Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-08-11

covered s25,O OO, 900 in an abandoned
Russian camp.
It is reported in well-informed cir
cles that NJ. Muravieff, the Russian
minister of justice, will succeed NJ. Won
Plehve, late minister of the interior.
The populist national committee has
decided to have the formal notification
of their party candidates for president
and vice-president at Cooper Union
New York city, August Is.
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After a visit of five days at the
Worlds fair, the Roosevelt boys, Theo-
dore, Jr., and Kermit, and their cousins,
Philip Roosevelt and Alexander Rus
sci, returned to Washington on the 4th.
Reports from the northwest show
that the wheat crops of Oregon and
Washington are slightly under the
early estimates. Oregon will have 3D.
600, 900 bushels and Washington 25,-
900, 900.
Reports in circulation that Senator
George F. Hoar was seriously i'll are
denied at the senator's residence II
Worcester, Mass. He has been troubled
with lumbago all summer, but IS no
confined to his room.
Freiherr Speck Won %Sternberg, Ger
man ambassador to Washington, ha!
accepted the presidency of the nationa
advisory board of the American lnsti
tute of Germanics of Northwestern
university at Chicago,
Detectives have obtained evidence
that the railroads terminating in st
Louis have been defrauded of abou
$500, 900 since the opening of thu
Worlds fair by collision of railwa.
conductors and scalpers.
BY order of Gov. Mickey of Nebras
ka, the South Omaha cavalry troop O.
the state militia has been mustered
out. The membership of the troop was
composed largely of stock yards ant
packing house employees.
Henry w. Good, director general O
the Lewis and Clarke exposition, ha
been elected president, to succeed Fl
w. Scott. Mr.. Scott was compelled tt
resign from the presidency on accoun
of the pressure of private business.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mai
from Geneva says that Miss Ruth Ho
fer, one of the richest and most beau
tiful girls in Switzerland, will shortl,
be married to Gladstone Dowie, the I'm
kissed son of Elijah Ill.," the founde
of Zion City.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick continue
to remain in the strictest seclusion i
her mothers home at Rouen, France
Neither she nor the Baroness d
Roques, her mother, have gone far
Their than the garden since Mrs. May
bricks arrival.
s
Lady Tweedmouth (Lady Fanny G
l.. Spencer-Churchill), 40 years old, po
litical hostess of the liberal party, an
a sister of the late Lord Randolp
Churchill, died in London on the 5th
She was the daughter of the seventI
duke of Marlborough.
Woodbridge N. Ferris, OF Big Raj
ids, was, on the Sd, nominated for gov
ernor of Michigan by the democrati
state convention over Justus S.Stearn'
of L%udington, who announced that b
had bolted the republican party, ns
tional and state.
Efigies Of Gov. Jennings of Florid
and of Isaiah Cooper were hanged an
shot to pieces, on the 5th, because Gel
tain persons resented the action of tn
governor in staying the execution
Cooper, who had been convicted
numbering Marshal Bowman of Punt
Gorda.
The officials of the Illinois Centrs
railroad have decided to increase tn
reward of 81 900 for the arrest and con
viction of the bandits who held up tn
Diamond special, on the list, near Mai
teson, ILL.,, to $4,000, a reward of $1,0O
being placed on the head of each Of tn
robbers.
The post office department has issue
a general order directing that ever
railway postal clerk shall give a $1,O(
bond to the United States for 9TH
faithful discharge of all duties an
trusts imposed upon them by law an
the rules and regulations of the d,
partment.
DR.. Bush, a well-known archaeol,
gist, has returned to Ell Paso, TIE,
from a trip 700 miles into the interit
Of northern Mexico, in the Sierl
Madre mountains, and says he disco
cred a race of people that prove to h
satisfaction the perpetuatlon or Il
race of cliff jewellers.
Gov. ]. X. Vardaman of Mississippi
in a statement issued on the Sd, deni,
that he had ever. reflected upon t
good name of President Roosevelt
mother through the columns Of his p
per, as was charged, and which caus
Postmaster General Payne to refuse
name a post Office aftert he governor
The body of F. Kent LOOMS, who
supposed to have lost his life from t
steamer Kaiser William II. off t
English coast on June 10, arrived
New York on the American line steal
err st. Paul, from Southampton
the Sd. Francis e. Loomis, assista
secretary of state, a brother, shipp