Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-08-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
After prolonged pourplers and COLI
siderable haggling on the part of the
Turks, a satisfactory solution Of the
American school question was arrived
at on the 18th. This matter, which is
the most important of the American
demands, was settled by extending to
American schools the same treatment
as that accorded to schools under the
protection Of other powers.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick is on board
the Red Star line steamer Vaderland,
which sailed from Antwerp, on the
18th, under the name of Miss Rose In
gram. She is accompanied by her at
torney, Mr.. Hayden, who arranged the
details Of her departure.
The British bark Inverkip Capt.
Jones, from Melbourne for Queens
town. was sunk and 20 persons were
drowned as the result of a collision off
Fastnet rock, Ireland, on the 18th, with
the British ship Loeb Carron Capt.
Clark from the Clyde.
Ten persons were drowned as the re-
suit of the capsizing of a naptha launch
on the Potomac river, off Georgetown,
the western section of Washington,
D. c., during the annual Potomac re-
gatta on the 18th. Four others also
on the launch escaped.
The issues between Turkey and the
United States have been arranged to
the satisfaction of both interests.
Twenty horses persisted, on the 18th,
in a fire at the trotting track at Lex
ington, Ky. It Is estimated that the
loss is 100000.
The funeral of M. Wa1deck-R Rousseau,
the former premier of France, occurred
on the 18th, at the Church of st. Go
thilde, in Paris, the interior Of which
was hung with black. 1t was charao-
terized by extreme simplicity.
The Japanese fleet under Vice-Ad-
miral Kamimura, completely routed
the Russian V%ladivostok squadron in a
naval battle, on the 14th. The Rus
sian cruiser Rurik was sunk.
One man was killed and about forty
other persons injured in a passenger
wreck on the Tennessee Central rail-
road, 70 miles east of Nashville, on
the 18th.
On the 10th, the coal miners of Kan-
gas, Indian territory, Arkansas, Texas
and a part of Missouri voted in favor of
accepting the operators wage PROPOSE
ton.
1t was reported, on the 14th, at Chez
Foo, that the Russian and Japanese
at Port Arthur had agreed to a short
armistice on August II.
Lafayette W. Jones. a wealthy farm
er living ten miles west of P%lattsburg,
Mo, was shot and killed, on the 18th,
by his ~15-year-old son, Hugh. Because
he was not allowed to drive the family
horse, the boy, with a loaded shotgun,
lay in wait for his father, and shot him
as he passed. He then reloaded the
gun and fired at the PROSTATE body.
Judge Humphrey, in the federal
court at Springfield, ILL.,, on the 18th,
overruled the motion of the striking
miners and officers of miners unions to
dissolve the temporary injunction
which he had issued restricting the
strikers or officers of miners unions
from picketing the Ziegler Coal Co.'S
property.
Emperor Nicholas has issued a man.
ifesto determining the order of success
sion to the throne. In the event of the
emperor dying before the czarevitch at
tains his majority, the emperor's
brother, Grand Duke Michael, is to be-
come regent, the empress assuming the
guardianship of the czarevitch.
An unidentified young woman leaped
from the railing of the Dearborn street
bridge in Chicago, on the 18th, and
was drowned in the Chicago river. The
plunge was witnessed by q large crowd.
which watched the struggle of the sui
eide.
The United States gunboat Dubuque
was successfully launched, on the 18th
from the yards of the Gas Engine 8
Power Co. at Morris Heights, N. Y
She was christened by Miss Margare'
Treadway, Is years old, Of Dubuque, Ia
Miss Clara B%ourland, the 1~6-year-olt
daughter of Hon. W. E. Bourland, o
Dixon, KY, was killed by lightning
on the 18th, while talking over a tele
phone during a heavy thunder storm.
Heavy showers in southeastern Ne
braska, on the 18th, following the three
hottest days of the summer, have dis
PEELED fears of damage to the corr
crop, which was needing moisture.
The British cruiser Minerva arrives
at Tangier, Morocco, on the 18th, il
connection with the case Of Hame'
Jaiya, the British subject arrested b.
order of the sultan.
! Two thousand cloak makers at Cleve
land, o., went on strike on the 18th
Increase in wages, recognition of tn
| union and CLOSED" shops are de
manded.
The strike of paper makers in Fo.
river valley, Wis, was broken, on tn
18th, the old men returning to worl
under the terms Of the mill owners.