Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Blinded by the dust of his opponents
machine, Barney Oldfield, professional
racing chauffeur, drove his automobile
ht a 60-mile-an-hour rate through the
fence at the Fair grounds track in St
Louis, on the 18th, before $4,000 per-
sons, killing one man, fatally injuring
another, and sustaining slight injuries
himself. His machine was completely
demolished.
Vala, considered the most valuable
Ab~erdeen-Angus COW in the country, and
valued ait $4,000, died at Abel, Ia,
on the 2Sth, She was owned by w. B.
Seeley, of Mount Pleasant, Ia, who
was shipping her from the Iowa state
fair at Des Moines, to the Minnesota
state fair.
Amid the cheering of 800 men and
women, the shrieking of whistles and
the playing of THE national anthem, the
final splicing of the Seattle-Sitka gov
eminent cable was made, on the
18th, in the harbor, ten miles out OF
Seattle, Wash.
In a head-on collision between two
passenger trains of the Pittsburg divl-
sion of the Baltimore & Ohio, neal Glen
wood, Pa, ON the 2Sth, four persons
were severely hurt, and ten OF twelve
sustained minor injuries.
An imperial ducree has been pub
lished that, in commemoration of the
czarevitdh"s birth, a sum of money
shall be assigned from the imperial
privy purse of Russia sufficient Ito
found II scholarships.
The b~attleship Louisiana, sister ship
to the Connecticut, being built at the
Brooklyn navy yard, was successfully
launched at the Newport News ship
building yards ON the 9th.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America, arrived
in New York on the American liner st.
Paul, on the 27tt, after a two months
sojourn abroad.
David B. Hill, in conversation with
friends in Albany, N. Y, on the 2Sth,
announced that HE intends to retire
from politics january 1, next.
Paraguayan revolutionary vessels are
extremely active. They are carrying
men, horses and arms. and are search
ing all passenger boats.
Four Joints, OF Illicit saloons, were
wrecked by women at Cuba, Kas., on
the 2Sth, and much liquor destroyed.
Jose Pardo, who was elected presi.
dent of Peru in June last, will be in
augurated September "a.
August Moller, Jr., American vice
consul to CEaIe, is dead.
The United Mine Workers Of Amer.
ica have withdrawn the petition filed
in the United States district court at
Springfield, ILL.,, asking that ar injunc-
ton be issued restraining the Ziegler
Coal Co. from importing miners from
other states to work in the Letter mine
at Aiegler,
Sebastian Mcbride, a negro man liv-
ing near Portal, in the upper part oil
Bulloch county, Ga, was taken out OIL
his house, on the 9th, by a mob OF
five men, carried to the woods,
whipped, then shot, from which he
died soon afterwards.
Rolla Wells, mayor of st. Louis, at
the head of a delegation of Worlds fair
officials, called ON Mayor Harrison Of
Chicago, on the 10Th, to ask the may
or's attendance ait the exposition ON Oc-
tober 8, which has been officially desig-
mated Chicago Day"
Application was made to the packers
by the stock yards strikers in Chicago
on the goth, for a conference, the pur
pose being to bring about peace in the
industrial conflict waging at Packing
town. The conference was refused by
the packers.
Uruguayan troops sent to capture
party OF insurgents fought with the
rebels in Argentina territory, and the
diplomatic relations between the two
countries, in consequence, are consid
erably strained.
The city Of Binang, in Laguna prov
ince, Island Of Luzon, has been de
stroyed by fire. One hundred person.
persisted in the flames and 5000 wer,
rendered homeless.
Len Harrington, a Snowman, was ar
rested at Evansville, Ind, on the 28th
on the charge of enticing Carrie Elem
ing, a 15-year-old girl, from her HON
al Sullivan I'll
Missouri week at the Worlds fai
broke the record for a weeks attend
|, ance, the admissions having been 1893
All, a noticeable increase over like pre-
vious periods.
James w. Hathaway, postmaster @
the house of representatives of tn
Fifty-first congress, died at Helena
: Mont, on the 18th, aged go years.
/, AS a result Of recent rains. practical
1y all the forest fires that have be7'
raging in various parts of wester
! Montana are now ~extinsuished.
! A case Of supposed leprosy was r.
7 ported to the state board Of health {
! Illinois, on the 10th, from LaSalle, b
an attending physician.