Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-27
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The Russian Baltic squadron. pass
Ing through the North sea, on the 22d,
fred on and sank several British fish
ing vessels, causing two deaths and
wounding about a score other men.
Unless a prompt reparation is forth.
coming, it is probable that the Incl
dent will be considered by England
as an act of war.
BY a vote of 1926 to 237 the French
chamber of deputies, on the 22d, ap-
proved the government cause in the
matter of the rupture of diplomatic
relations between France and the vat
lean by the recall of Ambassador Nj
sard.
Three men were killed and two Sc
! verely hurt, on the 23d, in a head-on
collision between a passenger and
freight train on the Natchez-Jackson
branch of the Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley railroad near Natchez, Miss.
In a rear-end collision between two
trolley cars on the Westboro and
Marlboro street railway, near West
boro, Mass, on the 23d, Is people were
injured. 1t is thought all of the in
jured will ecover.
In a fire that destroyed property val
ued at $4,000, at Mexico, Mo-, on the
23d, a negro employee of a livery barn
lost his life, and w. R. Kendall, a vet
Urinary surgeon, was fatally burned.
big Ed" Rice and George Shine,
two of the most versatile bank sneaks
and confidence men known to the po-
lice in America and Europe, were ar
rested, on the 22d, in st. Louis.
The armies in Manchuria have ap-
p~arently changed their positions only
slightly in the last few days, though
an extensive Russian detour to the
west was reported on the 23d.
Lieut.-Gen. Prince Fushimi, special
imperial envoy to the st. Louis exposi-
ton, sailed from japan, on the 23d,
with his suit, on the steamer Man.
churia for San Francisco.
Dispatches received in London from
various points report a rather severe
earthquake and much damage to prop
erty, on the 23d, throughout Scandi-
navia and Denmark.
Fire, on the 23d, completely de-
stroyed the tannery of F. Krehl &
Sons at Girard, O., causing a loss esti-
mated at from $250,OO0 to $780, 900.
Insurance, S100 $1,000.
The Lewis and Clark exposition
grounds ct Portland, Ore, will be kept
open on Sunday afternoons, but the
buildings, with one exception, are to
remain closed.
Count Benckendorff, the Russian am
bassador to Great Britain, returned to
London, on the Gath, from celebrating
his silver wedding with his wife's rela-
tives in Silesia, and barely escaped as
sault from a crowd at the Victoria sta
ton, which followed him almost into
the embassy.
Spontaneous combustion is believed
to have caused a fire which did $1OO,
, 000 damage, on the Oath, at the plan
| of the New Home Sewing Machine Co
at Orange, Mass. The blaze started II
: the japanning Dom of n of thu
; buildings. Ten thousand new machines
were ruined.
> On the Gath, Great Britain. sent al
: urgent note to the Russian government
officially detailing the circumstance
of the amazing and unexplained attacl
\ by the Russian second Pacific squadron
during the night of October 81 on Brit
! ish fishing boats in the Black sea.
!" B~landville (Ky.) college burned. O
i the oath, leaving only the brick wall
standing. Prof. Robinson, and a FEY
:" students who boarded with them, los
- most Of their personal effects. No on
- was seriously injured.
George w. Blount, a negro political
= Of Berkeley, Va, was taken from tn
70 station house at Berkeley, on the 24tl
~ and lynched. Blount had been locke
II up for striking a policeman in th
- face with a lighted lamp.
o. The cruiser Colorado exceeded th
y speed requirement at her trial test, O
~ the oath, attaining a speed of 3d.;
~ knots, which makes her the faste'
u armoured cruiser in the America
~ navy.
Safe-crackers gained entrance to IL
lit strong box in G. M. David's gener
store at Fillmore, Mo-, on the 23d, s
u curing jewelry and money aggregatir
n $500. There is no clew to the ro
~ bers.
ie The house of deputies of the Episc
pal convention, in session at Bosto
. on the oath, has acceded to the amen
IS. ments on the divorce canon Of Il
~ house Of bishops.
a There has been no resumption
q fighting Of a general character on 9
Shahke river. Both Russians and ia
* anese are entrenching their positions.
Bandit Morris, last Of the five m,
cd engaged in the duel between detectiv
es and train robbers, in st. Louis, on Q
cy tober 81, died on the Gath.
u. The Brazilian chamber Of deputi
lD- has passed a bill to authorize the pu
chase Of 2S new battleships.