Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

bound, colllded, rear-end, near Chilli
cothe, Mo-, on the 18th, and George
Runyon, of Moberly, Mo-, conductor of
one of them, was killed.
The comptroller of the currency has
been advised that the First national
bank, Claysville, Pa, closed its doors,
on the 18th, in consequence of a run.
The attendance at the Worlds fair
on Missouri day is estimated at 100, 900.
Special trains from all over the state
carried thousands of visitors to st.
Louis for the celebration, the chief
events of which were a military pa
rade, reception and ball.
The impression is gaining ground
that Gen. Kuropatkin's offensive move
ment against the japanese was in
spired by pressure from st. Petersburg.
At latest accounts up to the 18th, a
sanguinary engagement was in prog
ress.
Albert ]. Adams, the former policy
king of New York. was released from
Sing Sing prison on the 18th.
Col. James P. Averill, national junior
vice-commander of the G. A. R., died
suddenly at his home in Atlanta, Ca,
ON the 18th.
Four business blocks were destroyed
in the heart of Winnipeg, Man, on the
18th.
During an attempt to haze freshmen
made by a party of sophomores at the
Michigan college of mines at Hough-
ion, Mich, on the 18th, serious in
Jury, which it is feared may result IA
tally, was done to one of the freshmen.
A Toxic dispatch of the 18th gives
the first account of the sinking OF the
Japanese gunboat Hei-Yen off Pigeon
bay, September Is, having come in con-
tact with a mine during a storm. All
on board, nearly 300 men, persisted,
save four.
Three boys were drowned, on the
18th, by the overturning Of a skiff at
Kingston Mines, III.
AS indicative of the desperate ma
ture of the fighting in the battle south
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that in a single Russian regiment, out
of over a hundred officers, only eight
escaped either death or wounds.
A burglar who was shot and killed
while plying his vocation in the room
ing house conducted by Mrs. John
Volsmer, in st. Louis, early on the
morning of the 18th, was found to be
wearing corsets, probably to protect
his body in case of attack.
The Philippine Exposition board, in
addition to rs grand prizes to Philip
pine exhibitors, will have struck a spe-
cial bronze medal commemorative OF
the exposition, and every Filipino man,
woman and child, including the scouts
battalion and the Philippine constab-
ulary attending the Worlds fair will
receive one.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Co., on the 18th, paid into the United
States ~subtreasury at st. Louis $780,
900, being the ninth semi-monthly pay
ment on the $4,000, 900 loan from the
government, leaving but S691.S50 yet
Official reports regarding Gen. Kuro-
patkin's side of the fight south of Muk-
den were lacking in st. Petersburg, on
the 18th, and, in consequence, there is
considerable uneasiness.
The Japanese government has decid'
ed to float a domestic loan of $4,000
900, representing the balance of the
amount authorized by the diet.
Manuel Quintana was on the 18th
inaugurated as president of Argentina
The event passed off without especia.
incident. 4 The republic is calm.
John Harper, a negro, was hanged
at Magnolia, Ark, On the 18th, for the
murder of his wife last February. HI
admitted his guilt.
W. r. caves, former cashier Of the
Citizens national bank Of Arlington
Tex, who fed from that town a veal
ago, under a charge of embezzlins
$40, 900, was arrested in st. Louis OF
the 18th.
Chicago is to have the largest hcte
in the world. It will cost $10,00O,O0C
be % stories high, and dwarf in siz
and magniicence, it is promised, an,
structure of the kind ever erected.
Miss Bessie Stone and Robert Gil
who eloped from Ashland, Va, octobe
II, were found dead with their hand
clasped, near a pond in that vicinit.
on the 18th, by a searching party. Bot
had died from pistol shots.
The William Rudolph murder cas-
was submitted to the Missouri 81
preme court, on the 18th, and a d.
cision may be expected in about on
month.
gFire, on the 18th, destroyed thre
buildings of the plant of the Unite
Zinc & Chemical Co. at Argentin'
Kas., causing a loss estimated at 500
900.
The fourth day of the great bait
south of Mukden found the Russia
forces retiring under the terrible pre-
sure Of the Japanese, who had turnt
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said to be very heavy. Upwards
thirty guns had been captured by Il
Japanese. +,
A st. Petersburg dispatch of Il
18th said that five Japanese cruise
were reported off V~ladivostok. II
commander of the fortress had sur
moned the inhabitants to surrend
|, firearms Of all descriptions within
week,
A Toxic dispatch, via Berlin, on Il
18th, said: AFTER an incessant Dor
bardment lasting three days the grea
er part of Port Arthur is in flame
/ Many Of the Russian troops are hois
|. ing the white flag and surrendering.
! The officers OF the American Eui
pean squadron were the guests at
dinner OF the Welsh regiment
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