Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

| The senate was not in session on the
2Cth. :. In the house an hourwas spent
in dlsposipg of bills fayorably report
ed. Among those passed were the
measures to build the League Island
and Mare Island dry docks of stone
instead of timber. The reports on the
Roberts case were also received. An
hour was given to pronouncing
eulogies on the late Representative
Danford, of Ohio.
News from the seat of war III South
| Africa, on the 21st, indicated the
steady advance of Gen. Buffers army.
by way of the right flank of the Boer
army. toward Ladysmith. The latter,
| co1rtesting every foot of ground, were
| gradually forced backward until the
! boorI of the guns bombarding Lady
smith could be plainly heard. The
courage displayed on both sides was
| described as magnificent.
| Tardy details were received, on the
21st, of earthquake shocks in Mexico,
| during the night of the 10Th In the
city of Colima and Guadara lara, much
damage to theaters and churches and
| public and private buildings was done.
Ia the former city seven persons are
repC rted killed and 60 injured. In the
| City of Mexico. the damage was less
severe, and in Vera Cruz the shock was
comparatively slight.
y committee of Danish farmers has
sent to the princess of Wales $4,000
boxes of choice butter for the British
soldiers il South Africa She has ac-
cepted the gift in the name of the
sick and wounded, and returned
complimentary message, which con-
cludes with the phrase: Especially
as ii is present from my native coun-
try. Denmark"
Mail advices from Negros bring par
ticrlars Of the uprising last month in
the southern partof the island in which
Lieut.. \. c. Ledyard, Sixth infantry,
was killed. Instead of being an unim-
portant revolt of native police. as was
1irst reported, it appears to have been
ali attempt, on the part of the autono-
nous government, to overthrow Amer
ican authority.
Osman Digna, principal general of
the late khalifa Abduhla, who was
captured recently in the hills near
Tokar, was taken to SuaIlim, on the
2lst, and imprisoned.
Rev. DIR. Henry Sharpe, prominent
Presbyterian clergyman, died at his
home in Philadelphia, on the 21st.
aged IS years. He was born at
CadiX, o.
In the senate, on the 22d. but little
business was transacted. the day be-
oil IN
oratory Mr. Prichard delivered L
carefully-prepared address on the race
question in the south, and Mr.. Turner
SPOKE on the Philippine question:
In the house the session lasted but 40
minutes, and nothing of public inter-
est was done. \ few District of CO.
lumbia bills of minor Importance were
passed.
Representative Henry. of Texas, in
tTCduced Il bill in the house, on the
@2L, to provide n form of government
for the territory of Puerto Rico. 1t
provides an executive branch, consist
ing OF governor and secretary, and d
Legislative branch of two houses, viz
council of - members and a house OF
representatives of 20 members.
In the Swedish budget, which ball
arces nearly 15O,OOO,OOO kroner, and
which is the largest on record. King
Oscar asks for 46 new batteries of ar
tillery by the end of 1908. One hum
drcd thousand new Mausers are to be
manufactured and 50,0O0.000 cartridges,
to be in store within four years.
i number of small creditors of Har-
per & Bro, printers and publishers of
New York, for whom areceiyer was APP
pointed in the supreme court on De-
cember 4, 1899. have asked in the Unit
ed States court that the concern be adj
judged bankrupt, because it could not
pas its debts.
Maj. Johnson, with two companies
of the Forty-siXth regiment, and Mai.
Muir, with three companies of the
Thirty-eighth, defeated 500 Filipinos
at Taal, in the southern province of
Batangas, LuZon, on the goth. They
captured three cannon and many other
arms.
In the executive session of the SEN
ate, on the 22d, Senator Jones (Ark.) |
gave notice that at the next executive |
session he would call up his motion to
reconsider the vote by which the Sa-
moan treaty was ratified.
Andrew Carnegie offers to give $751; |
900 to the Leavenworth (kas.) public |
library. on condition that the city fur |
nish "a site for the building and agrees |
to pay $4,000 to $1,000 year for its
maintenance.
The drainage board of Chicago, on
the ed, appointed ex-Congressman |
VIA. NJ. Springer, of Washington, to |
take charge of the legal side of the |
drainage canal for the sanitary dis
trics.