Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The battleship Nebraska was
launched from the ways of the Moran
Brothers company at Seattle, Wash,
on the It'll. Gov. John H. Mickey Of
Nebraska, and his party, including
prominent state officials and their
wives, participated in the ceremonies.
The jury in the case of William
Hoffman, who has been on trial in the
circuit court in Waterloo, H., charged
with the murder of his father-in-law,
William Brandt, returned a verdict, on
the 7th, of guilty, with a life sentence
in the penitentiary as the penalty.
King Leopold of. Belgium was as
sailed for his policy as sovereign Of
the Congo Free State by E. T. Morel,
of England, at a public meeting in
Boston, on the 7th, in connection with
the sessions of the International
Peace congress.
Sons of Marcus A. Hanna are to
erect a 100000 mausoleum on the
family lot in Lakeview cemetery,
Nv NClulllt VI, w IOuLuln IL ldldSOLlpS
for members of the Hanna family.
Daniel Willard Fiske, who died in
Germany on September II, ~bequeathed
to Cornell university 100000. Applica-
ton for admission of the will to pro-
bate was made on the 7th.
An automobile plunged over a 25-
foot embankment in front of a running
train at New York, on the 18th, killing
three persons and injuring six others,
one of whom will die.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas
smasher, was fined $3.50 and given six
months in jail at Wichita, kas., on the
18th, for destruction of property.
The Benson and the st. John ele-
vators at Heron Lake, Mich, and 16
freight cars were destroyed by fire on
the 7th. Loss, $4,000.
The Massachusetts republican state
convention, on the 7th, nominated a
state ticket headed by Gov. John l..
Bates for a third term.
The International Peace congress,
III 6CooIOD at DOSlOll. VII liz ttI, NclCu
to hold the congress of 1905 at Lu-
cerne, Switzerland.
The eruptions of Mount Pelee, on
the island of Martinique, are said to
have greatly disturbed the barometer.
The Tracy hotel, in South st. Jo-
sept, Mo-, was burned. on the 7th,
four persons losing their lives.
The First troops of the imperial
guard departed from st. Petersburg
for the front on the 7th.
Lady Curzon suffered a relapse, on
the It'll, and her condition is again
critical.
Official notice was received by the
post Office department, on the 10th. in
a telegram from Dodwell & Co., of Ia
coma, Wash, that they decline to
carry the United States mails during
war, on account of recent seizure of
mails by the Russians.
Gomez GARLIC, the Guatemalan
minister to Germany. fought a duel in
Paris, on the 10th. with Jacques
Laudun, the editor of a sporting jour-
nal, for writing unexpectedly of the
president of Guatemala. M. Laudun
was slightly wounded. The minister
was unframed.
Karl Karrer, who was arrested at
Council Bluffs, Ia, ON the 9th, on a
charge Of holding up Miss Francis
Flood and robbing the bank of Trey
nor, Ia, of 81, 700, has made a confess
sion, and returned the greater part of
the stolen money.
William Powell, a negro, formerly
body servant to Lieut.-Gen. Chatfee,
and for 19 years a regular soldier,
pleaded guilty to wife-murder at Kan
sas City Mo-, on the 10th, and was sem
fenced to rs years in the Missouri pen
itentiary.
Mrs. John Angel, who created a SEN
sation a few years ago by bringing suit
against the heirs of Jay Gould, saying
she was the widow Of the multi-mil-
lionaire and demanding a share of his
property, is dead at Rouse's Point
IN. Y.
Renewed rumors are heard at st
Petersburg Of a secret understanding
with Germany, which will permit the
car to withdraw large numbers o.
troops from the western frontier fol
service in the lar east.
r. M. Mcfarland, vice-president o.
The defuuct National bank at Holden
willie, +. r., was arrested, on the 10th
and placed under a $50, 900 bond on 6
charge of transportation Of thu
banks funds.
Robert J.. Wynne, the man who wa!
mainly responsible for the uncoverins
Of frauds in the post office department
was, on the 10th, appointed postmaster
general by President Roosevelt.
The thirty-sixth anniversary Of thu
beginning Of the first Cuban revolution
and the declaration of "indepen9e enc
or DEATH was celebrated IN Havan'
ION the 10th.
Twenty-eight persons were killed am
l6O injured b. a collision Of Missouri
lPacific trains three miles east Of War
rens Hurg, Mo-, on the 10th.