Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-03-03

the 25th, at Mexico City, Mex, of Miss
Cathleen Clayton, youngest daughter
of United States Ambassador Powell
Clayton, to Arthur Cunningham Grant
Duff, charge d'affaires of Great Brit
ain.
The grand jury at Jackson, Ky, OIL
the 25th, returned indictments against
B. F. a fench, attorney for Curtis Jet
and Ed Callahan, former sheriff OF
Breathitt county, on the charge OF
s%ubornation of perjury in the late Jet
White murder trials.
The body of Henry Hazleton, of st
Louis, who had been missing since De-
cember 20, 1903, was taken from the
River Seine, in Paris, France, on the
22d, by sailors. There were no marks
of violence on the body, which was re-
moved to the morgue.
Lieut.. Granville R. Fortescue, Fourth
cavalry, one of the presidents military
aides on duty at the White House, at
his own request has been granted leave
of absence, and will go to the far east
as a personal observer of hostilities
from the Japanese side.
Postmaster" Genera Payne, as acting
chairman Of the Republican national
committee, on the oath, formally ap-
pointed Elmer Dover secretary of the
national committee. He will serve I'M
til the meeting of the committee pre-
ceding the republican convention.
Gen. Charles Dick, of Columbus, O.,
was nominated by reclamation for both
the unexpired and the regular terms OF
United States senator to succeed the
late United States Senator Hanna al
the regular caucus of the republican
members of the ohio legislature on the
Gath.
The senate committee on military
affairs, on the 25th, authorized a ia.
vorable report on a bill appropriatine
$4,000 for the erection of a monu.
ment at Fort Recovery, O., for $40
men and 81 officers under Gen. Arthur
st. Clair, who were m~assacred by In.
dams.
With pomp and splendor Palmer
hall, the magnificent new scientific
building of Colorado college, at Colo.
RADIO Springs, Col, was dedicated, or
the 23d, in the presence of an assem-
blage of nearly 1000 people. Presi'
dents of various colleges of the east
and west were present.
W. Bourke Cochran, elected a mem.
Der OF the house of representatives, on
the 23d, to succeed Mayor Mcclellan
of New York city, was Endorsed by
members of the New York delegation
in the house, on the oath, to succeed
MI. Clellan as a member of the ways
and means committee.
Six men, including Capt. Harvey Nc
Clean and Mate John McCumber, were
lost, on the 22d, in the wreck of the
three-masted schooner Benjamin
Cromwell off New York, Two men Of
the eight on board swan ashore on bits
of wreckage and were taken to the life
saving station exhausted.
August Leuth was found guilty al
Upton, Ia, on the 23d, of KIDNAPPING
under an indictment brought by thu
recently-enacted law against tina
crime. Leuth was charged with for
chilly carrying Mrs. John Telsrow from
her home near there and holding he
for a ransom of $4,000.
The steamer Doric arrived at Sal
Francisco, on the 25th, from tn,
Orient. She brought in her special TAM
Japanese gold yen, amounting to 81
OBS 900 in American gold. Much O
this money was sent in payment O
supplies which had been brought 70
the army and navy of Japan.
Brig.-Gen. Theodore ]. Whit, Unite
States army, arrived in Omaha, Neb
on the 23d, and took command Of tn
Omaha division of the department {
the Missouri, succeeding Maj.-Gen. I
v. Sumner, who took command of tn
military division of the southwes
with heaquarters at Oklahoma Cit,
Okla.
Kehachiro Okahura, a millionaire
Toxic, Japan, offers his private mi
scum for sale in America and Englar
for $1,000, 900, which he purposes
donate to the Japanese war fund. I'll
meseum contains the most famous co
lection In Japan, and represents IL
labor Of 80 years In collecting and
expenditure exceeding n million We
A dispatch to London from st. P
tersburg, on the oath, said that on Il
23d the Japanese attempted 20 SCI
four steamers filled with explosiv
among the Russian fleet in Port A
thur harbor. These freships did !
damage and were themselves destroye
two being sunk and two going ashol
Two Japanese boats escorting the fir
ships were destroyed by Russi'
ships