Iron County register., 1900-03-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the senate, on the 10th, the Dip
| lomatiC and consular appropriation
| bill was further considered, amended
| in few minor particulars and passed.
The remainder of the session was de-
voted to eulogies of the late Monroe
L. Hayward. :. . In the house an agree
| ment was reached to take up the bill
providing a government for Hawaii on
April 3, the final vote to be taken on
April 5, at p. m. Consideration of
the ise-1oung contested-election
case occupied the remainder of the ses-
sion.
The democrats in Kentucky have COM
menCed organizing and equipping
force of militia with which to oppose
the state militia under Gov. Taylor.
should the latter, as it was rumored
they would, attempt to arrest Gov.
Beckham. New interest and danger
was added to the situation by the ar
rest of two of the prominent republic
an state officials for whom warrants
had been issued, charging them with
completely in the assassination of Gov.
Goebel.
The will of the late Thomas Henry
Ismay, founder of the White Star Line
Steamship Co., has been probated,
showing a personal estate of 6 ,297,-
ss1. Numerous legacies, in all about
e25, 900, are left to charities, and the
remainder of the estate goes to men,
bers of the family of deceased.
John z. Little, the actor, died in
Brooklyn, on the 11th, aged 62 years.
He was a native of Philadelphia, and
was at one time manager of a theater
in Chicago. He toured the whole Unit
ed States with his company, produc-
ing Around the World in Ninety
Days.
Christ Bauer was murdered by Ernst
Meyers, his brother-in-law, 80 miles
east of Sioux City, Ia, on the night of
the 10th. Both men were farmers.
Bauer met death in defending his
mother, with whom Meyers had picked
a quarrel. Meyers had been drinking.
Addison c. Rand, president of the
Rand Drill Co. and treasurer of the
Latin 4 Rand Powder Co., died in New
York city, on the 18th. aged SO years.
Fire, on the 11th, completely wipel
out all the business houses in RedfelG,
Ia, or the south side of Main street.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
The United States cruiser Philadel-
phia sailed from San Francisco for
San Diego, Cal, on the 11th.
Three fresh cases of bubonic plague
were officially reported in Sydney, N.
S. W., on the 11th.
In the senate, on the 18th, Mr.. Raw
Inns (Utah) occupied the floor during
almost the entire session in a discus
sion of the Philippine question. He
went deeply into the constitutions
phases of the question. His argument
was largely legal and technical. He is
opposed to the holding of the Philip
pines. Eighty-siX private pension
bills were passed. In the house, an
urgency deficiency appropriation bill,
carrying $1,439, $50, was passed. In the
contested-election case from the Sec
ond district of Virginia, r. a. Wise
(rep.) was given the seat occupied by
w. A. Young (dem.) by a majority of
seven votes.
The Sheldon edition of The Topeka
Capital began its one weeks illustra-
ton of what it's editor believes Jesus
would do as publisher of modern
metropolitan newspaper on the 18th.
Whatever may prove to be the result
in other particulars, there is no ques-
ton of its being 4 very profitable
venture from a money-making stand
point, the support extended to it from
Christians and well-wishers all over
the world being phenominal.
The attitude nf ha RritiSh- Onyarn-
ment on the Hay-Pauncefcte treaty is
that, having agreed to all of Secre-
tary Hays requests, without asking
for quid pro quo, it can do nothing
more, nor express any opinion until
new requests are made through the
same channel. AS nothing of the kind
had been done, no notice could be
taken of the senatorial action.
An empty beer keg surmounted by
a dynamite bomb was found by the
police of Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the
18th, on the floor of St. Paul's church.
Rev. Mr.. Lockwood, the pastor, has
been active in opposition to the sa-
loon petition now circulating, and it
is inferred that the keg and the bomb
were intended as a warning.
The strained relations growing out
of the disgraceful political situation in
kentucky were distinctly improved, ON
the 18th, by more moderate action on
the part of the principal agents, and
as but one day of the legislature re-
manned. hope was strong that the
crisis might pass without bloodshed.
The Transvaal, having appealed to
Germany, in common with other ma
tons, for mediation or Intervention in
the war with Great Britain, Germany
replied. on the 18th, that she declined
to interfere, as she is in no way con-
the world being phenominal.