Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

| In the senate on the 18th, no bust
ness of Importance was transacted in
the open session, almost the entire
Legislative day being spent in execu-
tive session in further consideration
of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, Senator
Tellercontinuinghis argument against
the Instrument. In the house the
war revenue reduction bill was passed
without the concurrence of the mi
nority, who refrained from voting.
The pension appropriation bill, carry
ing $145, 145,2 3O, was passed in exactly
13 minutes.
Two negroes were hanged to a tree
and riddled with bullets, by a frenzied
mob at Rockport, Ind, on the 10th.
Bud Rowlands, before he was strung
up, confessed to the murder of Hollie
Simons, a white barber, and implicated
as accessories Jim Henderson and an
other colored man. Henderson was
hanged, but when the mob went for
the third victim, the l~atter's employer
convinced them of his innocence by
proving an alibi. This fact throws
grave doubt upon the guilt of hen-
derson, who strongly affirmed his in
~nocence to the last.
The German training frigate Gneise-
nau %foundered off Malaga, IS miles
northeast Of Gibraltar, on the 10th.
The vessel was overtaken by a violent
Storm, and went to the bottom, the
masts only remaining above water.
From shore the cadets could be seen
clinging to the rigging and calling for
help, but rapidly fell off and disap-
peared beneath the waves. The cap
tain and, it is believed, 40 of the peo-
pie on board were drowned.
According to the Berlin Lokal An
zeiger so Cape Colony Beers, now in
Amsterdam with their families, have
been granted permission to settle in
herman Southwest Africa, the Ger
man government having asseuted to
the purchase of lands by them IN
Damaraland and Great Namaquinland.
The Beers will leave Amsterdam Jan
uary ).
lust as negotiations were about to
be opened at Pekin, the British min
lister, under instructions from his gov
ernment. demanded the modification
OF a point in the joint note. which
will cause much delay, as all the MN
listers must, as a result,
anew with their governments.
Andrew Carnegie is considering the
gift of a sum sufficient to endow a
school for librarians at Winona, Ind,
and it is said he looks on the plan With
favor
In the senate, on the 18th, during an
open session of one hour, only the
- z-k:.o l,e;rac, xuoS frnn ga Of
ed. Mr.. Chandler IN. H. created a
little furry by an endeavor to again
get up the resolution relating to the
Montana senatorial case. The effort
was futile. Most of the session was
passed behind closed doors upon the
Hav-P2urcefote treaty.. In the house
several bills dividing and creating jul
dicial districts were passed under sus-
pension of the rules. One hundred and
two private pension bills were passed.
A bill was unanimously passed plac-
ing Representative Charles A.Boutelle,
of Maine. on the retired list as a cap
tain in the navy.
The first political party under the
American regime in the Philippines is
in progress of formation. Its princi-
L DICS hdNC otOA IL -
form which will shortly be made pub
lie. 1t is understood that the declara'
tions of the platform give the fullest
recognition to American sovereignty
and also favor a considerable degree
of native autonomy concerning IN
+ ternal and local affairs.
The Rockport (Ind.) mob which
= lynched two colored men, on the 10th
for the alleged murder of a white bar
Der named Simon, followed the thlrt
negro suspected of completely in tn
crime, to Bonneville, Ind, where h
had been taken for ~safe-keeping, Oh
the 18th, and, after batterlng a hol
in the side of the Jail, took their vic
+ tim to the Jail yard and hung him also
Justice Henry r. Beekman, of tn
New York supreme court, died L
front of his residence in New 1or
city on the 18th. lie had just left hi
q house to go to court. 1t is though
r that death was due to heart diseas
caused by overwork. Mr.. Beekma
was SIS years old. He was born in Ne
York, and lived there all his life.
h 1t is apprehended at the state d.
=. partment that the reported intentio
K of Great Britain to press, at this me
ment, for q settlement of the claim
of her citizens against Turkey wi
have a disastrous effect upon our ow
negotiations in the interests of til
!. American missions.
1t The taking of testimony in the ca:
IS of Oscar L. Booz, the West Point G.
Diet, who died recently from injuri'
II which his parents allege were inflicte
e at the West Point military academ
TO was begun, on the nth, by the boar
of inquiry appointed by h secreta'
of war.