Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-12-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

At meetings held at Fall River,
Mass, on the Goth, five textile unions
voted in favor Of the proposition to
submit the labor troubles involved in
the lo~ng-pending strike to arbitration.
Four men were killed. on the goth,
and their bodies terribly mangled as
the result Of a boiler explosion at a
saw mill near Rohrsburg, Pa.
The Minnesota state board of par
dons has granted a pardon to Col.
Ames, brother of former Mayor Ames,
of Minneapolis. Col. Ames was chief
of police, and was convicted of graft
during his brothers administration.
Gen. Leonard Wood, in a report to
the wal department, says that the Mo-
ros are generally peaceful, and their
power in the Philippines broken.
Lawyers for Henry H. Rogers are at
work on papers to bring double suit
for libel, criminal and civil, against
the American News Co. and the own
ers and publishers Of Everybody's
Magazine for publishing and distrib-
uting Thomas w. Lawson's accusa-
lions against Mr.. Rogers in regard to
a Sc, 900, 900 corruption fund to accom-
plish the election of Mckinley in 1896.
Former Gov. James P. Eagle, OF Ar
kansas, died on the 10th.
The car of Russia has ordered a
mobilization of 100000 more troops to
join Gen. Kuropatkin.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided that an obligation
to pay alimony and allowance to a wife
and children is not in the nature of
an ordinary debt, and, therefore can
not be discharged in bankruptcy.
Thomas w. Lawson, the Boston
financier, asserted, on the night Of the
Goth, that twice within twenty days he
had been stricken down mysteriOuSly
with pronounced symptoms of poison
ing, the most serious attack being aft
er dining in a Boston hotel.
The capture Of the north fort OF
East Kekwan hill in the defenses OF
Port Arthur by the Japanese has made
a serious gap in the defensive works,
enabling the besiegers to get near to
the old Chinese wall, which, notwith-
standing its II feet thickness, is not
likely to be able to resist attacks with
dynamite.
The fall of Keckwan fort has created
a profound sensation in st. Petersburg,
it being recognized as another distinct
step on the part of the Japanese to-
ward the final capture of Port Arthur,
Corwin H. Spencer, the st. Louis
grain Spectator, is said to be out over
100000 through the reckless trading
of his Chicago partner, U. S. Dennis
ton. Mr.. Spencer, who has dissolved
the partnership, says he doesn't mind
so much the loss of the money as he
does the violation of his confidence.
Commissioner General of Immigra-
ton Frank P. Sargent says that the
incoming foreigners are showing a no
table deficiency in desirable qualities
for Would-be citizens of the country
being inferior morally and physically
while financially they are almost pau.
pers.
Seven men were ~suffocated, on the
22d, in the No. 2 soft clay mine Of
the Reese-Hammond Fire Brick Co.
near Bolivar, Pa. The victims were
| Austrians. There were about twenty.
five men in the mine, and all but seven
were rescued, though they were all iI
bad shape, and two are likely to die
The Dedham savings bank of Ded-
ram, Ia, closed, on the 22d, and the
president, J. G.. Cation, who left os'
tensibly for funds, can not be found.
The London Telegraph's Chefoo cor
respondent reported, on the 22d tina
eight Russian torpedoboat destroyer
had escaped from Port Arthur.
The Iowa brewery at Iowa City, Ia.
will amount to about $100, 900; insur
ance, 100000.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, is urgini
the farmers Of the south to diversif,
their crops, and points out the dan
ger of a general holding of cotton bacl
from market for higher prices, teilin'
them that while they might possibl.
get more money for a part of thei
crop they would be the losers in TIL
end.
Herbert I. Newton, of Boston
it is said, will meet DR.. Leroy S. Chad
wick on his return to this countr
with a civil. suit for the recovery o
a paper given by DR.. Chadwick havin
a face value Of SOC, 900.
Louis Hartung, an old music teacher
and who had lived rs a recluse fc
several years, was found dead in hi
room, at st. Louis, on the 22d, havin
committed suicide by the use of chlol
oform. He had reached the ends
his means and concluded it was tim
to depart.
Twenty-seven persons, most Of thel
women and children, were overcom
by coal gas in a crowded tenemer
house in Philadelphia, early on tn
morning of the 23d. Twelve of the
were in a serious condition, and wei
taken to hospitals; but 1t was though
all would recover.
The faculty Of Columbia colleg
New York city, has suspended fol
members Of the sophomore class WI
were engaged in an attempt to ha;
young Kingdom Gould.