for
mer railroad men who had been black
listed. The leader was heard to drop
several remarks that would lead to
this conclusion.
The event Of the packing house
strike, in Chicago, on the Sd, was a
riot, in which a mob of fully 5000 per-
sons battled with 70 policemen to pre-
vent the officers taking a party Of
strike breakers out of the stock yards
district. Several on both sides were
severely hurt.
Charles w. Fairbanks, surrounded by
several thousand friends, neighbors and
political supporters, was,on the Sd, for
mally notified Of his nomination for
vice-president of the United States by
the republican national convention.
Monsignor Falconio, apostolic dele
gate to the United States, was a pas
senger on the steamer Sardegna, which
Genoa and Nanles.
The French foreign Office denies the
report circulated in the United States
of a rupture of relations between
France and Venezuela.
The Rock Island Railroad Co. and
the United States Express Co. have Of
fered a reward of $4,000 for the cap
ture of robbers who held up the Rock
Island train neal Tucumcari, Tex, on
July 80.
Ray Brom, who is said to have killed
Richard Roberts, brakeman, in Deca-
tur, ILL.,, April 81, and who escaped and
was caught at st. Joseph, Mo-, and
broke Jail there, has been captured
again at Seattle, Wash.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness July 81, 1904, the debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted to $3.50, ISL
Alb, which is an increase for the month
of s13, $40, 500.
Brakeman Vaer was killed, Conduc-
tor Martin was probably fatally in
iured, and several passengers were hurt
by the derailing of a passenger coach
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railroad at Royersville, near Ironton,
o., on the 4th.
Alton B. Parker ceased to be chief
Judge of the court of appeals OF New
York, on the 5th, by handing in his
resignation after a two minute session
of court, in which he and five associate
judges disposed of 66 cases remaining
on the calendar.
A telegram from Digby, N. S., says
that a sailboat containing eight or ten
American tuorists capsized and sank
off Smiths cove, near Digby, on the
4th, and that all on board were
drowned.
Sol Temple, the Oklahoma outlaw
who shot and almost murdered Police
Sergeant William Gibson. of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, last May, was given a SEN
tence of ten years in prison for the
crime.
An engine hauling one baggage cal
and two coaches, carrying 40 Pittsbur@
miners to take the places of strikers
arrived az Ziegler, ILL.,, on the Sd, es
corted by 20 armed guards.
A dispatch from Russian sources, OF
the 5th, said that the Japanese attacked
the Russian position at An-Shan-Sha1
(mi6way between Hai-Cheng and Lilac
Yang, on the I'd, and were repulset
with heavy loss. The Russian casual
ties are not known.
While teaching a party of little girl!
how to swim, Michael Reilly and sever
of his pupils were drowned off a sand
bar in the Mississippi river at the foo
of Washington street, in Alton, ILL.,, OF
the 5th.
BY a comparison of notes it trans
pires that Mrs. M. B. Lichty, Of Nor
rill, Kas.; Mrs. Jas. Stickel, of Had
donia, Kas., and E. J. Dair, of Salt LAX
City, Utah, sisters, each gave birth t.
a daughter on the same day.
The London Times learns from
trustworthy correspondent that the Of
fcers Of the Russian intelligence de
partment who examined the Britisl
steamer Malacca, after her seizure, of
fered her captain $4,000 If he woul,
declare there was c%ontraband aboar'
the vessel.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the St
says: According to the latest advice
from Lao Yang, the Japanese have re
newed the attack all along the line an
the Russians have been driven bac
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The fy-wheel of a rs horse-powe
engine in the plant of the Johnson Tin
Foil Co., st. Louis, burst while run
! ming, on the 4th, instantly KILN
Franz Gamache, assistant engineer
and breaking the left leg Of Georg
Neumann.
st. Louis weather for the month {
July, as has been the case for the las
8 several years, was cool and pleasan
: comparing most ~favorably with til
d summer climate of northern and cas-
O ern states. The average temperatul
for the month was 67.9.
A bulletin, issued on the 4th, by tt
: physicians attending the duchess
: Marlborough, who was considerabl
bruised and shaken by being throw
' from her horse while riding in Blel
: helm park, on the list, said that Ell
was not so well.
d Fire, which broke out on the 9Th,
the old Pacific hotel at Kendrick, Id
no, destroyed the whole business pa
of the city and many residences. Thi
lie ty-six business houses and 20 rel
lie dences were burned; loss, $250,000.
v At a meeting of the Bloomington I'll
D. Street Car Mems union, on the 9Th,
'e was decided to call off the strike
the lines of the Bloomington & NJ
r NAL Railway Electric & Heating G