Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-04-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the senate, on the 31st, action
| upon amendments TO the Puerto Rican
bill was completed, with the exception
of two, which were laid over until the
I'd by request. 1t was agreed to vote
upon the pending amendments and the
bill at four o'clock on the Sd. The
feature of the session was an exhaust
i've speech on the pending measure by
Mr. Fairbanks Qnd.); who unequivo-
cally supported the bill. In the house
the Notifications appropriation bill,
carrying S7,O93, 48S, was passed with
out Il single amendment having been
offered to the measure as reported
from committee. 4 resolution was
adopted to re-elect the present board
of managers of the National Soldiers
home.
The Chinese government has set
tied" the controversy arising out OF
the murder, on December 3 last, of
Rev. Brooks, of the Church Missionary
society, on the following terms: Two
OF the murderers will be beheaded, one
in, pr:soned for life, one for ten years
ana another for two years. a memorial
chapel will be erected upon the site
OF the murder, and a tablet will be
placed in Canterbury cathedral, Eng
land, at the expense of the Chinese
government.
tt treaties commission of the Ital-
ian chamber of deputies has approved
the reciprocity arrangement under the
third section of the Dingley act,
signed last February in Washington,
By Baron Fava, the Italian ambassa-
dor, and John A. Kasson, special plen-
ipctentiary for the United States.
The sealing steamer Newfoundland
arrived at ST. Johns, on the 1st, with
81, 900 seals. She reported that the re-
mainder of the fleet were adding daily
to the catches already reported. The
steamer Iceland was so heavily loaded
that several thousand seals were car
rie.i Oh her deck.
The United States transport Sher-
man sailed from Manila, on the 1st,
with a battalion of the Fourteenth in
fantry, Captains Richard T. Yeatman,
Armand L. Lasseigne and William S.
Biddle, Lieutenants Robert Field and
Oliver, IT'S military prisoners and 25
insane.
The boiler of French torpedo boat
exploded near Cherbourg, France, on
the 1st, during forced draught trial.
ard five of the crew were terribly
brrre ed One died and another, unable
- bear the agony, jumped into the
sea and was drowned.
In the senate, on the I'd, more than
seven hours of vigorous debate, before
galleries that were crowded from OPEN
ing to close, was given to the Puerto
Rican tariff and government bill. The
speeches were good and the running
debates unusually bright and lively.
The near approach to the hour at
which the final vote should be taken
lent dramatic interest to every word
that was uttered. In the house
resolution, presented by Mr.. Payne,
the floor leader of the majority, and
which foreshadowed a possible reduc-
ton of the present war taxes, was
adopted. Under suspension of the
rules bills were passed opening to set
tlement 41S,OOO acres in the Fort
Hall Indian reservation and 2,500,000
acres in Oklahoma and dividing the
northern judicial district of New York
into two districts.
The monthly statement of the public
debt, issued on the I'd, showed that at
the close of business March 81, 1900,
the debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to S1,112, 256, 35S, a decrease
for the month of S6,629, 7O1. This de-
crease is accounted for by CORE
spending increase in the cash on hand.
Owing to the strong representation
OF Bishop Amer, of Shan Tung, Count
Won Buelow, the German foreign sec
Rotary, on Emperor Williams orders,
on the I'd, wired the German minister
AT Pekin, Baron Won Ketteler, to pur-
sue hereafter a more vigorous policy
in China.
The monthly statement of the comp
.troller of the currency shows that at
the close of business March 81, 1900,
the total circulation of national bank
notes was $27O,953,0 6s, an increase for
the year of S27,900,751, and an increase
for the month of $21, 20S, 100.
A dispatch from Berlin, on the I'd,
said: Germany has been sounding
Austro-Hungary, and Italy, her part
nei's in the triple alliance, with refer
ence to the Intervention question. The
reply in each instance has been I'M
favorable.
The revolutionary Venezuelan gen.
era!, Hernandez, has been obliged to
retreat to the banks of the Orinoco,
having suffered a new and decisive
overthrow 16 miles from Ciudad Bali
Vas.
Navigation on the upper Mississip-
p; river was declared opened, on tie
I'd. with the arrival of the w. j. Young,
the first boat Of the season, at Musca-
tire, La.