Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-08-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

6AlE NGWS utENbSt
Leaks in the roof Ct the Palace Of
Manufactures at the Worlds fair in st.
Louis caused damage estimated at
500, 900 to the Partisan gowns and
lingerie on exhibit in the French Sec
ton during the severe storm on the
18th. Thirty gowns in all were ruined
by the water.
The great mystery which for 30 years
and more has surrounded the murder
Of John w. Gates brother, Gilbert
Gates, has been cleared, and Alexander
Jester, the accused, has confessed to
the murder, according to information
received in Carbondale, ILL.,, on the 21st.
An artillery engagement has been
fought between the San Jocimino bat
terry of the %Paraguyan army. and a
body of revolutionists, in which the lat
ter succeeded in dislodging the guns
Of the government forces. The losses
on either side are not stated.
Three eagles in Finney county, Kas,
attacked and killed a cow, on the 10th,
belonging to Aaron Whitson. The eagles
blinded the animal, and she succumbed
to worry and heat. They also picked
up and carried about Is yards a dog
that weighed 35 pounds.
Roy Critics, aged "a, was shot and
killed at Main and Francis streets, st.
Joseph, Mo-, and his pal, G. W., alias
Indian Hudson, perhaps wounded, in
Ia battle with Geriah Collins, watch
man, who had been assaulted by the
pair, on the 21st.
The japanese, on the 22d, swept
1.-THE Russians from Pigeon bay and cap
Itured the northermost fort of the west
ern line of inner defenses at Port Ar
thur. The Russian artillery prevents
1.-THE Japanese from occupying the fort
on Pigeon bay.
Francis Wilson, of Platte City, Mo-,
was nominated for congressman, on the
I20th, by the democratic convention OF
1.-THE Fourth district at st. Joseph, on
1.-THE ten hundred and thirty-first ballot.
THE convention had been in a deadlock
since July rs.
A tornado ten miles northeast of
Hector, Mimi, on the goth, caused
damage estimated in the thousands.
Lightning struck many houses, burn
ling ten to the ground.
Sixteen persons were killed n a
half million dollars worth of property
was destroyed by a tornado which
swept over st. Paul, Mimi, on the goth.
Miss Ottinger, Of Chicago, while bath
ling with friends in the river above
Iort Madison, Ia, OF the 21st, got into
deep water and was drowned.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was sentenced,
On the 22d, by Superior Judge Carroll
Cook, of San Francisco, to life impris-
onment in the state prison at San
lQuentin, Cal, for the murder Of Mrs.
John P. Dunning, in Dover, Del, by
means of poisoned candy.
An order went into effect, on the
l22d, on the Lackawanna railroad,
whereby one Of the three brakemen Is
dropped from every freight and coal
train on the road. The order will
throw several hundred brakemen out
of work.
The British gunboat Columbine, one
of the vessels of the squadron patrol
ling the New Foundland fisheries,
struck on a rock, on the I'D, in
Snook's Arm, Green bay, N. F., and it
is feared that she will become a total
wreck.
Acting Gov. Cunningham of Ala
bama, on the 22d, offered rewards for
members of the mob who have partici-
pated in three recent ~lynchihgs in that
state, $3.50 for the first conviction in
each case, and $100 for the next two.
Jim Glover, a negro, was Sshot to
death at Cedartown, Ga, 'on the 22d,
near the home of the white girl he had
assaulted, and his body dragged a dis
lance of about a mile into that city,
and burned on the public square.
An aerolite fell in the yard of w d.
Miller, at Englefield, Ind, on the 21st,
The stone is in the shape of a cube, is
brownish in color, and has a large
black stripe around IT. When picked
up it was hot.
The completion Of the Galveston
(Tex.) sea wall, the greatest structure
of its kind in the world. was celebrat-
ed, on the 22d, by running excursions
from different part Of the state tc
IGalveston.
The Chicago packers, on the 22d
asked for an injunction preventing the
city of Chicago from interfering witt
their housing Of employees in theil
plants during the continuance of the
strike.
Albert Constable, a well-known law
Yer Of Elkton, Nd, who was shot and
robbed by a highwayman near hi
home, died, on the 22d, at the Unior
Protestant hospital in that city.
Fifteen Thousand and seventy-si1
persons have registered at Crane
Forks, N. d., for claims on the For
. Totten Indian reservation.
! AZ hurricane or severe characte'
iswept over a region in the northeas
Dpart Of South Dakota on the 21st