Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-21
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy,
who has on several occasions arranged
for a trip to America and been forced
to postpone the voyage, has now or
.ered that preparations be made for
the trip next fall, 30 that she al visit
the Worlds fair.
On the 18th, the dead bodies Of
F. Abbott and VIM. Van Hell
ger were found in a Brooklyn junk
shop, which apparently had been set
on fire after the men were killed. Both
the men had been shot, and their skulls
were fractured.
w. B. Shows weekly crop report OF
the 18th a y that with bad harvest
conditions in the most important win
ter wheat districts, the crop prospect
has probably been reduced by 50,0OO,-
900 bushels since July /, leaving the
crop nearly 100, O00, 900 bushels short Of
last year.
Fire, on the night of the 18th. de-
stroyed AZ buildings in the business
and residence section Of Millington,
Md, causing a loss Of about 100000,
partly insured. Not a store remains in
tie town, and many families are home
less.
A tornado struck Bonesteel, S, D.,
just before dark on the 18th and played
havoc with the hundreds of tents and
cheaply-constructed rooming houses
| erected for the thousands of homeseek-
ers registering for the Rosebud reserva-
ton lands.
President Loubet of France has sig
nified his intention of comforting the
grand cross of the Legion of Honor
upon Secretary Hay, in recognition OF
his efforts during the past five years,
to strengthen the bonds of amity be-
tween the United States and France.
1t was reported on the 18th that a
great battle was in progress at Ia
Tche-Kiao, in which the Japanese were
in strength on three sides of the Rus
SLAMS. Military men were Of the opin-
ion that it would prove the biggest bat
tie of the war so far.
The strike situation at Chicago, on
the morning of the 18th, looked omi-
nous. The packers and their striking
employees had not been able to agree
upon an arbitration proposition, and
the foreign element among the strikers
seemed ripe for riot.
President Roosevelt has notified the
members of his cabinet that he will be
back in Washington OF July %, and
that he wants all of them to meet him
there during the first week of August.
Meat from cattle alleged to have been
affected with Texas fever and blood
poisoning were seized on the 18th by
Chief Meat Inspector Thomas Stringer,
of st. Louis, as it was being delivered
to the poorhouse, insane asylum, female
hospital, city hospital and emergency
hospital. The meat was supplied by
Chicago contractor.
William T. Scott, nominee for Presi-
dent of the United States by the Negro
Civil Liberty League, was arrested in
East st. Louis, ILL.,, on the 18th by a
deputy sheriff on an old capias for a
fine and costs aggregating $3.50, as
sessed for running a disorderly house.
Twenty people were killed and about
twenty-five injured on the 18th, in a col
lision on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
railroad at Glenwood, % miles south OF
Chicago. The collision occurred be-
tween a picnic train from that city
which was returning from Momence
ILL.,, and a freight train, into the real
end of which it dashed at a high rate Of
speed.
Two hundred persons in Wilmington
Nd, are homeless and without shelter
and food as the result of the fire, on
the 18th, which destroyed 80 dwellings
and II places of business. The loss is
placed at $780, 900, with practically nc
insurance.
D%espondent because of poor health
Edward Niemann, a former employee Of
the Bourbon Mercantile Co., 2O8 Wal
nut street, st. Louis, Mo-, committed
suicide in Denver, Col, on the 18th
by firing q 32-caliber bullet into hi
brain.
According to a London dispatch o.
the 14th, Santos-D umont, the famous
aeronaut, has given UP the idea Of re-
turning to the United States to TAXI
part in the airship contest at thu
Worlds fair in st. Louis.
A Toxic dispatch of the 18th say
the Japanese forces have occupied Yin
Kow 1.-THE seaport of New Chwang
without opposition, the Russians retiE
| ing. This would indicate the fall Q
q New Chwang.
The honorary board Of Filipino com
nlssioners reached st. Louis on tn
l4th, and were escorted to their quar-
tiers by a special reception comnitte
and the batalions of Filipino constabu
larry stationed at the Worlds fai
+, grounds, led by their band of 80 piece
I They will remain in st. Louis about
. month. inv.
. Charles w. Murtfeldt, a newspape
!. writer and an authority on agricu
!. tural subjects, died at his home 6
u Kirkwood, Mo-, on the 18th, at the az
Of 81 years.
MI Early results of the strike of I'll
a butchers and meat cutters were Of
il ~servable, on the 14th, i'll In advance a
along the line in the price of meat
II both fresh and cured. Restaurants
the cities either put up the price
raeat orders or cut down the size Of Il
Il portions.
Two negroes, Frank Ousley and Jof
Johnston, were hanged together In Il
J. Jail yard at Pittsburg, Pa, on the lat
IS The execution was witnessed by a 81
q Of James Donnelly, whom the negro
/ murdered. Just as the trap was sprul
y a member Of the jury and two spect
y, tors fell to the ground In q faint.
% On the 18th, a two-headed girl W
80 born at Cairo, ILL.,, to a negro fami