Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

years old, and who lives at Renfrow,
Okla, has written to P. H. Cullen, OF
Mexico, Mo, who was TESTERS attorney
in his famous trial at New London,
absolutely denying the story that he
had made a death-bed confession of
the murder of Gilbert Gates. He says
he is well and hearty.
With the arrival of a number of
strike breakers in the packing house
district in Omaha, Neb., on the 23d,
came 80 Japanese from the smelling
and manufacturing districts of Colora-
do. They were taken into the plant Of
the Omaha Packing Co.
Five persons were injured, one Of
them dangerously, by the explosion Of
a barrel of ~turpentine in the cellar Of
a store in Armourdale, Kas., on the
2Sd, the explosion being caused by the
careless handling Of a candle by
workmen.
A tornado struck Sorrento, Italy, at
midnight of the 23d. Among the build
ings wrecked were the Hotel Tram
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terry Of San Paolo. Several lives were
lost, and the town presented a scene of
the greatest desolation.
Arrangements have been made for
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, repub-
lican candidate for vice-president, to
open the campaign in Missouri at Kan
sas City on either September 2 or g..
The black rust is said to have killed
the wheat crop in many places, in the
northwestern states, or cut it down to
such an extent that only the thresher
can tell the tale. The elevator men
and millers estimate the crop of Min
nesota and the Dakotas from 5 1000, 900
to $780, 900, 900 bushels for the three
states.
Chicago, Rock Island C Pacific train
No. / was derailed west of Princeton, "a
miles north of Trenton, Mo-, on the
23d, injuring As persons, two of whom
are in a dangerous condition.
Fire in the glue factory of Armour
& Co.. at Benson emu and Thirty
second street, Chicago, or the oath,
caused a loss estimated at 500, 000.
Rear-Admiral John G. Watson was,
on the Gath, placed on the retired list
of the navy, having reached the age of
G2 years.
Mrs. Susan Stems Wyman Holmes.
aged 81 years, an aunt of Postmaster
Frank Wyman, and one of the Oldest
residents Of st, Louis, having gone
there before the advent of the railroad,
died, on the night of the 23d, of pneu-
monia.
According to advices received at Che
Foo, on the oath, the Japanese were
70 close to Port Arthur as to have
driven the Russians from their parade
ground. Scarcely a building remains
unchanged in Port Arthur.
Admiral Kataoka reported to Toxic,
on tie Gath, that as the Russian bat
tleship Sevastopol was emerging from
Port Arthur, on the 23d, she struck a
mine, after which she showed a decid-
ed list TO starboard. She was towed
back into the harbor.
A committee of business men of Wa
coma, Mimi, one of the villages struck
by the storm on August 20, has issued
an appeal for outside aid for those left
destitute of home and mean of exist
ence by the storm.
Announcement is made at the navy
department that the cruiser Tacoma,
Commander R. F. Nicholson command
ing, has been finally accepted from
the Union iron works, San Francisco.
A wave of rejoicing and festivity
swept over Russia with the rising Of
the sun, on the Gath, on the christen-
ing day of the heir to the Russian
throne.
The German-American bank, the
Oldest financial institution in Sidney,
O., has been placed in the hands of a
receiver. Liabilities, $3.50, 900; assets
5000, 900.
Alfred Bolster, colored, aged 70, Is In
Jail at Niobrara, Neb., charged with
numbering his child with a saw. His
wife alleges that he killed the child
and buried it, and says she has been
afraid to reveal the facts, because he
had threatened to murder her if she
did.
After a bitter fight, John c. Cutler,
Of Salt Lake, Utah, was nominated for
governor by the republican state con.
vention, on the 25th, IN the second
ballot.
A gold and copper discovery in Cha
peta mountain, in the Monarch dis
trict, neal Salida, Col, has started q
rush of prospectors to that locality.
Four persons lost their lives and sew
eral others were injured in a tornado
that swept. through Chautauqua coun-
ty, N. Y, on the 25th.
The Russian galleries in the west
pavilion of the Worlds fair Art Pal
ace were informally opened to visitor
on the oath.
Fire, probably the result of spon-
taneous combustion in a pile of leather
goods, broke out in the Manufacture!
building at the Worlds fair early OF
the morning of the 9th. An alarm
was promptly given, but the fire wa.
put out with hand extinguishers be
fore the arrival Of the firemen. Tht
damage was not more than 5000.
According to a Toxic correspondent
of the Paris Matin, the Japanese havv
discovered that there is no hope O
taking Port Arthur by direct assault
and that long siege operations will b
necessary.
A battle, which was begun, on tn
Oath, between the Japanese and Rus
slams to the southeast of Lao Yang
was still in progress ON the night Q
| the 26th. The Japanese, at last &C
counts, were advancing from three di
reotions along the entire line of tn
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