Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-02-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the senate, Oh the 2Sth, several
bills of minor importauoe were passed.
| The diplomatic and consular bill was
called up, but before it's reading the
| senate took a recess to enable sena-
tors to attend the funeral of ex-Sena-
| tor Garland. After reassembling the
consular and diplomatic bill was read.
It appropriates $1,71O,533 an addition
of $4,000 to the bill as passed by the
! house. In the house the most inn
! portant measure passed was Dill au-
| thorizing the construction of a bridge
| across the Missouri river at LeXing-
| ton, Mo. Eulogies of the late Repre-
sentative Simpkins, of Massachusetts,
were delivered after two o'clock.
| The United States transport Rou-
manian, Capt. Walcott, arrived at New
| York, on the goth, from Neuvitas,
| Cuba, where she landed the Third
volunteers, from Savannah. The Rou-
manian brings % passengers, dis
charged soldiers, carpenters, cleo
tricians and some stowaways, who
! have drifted down to Cuba in govern
ment transports, and are now sent
| home by the military authorities.
| The committee of the whole of the
Kansas house of representatives has
recommended for passage Repre-
sentative Babbs bill to give the COM
| missioners of counties along the Ar
| kansas river the power to levy a tax
for the purpose ofcontesting the right
| of Colorado farmers to use up all the
| water of the river for irrigation pur-
poses.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to do
nate 100000 for a library building for
the Pennsylvania state college at
| Bellefonte, providing the state will
| appropriate $4,000 annually for the
maintenance of the library and muse
um to be connected with it.
Archbishop Ireland visited the vati-
can, on the Goth, where he had a con-
ference with Cardinal Rampoli, papal
| secretary of state. Many cardinals
| and other ecclesiastics visited the
archbishop at the Hotel Bristol, where
he was staying.
E. B. Carleton, editor and proprietor
of Town Talk of San Francisco, and
editor and manager of the official or
gan of the Knights and Ladies of Hon.
or, the Chronicle, indianapolis, died
Saturday.
A. C. Bradley, the old soldier who
shot Gov. Smith of the soldiers home
at Santa Monica, CAL, has been found
guilty of assault with deadly weapon,
but recommended to the mercy of the
court.
In the senate, on the 30th, an effort
on tine part of MIR. Allison to obtain
consideration of the Indian appropria-
ton bill precipitated running de-
bate which occupied the time until
two o'clock, when the senate went
into executive session on the peace
treaty. -. In the house the day was
devoted assiduously to work on the
army bill, ID of the 20 pages of the
measure being completed. Much of
the time was occupied with short
speeches on the general proposition to
increase the army and annex the Phil
ippines, and several lively personal
controversies occurred.
S. e Gross, the Chicago millionaire,
who brought suit for damages against
Edmund Rostand, author of "Cyrano
de Bergerac," for alleged plagiarism,
has made application for membership
in the Chicago Press club. The appli-
cation is Endorsed by Stanley Water
loo and Charles Eugene Banks.
The two hundred and fiftieth ami
versary of the execution of King
Charles /. was celebrated, on the Both,
by the Legitimist and Jacobite leagues
in London and the provinces. Num-
bers of wreaths and floral crosses
were deposited at the foot of the
Charles /. statue in Whitehall.
Special dispatches from Dresden say
that a man named Beif has been ar
rested there on the charge of stealing
diamonds worth 10000 marks. 1t is
added that he was formerly a news
paper man of New York, from which
city he is said to have eloped with
young lady.
Secretary Alger WIS called sudden
ly to Boston, on the 18th, by an acci-
dent to his son, a student in Harvard
university, who had the misfortune to
break his leg. The secretary and his
family have had an unusual series of
mishaps during the past year.
The Paris Figaro declares that ne
gotiations between the British and
French governments do not chiefly
concern, as is generally supposed,
Newfoundland and Madagascar, but
the Bahr-El-Gazal territory of the Nile
valley.
Conferences are being held in New
York city looking toward the forma-
ton of a combination of wholesale
grocers in the western states who do
an annual business amounting to
100000 or more.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 30th
showed: Available cash balance, $29l,-
9,135; gold reserve, $22s,ss1,s61.