Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-12-08
NE VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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The japanese were repulsed, but had
succeeded in placing several big siege
guns in l,osition, which was evidently
the object of their demonstration.
Edward Sheehan, a Pullman car o
ductor of Jersey City, N. j., was
burned to death, and Patrick Shay, as
sistant chief of the st. Louis fire de-
partment, was badly injured in a fire
which wrecked the interior of the Pull
man Car Co.'S storeroom and sleeping
quarters in st. Louis, on the 18th.
Thomas w. Brewer, a prominent
farmer, committed suicide at his home
near West Plains, Mo-, on the 29th,
by shooting with a shotgun. Finan-
cial troubles and i'll health are said to
have been the aust
A score of boys and young men were
hurt by the giving way of a gallery
railing in the state fencibles armory
at Philadelphia, on the Goth, during
the progress of a basket ball game.
News received, on the Goth from the
Russian east flank, shows that after
four days of unsuccessful fighting the
Japanese have ceased their effort to
turn Gen. Rennenkampff's flank.
Herr Most, the New York anarchist
recently arrested in st. Louis, was CIV
en- hours to leave the city, on the 10Th,
by Chief Desmond.
Fire in the fifth floor of st. Mary's
hospital at Pueblo, Col, on the Both,
did $25, 900 damage and caused much
excitement. Most of the patients were
removed from the building, and some
Of them are suffering from shock.
One man was killed and several were
injured, on the 30th, by an iron beam
which fell from the roof of the Park
building in New York into a throng of
people passing through Nassau street.
The beam, weighing 500 pounds, was
being hoisted, when it slipped from it's
~fastenings and fell to the ground.
Acting Secretary of War Oliver has
directed the discharge, without hon
or" of Private John T. Smith, hospital
corps, stationed at Fort Mott, N. j., who
is said to have married a negress, and
whose discharge was recommended by
Gen. Grant.
Nan Patterson, the actress, awaiting
trial charged with the killing of her
lover, Caesar Young, was, on the 30th,
reported i'll in the Tombs prison with
tonsilitis.
At a meeting of the Cuban cabinet,
on the 30th, it was decided to set aside
the credit of $4,000 for the erection of
= hospital for infectious diseases at
Santiago.
Michael Kelley has sold his coal in
terests near Danville, ILL.,, to ar east
ern syndicate for $4,000, 900.
Mrs. George Henry (Grandma) Gill
bert, the Oldest actress on the Amer
lean stage, died in her rooms at the
Sherman house, Chicago, on the I'd,
shortly after having suffered a stroke
Of apoplexy. Mrs. Gilbert was SO years
of age.
Fire, which broke out about mid
night, on the I'd, destroyed or dam
aged Ancient Rome" "Old st. Louis"
fdlE Japan, QuO NdulS anu oH
the Bowery," Pike concessions on the
st. Louis Worlds fair grounds, and
threatened, for a time, to do still
greater damage. Arthur c. Dunn was
arrested while trying to extend the
fire into the Hereafter" Three Japan
csc were injured.
With confirmation of the news Of
the loss of 203-Meter hill and the fail
ure of their forces to ~recapture it, the
Russian war Office is prepared to hear
of the fall of Port Arthur at any time
Chief Justice Robinson of the Mis-
souri, supreme court issued a tempo
rary rule in prohibition against Judge
Foster, of the st. Louis criminal court
to prevent him from proceeding with
the trial of Edward Butler in his court
on the charge Of bribing Charles F
Kelly to leave the state and avoid tes'
tifying against him in the Doodle
cases..
Gen. Porforio Diaz was i%nauguratet
president of the Republic of Mexico
for the seventh time, on the list, unde,
the most suspicious circumstances.
The Japanese having accomplished
the capture of 2O3-Meter hill, overlook
ing the harbor of Port Arthur, are il
a position, as soon as they get tn
necessary guns mounted, to destroy o
drive out of the harbor the remnan
of the Russian fleet.
Tho 1nc+ rioht on tha STSa ut th
Worlds fair in st. Louis was a seen
of revelry. Gayety reigned suprem
, from the time the lights were turne'
on until midnight. The presence of
2 large force Of police, mounted and O.
foot, Jefferson guards and armed pa
trolls of the Sixteenth United State
infantry kept any disposition toward
rowdyism in check.
q President David R. Francis an
Treasurer William H. Thompson {
: the La uisiana Purchase Exposition @
were the recipients Of costly souvenir
I at the hands of the directors on tn
[ closing day, consisting Of 500-piet
e solid silver table services costing SIT
900 and $4,000 respectively. The PR
sensations were made at the publ
d ceremonies on the Plaza of st. Loui
u A head-ou collision between tv
: trains on the Danville C Western d
: vision Of the Southern railway
u Stokesland, Va, on the list, resulted
u the death of Fireman 0. G., Minter,
q Stockton, and Sam Staples, a colort
% brakeman.
President Roosevelt announced, {
re- the LIST, that he would appoint a gran
son Of Gen. Stonewall Jackson to We
1t Point.
III fnree men were killed by a head-'
~ collision Of Rock Island freight trai
- near Peabody, Kas., on the LIST.
IN The great Louisiana Purchase exu