Iron County register., 1900-02-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

between Italy and the United States.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
IT the senate, on the 10th, a reso1u-
ton expressing sympathy for the
Beers, offered by Mr.. Alien (Neb.) was
rushed through by the handful of sem
atol: present before its meaning was
fully comprehended. A moment later
the vote by which it was passed was
reconsidered amid much laughter. Dis
cussion of the financial bill was con-
| tinued. The house was not in ses-
| sion.
Representative w. S. Knox, of MaSsa-
chusetts, chairman of the house COM
mjttee on territories, completed his re-
port on the bill for the creation for
territorial form of government in Ha-
| wall, and, on the 18th, submitted it to
the house. The report is a very
voluminous document, going exhaust
iyely into all tho questions involved
and thoroughly covering every phase
of the bill.
The body of Elisha Cone, one of the
oldest newspaper men in Fond du Lac,
WIS, was found frozen in the river in
that city on the 11th. Mr.. Cone had
been missing for 4s hours. Up to the
time of his disappearance he was edi-
tor of the Fond du Lac Daily News. He
was graduate of Yale college.
A commission has been gazetted in
Havana, consisting of Mayor Lacoste,
president; Senor Estrada y Mora, vice
resident; Senor Cancio and Fathers
Paraga, Noardez and Canova, and
Messrs. Ernest Lee Conant and Osgood
Smith, with power to draw up a new
charter for that city.
The president had for his guest, on
the 18th, his venerable friend, Bishop
WGldron, of Cincinnati, it being the
latter's birthday. The bishop sat with
the president in his pew at the Metro
politan church, and after the sermon
dined with the president and his fam
lily.
All Feeroun Bey, the Turkish minis
te- to the United States, arrived ut
New York on La Gascogne, on the 10th,
and left at once for Washington. Min
lister Feeroun was accompanied by his
wife and sister-in-law, who were
drC ssed in Turkish fashion.
Benton G. Boone, attorney general of
Missouri in 1884, and formerly mem-
ber OF the Legislature, died at his home
in Clinton, Mo-, on the 18th, of heart
disease. He was born in 1888, in Gallo
way county, Mo.
The funeral of L. NJ. Fairbanks, IA
ther of Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana,
was held, on the 10th, at the family
residence in Springfield. o. The in.
terment was in Ferncliff cemetery.
In the senate, on the 18th, the final
weeks discussion of the financial bill
was entered upon, Mr.. Elkins (rep., W.
Vs.). advocating the passage of the
measure; Mr.. Wolcott (rep., Col.), fa-
yoring bimetallism, and Mr.. Butler
(pop., n. c., urging the adoption
of his amendment providing for an
issue of paper currency by the govern
ment. >. In the house a bill was passed
to make universally applicable the law
that now permits the transit of goods
in bond through certain ports of the
United States. The bill also repeals
the law prohibiting the shipment Of
goods in bond to the Mexican free zone.
Private pension bills and District of
Columbia business occupied the re-
mainder of the session.
In the United States circuit court of
appeals in Cincinnati, on the 18th,
Judge w. H. Taft heard arguments for
over three hours on the applications
for injunctions against the Kentucky
state board of election commissioners |
and the contestants for the state Of |
fees other than governor and ieuten- |
ant-governor. He reserved his decision |
until the 14th.
The total value of imports into the |
Island of Puerto Rico from the date |
of American occupation to December |
81, 1899, was $12, ,191 SEQ, and the total |
value of exports from the island dur
ing the same period was S11 $3.50, ,sO7. |
The United States furnished $4,6s7, $50 |
of the imports and took $3,5O2,766 of |
the exports.
Lincoln's birthday was generally |
throughout the country, on |
its ninety-frst anniversary, on the
18th, by club banquets and patriotic |
poeches. Among other things that
marked the increasing interest in this |
event was the fraternizing at many |
points of ex-confeder4ites and union
lists.
Gov. Roosevelt of New York has Civ
en- out a statement relative to the vice
in which he declares that |
he will not accept the honor under |
any circumstances. He feels that his /
duty to the party that elected him
governor and to the state requires that |
he should fill out his term of Office.
The board of directors of the Kan
sas state penitentiary have decided to
hereafter sell the entire output of |
binding twine of the prison direct to
the farmers. The plan will become
effective after March 20. There is now
mors than $4,000 pounds of twine in
stock at the prison warehouse.