Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-08-04
A Summary of Important Events.
AMI GENERAL.

n man was killed, one probably ia
tally injured and several others slight.
ly injured.
On the 2Sth, Byron P. Humphrey
travelling passenger agent of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railroad,
with headquarters at Kansas City,
Mo-, was found dead in his room at
the Hotel Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb.
State Bank Examiner Bergh, on the
2Sth, took charge of the state bank
at houston, Wis, and closed its doors.
The liabilities of the bank are stated
to be 1890 of which amount $751;.
704 is due depositors.
David Bennett Hill and Charles F.
Murphy. New York democratic leaders,
are said to have become reconciled at a
visit of the Democratic national com
mittee and Tammany leaders to the
home of Judge Parker, at Esopus, on
the 9th.
Albert Boenert, Theodore Styner and
Phil G. Erb, doing business in st.
Louis under the title of the Missouri
Rental Co., were arrested, on the 9th
by United States officers, charged with
using the mails in an attempt to de-
fraud.
For the killing of his aged father-in-
law, August Raphael, in the kitchen
of their home at Tenth and Geyer ave-
nue., st. Louis, on March 16, Henry
Heusack will pay the extreme penalty
of the law in the yard of the st.
Louis Jail on September 6, unless the
supreme court reverses the verdict re-
Gently returned against him.
The report that Port Arthur had
fallen required so frequently on the
18th as to give rise to the belief that
there was truth in the rumors and
that over the great Russian Gibraltar
Of the east was flying the flag of the
mikado. Whether true or not, there
had been severe fighting for three
days, both on land and sea.
The German foreign office, on the
10Th, stated that Russia had agreed to
fully indemnify German shippers and
their c%onsignees for any losses sus-
tanned by the seizures of German ships
and the detention of the Prinz Hein-
rich's mail.
Investigation of the assassination Of
Minister Won Plehve, in st. Peters,
burg, has disclosed a wholesale con-
spiracy to assassinate ministers, gov
errors and other high officials who
C+opd in tho WOW nf puarnr,onto n
form.
Capt. Van Schaick, Federal Steam
boat Inspector Fleming and former In
spector Lundberg were indicted by the
federal grand jury in New York in
connection with the disaster to the
steamer General Slocum, on June Is,
when nearly 1000 lives were lost.
George F. Golden, president of the
Chicago teamsters' union, was arrest
ed, on the Goth, for intimidating. Aft
er many heated conferences between
Inspector Hunt and labor chiefs, Gold
en- was released on bail. The arrest
caused great indignation and excite
ment among the strikers.
The Pacific Mail Co.'s steamer Ko-
rea, which, it was rumored, had been
captured by the Russian Vladivostok
squadron, has arrived at her destina-
ton safely.
After indicting "a bookmakers, the
Chicago grand jury ordered Sheriff
Barrett to take immediate steps to
stop all gambling at the race tracks
In Cook county.
c. r. Ball, attorney for William
Church, recently convicted at Warren
ton, Mo-, of the murder of his foster
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Yeater, is COL
lecting evidence to show that young
Church is mentally irresponsible for
his actions.
In the British house OF commons, on
the 2sth, Premier Balfour said the
acute stage of the Red sea incidents
had passed, and that the Russian vol
unteer fleet vessels would be with
drawn. He laid down the British view
that no belligerent warship could is
Jul from the Black sea.
The assassination of M. Won Plehve,
in st. Petersburg, has created a panic
among officials, some Of whom fear q
fresh outbreak of nihilism. Some claim
that the wal with Japan is insignif-
cant compared to the peril nearer
home.
Special dispatches from Shanghai
and Yokohama, Of the 18th, said that
a general attack on Port Arthur was
in progress.
The London Times correspondent
at Toxic renews the assertion that the
Russian army in Manchuria is using
dum-dum bullets.
Eight large sticks Of dynamite and
two dozen percussion caps were found
under the Santa Fe station at Ell Paso,
Tex, on the 9th. The explosives
were so arranged that is is thought
any heavy jar would have set them off.
On the 9th, Engineer Bud Durham
was fatally injured, and two men
named Inman were seriously hurt by
the explosion Of q boiler at Inman
Bros sawmill, near Minnowford,
Tenn. The mill was demolished.
Charles Kratz, the former st. Louis
councilman, indicted in connection with
the Suburban railway deal, is reported
seriously Ill at his home.