Iron County register., 1899-03-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


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In the senate, on the 4th, the session
of the last Legislative day of the ses-
sion, begun on the Sd, was continued
and concluded. Conference reports on
the river and harbor, the District o.:
Columbia, the naval and the sundry
civil appropriations bills were made, in
each of which the house refused to re-
cede from its position, and the senate,
after discussion, made the necessary
concessions, and the bills were passed.
Just before final adjournment an eX-
ecutive session was held, after which,
with the usual formalities, the senate
adjourned sine die. In the house the
final conference reports on pending ap-
preparation bills were adopted, and, af-
ter the usual closing ceremonies, in
cluding complimentary message from
the president, which was received with
cheers, the house adjourned without
day.
The official statement of Representa-
tive Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois,
chairman of the house appropriations
committee, summing up the appropr1-
ations OF the Fifty-ffth congress,
shows an aggregate appropriation by
the entire congress of $780, $780,
O16, and for the session just closed
a total of $673, 3,65S, 400, with authority
for contracts subject to future appro-
priations amounting to S70,0OO,OOO.
The naval powder magazine of La
Goubran, between La Seyne and Tou-
| Ion, in the department of Var, south
ern France, exploded at 2:30 a. IN. of
the 5th. All the soldiers on duty at
the magazine were killed, and num-
Der of inhabitants of the surrounding
district, the buildings in which were
razed, also fell victims. Fifty persons
are thought to have been killed and 100
| injured.
Little attention is paid in Rome to
the refusal of the Chinese government
to grant the requested lease of San
Nun bay, to be useda as an Italian naval
base and coaling station. No doubt is
entertained by the Italian government
that the concession will be made after
further negotiations.
Three persons were killed and
number injured by a cyclone that Wis
tied and devastated portion of Madi-
sonville, Monroe county, Tenn, on the
night of the 4th. The damage to prop
erty is estimated at S1,OO0,00O.
The Spanish cabinet council, on the
5th. decided to suppress the pensions
Of all former ministers. Senor Silvela,
the new premier, says the government
has begun at tie top in setting an e1+
ample of economy.
Capt. Baxter, quartermaster of the
deps rtment of the Missouri, received
telegraphic orders from the war de-
partment. on the 9th, to at once ar
range for transportation from Fort
Crook to San Francisco Of the battal-
ion of the Sixteenth infantry, now
CHARTERED there. The entire regiment
has been ordered to Manila.
Eight miners, loaded with food and
mail, left Leadville, Col, on the 9th,
for Kollomo, on snow shoes. Twenty
two men also carried large quantity
of provisions from Pando to hokomo,
removing the fear of starvation in the
towns on the two abandoned railroads,
the South Park and the Blue River.
The proposed constitutional conven-
ton for Alabama is being vigorously
opposed by the republicans of the
state, who claim that the convention
will disfranchise the negro and other
wise embarrass their rights. The con-
vention will be held in August.
Forty-one thousand officers and men
of the combined army and naval forces
comprise the approximate total Amer
lean strength, now at, en- route to and
under orders for service at the Philip
pines No further reinforcements are
now in contemplation.
Prof. Lewis Swift wires from Lowe
observatory on Echo )Sountain, in
southern California, that the comet
which he discovered, on the Sd, is
growing fainter.
Josephine Kipling, eldest child OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, died,
On the 9th, of pneumonia, at the home
of Mrs. De Forest, in East Thirty-ffth
street, New York city.
Prof. w. +. Wood, of the University
of Wisconsin, the originator of the
electrical thaw, has discovered new
method of photographng in natural
cciors by diffraction.
The United States transport Grant,
which sailed from New York on Janu-
arv 10, with reinforcements for the
Philippine islands, arrived at Singa-
pore on the 9th.
An insurgent attempt, on the 9th, to
caDture the waterworks at Manila was
repulsed with a rebel loss of II killed
and many wounded.
Many overdue steamers arrived at
New York on the 9th.
The United States transport Grant,
which sailed from New York on Janu-
ary 10, with reinforcements OF troops
for the Philippine islands, arrived at
Singapore on the 9Th