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Iron County register., 1899-12-14
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
FiFTY-SIxTH CONGRESS.

The first session of the senate of the
f1fty-SfXth congress met ON the 4th. The
usual routine resolutions were adopted,
and the oath administered to new mem
hers. after which Senator Sewall, of New
Jersey, announced the death of Vice
President Hobart, and presented fitting
resolutions, which were adopted, and the
session suSpenGed.-..-.In the house David
B. Henderson, of Iowa, was elected speak
tratiCn of the oath to Congressman Elect
Roberts, of Utah, was postponed, pending
inquiry. the Reed rules were adopted.
seats were drawn by members and the
session ended.
In the senate, on the 5th, the presidents
message was received and read, after
L. Hayward, of Nebraska, was announced,
and the senate Immediately adjourned as
a mark of respect to deceased. In the
house. after debate of three hours, me
resolution offered by Mr.. Tayler, of OHIO,
on the 4th, for the appointment of spe-
ciai committee to investigate the charges
against Brigham H. Roberts, the Mormon
Iepresentative-elect from Utah, was
passed by a vote of 9O2 to 50, interest in
this event completely overshadowed the
leading of the presidents message.
In the senate on the 9Th, nearly eight
hundred bills and joint resolutions, sew
eral important concurrent resolutions ard
petitions by the hundred were presented.
Most of the bills were old timers Among
the new bills was the financial measure
of the senate finance committee. ReSolu-
tiOnS were offered providing for an lnVeS-
tigation by the judiciary committee of all
knaSeS Oh pOlNSaIny recently preSenIGu iii
connection with what is known as the
Roberts case; expressing the sympathy OF
the senate for the Beers in their war
with Great Britain, and declaring that
Senator y. B. Scott, of West Virginia, is
not entitled to seat in the senate.
Among the bills introduced was one by
Mr.. Culiom, of Illinois, to provide a form
OF government for Hawaii, and another
to pension war veterans over 20 years of
age......The house was not in session.
The senate was not in session on the
Sth......In the house a special order for
the consideration of the currency bill, be-
ginning on the 18th, was adopted; the
general debate to continue five days. when
one day will be devoted to amendments
under the fve-minute rule, the vote to be
taken on the 1Sth,. The democrats, popu-
lists and silveriteS presented solid front
against the adoption of the resolution
and every republican voted for it,
In the senate, on the 7th, Mr.. Chandler
introduced a bill to foster athletic sports
among the cadets at West Point and An
napoliS. The senate adjourned until the
1,th----..In the house, Mr.. Overstreet
Ond.), in charge of the finance bill. at
tempted to reach an agreement for It's
early consideration, but met objection
the ground that so important a bill should
go through the regular channels. The
speaker appointed the committee rules,
and the house adjourned until the 11th.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
DIR. SMITH ON WOMAN LABOR.
A Champion of The Future Mothers
Of America Points Out the
EVIL of the Age.

st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 11.-Rev. DIR. S.
G. Smith, pastor of the Peoples church
in this city, whose recent statement in
regard to women wage-earners and
their interference with men workers
has attracted wide attention and criti-
sermon. DR.. Smith said in part:
'The subject at first arouses mirth
but when it is better understood, tears
will take the place of laughter. The
problem is red with the life-blood of
the nation. War is curse and an evil
But war is sometimes better than
cowardice or dishonor. There is need
for woman's work and good in it, but
as society is at present organized, the
evil far outweighs the good. 1t was in
savage times that woman was the
slave and served her master in menial
tasks. We are fast on the road to a
new savagery. The problem began
when the discovery of machinery and
factory system took the place of the
man and the tool. Greedy employers
bade the delicate fingers of women and
the dimpled hand of childhood grasp
the fallen task. 1 have watched a
woman and a COW yoked together
drawing a heavy load in Europe. l
have seen the haggard faces of the
factory girls here and there. God new
er intended women to look like that.
But economic conditions have no chiv-
airy, and human avarice has no sense
of honor.
''The majority of the working
women in this country, now four mil.
lions of them, are between the ages of
IA and 25. The great fact of the last
decade, however, is the enormous in
crease among them of girls under Is
years of age. In the clothing trades
alone the increase has been 23S per
cent, i'll cotton and woolen goods 13S
per cent. The tendency is toward
childhood. 1t is cheaper. Meantime
we are devouring the possible strength
of the nation by draining the life of
its future mothers. Forty-five per
cent. of the manufacturing in the Unit
ed States is now done by women.
I'VE may well ne ashamed to use the
appliances of modern civilization when
we remember that they mean the life
blood and agony of delicate woman
hood, the paralysis of our homes and
the stopping of that abounding Amer
lean physical vigor which has marked
us for century, because America has
hitherto been the paradise of women.
Make our women beasts of burden, and
the doom of our strength is at hand.
No army is any more vigorous than
the mothers who bore them. The
tendencies of the time and the enorm-
Gus increase of woman labor and of
immature young women, is the eco
nonic social, moral and physical evil
of our time, and it is the most serious
menace to the nations life
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
FIGHT MAR cERVANIES.
The American Column Has a Four
Hours Battle with Aguin-
aldo's Guard.
THE LOCATION OF The OTHER COLUMNS.
Inhabitants of the Towns Occupied
by Our Troops Join I'm Repairing
the Trail and Carrying Subsist-
ence-The Revolt in NeErOs Unim-
pOrtant.

Washington, Dec. 10.-The war de-
from Gen. Otis:
Dispatch From Gen. Young.
Manila, Dec. "a dispatch from
Young, at Vigan, yesterday, says es-
capped Spanish prisoners report four
hours engagement, on the Sd inst, be-
tween his troops and Aguinaldo's
guard near Cervantes, so miles south
east Of Figan, with heavy loss to enc
my, who is being pursued. Our loss
was one killed and six wounded; in
habitants of town occupied join the
troops in repairing the trail and car
rying subsistence.
Pushing On to San Jose.
Have pushed Il column to San Jose,
south OF Bangued. Howse's column is
on the rear trail; Bachelors battalion
of tie Twenty-fourth is out of reach,
north Of Bayonbong evidently descend
ing the river. Natives report that fight
ing occurred 20 miles north. Navy
reaches Aparri tomorrow. A column
Of MacArthur's troops, the Twenty
fifth, is reported near Subig bay; Law
ton is in Bulucan province to-day with
sufficient troops to overcome opposi-
tion and scatter the enemy
Probably Rare's Command.
It is probable that the troops which
engaged Aguinaldo's guard are Hare's
command, as he was reported to be
clase in the insurgent leaders, rear.
Gen. Otis also cables as follows re-
garCing the revolt in Negros:
The Revolt in NeSros.
''Infornlation received that the Ne.
gTos revolt was of minor Importance;
Byrnes is in rapid pursuit of the dis
affected party; Hughes is in the moun-
tGiins OF Panay, en- route to Cadiz.''
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
n Peculiar Case of Poisoning.

Joseph Johnson, an OLD and respect
ed citizen of Greene county, residing
near Nogo. came to his death in a pc
culiar manner, and his wife is ly-
ing at the point of death from the
same cause. 1t seems that johnson
recently discovered some mineral on
his land which he believed to be silver
and gold ore. Some of the specimens
were given to an expert to test, which
he did with prussic and other acids.
johnson conceived the idea of put
ting the specimens in the cook stove
and melting them, while his wife was
cooking dinner. After they had eaten
a hearty meal both were taken sick,
and physician was called, who dag
nosed the cases as poison. He says
the vituals cooking on the stove alb
sorbed the prussic acid and other acid
that had been used on The specimens
of ore, and resulted in the death OF
Johnson and perhaps the fatal illness
of his wife.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
i Boer Gun Dismnntlea.
THE wOMAN'S WORLD.

Women occupy rs positions along
the line of public sanitation in Eng
land and her colonies, the salaries
ranging from $1,000 to $1,500.
Miss Mayme Jester, a niece of Bnf-
falo Bill, is said to be the only fe-
male press agent on the road. She
left the newspaper business to 60 into
this new field.
In embroidering raspberries, straw
berries, mulberries or blackberries
I'LL the outlines with large or small
French knots more or less closely
worked, according to the frn;t
wrought.
Out of the S525,00o, 600 over which
$50 women in England have exercised
testamentary powers during the Inst
eight years, $13, 900 has been ha.
queathed to charity.
Mrs. Arthur Eliot Fish is tba or;,r
tnator of the scheme for furnisbinr
the poor of New York with fuel at =
nominal rate. The plan is to be car
ned out by the Minerva club. an or
ganization of fashionable women.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

When Col. William j. Bryan returns
to Austin, Tex, from his duck hunt
he will be rendered one of the hand
soonest residences in the city for the
use OF himself and family as long as
they desire to remain in the city.
County Judge E. S. Walker, a warm
admirer of Mr.. Bryan, is the donor.
The United States grand jury at Sa-
vannah, Ca, has returned indictments
against several parties for conspiracy,
in connection with Capt. Oberlin NJ.
Carter, charging them with having
stolen more than S1,OOO,ooo from the
government in connection with the
work OH the Savannah harbor improve
ments.
On November 1 the total money in
circulation was $1,963, ,116, Jas, and on
December 1 $1,9S5, ,930.964, an increase
of So, ,214,S16 in the month. A gain of
even two-thirds this amount in the
present month would bring TIE total
money lin circulation in the United
States past the $4,000, 100000 line, for
the first time in our history.
The British gunboat Partridge has
captured the British steamer Mashona,
Capt. Johnstone, which left New York
November 8, via ST. Vincent November
16, for Delagoa bay, laden with flour
for the Transvaal. The cargo will be
landed at Cape Town and the ship re-
leased.
\ Washington dispatch. of the Sth,
says: "Realizing the strength of the
evidence against him, it is believed
H. Roberts viii go before the
special house committee, plead guilty
and claim extenuating circumstances
The Mormon church leaders do not de-
sire any extended investigation into
Utah affairs.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
GUARD AGAINST THE PLAGUE.
Regulations to Prevent it's Introduce
tiOn into the United States
from Santos and Oporto.

Washington, Dec. 11.-Surgeon-Gen-
eral Wyman, of the Marine Hospital
service, in view of the ot1icially-report-
ed prevalence of the plague in Santos,
Brazil, and Oporto. Portugal, and the
local conditions AZ those ports, has is
sued regulations to prevent its intro
IuctiCn into the United States, which
regulations are to remain in force until
20 days after the official announce
nent Of the cessation of the plague in
those cities.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
GREAT BRITAIN's PUIssANCE.
A French Authority Says She is
Ready for Instant War With
All the World.

Paris, Dec. 1.-THE Figaro pub
lished an interview with M. Lockroy.
former French minister of marine in
The course of which he says:
''The British navy is twice as strong
as ours. 1t is able to oppose stimuli
taneously the navies of France and the
triple alliance. Everywhere French
fleets arestationed they are confronted
by twice or thrice their strength.
France must have cables. Great
Britain's bases of supply are all con-
nected, and the British are ready for
war tomorrow, if necessary, with ey-
cry nation of the globe''
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Dr. Lanse, the Chess Player, Dead

New York, Dec. 11.-A dispatch to
the Stats Zeitung from Berlin says
that DIR. Max Lange, the famous Ger
man chess master, theoretician and
problemist, is dead at Liepsic. He was
born in Magdeburg, on August Z, 1882,
and was known as a chess player in
1S49, when he founded a chess club
among the boys of the Magdeburg
gymnasium. He also edited chess
periodical at the same time. Lange
made great name for himself by his
numerous chess publications. He was
the co-founder of a great many Ger
man chess associations, and when he
died was manager of the German Chess
association.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

With masks, gags and revolvers, four
men raided stations along the Big
Four railroad 60 miles from Chicago
on the 7th. Their plunder in money
consisted of so cents at Coster. Ill.
plucked from the pockets of the tele,
graph operator, and 60 cents at Gard.
ner, rified from a slot machine.
The powder works of James S. Mil.
ler, near Sumneytown, Pa, were com
pletely wrecked by an explosion on
the 7th. Three men were killed and
several others injured.
Joseph C. Hoagland, the founder and
president of the Royal Baking Powder
Co., died in New York city, on the
sth, from acute kidney trouble.
One of the most appalling fires that
has ever visited Reading, Pa, occurred
on the 7th, when the extensive hosiery
mill of the Nelde & Horst company
was destroyed, causing the death OF
one person and injuring 60 other en-
ployes.
The executive committee of the Amer
Sth, to make a general increase cf
ten per cent. in wages of employees.
The increase will affect mills in all
sections of New England, and will BEN
eft $4,000 hands. The advance will
take effect on January 1.
The commissioner of internal reven-
ue has decided that aerated distilled
water is entitled to exemption from
tax, even if advertised as a remedy or
cosmetic.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the Sth showed:
Available cash balance, $3.50, ,691 ,OS0;
gold reserve, $3.50, AIS.
The steamship Umbria, sailing from
New York, for Europe, on the Sth, took
out 435,oO ounces of silver.
In the face of many optimistic re-
ports of small British losses at Lady
smith as the result of the bombarC.-
ment, the total losses since the invest
ment began have been quite heavy
five officers and &c men killed and Is
officers and 13O men wounded and
missing.
The Beers hold as a prisoner Lady
Sarah Wilson, aunt of the duke os
-h -hoAAoOAOuSA. hNA Aduy SAIp was cap
tured while trying to rejoin her hus-
band, Capt. Gordon Wilson, in Mafe-
king. She will probably be taken to
Pretoria, where she may meet her
nephew, Lieut.. Winston Spencer
Churchill.
Another surprise was sprung on the
democracy of Arkansas, on the Sth, by
the Arkansas Gazette declaring for ex-
pansion. The paper has for many
years been the organ of the party and
has always exercised great influence in
its councils.
Maj.-Gen. Otis cables: "One of our
chief difficulties arises from the cir
culation of falsehoods among the ma
tives. Defamatory newspaper articles
of the United States and Europe are
promptly published in Spanish in San
Francisco, Madrid and by the Hong
Kong jHnta and circulated in the Phil
ippines. The insurgents have based
all their hopes upon these false
rumors."
The kentucky state board of e,ec-
ton commissioners met in the senate
chambers at Frankfort, on the 9th,
and read the decisions of the board
by Messrs. Pryor and Ellis, giving the
certificates of election to Taylor and
the entire republican state ticket, and
by Commissioner Poyntz dissenting
from the majority opinion of the
board.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Reducing the Stute Debt.

The Missouri fund commissioners
held meeting at jefferson City and
called in for payment at the American
Exchange national bank of New Yo.k,
on December 80, SSOO,OOO of state
bonds. This will leave the state debt
al about s., 100000.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Will Probably Refuxe.

Pekin, Dec. 1.-The French govern
ment has formally demanded the de-
gradation of the viceroy of Canton be-
cause the order to execute the Chinese
magnistrate who was responsible for
the murder of two French officers at
Montao has not been carried out. The
tsung-li-yaE1en will probably refuse.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Floated an Proceeded.

Antwerp, Dec. 9.-The North Ger.
,nan Lloyd steamer Koenigen Louise.
bound for Australia, which grounded.
Friday, on Walsowrd bank, in the low
er Scheldt, and which was thought to
be in critical condition, has been
fioated, and has proceeded on her voy.
age.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

The George Washington Memorial
association made public, on the 9th, a
request that on December IA, 1899, the
centennial anniversary of Washing
tons death, all the schools of the land
suspend the regular order of exercises
at IL o'clock a. m, and devote 20 min
utes to a memorial programme, includ.
ing brief enlogy of the life and char
acter of our first president. George
Washington.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

Whether the pay of Representative
Elect Roberts, of Utah, is stopped as >
result of the action of the house in re-
fusing him seat, has not been passed
,,Don by the house officials, and viii
not directly arise until the January
pay certificates are issued. Mr.. Rob
erts drew his pay up to December 3.
the day before congress assembled, ON
the certificate of Clerk Mcdowell that
he was meulher-elect.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Commander Howell Dead.

New York, Dec. 10.-Commansler
Charles l. Howell, chief engineer of
the United States battleship Maine
when that vessel was blown up in Ha-
vana harbor, is dead, at his home in
this CITY, He died from an apoplectic
stroke. He was so year old.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
In q Runaway Accident.

Mr.. and Mrs. John English were Sc
riously injured in a runaway accident
near Camp Branch, Pettis county. Mrs.
English was probably fatally injured,
ner skull being frlnctured and her left
arm broken at the shoulder.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

The post Office department has de,
cided that it is incompatible with the
best interests of the service to retain
married women as post office clerks.
The department has, therefore, ruled
that when a female post office clerk
marries it will be necessary for her
to resign from the service.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

The venerable Gen. John A. McCler-
nand, who was for several weeks last
fall so seriously i'll that for some time
his life was despaired of, was on the
streets of Springfield, ILL.,, on the 9Th,
for the first time since he was taken
i'll. The general was still weak, bur
looking and feeling well.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

Cattlemen throughout the west are
objecting seriously to the change re-
Gently made by the railroads of charg-
ing by weight instead of by the car
load, as formerly. They claim that it
works an increase in the rates which,
they assert, are already as great if not
more than they should be.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

Thomas Elliott, a Mormon elder,
whose home is at Sibley, 20 miles east
of Kansas City, was convicted of MUIR
der i'll the second degree, and his pun
ishment fixed at ten years imprison-
ment. Elliott killed his brother, David
Elliott, at Sibley, last August.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Brewery Refuse Made Into Milk.

An expert from the University of
Illinois visited ST. Louis recently to
investigate the dairy business. lie
found 10000 cows inside the city linn
its fed entirely on refuge from brew
ers. Still the ST. Louis doctors can't
trace the source of the typhoid epi-
demic, and the health department is at
sea
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

The democratic caucus committee ct
the senate, on the Sth, considered the
reorganization of the senate commit
tees. a disposition was manifested to
resist the demand of the republican
senators for increased representation
upon the leading committees, but no
definite conclusion was reached
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Million Dollar Fire at Augusta. Ga.

Augusta. Ga, Dec. IA fire which
had its origin in dry goods store
here shortly after two o'clock yester-
day morning, burned four hours and
laid waste a solid block in the center
of the business portion of the city.
The damage will approximate $1,000
000. There were no casualties.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

Secretary of State Lesueur has, with
the expenditure of a great deal of Ia
bor, compiled a pamphlet containing
all the banking laws of Missouri and
all statutes which are collateral to the
banking laws. This he has annotated
quite copiously beyond the annota-
tions of the Revised Statutes, and at
tached thereto n full, complete and
convenient index.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Anothcr Indictment.

| Lansing, Mich, Dec. 10.-The grand
jury returned another indictment and
adjourned until Monday. The name of
the person indicated is suppressed, but
IL is surmised that the respondent is q
former state official.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

Surgeon-General Sternberg has pre-
pared a bill for presentation to cor
gress providing for material increase
OF the medical department of the army
to meet the greatly increased demands
OF the existing military organization.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

Purchases of mules in America by
the British government seem likely
to upset the calculations of American
livestock men. 1t is said orders have
been received to purchase 10000 more
animals. Almost this many have al
ready been shipped from southern
points
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Rfg Snle of Wool.

The larges sale of wool ever made
In the west was completed at st. Louis,
the other day, when more that a mill
ion pounds were bought for syndi-
cate of eastern mills.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

The secretary of the treasury, on the
Sth, ordered the purchase of silver
bullion for the special mintage of the
Lafayette souvenir dollar 1t is almost
certain that the coins will be delivered
to subscribers before Christmas.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Prices Advancing.

Manufacturers are advancing the
prices of all dry goods, and ST. Louis
wholesale firms have difficulty in plac-
ing orders for immediate delivery.
Joseph Brown. of ST. Louis.
Former Mayor Joseph Bra:Nn, of st.
Louis, died at his home on Olive street.
He had been ailing for many weeks,
and the end was not unexpected.
A Costly Throw.
DR.. J. Walter Gully was fined $3.50
in ST. Louis for throwing a dead infant
into a sewer. He said the mother had
no means of burying it.
Doll Show.
ST. Louis has had a doll show. Tbs
prettiest doll was given doll stove;
the second, china dinner set, and the
third doll baby buggy.
Coming West for Thoroushbreds.
Alice Prince, thoroughbred short
morn bull. was sold by L. j. Wallace &
Sons, of Bunceton, to Aaron Barber, of
Avon, n. Y, for $4,000.
A Big ChrI.tmas Dinner.
The Salvation army at ST. Louis is
preparing to give Christmas dinner
to ut least 5000 persons, who would
otherwise go hungry.
Defunct seda1ia Bank.
The comptroller of the currency has
ordered that the affairs of the defunct
First national bank at Sedalia be
wound up at once.
For Forging His Wife's Name.
A ST. Louis man was arrested,
charged with forging his wife's name
to check for $3.50.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

There was filed in the county clerks
Office in Jersey City, n. J., on the 9TH,
a mortgage for $12,2s2,OoO, given by
the Guayaquil & Quito Railway Co.
TO the United States Mortgage and
Trust Co. of New York, to secure an
issne of bonds in that sum payable in
80 years and bearing six per cent. in
terest, principal and interest payable
in gold.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14

The United States Deep Waterways
commission was in session at Detroit,
Mich, on the 5th, preparing a pre-
limniary report, asked for by the sec
retary of war, requesting the commits
sioners' recommendations as to reg
ulation and sustaining of lakes levels
and the effect thereon of the Chicago
enceS.
Iron County register., 1899-12-14
Spanish Prisoners at Man,1.

Madrid, Dec. 11.-An official dispatch
from Manila says that 229 Spaniards
who were formerly prisoners in the
hands of the Filipinos have arriv~6 q
there