Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-22
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

cafe and which burned seven hours.
The loss will reach $500, 900, with small
insurance.
Robbers blew cpel the safe Of tie
bank of Palmyra, Neb. on the 18th,
AMI escaped without arousing the peo-
Lle of the town.
Supplies in and around Mukden are
| said to be getting very low, and some
of the Russian troops are reported as
suffering for food, as the country is in
such a deplorable condition from heavy
rains that it is almost impossible to
use wagons
Twenty-Five true bills have been re-
turned by the special grand jury of st.
Louis county, Mo, against gamblers
and the owners of buildings in which
gambling games have been conducted.
The names are suppressed until the in
dicted parties are under arrest.
Two firemen were fatally hurt and
seven others sustained lesser injuries
in a fire, on the 18th, which destroyed
a building at Flournoy street and
Western avenue, Chicago, formerly
used as a barn by the Chicago Pas
senger Railway Co.
The departure Of the Russian Bal
tic feet for the far east was, at the
last moment, deferred for several days,
apparently to await news from the
seat of war. The fleet is at present at
Revel.
There were wild scenes in the Chi
cago wheat pit on the 18th, values in
creasing 3H cents IN the strength OF
the government report. Millions OF
bushels were sold by profit takers, the
big spectators buying heavily, indi-
eating a higher market. Minneapolis
and New York felt the pressure, too
Corn went up 2$ cents.
The Italian government has asked
that J. P. Morgan restore the sacred
COPE of Ascoli, which was stolen from
the cathedral there two years ago, Mr..
Morgan subsequently becoming its
purchaser.
On the 18th a maniac in The Terrell
(Tex.) insane asylum crushed an at
tendant's skull with a water pitcher.
The total amount of the obligations
of W. H. Harroun, of st. Joseph. Mo-,
mostly represented by forged paper,
will reach, 1t is thought, fully 81, 000,-
900.
Gen. Aparicio Sarayia, the chief of
the Uruguayan revolutionists, is dead,
and peace negotiations have been be-
gun.
Nurses carried 81 babies down the fire
escape from the burning Mothers and
Babies home, in st. Louis, on the 18th.
Joseph Briggs, who was arrested, on
the 18th, on suspicion Of being con
nected with the murder of Harold Pc
terson, the Chicago tobacco dealer,
who was killed in his store on Septem-
Der IL, has been positively identified as
the man who did the shooting, by Will
lam Potee, the porter.
Rains which have rendered the Man
churian roads all but impossible, have
practically stopped all military opera
tions in the far east
At st. Petersburg the people are har-
assed by rumors of impending disaster
to Gen. Kuropatkin, which find ready
credence because of the lack of official
information from the generals head
quarters at Mukden.
Field Marshal Oyama has received
positive instructions from Toxic to re-
sumo the Offensive as soon IS his
troops have recuperated, and to attack
Gen. Kuropatkin before the winter be-
gins.
The Russian auxiliary cruiser Korea
was reported in the Pacific off the
northern coast of Vancouver island, on
the 18th. 1t was expected she would
put in to Esquimault or Victoria, B. G.
The Korea is a larger vessel than the
Lena.
Northern Iowa cornfields were badly
damaged by a heavy frost on the MORN
ing of the 18th, which extended
throughout the extreme northern part
of the state. Minnesota felt it also.
A fortunate shift of wind saved Hal
flax, Nova Scotia, from destruction by
fire on the 18th. Nevertheless the city
suffered a loss of $500, 900 in the bust
ness part of the water front, and the
progress Of the flames vas only stayed
by the %dynamiting of a dozen buildings.
Leut.-Gov. Francis Wayland Higgins
was nominated for governor of New
York, by reclamation, at Saratoga, on
the 18th, by the Republican state con-
vention, and after Timothy L. Wood
ruff had taken the platform and form
ally withdrawn his name and asked
that the secretary cast the vote of the
delegates for Mr.. Higgins.
A Mukden dispatch of the 18th said
that the Japanese were advancing on
that place from the east, their van
guard being opposite the left of the
Russian line.
--latest advices concerning Port Ar
thur indicate that ammunition is run
ming low, and that much of that used
by the Russians is of inferior quality,
being, apparently, old stock, as their
shells fall short. An early surrender
Of the fortress is expected.
A st. Petersburg correspondents OF
the London Telegraph says it is posi-.
BILE that the war may end sooner than
most people imagine. Russia can not
afford to exhaust her resources with
out material benefit, and thus place
temptation in the way Of nations near
er home.
Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor
is quite Ill at his country home in Bug
yards Bay, Mass, and his engagements
for the coming theatrical season have
all been Cancelled.
The Russian government has given
its answer to the United States and
Great Britain on the question Of con.
traband Of war. While maintaining q
dignifled attitude, she accedes, practi