Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-14
NEWS AND NOTES.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

81 killed and 1922 injured. with prop
arty losses of upwards of $3.50. 900.
On the 5th, a Chicago, Peoria & st.
Louis passenger train was blown from
he track neah Oakford, ILL.,, by a tor
nado. Baggageman Thomas Wiley, OF
Springfield, was killed, and fifteen to
twenty passengers were injured, some
If them seriously.
Seventeen survivors of the wreck OF
the Danish steamer Norge were land
I'd at Aberdeen, Scotland, on the 9th,
by the steam trawler, Largo Bay, They
we're picked up from one of the boats
If the Norge.
The Populist national convention, at
Springfield, ILL.,, on the 5th, nominal
ed Thomas E. Watson. Of Georgia, for
president and Thomas II. Tribbles, OF
Nebraska, for vice-president, The plat
form is practically a reatfirmation OF
he Omaha platform Of 1892,
A Seoul (Korea) dispatch of the 5th
said IL was definitely reported that an
epidemic of cholera was spreading
throughout Manchuria and had al
ready reached Antung.
Fifteen persons were Frustrated by
humid heat in New York city, on the
9Th. Scores Of horses died in their
harness on the streets.
1t was American Boy day at the
Worlds fair on the 9Th, and Festival
hall was crowded with him. A st.
Louis lad delivered the address OF well
come in the absence of President
Francis. Indian and Japanese boys
were among the speakers.
The Russian volunteer fleet steamers
st, Petersburg and Sevastopol passed
through the Bosporus from the Black
.ea on the 5th. The Sevastopol was fly
ne the Red Cross flag and her hull
was painted white.
A dispatch of the 7th, to the London
Telegraph, from Lao Yang, said that
a severe engagement had been going
on for two days Is miles away. Num-
bers of wounded Russians were being
brought in on all sorts of conveyances.
Inc IlllelH dlllllN0 oul VI bhS ~
of the republican party under the
oaks at Jackson, Mich, was cele-
brated there on the 9Th. Five thousand
people gathered in LOOMS park and
listened to speeches by Hon. John Hay,
Senator Fairbanks, Senator Alger and
Senator Burrows.
One of the humorous incidents Oh
the Democratic national convention a,
st. Louis, on the 9Th, was the indorse-
ment, by a Hawaiian delegate, OF
President Roosevelt, who, he declared
was a most estimable gentleman, who
should be nominated and who Hawaii
would stand by. The delegateFwas some
time understanding the resultant laugh
Robert B. Taylor, for owe thirty
years a trusted clerk in what is now
the Citizens national bank of New
York city, was arrested in st. Louis
on the 9Th, charged with having in his
possession and passing forged banl
notes. The bills represent a package
of unsigned notes that were lost a
the time the Central national wa
merged into the Citizens national.
AT Wewaka, /. T. Oh the 9Th, Henry
Stewart shot and instantly killed hi
wife, Mary Stewart, Jim Gaines ant
Leonard Wilson. Jealousy is supposed
to have been the cause.
On the 5th, three lives were lost dur
ing a fire which destroyed the grail
! elevator and three freight houses of thu
Boston & Maine railroad at Charles
town, Mass.
Two strikes, affecting 500 persons
were called. on the 9th, as the fore
runners of a general walkout OF tn
: $500 members of the Ladies' Carmen
| Workers union employed throughou
Chicago. Unless the employers agre
{ TO some concessions, the officials O
. the union declare every member Q
thei, organization will quit work. I'll
trouble Is all over the closed 'sho
question.
The department of agriculture ha
y referred to the department Of justic
= the matter of the right of the govern
y ment to conduct experiments In TeXs
i with a Guatemalan ant which Is sal
to be destructive of the cotton BIO
. weevil, a Texas planter having file
y suit to prevent the governments ca
Il rying on such experiments.
Mrs. Catherine DanZ, Of Philade
N phia, convicted of murder in the fir
4. lz-,oo for po;cnpipU bar husband Wi
ID lam G.. DAM, has been sentenced to
" hanged. An appeal will be taken
Id the supreme court by Mrs. Danz
s. counsel.
he On the 9Th a hurricane caused Il
I'd death of Louis Lucio, five years old,
th Trinidad, Col, and destroyed mu'
property. Roofs were torn from bull
ings and trees uprooted.
ne The chamber of m of Ha
as ii has voted unanimously to censu
lg Minister of Finance Bijou for misma
agement of public finances. The mi
81 lister was ordered to appear before
e. commission of inquiry.
n Three children of James Robinst
a farmer, were III Ell
es Fork, 20 miles southwest OF Vinita,
DC T., on the 9Th. Robinson, with
family, attempted to ford the swoll
a. stream in a wagon.
40 A head-on collision, on the 9Th,
,r. the Philadelphia & Reading railway
cd frankfort, a subnfb Of Philadelph
resulted in the killing Of two pass
af. gers and the injuring OF a o of o
iIk ers.
su The Kaw river has o~verfowed
ter banks at Kansas City Mo, and
eli water is spread over the west bottol
led or wholesale district. Over 5000 p
gs, pie are homeless in Arinourdale, X
It'll q suburb Of Kansas City,