Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-03-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

| In the senate, on the 18th, Senator
| Cockrell introduced a bill to increase
the limit of cost for the purchase of
a site and the erection of a public
| building at Joplin, Mo-, to sos, COO;
also memorial of the eastern or emil
| grant Cherokees, praying for the pay
ment to them per capita of the fund
| pledged to them by the ninth article
OF the treaty of 1916, and found due
them by the award of the legislative
department of the United States as
authorized by act of congress of March
3, 1898. The house spent the greater
portion of the session in pronouncing
eulcgies upon the late Monroe L. Hay
ward, senator-elect from Nebraska,
who died before taking the oath of Of
fee
After prolonged elaboration upon
the Russian demands for exclusive
railroad rights in Asia Minor, the
sublime porte has proposed compro-
mise whereby the railways would be
constructed by Turkey and Russia in
partnership. The Russian embassy in
sists upon the original demands, which
the Turkish military commission
sIIeEuOuSly OppoSSu.
In official and diplomatic circles in
Washington a denial is authorized of
published reports that there have been
conferences with a view to the dis.
patch of additional war ships and
United States soldiers to China, and
that news of the gravest character had
been received from the United States
minister to China.
Mrs. Ida Greycraft, the largest
woman in Indiana, died suddenly at
her home in Russiaville, on the 18th,
aged 80 years. She was sitting at
table with her husband, Joseph Grey
craft, playing dominoes, when she fell
from her chair dead. Her weight was
about five hundred and fifty pounds.
Frank Cass, IS years old, was killed
at Levin Lakes, Cal, on the 18th, in
friendly boxing bout with Bert Whid-
den. In the eighth round Whidden
struck Cass with a six-ounce glove on
the left side of the neck. Death result
ed in half an hour.
Capt. Joseph Nicholson, for 81 years
of correction, died on the 18th. The
captain was widely distinguished as
an organizer and manager of prison
industries.
Gen. Sir William Stephen Alexander
Lockhart, commander-in-chief of the
British forces in India, died in CAL
cutta on the Goth. He was born in
1841.
In the senate, on the 10th, the iegis-
lative, executive and judicial appropri-
alton bill, carrying more than $25,OOO,-
900, was passed without debate. The
measure providing for the appoint
ment of committee to adjudicate and
settle claims of the people of the
United States growing out of the war
with Spain, was also passed without
opposition. In the house the major
ity refused to concur in the senate
amendment to the Puerto Rican relief
bill, The most of the session was de-
voted to District of Columbia bust
ness.
The total amount of old bonds
turned into the treasury, on the 10th,
in exchange for the new twO-per-
cents, was S27, OOO, 900. making the total
to that date 100000. Of the entire
amount all but $2,S63, 500 was on be
half of national banks which already
had bonds on deposit to secure cir
culation or public deposits or both.
AT Ardmore, l. T., on the 10th, Unit
ed States Judge Hosea Townsend is
sueoi an order committing Thomas I.
Sanders, formerly of Wynnewood, I.
T., to Jail for contempt of the referee
that he shall remain in Jail until he
can account for missing goods valued
at $4,000.
Consul Halstead, at Birmingham,
England, has reported to the state de-
partment the formation of bleaching
trust in that city, with capitalization
of SsO,OOO,OOO or $6O,GOO,O0O, with the
avowed object of preventing individual
concerns indulging in sharp practices,
cutting prices, discount, etc.
The president has amended the civil
service rules so as to provide that
person who has been transferred from
a classified position to an unclassitied
position in the insular possessions I'M
der the control of the United States
NAV return to the classified service at
any time.
The verdict of the Prussian minister
of railways upon the American loco
motives that were tried in Bavaria re-
Gently, is that Notwithstanding their
faultless construction, they cost con-
siderably less than locomotives OF
similar style of Prussian make"
Arthur P. Greedy, assistant commits
s;orar Of DateptS RESIGNED his posi-
ton, on the 10th, to embark in private
business.
Five deaths have recently occurred
in Adelaide, South Australia. from
what is suspected to be the blbonic
plague.