Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-22

IRoNToN. MISSOURI
Secretary Stevens Of the Worlds
fair estimates the totai st. Louis day
attendance, on September is. at 4O4,'
$50.
The attendance at the Worlds fair
for the week ended the 10th. was S7i.-
954, making the attendance to date s.
994, $50.
The Breakers hotel, at Long Beach,
Wash, one of the finest summer hotels
on the north Pacific coast, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th
Queen Helena Of Italy was safely
delivered of a son, on the 18th, at the
royal palace at Racconigi. Both moth
er and child are doing well.
This immense Pullman car works at
Pullman, ILL.,, were shut down, on the
18th, and practically every one of the
company's 1000 employees are idle.
Ammunition is said to oe failing al
Port Arthur, and interest in the fate OF
the fortress again becomes keen at the
Russian capital as well as at Toxic.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri has is
sued a proclamation making October
II, Missouri day at the Worlds fair in
St. Louis, a legal holiday throughout
the state.
Two men were killed and several
passengers were injured, on the 18th
by a collision netweeE Southern Pacific
passenger trains at Lawton, seven miles
west of Reno. New.
The fifth annual convention Of thu
grand aerie of the Benevolent Order o
Eagles, In session at Baltimore, Md.
adjourned, on the 10th, to meet il
Denver in August, 1905.
Probabilities are that the Russian
cruiser Lena, now at San Francisco
will be permitted to disarm, with the
full consent of all parties, and remain
until the end of the a
kilograms published in the newspa
pers of Paraguay announce that, there
has been a break in the peace nego
tiations between the Paraguayan gov
eminent and the insurgents.
Three men answering the description
Of the Canadian Pacific train robbers
were arrested at Wooley, Wash, on
the 10th. The men will be held until
officers of the search party arrive.
Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has Is.
sued a proclamation offering $3.50 re.
ward for the arrest of William Carton,
who is charged with killing Virgil
Funkhouser and Bud Craig in Wood
ward county.
W. H. Harroun, the St. Joseph grain
man, held a conference with his cred
itors, on the 10th, and submitted a
proposition, which it is thought will be
accepted if the grain merchant re-
tains his liberty.
The Lena incident at San Francisco
was settled. on the 18th, by an order
directing that the Russian vesse
shall be disarmed and remain in the
custody of the United States until the
close of the raj
Official announcement to the Amer
lean government of the birth of a son
to uhe king of Italy, at Turin, came to
the state department, on the 10th, in
a %cablegram from Pierto Cuneo, Amer
lean consul at Turin.
Anti-Jewish disturbances occurred,
on the 18th, at the frontier town OF
S%osnowice, Russian Poland, on the oc-
cas!on of the celebration of the Jewish
New Year. Boys stoned the celebra-
tionists and injured a child.
Divers have examined the hull o.
the steamer City of Topeka, which
sank at her dock in Seattle, Wash, on
the 18th, n found a headlight in the
gloryhole open. officials of the ship
say this caused the vessel to sink.
The republicans carried the state OF
Maine in the binennial election, on the
18th, returns indicating a plurality of
about 1000 for William Cobb, the re-
publican candidate for governor, com
pared with 1884 for Hill, the party
candidate, four years ago.
Twenty persons were precipitated
into Lake st. Croix, at Stiilwell,
Mimi, on the 18th, by a span of the
bridge giving way under a crowd
which gathered to witness a fire on
the bridge. Two persons are known to
have been drowned and nearly a score
injured.
The Natoma vineyard winery, Is
miles northwest of Sacramento, Cal.
on the American river, together with
the fermenting plant and distillery
were burned to the ground on the 18th
The Natoma winery was one of the
largest in the state. and the loss prob
ably will reach $500, 900.
The Mexican state department has
notified the United States district at
torney at FL Paso that the court or
der e%xtraditing Vance Fulkerson has
been approved. Fulkerson, while in
spector and appraiser in the United
States customs service at Ell Paso
Tex, embezzled government funds, II
Is alleged.
With a prayer upon his lips, Mat
thew Cleson, a religious fanatic, placed
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