Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL ANU GENERAL

to draft a dill containing more drastic
provisions relative to the installation
of safety appliances aboard steam YES
sells.
The enforced cessation of operations
in Manchuria by the bad weather, after
the Japanese offensive had practically
itself. gives both armies a
to breathe and pull themselves
together, and would seem to insure as
much benefit to one side as to the 9TH
er for practical purposes.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, cabling from Sheng Ting, on
the 18th, said that it was reported that
Gen. Kurokl was dying from dysen-
terry.
The administration at Washington
has been impressed by certain press
dispatches from st. Petersburg and
Toxic indicating that both belligerents
were feeling the strain and might ia
vorably regard a o for peace among
the other powers. President Roosevelt
will seize the opportune moment to
urge peace.
Three men killed and Is more or
less seriously wounded is the result
of a tragedy and subsequent encounter
with soldiers by three desperate bri-
gands at Mexico City, or the 18th.
A rumor from Vienna, on the 18th,
says that a Cunard steamer from
Fiume, Hungary, was sunk In a storm
off the Spanish coast with 1900 emf
grants on board.
Reports from the seat of war in the
far east say the roads have been ruined
by the heavy rains, but the stubborn
armies continue their struggles. The
Russians, on. the 18th, admitted that
their losses had never been less than
1000 a day during the nine days fight
ing, and those of the Japanese could
hardly have been less.
A Shanghai dispatch of the 18th said
It was reported there that the Japan
csc had sunk the Russian cruiser Bay
an by fire of the land batteries having
range over Port Arthur harbor.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says:
Russia, as the emperor announced,
will only make peace direct with ia
pan. No Intervention of an outside
power can be tolerated. If Japan de-
sires to end the war, she must apply
direct through such mediary as she
may choose-the United States, if she
prefers-but no representations not
coming directly from Toxic would even
be answered"
The r. A. Patterson tobacco factory
at Richmond, Va, was practically de-
stroyed by fire, on the night of the
18th, involving a loss of about $780,
900.
Helen Keller day at the Worlds fair
in st. Louis, on the 18th, was one of
the most interesting events of the fair.
Miss Keller was the center of interest
for thousands who desired to see the
young woman who had overcome the
deprivation of her faculties of sight
and hearing. Not the least interested
was Miss Keller herself, who entered
joyously into everything that was
done.
Fire, on the 18th, destroyed the prin
cipal business section of Sturgess
Miss. Every store but one was burned
In a rear-end collision on the Cleve-
land C Pittsburg road near Alliance,
O., On the 10th, Fireman Washer and
Brakeman Lally were killed. Twelve
cars were wrecked.
Fire, on the 10Th, destroyed the new
freight sheds of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga & st. Louis railway at Nash
vile, Tenn; loss, $1,000 900. +r
Pope Plus, on the 10Th, received
Archbishop Chapelle, of New Orleans
the papal delegate for Cuba and Porto
Rico, in private audience.
Rain has put a thorough stop tt
heavy fighting between the armies O.
Oyama and Kuropatkin. Both side'
are now resting.
The remains of King George of Sax
ony were laid to rest, on the 10th, II
a vault of the Catholic court church
at Dresden.
The St. Louis Hay Il Grain Co., OF
the Goth, filed with the interstate com
merce commission at Washington
complaint against the Chicago, Burline
ton & Quincy railroad, alleging exces
sive charges on car loads of nay.
The cannon ball train, south-bound
on the Illinois Central, was wrecke'
at Tillatoba, Miss, on the goth, JUMP
ing the track at a trestle. Seventy-fiv
passengers were aboard, but tire
postal clerks only were hurt.
1t now transpires that Thomas Lane
who was shot and killed by Myrtl
Eberly, In st. Louis, because he RI
fused to make good his promise t
marry her, had a wife and daughte
living in Cambridge, Mass.
Robert S. Mccormick, American an
bassador to Russia, arrived in Ne
York, on the goth, on the steam,
Deutschland.
Fire, on the goth, destroyed sever,
business houses at lakewood, Te1
Loss, $4,000; insurance unknown.
Matthew r. Cunningham, recorder
Mclean county, ILL.,, sent his wife to
neighbors, in Bloomington, on tt
goth, and then, taking a revolver, la
, down on a couch and shot himse
} through the head. Cunningham w
accused of being short in his account
: Timothy J. Lee, the American loo
0 motive engineer who has been held
prison at Zacatecas, Mexico, since M
: / last, has been found guilty of respo
sibility for the wrecling of a ira
which he was pulling and has be
sentenced to hard labor in the 81
! mines for four years.
! According to reports from Ma
9 chnria. neither Of the contending arr
I les dares attempt a vigorous forwa
movement, owing to The abominal