Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

With the Buddhist priest chanting
the strange and monotonous burial
hymn of his religion, Shige Nagano,
the Japanese geisha girl who was
killed in st. Louis by a street car, on
September 10, was buried In st. Mat
thew's cemetery, on the 25th, by the
side of two others of the geisha girls
who have died in this country since
coming to the Worlds fair.
Alonzo J. Whiteman, a former mayor
Of Duluth, MINI, and speaker of the
house Of representatives of Minnesota,
was arrested in st. Louis, on the 25th,
as he was leaving the Jefferson hotel,
where he was stopping, on a forgery
charge preferred by the police of Buff
falo, N. Y.
Rear-Admiral Fernando P, Gilmore
died in New York, on the 25th, of
Bright's disease, which he contracted
during active campaigning in the Phil
ippines. and because of which he was
retired from active duty two years ago.
The archbishop of Canterbury, adj
dressing 10000 persons at Washing
ton, on the 25th, called attention to the
great work of evangelization which lies
ahead for the English-speaking people
on both sides of the Atlantic.
Foreign delegates to the I%nternation-
al Parliamentary union left Washing
ton, on the 25th, for New York, having
practically completed their tour of the
country, though they are still the
guests of the United States govern
ment.
Six persons were badly injured in a
wreck near Lyons, N. Y, on the 25th,
and one of them, the wife of a vice
president of the Pere Marquette rail-
road, is dead from her injuries.
The death list, as a result of the
fearful wreck on the Southern railroad
nea New Market, Tenn, on tho oath,
had grown to sixty-two, and it will
probably exceed seventy.
Mrs. l., z. Letter arrived at New
York, on the oath, just in time to catch
a steamer for England. where her
daughter, Lady Curzon of Kedleston.
is dangerously i'll.
Confirmation was received, on the
25th, of the report of the conclusion of
peace between the Uruguayan govern
ment and the revolutionists under
Gen. Munos.
The formal letter of Judge Alton B.
Parker, accepting the democratic NOM
nation for president, was delivered to
the notification committee on the Goth.
Half the business section of Menla,
Ia, was wiped out by fire on the Gath.
A monument marking the birthplace
Ct james Knox Polk, the eleventh pres
dent of the United States, was n
veiied near Pineville, N. c., on the
of people. The exercises were conduct
ell by the Daughters of the American
Re, tlution.
Word has been received at Winnt-
peg, Man., from the Doukhobor col
onies, near Saskatoon, N. w. T., that
a large body of them have started on
a march for the United States. This
time they are not looking for Jesus,
but are on the trek for a warmer eli
mate.
The trial of Charles Kratz, at But
Ter, Mo-, a former member of the city
council of st. Louis, for bribery, was
continued again, on the 26th, by Judge
Walter Graves, because of the i'll
health of kratz, who is critically sick
after an operation for appendicitis.
Nine thousand men returned to work,
on the 18th, without union regulations
OF any sort, when the three Chicago
branches of the International harvester
works and the Pullman company re-
opened their shops after a shutdown Of
two weeks.
The Union iron works at San Fran
cisco, Il OF the properties of the for
mer United States shipbuilding cor
poration, was sold at public auction,
on the 26th, by order of the federal
court of the district of New Jersey.
The remains of Rudolph Sehrader.
aged 10 years, a sailor on board the
United States battleship Massachusetts,.
who was drowned August 81 in Chesa-
peake bay, were buried, ON the 25th,
in st. Louis, with naval honors.
Porto Rico's 1907 public schools
opened, on the 18th, with go, 900 pupils
enrolled. In the first school year dur
ing American occupation there were
800 schools, with $4,000 pupils.
Clarence d. Hefiin, a physician of st.
Joseph, Mo-, was convicted, on the 26th,
OF assaulting Myrtle Dowler, and SEN
fenced to 80 years in the p%enitentiary.
The twenty-seventh annual meeting
OF the American Bar association began,
ON the 18th, in Festival hall at the
Worlds fair grounds in st. Louis.
In a train wreck near Elmwood. Ill,
on the 26th, one person was killed, three
were fatally injured and more than d
score received lesser hurts.
Fire wiped out the lumber yard Of
Burrows y Kenyon On the 26th. IL
Providence, r. +, the estimated los
being $4,000.