Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-01-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Alexander Bradford Upshaw died,
on the Sth, at his home in New York
lefty, aged As years. He was a native
of Holly Springs, Mass; had been con-
nected with the Nashville American; ;
was appointed commissioner of Indian
affairs in 1889 by Secretary Lamar,
and was afterward Calvin S. Brice's
political and business manager in
Ohio.
Frederick Silberg, one of the most
famous Knights of Pythias in the
country, died at his home in Cleve-
land, o., on the Sth. Silberg was six
fleet five inches tall and weighed $40
pounds. He was, one of the aXmen
known as 1.-The Big Five" and he had
for years led the parade at the ma
tional encampment.
According to the statements of peo-
Iple who have arrived at Hong Kong
from the Island of Balabac, south of
the Island of Palawan, there is no
truth in the report that the Spaniards
there had been massacred by the Fill
lpinos. They say the story is an in
vention of priests to prejudice the
Filipino cause.
1t was announced, on the Sth, that
George A. Armour, of the class of II,
had given $4,000 to Princeton univer-
sity to found a classical library. For
the next three years he will give $2,700
ANNUALLY for the further support of
the department. Mr.. Armour went to
Princeton from Chicago in 1894.
William Endicot, aged 100 years,
died at Beverly, Mass, on the
Sth. He was an eyewitness of the en-
gagement between the trigates Chesa-
lpeake and Shannon, June 1, 1913, and
was of the sixth generation from Gov.
Endicot, of Massachusetts Bay colony.
Bailer Decker, colored, who muir
dered his wife near Tottenville, Staten
Island, n. J., last March, was electro
cuted at Sing Sing prison, on the 9th,
Gov. Roosevelt having refused to in
terfere in his behalf.
| b. F. Fifield, in an interview, on the
sth, said that he had not accepted the
appointment as senator, and would
not give his answer to Gov. Smiths
offer until he had fully considered it.
Miss Sophie Dallas, daughter of
George NJ. Dallas, who was vice-presi-
dent of the United States under Pres
ident Polk, died in Philadelphia, on
the Sth, in her seventy-siXth year.
The Oregon Legislature convened at
Salem on the 9th. Both houses were
organized at the special session in Oc-
tober last, and it is probable that Or
ganization will be continued.
In the senate, on the 9th, Senator
Hoar (rep-, Mass.) delivered a strong
and lengthy speech in opposition to
the proposed acquisition of the Philip
pines. At the conclusion of Mr.. Hoar's
speech, Senator Platt rep, Comm re-
piled briefly to some points of the
speech which had been addressed di-
rectly at him, and reiterated his for
mer statement that the United States
has the power to acquire and govern
foreign territory. Mr.. Caffery con-
cluded his speech in opposition to the
Nicaragua canal bill. -. In the house
the provision in the Legislative, eXecu-
tive and judicial bill for the support
of the civil service commission, strick-
en- out in committee of the whole, was
restored. The house proceeded with
the consideration of the bill for the
codification CT the laws of Alaska.
Oracle File, seven years old, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch File,
of Kansas City, Kas., has won her suit
against that city. On June 25, 1895.
while playing in the street in front of
her home. the child took hold of a live
electric light wire, which was dangling
from a pole in the street, and received
a shock that almost killed her, and as
a result of which she is now
cripple. The court allowed her So 600.
By head-end collision between two
passenger trains on the Lehigh Val
ley railroad at West Dunellen. n. j.,
On the 9th, IS persons were killed and
over 25 were injured. A freight wreck
which had occurred some time before,
on the east-bound tracked forced east
bound trains to make the distance be-
tween switches, six miles, on the west
bound track. a train dispatcher's
blunder did the rest.
The safe containing S1I,50O which
Chad Stowell, inmate of the Hutchin-
son (Kas.) reformatory, in a confess
sion made on the 18th, said ne helped
take in the Missouri Pacific train rob-
berry at Leeds, in September, and bur-
led near Gallatin, was not found by
Chief Strauss and Sheriff Cook of To-
peka, after diligent search.
Secretary Wilson of the agricultural
says there is no doubt
that the discussion of the allegations
made to the quality of the beef fur
nished to the army will give setback
to the negotiations that have been
making for years for removal of Euro
pean restrictions on our products.
The Twelfth regular infantry-the
heroes of FL Caney-will soon leave
Jefferson Barracks, No., for the Phil ,