Iron County register., 1900-02-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The senate was not in session on the
27th. :. In the house an hour was Civ
en- to eulogies of the late Representa-
tive Baird, of Louisiana, and beyond
this no business of Importance was
| trial sacted.
Alma NJ. Bowen, dean of the Wom-
ems Hall at the Northwestern univer-
sity. in Chicago, died of heart disease
on the 2Sth. She WAS native of Chica-
go, graduate of Cornell university,
and later spent two years in Germany.
AT Leipsic she was the first woman al
lowed the full privileges of the semi
nary. After her return from Germany
she, for a time, did editorial work for
the New York Nation. She was %
yea1s old.
Tw" safe blowers were killed and
third badly wounded by Quincy
! Ul!.) police officers on the night of the
27th. They were pointed out as sus-
poets by the proprietor of the hotel at
which they registered, and when con-
| frol, ted by the police showed fight.
| Burglar tools and skeleton keys were
| found in their baggage and upon their
persons, showing conclusively their
ncfarious calling.
y pro-Boer mass-meeting of citizens
| was held in Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
2Sth, which was attended by about f.,
900 people, despite the fact that the
| thermometer was below zero
On the 2Sth the war department
| madc public an important report from
Capt. w. r. Abercrombie, Second in
fantry, who commanded the Copper
River exploring expedition in Alaska
las5 season. The chief topic treated in
the report is the laying out of the
great trans-Alaskan military route
from Port Valdes, Alaska, to Port Egg
bert, on the Yukon.
report on our Asiatic trade, pre-
pared by Mr.. Frank ii. Hitchcock, chief
of the foreign markets section of the
agricultural department, shows that
there has been a great development of
our trade with China and Japan during
the past decade, the year 1899 breaking
ali records. 1t is the exports that are
increasing, imports scarcely holding
their own.
Gen. Buffers dispatch to the London
war Office, on the 2Sth, stated that
o. lack of water, inability to get ar
tillery there, and the heavy Boer fire.
His whole force withdrew south of the
Tugela river with the evident intention
OF reaching Ladysmith by another
route.
In the senate, on the Goth, Mr.. Mason
(rep., In.) arraigned the British vice
consul at New Orleans because, in an
interview, the vice-consul had assailed
him for the position he had taken in
behalf of the Transvaal republic. Mr..
Ho;,r (rep., Mass.) deprecated any at
tack upon Great Britain or the English
people. Mr.. Tillman (dem., S. c.
spoke on the Philippines question, ad-
ocating self-government under Amer
lean protection. In the house the
bill for the reorganization and i'm
provement of the weather bureau, with
pensions for disabled employees, was
sidctracked on a test vote OF 81 to 53.
The Sulzer resolution to investigate
Secretary Gage, was sent to the ways
and means committee.
The steel department of Phillips,
Nim;ck & Co.'S mill on West Carson
street, Pittsburgh, Pa, was damaged
badly by an explosion, on the goth,
and several men were injured, five of
them being mutilated almost beyond
recognition. One of the victims died
soon after being removed from the
wreck, and it was thought several 9th
ers would succumb. The property
damage was enormous.
In accordance with the policy of re-
Leasing all the chartered transports on
their return from the Philippines, the
quartermaster general, on the 2Sth, di-
rected an inspection of the City of
Pekin, City of Sydney and the Tacoma,
with a view of putting them out of
commission as government transports.
The house committee on mileage, on
the goth, discussed the claim of Brig
ham FL. Roberts for mileage, which
amounts to about $1,000. majority
of the committee are of opinion that
he i, not entitled to this money, as he
was not sworn in.
Six fishermen were carried out on
the ice, on the goth, just north of
Menominee, Wis. When last seen they
were six miles out, and drifting to-
ward the lake rapidly. Prospects of
rescuing the unfortunate men were
considered small.
a favorable report was made from
the house naval committee, on the
2eth,, on the bill to restore the historic
frigate Constitution, the cost to be
borne by patriotic societies of Massa-
chusettS.
The senate, in executive session, on
the 29th, decided, by vote of 21 to SS.
not to reconsider the vote by which
the Samoan treaty was ratified.
President Mckinley was 81 years old
on the goth.