Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-23


Vate ship building firms to tender bids
Tor ten third-class cruisers, to be com.
pleted in one year, the armament to be
wholly of quick-firing guns.
FAILURES for the week ended on the
nth, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co.,
were: For the United States, 395, as
against 313 for the corresponding week
last year; and for Canada, 81, against
50 last year
AT the polls, on the 18th. the electors
Of Manitoba declared almost unanI-
nously against interference by the
Dominion with her school laws, and
ex-Premier Greenway's administration
was Endorsed by good majority.
On the charge that he travelled on a
pass and collected mileage from the
territory, Gov. Thornton OF New Mex
leo, on the 14th, summarily removed
Col. Richard Hudson, of Silver City, as
member of the penitentiary board.
THE senate committee on naval at
fairs has decided to hold the hearings
On the Chandler resolution to investi-
gate certain matters in connection
with armor plate and other alleged
frauds in the navy, behind closed
doors.
PRESIDENT CREsPo has appointed
Rafael Reijas. Laureano Villa, Neuva
Julien, Viso March and Antonio Salzo
commission to search the libraries in
Venezuela for old data regarding the
Guiana boundary, in order to assist the
United States commission.
WHEN Chapla Couden OF the house
OF Representatives in his opening
prayer, on the 18th, asked for the sue.
cess of the Cubans in their struggle
for liberty. there was a lively outburst
Of handclapping all over the foor-an
unusual if not unprecedented occur
renee.
Foa entering and starting the mare
"Bethel" on German tracks. under the
name of SNellie Kneebs," Robert I,
Kneebs, an American horsensan, has
been sentenced at Berlin to nine
months imprisonment and to pay &
fine of 5000 marks. The mare was also
seized and forfeited.
BOTH branches of the New Jersey
legislature convened at Trenton OF
the 14th. Organization was smoothly
effected by the election of Lewis A
Thompson president of the senate
and Louis T. Derousse speaker of the
house. all the other officers selected il
caucus being installed.
In the Joint session of the Ohio leg
3slature. on the 18th, the minutes O
the two houses were read showing
that ex-Gov. Foraker had received {
majority of the votes in each branch
and he was declared elected Unit &c
States senator to succeed Calvin S
Brice. His term begins March 4, 1897
The Establishment of national mil
itary park on the battlefelds in and
around Vicksburg, Miss. is the pur
pose of bill soon to be introduced II
the house of representatives The pro
posed park will cover an extent OF ter
ritory one-eighth of a mile wide by sl'
miles in length, lying to the east ant
north of the city.
In the hotly-contested fight befor'
the Democratic national committee II
Washington, on the 10th, Chicago woI
the prize of the national convention
which it was decided to hold in tina
city on July next The decision wa:
reached on the twenty-ninth ballot
which resulted: Chicago, 90; st. Louis
q. and Cincinnati. /.
'.WTrHIN five days you may look fol
so,1e very important action by thi
government respecting Cuba said ;
gentleman who was at the Whit,
House. on the 18th. He added that tn,
president and Secretary Olney wer,
giving consideration to this matter
and that both felt the time for recop
milton of the revolutionists was clos,
at hand.
A DISPATCH from Havana to Madrid
on the 10th, said that the rebels ha
shut off all means of communicable
with the interior except by the shor
railroad from Havana 90 Tarianas
The telegraph wires were all cut an
the railway tracks torn up, and til
only means of official communicate
with the outlying provinces was b
means of steamship.