Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

NstA-S W l. lNSINNllt 4 K 49, "a
louisiana Purchase exposition the lirst
payment to the United States govern
rocnt by the Worlds fair company on
the federal loan Of 81 t06,53G will be
made promptly on June Il, as tie law
authorizing the loan provides.
The Minnesota building at the
Worlds fair was dedicated with ap-
propriate ceremonies, on he 'th, Miss
Minnie Soto Whitney HEfu'iing the nag
on the pavilion. The exercises we've
held under the auspices d the Mime
sofa Editorial association.
The trunk that exploded in the Union
station at Kansas City, Nc, is sup
posed to belong to E. Mccarthy, in
structor in the University OF Minnesota
school of mines. There is a party OF
junior mining engineers in the field
neal Sacramento, Cal, and it is sup
posed that the trunk was sent home
from there.
The coal yards of the Crescent Coal
& Mining Co. at Chicago were de-
stroyed by fire on the Sth, The Peter
son Hay & Grain Co.'S elevator also
burned. Loss $1,000
The National Travellers Protective
association, in session at Springfield,
H., completely eXOnerated Louis L.
Lebaume, national secretary-treasurer,
who was suspended several weeks ago,
of the charge Of enlightenment Of
funds of the association,
Marcus Graham, aged "a years, was
arrested at a St. Louis racetrack on
the 9Th, by a United States secret SER
vice agent, charged with passing two
counterfeit 500 gold certificates.
Twenty-eight of the counterfeits were
found on his person and 40 more in
his room at the Planters hotel.
Levi Z. Letter, of Chicago, died at
Bar Harbor, Me. on the 9Th, of heart
disease. The end came quite sudden
ly, though Mr.. Letter had not been
well for some time. He was Il years
of age, and though starting life in a
very humble way, left a fortune esti-
mated anywhere from $4,000, 600 to
5000 900.
The great organ in Festival hall at
the Worlds fair was formally dedicat-
ed, on the afternoon of the 9th, with an
organ recital by Charles Galloway, of
st. Louis, official organist Of the expo
sition. Three thousand persons attend
ed the concert, which lasted more
than an hour.
A special %cablegram from Che-Foo
on the 9th said that the attack on
Port Arthur by the Japanese had be-
gun that morning. The Russian forces
around the beleagured place were re-
inforced by the troops which retreated
from Dalny and Kin Chau.
A brilliant military ball was given
by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Co. on the night of the 18th, in honor
OF tie West Point cadets, in he New
York state building. Abo1. 800 per-
sons were present, including 100 young
ladies' elected to entertain the cadets.
Gen Miles and Gel Ccrbin, with their
wives, Eere among the guests.
Rafael Ortiz, the Porto Rican who
killed a United States soldier, COM
pleted his sentence of five years in the
Minnesota penitentiary on the Sth. and
was released. He will sail for Porto
Rico from New York on the 18th.
The revolutionary Dominican forces
sustained a defeat, OF the 5th, at Con
cepcion de la Vega, leaving a hundred
dead or wounded on the field.
Coroner Hall, at Victor, Col, on the
10th, concluded the inquest over the
bodies of the miners who we're killed
by the Internal machine, at Independ.
ence, the jury returning a verdict Of
murder" asd duplicating members
If the Western Federation Of Miners.
According to an official dispatch re
ceived by the czar, on the 10th, from
tGen. Kuropatkin, the Russians wer'
forced to retire from Sin-Yen by tn
steady advance of the Japanese. Anon!
the Russian losses was Cheremissinefi
chief Of Cossacks. The Japanese los
heavily.
Despondent because he had lost hi
position, and despairing of ever bein
able to redeem a diamond ring he sal
his mother had given to him, Shirle
A. Baker, formerly president of tn
American Confectionery Co, of s
, Louis, which went out Of business 81
months ago, committed suicide by tax
!, ing poison in a room in the Oxfor
, hotel in Denver, Col.
\ King Edward has conferred on Nm,
Melba the decoration for science, a.
! and music, She is the first woman G
|, whom it has been bestowed.
A c%ablegram received at the state d,
partmenr, o. the 9th, from Consu
G General Gummere, at Tangier, STATE
that negotiations for the release
Perdicaris and Varley are still in pro-
ress, but that the sultan's reply
IS Raisuli's demands as to ransom ha'
d not yet reached the bandit.
Eleven hundred Tbibetans attack,
l. the British post at Kangna, on Il
q road to Lhassa, with great ferocity {
I the 9Th. The were repulsed, the Britii
loss being n sepoy killed and sever
wounded. The Thibetans bomba,
L. Gyangtse daily.
u Arthur Cole and Richard Cromm
we're drowned in the reservoir ne
W Bunker Hill, ILL.,, while bathing on t
N 10th. Neither could swim.
y J.. P. Morgan 6 Co. confirm the I
- /. port that they, as syndicate manager
= have completed the sale Of about ST.
= 000,0 0 Of bonds Of the Terminal Ra
y road association Of st. Louis.