Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-08-18
NE VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

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rard, Ill, was found in the lily pond
of Lafayette park, in the southern part
of st. Louis, on the 9th. He had com
mitted suicide.
Mrs. Victoria Moore, aged 40 years,
the wife of James Moore, a prominent
planter living near Bells Station, La,
and her sister-in-law, Miss Cora A.
Moore, aged 35 years, were killed, on
the night of the 10th, in st. Louis, by
a trolley car while attempting to ross
the tracks in the rear of a car from
which they had alighted.
The Berlin Voossische Zeitung says
that Tregubinko, head Of the forest
department, and Chief OF Police Kuz-
nezoff have been murdered openly in
the streets of Max and Chivan, Rus
STA.
A colored man, believed to be Roy
Green, wanted at O~wensboro, KY,
charged with murder committed July
81, was captured at Murphysboro, ILL.,,
on the Sth, after a running pistol duel
with officers.
John Casey, aged 80 years, stabbed
A. G. Mccoy, aged rs, of Paola, Kas.,
on the 9th. Mccoy died Immediately.
When arrested, Casey said he killed
Mccoy through mistake, thinking he
was one of the bosses of the Standard
Oil pipe line, where both men were
employed.
Gov. Dockery of Missouri, upon be-
ing informed Of the death of Senator
Vest, issued a proclamation requesting
that flags be half-masted on all pub
lie buildings in the state on the day
Of the funeral and appointing a large
committee of distinguished citizens to
represent the state at the funeral.
Warrants were issued, on the 10th,
for the arrest of the entire board Of
directors of the State Bank of Pitts
burg, Pa, on the charge of receiving
funds when the bank was known to be
insolvent. The state bank closed it's
doors last February.
President Timothy Healy of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Stationary
Firemen has ordered a sympathetic
strike of the firemen in the New York
packing houses. About IS men will go
out under his order.
There is a rumor that the emperor
of Russia has signed the appointment
of Minister of Justice Muravieff, as
minister of the interior, in succession
to the late Won Plehve.
The Russian battleship Czariwltz,
badly disabled, and the cruiser Novik
together with a torpedo boat, sought
refuge in the German concession port
Of Using Chou On the 18th. The Novik
slipped out, on the 18th, at the expira-
ton of the 24-hour limit.
A report was received at Che Foo,
on the 18th, to the effect that Al
miral Witthoeft, who commanded the
Russian Port Arthur squadron, was
killed in the naval battle on the 10th.
Admiral Togo, in his report to Toxic
on the naval battle of the 10th, said
his casualties reached ITO, but that his
fighting power had not been impaired.
Russian reports, on the other hand,
insist that the Japanese cruiser Ka-
suga was sunk with all on board.
The action of the Japanese torpedo
boat ~destroyers in taking the Russian
destroyer R~yeshitelni out of Che Foo
harbor appears to have been a mis-
take due to overzealousDess on the
pnr+ of tho Topopoco ubinb p,ou win
for Japan a sharp international repri-
mand.
The new heir to the Russian throne
will be christened Alexis Nikolauvitch.
He has already been named colonel Of
the Fourth regiment Of the guards.
Former Premier Waldeck-R Rousseau
died at Corbiel, near Paris, on the 10th,
as the result Of an operation.
One man was killed and four injured
In the collision south of Fort Scott,
Kas., on the 9th, Of a Missouri Pacific
engine drawing a caboose and a heavi-
ly-laden freight train coming down
grade.
The Russian protected cruisers AS
kold and Novik and n torpedo-boat
destroyer took refuge in Kia Chau bay
on the night Of the 18th, exchanging
salutes with the German vessels. II
they remain there they will have to
disarm, and may do SO only with the
consent of Germany.
A boarding party from two Japanese
torpedo-boat %destroyers entered the
harbor of Che Foo, on the night Of the
18th, and cut out the Russian torpedo
boat destroyer Ryeshitelni, which had
entered that port. The breech blocks
Of the Russian vessels guns had beer
removed.
Word has been received in st. Louis
that Prince Henry Of Prussia, his wife
and eldest son will leave German,
shortly for a tour Of the United States
and will proceed, after his arrival ii
New York, directly to st. Louis, wher'
he will be the guest of DR.. Lewald, tn
German imperial commissioner to tn,
Worlds fair.
1t Is now said that Mrs. Florenc
Maybrick left Rouen, France, in goo,
health, July rs, for America, and Tina
the stories Of her nervous p~rostratiol
were given out merely to distract pub
lie attention from her movements.
} Justice Blanchard, of New York, o
r the 18th, appointed Gilbert M. Mon
tegue temporary receiver of the req
and personal property Of Hanna
. Elias, in the action brought agains
the negress by John r. Plat, the age
millionaire, to recover property wort
9 $685., 900.
Thomas E. Watson, populist Gambia
: date for president, has accepted an in
vitation to deliver an address on Labo
: day before the striking packing hous
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