Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-01-05
NE VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
AND GENERAL.


An imperial ukase, issued on the
26th, by Emperor Nicholas of Russia,
makes decidedly liberal promises of re-
form under a number of heads.
Miss Caroline Eyres, reputed to be
the richest girl in England, has mar
ried Bolton Monsell, a pennileSs lieu
tenant in the British navy. Miss
Eyres, as a bride, brought her hus-
band a dowry of ) 1000, 900 in her own
right, and there is much more to fol-
low.
On the 9th Rev. Father T. f. Lillis,
of Kansas City, Mo-, was consecrated
bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese
of Leavenworth, Kas.
On the 9th the four-story ware
house and the entire stock and fix
lures of the Fuller & Johnson-Sugart
company, at Council Bluffs, Ia, was
completely destroyed by fire, causing
o loss on the building estimated at
$4,000, and on the stock of about
500, 900.
Wholesale charges of corruption in
the handling of Red Cross funds by
Russian officials have e~stranged the
people and practically put a stop to
subscriptions.
An cast-bound Wabash passenger
train ran into a freight train on a
switch near Fort Wayne, Ind, On the
9th, killing one man and injuring ten
others.
At Portland, Ore, on the 9th, the
federal grand jury returned seven in
dictm' hts in connection with the land
fraud cases cow under investigation in
that city.
On the 9th John Butler and Guy
Reed, the two negroes who were con-
victed of the murder of R. G. Story at
Thomson, Ca, were hanged in that
city.
Cow Peabody of Colorado has refused
the requisition from the governor of
Missouri for T. J. Parker, wanted at
Sedalia on a charge Of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
President Beckwith of the Oberlin
(O.) bank, the ruin Of which was
brought by Mrs. Chadwick, was report
ed, on the 2Sth, to be in a critical con-
dition.
Four men were killed and one in
jured at Walville, Wash, on the 2Sth
by an explosion of four boilers in q
saw mill plant.
The Japanese are preparing to make
a general assault on Port Arthur, pro-
ceeding simultaneously from the east
and the west.
Fire destroyed the Coon block and
several other buildings at Estherville,
Ia, on the 2Sth. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
More miles of railroad track were
laid in Missouri in 1904 than in any
other state or territory in the United
States.
The total farm value of the prlncipa
crops of the United States, excepting
cotton, on December /, was So, 734, 1888,
7O2.
The Japanese, on the evening of thu
2Sth, had succeeded in occupying thu
entire fort on Rihlung mountain, il
the defenses of Port Arthur. They are
busy sapping the northeastern fort!
preparatory to another assault.
Gov. Odell's warrant for the extra
dition of DR.. Chadwick, from New
York to Ohio, was mailed, on the 18th
from Albany to New York city, di
rected to Sheriff Barry, Of Cleveland
O. The steamship Pretoria, with DR.
Chadwick on board, was not expecte'
until the Both.
It is reported by way Of Toxic tina
the Russian Port Arthur he%adquarter
have been removed to the foot o
Liaotishan mountain, preparatory t.
retirement to the fortress there as
last resort.
The New York cotton market too
a decided slump, on the 18th, immedi
ately following the publication of tn
census bureau ginning report. The fig
ure announced is 11,S4S,113 commerce.
bales up to December 10, compare
with 8,747,G 8 bales in the same tim
last year.
The coroner's jury at Mount Carme
ILL.,, in the case of the victims Of tn
Christmas day wreck on the Souther
railway, found the company respons
, BILE, with the other parties, for hi
ing men weak both mentally and phys
: ically for positions of responsibility.
and in this case hiring o man nearl
dead with consumption and a crippl
at O salary Of only $40 a month, to 3
6 the work Of two a~ble-bodied men,"
: Seven of nine convicts at the Cal
fornia state prison at Folsom, wi
made a break for liberty, on the got
: were almost riddled with bullets, thr,
being dead and three in a critical COZ
, dition.
t After spending the entire day
legislature, which convened in ext
t session, on the goth, adjourned witho
: having effected a permanent organic
d ton.
a Hollis hall, the historic dormitory
the old campus OF, Harvard universe
at Cambridge, Mass, was damaged
& fire, on the goth, and the building W
o barely saved from destruction.
n Judge Charles M. Walker, Of Chic
20, has decided that the city Of Chic
go is not liable for damages growi
out Of the loss Of life in connect
! with the Iroquois theater fire.
ls The town OF Hartford, Ark, in I
I center Of the coal mining district
IT Sebastian county, was almost entire
" destroyed by fire on the 18th. The OF
mated loss exceeds 100000.