Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05

vi diu lAdpluD, MIMI II ASNS 49,
ing will be held in Des Moines, la.
Congress having failed to provide
for an investigation OF the post OK
fee department, The president, it is
eaid, will inaugurate a thorough one
by officials appointed directly by the
president.
Prospectors are rushing to the Can
yon Of the Shoshone river, five miles
west Of Cody, Wyo., where it is report
ed Tellurim ore assaying several hun
dred dollars in gold and silver hal
been discovered.
The Republican convention met a.
Ponce, P. r., on the 9th, and selected
as delegates to the Republican ma
tienal convention Robert TODD, Gomez
II. Eosey. The delegates were instruct
cd for Roosevelt,
The indiana Republican state con-
yentten, on the 9th, nominated ].
Franz Hanly, of Lafayette, for governor
On the first ballot. The nomination
was the result of a stampede precipi-
teted by Madison county,
John Barrett, the newly appointed
United States minister to Panama, left
Buenos Ayres, on the 9th, via Cher
bourg, for the United States. He will
stop a few days in Paris and London
before proceeding to his destination.
John Kandick Bangs and Miss Mary
Blackney Gray were married, on the
9th, in All Angels church, in New
York. Miss Daisy King was the maid
of honor, and John Kendrick Bangs
Jr., acted as best man for his father.
A Shanghai dispatch of the 10Th said
that it was reported there that the
Russians had suffered a disastrous re-
pulse after two days fighting on the
Ya1u river. The Japanese were said
to have crossed the river, the Rus
EiGns T%etreating.
The Mississippi river, on the night
of the 9th, was eight miles wide in the
vicinity of Louisiana, Mo, extending
clear across the Sni bottoms on the
Illinois side, in an unbroken sheet tC
the bluffs. Thirty thousand acres Of
growing wheat is ruined.
Information received at Copenhagen
from st. Petersburg, or the 25th, wa
to the effect that the health of the
czar was in a decidedly %precarious
state. He was so nervous as a result
of the strain which he has undergone
that he was unable to sleep.
John R. DAILY, an oldtime newspaper
man, we'll known in Chicago and other
cities, died at Elkhart, Ind, on the
26th. During the civil war he was
night editor of the Chicago Tribune
and later was connected with the Chi
eago Journal. He leaves a large es-
tate.
The fair given by the Countess Cas-
sini in aid of the Red Cross fund in
the war now in progress between Rus
STA and Japan, was held, on the 26th
at Belmont, the home of Mr.. and Mrs
A. L. Barbour, at the corner of Four.
teenth and Clinton street, Washington
D. G.
President Loubet arrived in Naples
on the 2Sth, from Rome, and was giver
a reception equal in enthusiasm tina
accorded him in the Eternal city. The
event was somewhat spoiled by thu
rain, which came down in torrents, bu'
great crowds Of people stood for hours
without umbrellas.
The Wabash railroad shops at Deca
tur, ILL.,, were ordered closed, on thu
26th, by President Ramsay. The ordel
Is supposed to be on account Of thu
strike order by the Garments brother
hood. Half the force there obeyed thu
strike order. The regular force ther'
numbered 400 men.
A party of young women who are OF
their way to Port Arthur to act al
Russian nurses arrived in Chicago OF
the 2Sth. The party was under Thu
leadership of the countess Bavanda
who has lived several years in Russia
Countess Bayanda is an American b,
birth-a native of New Orleans.
Mrs. D. R. Taylor was granted a di
vorce from former Gov, Rofcrt L. Tay
Tor in chancery court at Knoxville
Tenn, on the 28th, after the deposi
lions of a few witnesses had been read
The question of alimony was referre'
to the clerk for settlement. Mr.. Tay
Tor has served three terms as governo
of Tennessee.
Prince Pu Lun Tsee, heir to tn
throne Of China, arrived in st. Louis
on the 28th, to represent his uncle-em
peror as imperial commissioner to TIL
Worlds fair. He went to mis- roya
apartments in the Washington hote
weary hNt delighted as a result OF tn
first day Of his months visit to tn
Exposition city.
Judge Conlan, at San Francisco
held Mrs. Cordelia Botkin to answe
to the superior court for the murde
Of Mrs. Joshua D. Dean, by mean c
poisoned candy, mailed from Sa
Francisco 10 Dover, Del. A request b
her attorney that she be admitted t
bail was refused, the judge stating ths
he believed the evidence against he
was conclusive.
As the result Of recent heavy an
general rains and the consequent swell
ing Of the rivers, fears are ~entertaine
of a repetition of the disastrous flood
Of 1903. The Mississippi was at dar