Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-04-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
In the senate, on the 18th, almost
the entire session was devoted to con-
sideraticn of an amendment TO the In
dian appropriation bill providing for
the continuance of the government
employment of contract Indian schools.
The debate took n wide range, the
whole question of sectarian schools be-
ing gone over ut length. LIN the
house Il resolution was adopted calling
upon the secretary of war for infornla-
ton as to whether Charles Z. MagOcu,
The legal advisor of the insular Eu-
reau, had ever rendered an opinion
that, by the treaty with Spain, the con
@titutiuu was extended over Puerto
Rico and the Philippines. The session
vas largely devoted 10 eulogics Of the
late Richard Parks Bland, for % years
a member o. the house.
Fred Titus, proprietor of the Depot
restaurant at Peru, Ind, was proba-
bly, fatally stabbed. and his brother
Steve seriously cit, on the Sth, by two
unknown men. The men, who We're
intoxicated, refused to pay for their
lunch, and insuited Mrs. Fred Titus.
They were driven away, but later re-
turned, when the stabbing occurred.
Fire, on the 6th, partly destroyed
the piano and organ factory of the
NJ. Schultz Co., corner Morgan and
Superior streets, Chicago, entailing d
loss of $4,000, covered by insurance.
The cause is thought to have been
spontaneous combustion.
Capt. Charles d. Sigsbee, U. S. N,
arrived at st. Paul, Mimi, ON he 8h,
from Fargo and the Red River valley,
and after a quiet day at his hotel in
that city, left at night for Chicago,
en- route to Washington.
The rural free delivery system of the
post office department has grown to
such proportions that it has been
found necessary to create two new di-
visions, making four in all, to proper
ly handle it.
Five men were garroted in Ponce,
Puerto Rico, on the 18th. Subsequent
ly the execution platform was broken
up by crowd of relic hunters, who
carried away the fragments as me-
mentoes.
The Berlin papers publish Wash
ington dispatch with reference to the
converting of a second Pan-American
congress, and comment upon the pro-
posal in rather unfavOrable terms.
4 bi-weekly oriental express train
from Berlin to Constantinople will be-
gin running April 30, making the dis
lance in 81 hours.
In the senate. on the 9th, the Indian
appropriation bill. carrying $S,41i,0O0,
was passed without division, the sec
tartan school amendment being reject
cd by vote of 30 to 16. An unsuccess-
full effort WAS made to fix date for
vote on the resolution to seat MIR. Quay
as senator from Pennsylvania. The
Alaskan civil code bill was taken up
and discussed for two hours. In the
house the agricultural bill was unde-
consideration. and was made the
vehicle OF considerable desultory de-
bate on irrelevant topics. Good prog
ress was made with The bill, 25 of the
| 81 pages being covered before adjourn
D1ent.
The Frankfort consulate general re-
ports $9,245,413 exports to the United
| States during the months of January,
February and March, being an in
| crease of over 81 ,O00, 900. For the whole
of Germany, except Dresden, the fig
ures are S27 ,352, 397 for the first quarter
| o: 1900, being an increase of $G,265, $50,
| as compared with the figures for the
corresponding quarter last year.
Plans for erecting the new conven-
ton hall at Kansas City, Mo-, were
| practically completed, on the 9th, and
the work of removing the debris FROM
the site is proceeding actively. The
hall directors have on hand $235,0OC
available for the new building, which
is to cost in the neighborhood of $500,
600.
Banker Geo. L. Magill, of Chicago
who was recently convicted Of receiv
ing deposits when he knew his bant
to be insolvent, was taken to the peni
tertiary at Joliet, H., on the 9th. His
sentence is indeterminate. bu5 he vii
be within the prison walls two year;
at least.
In the case of Morris keim VS.. Tn,
United States the supreme court, Oh
the 9th, decided that the courts have
no supervisory powers over the head
; of departments of the government ii
discharging subordinates. The opin
| ion was handed down by Justice Brew
er.
The will of the late Miss Addie d
Mills, which was filed for probate a
; Middletown, n. Y, on the 9th, be
queathes property worth about tire
hundred thousand dollars to Rev
James O'Connor, of New York, for mis-
sion work.
John Hanlan, well known in Toron
to, Ont, as a vessel owner, and d broth
er to Edward Hanlan, the ex-champiol
oarsman, died suddenly on the sth.