Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL ANU GENERAL.

Oyama, he had been unable to cut the
Russians off or surround them.
Without waiting to learn the result
Of the ballot on calling off the strike,
thousands Of the strikers stampeded to
Chicago yards, IN the 9th, and clam
ored for reinstatement n their old
places. They did not insist on terms
they wanted work.
The coroner's jury at st. Louis hav-
ing failed in its verdict to fix definitely
| he blame for the Embarrassing acci-
dent at Sarah street and The Wabash
railroad tracks, in which seven persons
lost their lives, on the ID, the grand
jury will take up the investigation.
Fire broke out in the engine house
Of the local fire department at Bakers
field, Cal, on the 9TH, and destroyed
two blocks in the central part of the
city. A Chinaman named All Fone
was suffocated.
DR.. D. K. Pearsons, OF Chicago, who
has given, at various times, sums Of
money to various educational institu-
tons, has presented Berea college,
Berea, KY, with $4,000. He previous
ly had given 100000 to this institution,
John Gilbert, a life prisoner at the
Kansas p~enitentiary, can not be found,
and it is believed he has escaped.
The fifth annual convention of the
National Association of Postal Clerks
opened in st. Louis Oh the 18th.
A Wheeling & Lake Erie freight
train struck a loaded hay wagon, on
the It'll, near Chagrin Falls, 0. Three
cars and a caboose were thrown from
the track. Conductor Gregory, of Can
ton, and Henry Portc~, a farmer, who
were in the caboose, were killed.
Louis, alias Monk" Kane, a
whisky Chute" bartender, confessed,
on the 9th, that he shot and killed Rob-
| ert Reynolds, white, and George Green,
4 .iegro in East ST. LOUIS, III. on The
night of the 9Th. He also confessed to
having wounded another NAL who has
not been found.
The attendance at the Worlds fair
on Labor day was 200 ,6lS, and it is
| estimated that, with those who remain
within the gates, there were 100000
persons on the ground on that day.
Three spans of the Burlington rail
road bridge at Grand Island, Neb.,
burned away, on the It'll, the fire orig
mating, it is supposed, from sparks
from an engine.
A beautiful monument, erected to
the memory of Abraham Lincoln, was
unveiled at Bunker Hill, ILL.,, on the
7th.
AS the result of q quarrel with her
husband, Mrs. Henry Tolier, of Butte,
Neb., poured kerosene oil over her
clothes and set fire to them, She is
dying, and her husband, who tried tc
save her life, is dead.
Agents of the japanese government
closed a contract, on the tn, with the
Carnegie Steel Co. for an order of Z,
500 tons of the finest grade nickel stee
plates. Tho plates are for use on Jap
anese battleships.
Four persons were badly burned, two
perhaps fatally, on the 8th, in an eX.
plosion of 500 gun shells in the load
ing department of the East Alton pow
der works at East Alton, III.
Princess Louise of Coburg and Lieut.
Count Mattasitch Keglevich are sale
to be stopping in the central quartel
Of Paris, but their exact location II
carefully concealed.
The st. Petersburg correspondent o
the Petit Partisan said, on the 9th
that a rumor prevailed that Gen. Ku
opatkin had succeeded in isolating
body of 10000 men forming Kuropat
ms real guard, and that they sur
'endered.
1t is said that forged bills of ladini
for an amount aggregating close t
half a million dollars have been issue
from st. Joseph, Mo-, in the last 81
months, and that many banks an
trust companies of st. Joseph, Oman;
Kansas City, Chicago, st. Louis an
New York have been victimized.
When Colonial Girl romped hon
winner of the Omnium handicap G
S~heepshead Bay, on the 9th, Ott
Stifel, the st. Louis brewer, who owl
the filly, stood to take down more tina
$50, 1000 in winnings, much of whic
was from bets placed at ten to OK
against Colonial Girl.
; The London Express, Of the 9th, say
1t learns that the Russian losses to IL
evening of September Z were $4,000, e
elusive Of the losses to the cavalr
who screened the eastern flank. TT
Japanese losses, according to the p
{ per, were $4,000.
: Guayaquil, Ecuador, was in darkne
from four to five o'clock on the afte
noon Of the 9th, on account Of
: solar eclipse, which vas preceded
d a slight earthquake shock. At a fe
minutes before five o'clock the sun +
appeared.
: Former Gov. John e. Osborn,
3 Rawlins, Wyo, was nominated +
governor by reclamation by the de
d ocratic state convention on the Sth.
: Reports are in circulation Of serio
I, anti-Jewish disturbances in several
x the governments Of southwest Russ
but no particulars are obtainable.
/, A distinct earthquake shock vast
. at San Diego, CAL, on the 9Th, lasti
3 several seconds. 1t vas followed by
q tighter and briefer disturbance.
The comptroller of the currency b
r issued a call for the condition of I
i tional banks at the close OF busine
I September g.