Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-29
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

til the end Of hostilities.
The first day of the new registration
of voters at st. Louis was ~signalized
a young law student from Belleville,
ILL.,, by some n of a gang of repeat
ers who, with guns, were chasing an
election judge from the place of regis
tration because he challenged their
right to register. Two of their bullets
struck Scheel, killing him almost in
stantly. The police arrested the cleo
ton judge.
A report was current, on the 18th,
that Gen. Mistchenko, commander of
the eastern Cossack brigade, had been
killed during a recent reconnaissance
Of the Japanese line.
Before making further representa-
tons to Russia concerning the charac-
ter of goods included in the list of alb
solute c%ontraband of war, the British
government proposes to ascertain the
views of Secretary Hay in order that
the two governments may continue to
act identically in the matter.
A strong Russian force made a sortie
from Port Arthur, on the 18th, and at
tackled the Itzshan fort, which was re-
Gently captured by the japanese. The
Russians were ~repulsed with heavy loss
after a fight lasting several hours.
Gen. Kuropatkin is said TO have been
reinforced, at Mukden, since September
8, by ITO guns and $4,000 men, a ms
jority Of whom are picked troops from
western Russia. Everything seems to
presage another big battle, this time in
the vicinity of Mukden.
Gen. Kuroki, with 100, 900 men, has
crossed the Hun river unopposed, hav-
ing, it is said, completely outwitted
Gen. Rennenkampff's Cossacks, and is
advancing towards Mukden.
The Japanese, on the goth, captured
two recently-constructed and important
forts on either side of Surveying, north
of Port Arthur, the Japanese fleet CO.
operating in the attack.
The Berlin Philharmonic orchestra,
n of the most famous in the world,
sailed, on the 21st, on the steamer Pre-
toria for New York. 1t will play for
some time at the st. Louis Worlds
fair.
The war department has asked as
sistance of the department of justice
in trying to secure the arrest of Capt.
Ira Keithley, Philippine co~nstabulary,
who has disappeared from the Philip
pine exhibit in st. Louis, leaving a re-
ported shortage of $4,000.
Seven persons were injured, one of
them fatally, in a street car accident,
on the 10Th, at st. Joseph, Mo.
A Chinese, who left Port Arthur, on
the 18th, reports that owing to the in
cessant bombardment of the harbor by
the Japanese the Russian fleet is de-
termined to break out and endeavor to
reach Tsing-Chou, the German port on
the Shantung peninsula.
The grand jury at st. Joseph, Mo-,
on the 21st, returned seven true bills
against w. H. Harroun, the elevator
man, whose alleged forgeries Of ware
house receipts aggregate about 81 ,000,-
900.
The report that four warships pur-
chased from Argentina had been added
to the Russian Baltic squadron at Lii
bau, is declared to be without founda-
ton by the Argentine minister of ma
rine, who says there was no basis for
o,o - A. ,o1o of hxo,+;,a -ro,
ships.
Official returns issued up to the 21st
Of the casualties among the Russian
officers at the battle of Lao Yang
ed, including 6 generals and SO field Of
ticers. Eighty officers were killed, 372
wounded and Is are missing.
Frank S. McGinniss, a Kansas City
(Mo.) policeman, was shot and killed,
on the goth, by John E.. Hardin, a drunk
and disorderly negro, who was resist
ing arrest, and Hardin was shot and
fatally wounded by Policeman John
Gallagher, who came to the aid of Nc
Ginniss.
A fire broke out in Wingate's board
ing house, In Gardiner, Me-, on the
Goth, and extended to the Coliseum,
containing one of the largest roller
polo Kinks in Maine. The Coliseum
was completely destroyed.
Two hundred carloads of steel rails
arrived at Tacoma, Wash, on the 10th,
from Pennsylvania, for shipment to
the orient.
1t is reported that Russia has
bought four warships from Argentina,
which have arrived at Libau.
A crank who claims to have gone to
Heaven in an automobile was arrested
at Sycamore Hill. on the goth, where
he had gone to visit President Roose-
welt to procure his assistance in the
publication of a book.
Three miners were crushed to death
at the old Andover iron mine at Hi
hernia, N. j., on the goth, another so
badly injured that he will probably die,
and two more were seriously hurt.
Fear of a shortage in the cotton
crop caused a scramble on the ex-
changes In New York, Galveston and
New Orleans, on the 21st, where adj
rance ranging from Is to SO points
were scored. This showed a rise Of
about "a a bale within ten days.
A trolley car a over a box of dyna-
mite on the track at Melrose, Mass,
on the 21st, blowing the car into kin
ding wood. Six persons were killed
outright and near..y a score were in
jured.
Colorado democrats nominated Alva
Adams for governor on the 21st.
Peter Karageorgevitch was crowned
N king of Servia on the 21st.
Patrolman Patrick M. Whalen, Of st.
Louis, who, with the rest of the police