Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS,

LATE NEWS ITEMS,
During a dinner which Emperor VIII
nam and the Empress Augusta Vic
toria gave at the Kaiserhof, on the 4th,
the emperor announced the betrothal
of Grown Prince Frederick William to
the Duchess Cecilia, sister of the
~reigning grand duke of M~ecklenburg-
Schwerin.
A tented city, built up under the
auspices of the Jewish Consumption
Relief society, where consumptives, re-
CARELESS of creed or financial condition,
will be housed and treated, was dedi-
Gated on the 4th. The city is located
just west of Denver, Col.
With the increase of travel to st.
Louis, FUNDS are said to be flowing to
that center in such volume that banks
there are likely to have all the cur
rency they need for moving the crops
raised in the southern states.
The British ship Drumburton, Capt.
Thomas, bound from San Francisco to
Seattle, went ashore at Point Pedro,
about ten miles south of San Francis,
co, on the Sd, and will be a total loss.
Her crew was rescued.
A special dispatch from st. Peters
burg says that by a daringly-conceived
coup on the part of his friends, Sas-
soneff, the murderer of M. Won Plehve,
succeeded is escaping from prison.
Fire at the Griffin Lumber Co.'S
yards at Sarldy Hill, N. Y, on the 4th,
destroyed 1900, 900 feet of seasoned
lumber, 1000 tons of coal, and several
of the company's sheds.
Two thousand spectators witnessed
a bull fight in st. Louis county, near
the Worlds fair grounds, on the 4th,
despite the orders of Gov. Dockery for
bidding the exhibition.
Five are dead and an equal number
seriously injured as the result of a
premature explosion of a quantity of
nitroglycerin near Upper Sandusky, O.,
on the 4th.
While trying to saw the life of Eu-
gene Reid, friend, Edward Wiendantz,
OF st. Louis, was drowned, on the 4th,
at Grafton, IA miles above Alton, Ill.
The Japanese government has pub
lished the text of an agreement signed
at Seoul on August % between repre-
sentatives of Japan and Korea.
Fourteen persons were killed and
nearly a score injured, on the 18th, in
a fire in a five-story double tenement
in Attorney street, New York.
Emperor Nicholas has received a tel
egram from Gen. Kuropatkin asking
for the immediate dispatch to the far
east of the Sixth army corps.
Returns from the state election in
Arkansas indicate the reelection Of
Gov. Jefferson Davis, the present
democratic incumbent, over Hon. Har-
~ Myers, republican, by the usual
large democratic majority.
The boiler of a threshing engine K
on a farm near Bricelyn, Mimi,
on the 9Th, killing five persons-Peter
owner of the engine; Chris
James Seymour, Abe Foster
and Willard Gallon.
A special to the Little Rock (Ark.)
Gazette from Crossett, Ark, states that
a negro who attempted to assault two
white girls, on the Sd, was taken from
the Jail and lynched about three miles
from Crossett.
A lawyer who is in the confidence of
Lieut.. Count Mattasisch-Kegelvich
and who has returned from visiting
the Princess Louise Of Coburg, de-
clines to reveal the whereabouts of the
princess.
Senator Platonoff, a member of the
council of the Russian empire, has
been appointed minister of the in
terror and chief of the Russian police,
in succession to the late M. Plehve.
The report that the emperor of Rus
STA will go to the front Is again re-
vived, and seems to have foundation.
1t is known that the imperial train has
been fitted out for a long journey.
The republican convention, on the
5th, renominated Jonah K. Kalaniana-
ole for delegate to congress from Ha-
wall. The platform indorses Gov. Car
ter and the national ticket.
1t was reported, on the 9Th. that
Gen. Kuropatkin's ear guard had been
almost annihilated, and that the main
Russian army is in imminent danger
of being surrounded.
An agreement has beeen reached
between the striking teamsters and
draymen of New Orleans, by which
there will be a resumption of work.
II. b. Segur, general agent Of the
Burlington road at Atchison, Kas., died
suddenly at the Union station in st.
Louis, Mo-, on the 9Th.
The British ship Drumburton. which
went ashore on Point San Pedro, on
the Sd, remains fast on the rocks, and
will be a total loss.
Gov. Dockery Of Missouri may GUST
Sheriff Hencken Of st. Louis county
for allowing a bull hght to take place
on the 4th.
President Roosevelt has telegraphed
his congratulations to the kaiser upon
the engagement Of the crown prince.