Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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the national convention.
Gen. Kuropatkin, in reporting to the
ear on the fighting on the Yalu, while
bemoaning the terrible losses sus-
tanned by the Russian troops, lauds
the valor shown by them against heavy
odds. and draws some consolation from
the presumption that the japanese
losses must have been enormous.
From several different sources the
information comes that Admiral Togo
has at last succeeded in corking up
the mouth of the harbor at Port Ar
thur, the feat being accomplished by
a display Of daring among the Japan
ese officers engaged in it that will be-
come historic.
didate for attorney general of the
state of Missouri, died, on the 4th, Of
pneumonia contracted on a campaign
trip, aged 81 years. He was prominent
in Missouri politics.
A London dispatch of the 9th said:
Port Arthur is completely cut off by
land and sea. One great japanese army
of $1,000 men and 1876 guns IS landing,
or has landed at Pitsewo, about fifty
miles northeast of the doomed fortress,
and already an equally powerful corps
has reached Kin Chow, on the east
side of the Laio Tung peninsula,
while at the south Admiral Togo has
shut the sea gates on the Russian
stronghold"
Fearing to stand the new trial that
might have been granted him, Curtis
Jet, the convicted assassin Of James B.
Marcum and Town Marshal Cockrlll
of Jackson, Ky, has dismissed his ap-
peal and accepted the life sentence
given him for the murder of Marcum.
After an absence Of 80 years, during
which time he has served the country
of his adoption in both peace and war,
Gen. Peter ]. Ostarhaus arrived in st.
Louis, on the night Of the 9Th, and was
warmly welcomed by many of his old
comrades in arms.
Confirmatory reports were received,
on the 9th, of the complete isolation
of Port Arthur by the Japanese, who
had gained possession of the railroad
on the narrow neck of the Lao TunS
peninsula. thus investing Port Arthur
by land. The investment by sea is
now practically complete as the result
Of Admiral Togo's persistent efforts.
The tornado that swept northwest
Texas, on the night of the 5th, killed
Mrs. Mary Wagley. her daughter Anna
and G, Anthony at Moran, A dozen
persons were seriously injured. At
Putnam one man was killed and one
woman injured. There were casualties
at other points,
When they found that the isolation
of Forth Arthur was inevitable, Vice
roy Alexieff and Grand Duke Boris
hastily gathered up all important doc
uments and surplus money, loaded
what field artillery there was on to a
train and retreated to Mukden, leav-
ing Gen. Stoessel to hold the bag till
the Japs should relieve him.
The tug Michael Davitt, of Buffalo,
lies on the bottom Of the Welland river
at M%ontrose, Ont, under Is feet of
water, with a badly damaged bottom.
She was going from Buffalo to We'll
land, and struck a sunken pile in the
North channel at Montrose bridge. No
one was drowned.
Four bandits, convicted Of murder,
were garroted, on the 4th, in the pro"
vincial Jail at Santiago, Cuba. 1t was
the first legal execution since the Span
ish regime.
The United States canal commission
on the 4th, took formal possession OF
the Panama canal route and of the
property of the Panama Canal Co. The
property is now under the control and
direction of Maj. Mark Brook, United
States engineer corps.
James Horton, of Joplin, Mo-, aged
II, broke down, on the 5th, and re-
lated details of the murder Of his
stepfather, J. H. Kennel, in that city
NldIIll u. IuC utCd, uSNOlulAo W IL
confession, was committed by the lads
brother, Ollie Horton, aged 10, who il
in Jail in Carthage, Mo.
The Tampa Bay hotel at Tampa, Fla.
was threatened with destruction, on thu
5th, by an explosion in the basement
The blaze was extinguished withor
serious loss. The hotel was crowded
with delegates to the Panama cana
convention, and a panic was barely
averted.
E. H. Hubbard, of Sioux City, la.
was nominated for congress by thu
republicans Of the Eleventh distric
on the fifty-fourth ballot, or the 5th
defeating Congressman Thomas ant
other candidates.
A jury having at length been Sc
cured, the second trial Of former May
Or A. A. Ames, of Minneapolis, MINI
On a corruption charge, began on tn
5th.
The French government has decide
to reject both in substance and forr
the note Of protest against Presiden
Loubet's visit to the quirinal at Rome
sent by the vatican to all Catholic pow
ers. The French ambassador to tn
Holy See has been instructed by Fol
eign Minister Delcasse to notify tn
papal secretary of state to this effec
and to declare that France consider
the protest to be null and void.
Eight hundred Thibetans comm
> from the direction of Shigatze attacke
the British mission at Gyangise {
dawn on April S. The Thibetans wei
: repulsed with heavy loss and fed. I'll
British loss was two wounded.