Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-13
NE VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERIoNAL AMI GENERAL.


southern front of Gen. K%uropatkin's
army, the importance of which lies in
the fact that the Japanese are show
i"s a disposition to press forward and
tsel cut the Russian positions.
The twenty-seventh annual Yelled
Prophets pageant was given in st.
Louis on the night of the 4th, followed
by the usual ball at the Merchants
exchange. The pageant, which was
fully up to that of former years, was
witnessed by throngs that packed ev-
cry foot OF the route traversed. Miss
Stella Wade was queen of the ball.
The bali at the New York building,
on the night of the 4th, was the finest
effort, in a social way, that has been
made since the opening of the Worlds
fair, and society men and women from
st. Louis joined with the representa-
tives from New York to make it a
pronounced success.
President Roosevelt, on the 4th, ap
pointed julius G, Lay as consul-gen-
eral at Canton, China, in succession
to Robert NJ. McWade, removed.
James H. Mitchell and James Arm
strong, alleged lynchers, were released
from Jail at Huntsville, Ala, on the
4th. on writs of habeas corpus.
Herman Haas. accused of having
embezzled $40, 200 from the Corn EX-
change national bank of Chicago, and
who was surrendered to the American
authorities by the Panama govern
ment, sailed for New York, on the
Eth. a prisoner.
Field Farrar, of Fort Worth, Tex,
has identified the clothing worn by the
man murdered at Creve Occur lake,
near st. Louis, recently, as that Of his
uncle, Mark Adams. "a
Russia has ordered out a total OF
100000 members of the guards regi-
ments for service in Manchuria.
Recurrent rumors of Port Arthur's
fall were heard at st. Petersburg, on
the 4th, but they are said to lack con
tirmation.
Judge Frank w. Overs, on the
18th, declined the peoples party nomi-
nation for the governorship of Colo
RADIO.
John F. Redmond, the Irish leader;
Capt. A. ]. c. Donellan and Patrick
O'Brien, Irish members of the British
parliament, who accompanied Mr..
Redmond on his tour of this country,
sailed for Europe, on the 9Th, on the
steamer Baltic.
Fourteen hundred members of the
Amalgamated Rubbers Workers I'M
ion, of Chicago, after a five-weeks'
strike against the leading rubber man
%ufacturing companies, reported for
work on the 5th.
The plant of the National Refining
Co., at Findlay, o., was completely de-
stroyed by fire, on the 5th, entailing a
loss of upward of 5000, 900.
A dispatch from Nagasaki states
that a Japanese officer from Port Ar
thur maintains that the japanese are
gradually closing in or the fortress,
being anxious to capture the place on
the mikado's birthday, November 8.
The garrison is now stated to number
only 10000 effective troops.
Chicago observed the thirty-third an
niversary of the great fire by sending
nearly fifty thousand of her citizens
to the Chicago day celebration at the
Worlds fair in st. Louis. Chicago re-
members the ~open-handed sympathy
extended, in the hour of her need, by
her sister, st. Louis.
A St. Petersburg dispatch, of the
7th, said that Gen. K%uropatkin was
about to advance to take advantage
of the weakness of the Japanese army
to the southwark Of Mukden. The
reinforcements.
The Russian admiralty officially an
nounces that the Baltic feet will be
ready to sail as soon as the battleship
Orel and the cruisers Oleg, Zemtchug
and Izumrud, which sailed from Cron-
stadt, on the 7th, arrived at Reval.
The Icebreaker Ermak will accompany
the feet.
A tactical duel is in progress in
Manchuria. The Russians are trying
to draw the Japanese into a battle on
the Lune Lo river, on which they have
q natural line of defense, while the
Japanese are trying to force the Rus
slams back to Tie Ling.
At the celebration of German day al
the Worlds fair in st. Louis, on the
9Th, which proved only second in
point of attendance to st. Louis day
a cablegram of congratulation from
Emperor William was read, evokins
the greatest enthusiasm.
Russia, it is said, is trying to tempt
the sultan Of Turkey to permit tbs
passage of the Black sea feet through
the Dardanelles by offering to supply
his majesty's desire to alter the otto
man law Of succession to that the sui
tan's dearest wish--that his son MAJ
succeed him-may be gratified.
According to the report Of the ciyi
service commission there were 9,9S1
person killed on the several railroads
in the United States during the las
fiscal year, or more tllan double thu
loss of life in the war with Spain, ant
in excess of any previous years. Dur
ing the same time there were 1924
injured.
President Roosevelt, On the 9Th, for
mally designated First Assistant Post
master-General Robert J. Wynne a
acting acknowledgement
1t is reported that Admiral Wirel
made a sortie from Port Arthur, o.
the 9Th, and that q great naval battl
has occurred.
George Foster Peabody, treasurer o
the democratic national committee, o.
the 9Th. issued an appeal for contrlbu
tons for the campaign fund