Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-12-08


Madame Janauscheck, the aged act
ress, died at Amityville, N. Y, on the
goth, after a long illness from paraly-
sis. She was born in Prague, Bohemia,
In 1880.
Peter Nessen. who started across
Lake Michigan in his boat, "Foolkiller
No. g." was found dead on the beach,
two and a half miles west of Stevens
vile, Mich, on the list.
1t was reported, on the 30th, that a
Russian torpedoboat destroyer, return
ing to Vladivostok from a scouting ex-
petition, was sunk by the guns of the
Russian forts in error.
Japan has made official complaint
regarding the attitude Of the Spanish
government in permitting vessels OF
the Russian second Pacific squadron
to coal and victual at Vigo.
Fred Wittrock, who, under the name
OF Jim Cummings" committed n OF
the most daring train robberies in the
history of Missouri, died Of grip IN
Leavenworth, Kas., on the I'd.
Gen. John M. Wilson, chairman OF
the inaugural committee, on the I'd
appointed Lieut.-Gen. Adna R. Chaffee,
chief of staff, U. S. A., to be grand
marshal of the inaugural parade.
The weather bureaus monthly sum-
mary, issued on the list, shows that
crops in all parts of the country are
suffering from lack of moisture. Winter
wheat has been u%nfavorably affected.
The secretary of the interior, E. A.
Hitchcock, has ordered the withdrawal
of $4,000 acres of land in the Minot
IN. d. land district, on account OF the
Buford-T Trenton reclamation project.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, on the I'd,
offered a reward of $500 for the muir
derer of Nancy Goodwin Gay. The
murder occurred at Agency, in Blu
chanan county, on November %, 1904.
Howell D. Ferguson, of st. Louis,
was arrested at Manhattan, kas., on
the LIST, on a charge of embezzling
money from the Portland hotel, in st.
Louis, of which he had been head clerk.
Admiral George Dewey, on the 29th,
declined to be a member of the inter-
national commission of inquiry into
the North sea incident, in which a Brit
ish fishing fleet was fired on by the
Russian Baltic squadron.
A little band of actors gathered in
the chapel of an undertaker's estab-
lishment in New York, on the I'd, to
take part in the funeral service over
the body of Madame Francesca Ro-
man Janauschek, once a noted actress.
Miss Nancy Carver Letter, the Sec
ond daughter of the late Levi q. Lei,
ter, of Chicago, and Maj. Colin Powys
Campbell, of the British army, were
married in Washington, D. c., on the
Goth, at the residence of the brides
mother.
Rear-Admiral Charles H. Davis, U.
s. N, has been offered and has &C
cepted a membership on the interna-
tional court of inquiry, which will in
vestigate the firing by the Russian
fleet upon British fishing smacks in the
North sea.
Emperor Francis Joseph has chosen
Admiral Baron Won Shaun, formerly
commander of the Austrian navy, to be
the fifth member of the Anglo-Russiar
North sea commission, in case the 9th
er four members failed to agree upor
the fifth member.
According to a Toxic dispatch to thu
London Standard, on the goth, there Is
an unofficial rumor that the japanese
have hauled large calibre guns to the
TOP Of 203-metre hill, from whence
their fire has a sweep of the whole
harbor of Port Arthur.
Reports have reached the state depart
ment of a very unsettled state of affairs
in Venezuela. Many citizens have beer
put in prison for alleged political Of
lenses, public opinion is intiamed, anC
serious apprehension for their safet.
prevails among the foreign element.
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The creditors of the D. j. Sully com
pany, as we'll as the b%ankrupts, hav'
withdrawn all objection to the claim
filed against the company, and tn
creditors have agreed to accept a 2
per cent. division on the $3,000,0 900 as
sets now in the hands of the receiver
Eight union miners who had re
turned to Telluride, Col, since tn
strike was called off were place
aboard an outgoing train, on the 20
by Acting City Marshal Geyer an
deputies, who had arrested them, an
ordered to stay away from that dis
trict.
One man is dead, three are in a hos
pital suffering from burns and lacera
lions, and several others are seriousl
hurt as the result of an explosion, O
the 9th, in the generating house {
the Consolidated Gas Co.'S plant |
West Forty-fourth street, New Yor
city.
William Loeb, Jr., as secretary of tn
president, on the 18th, issued M oflici,
signed statement denying that Pres
Gent Roosevelt's children had cruel
treated the thanksgiving turkey sci
to the president by Mr.. Vose, I
Rhode Island, in accordance with IL
latter's annual custom.
The encouragement of the Unite
States has decided that neWspaper ar