Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-27
LATE NEWS TENS.

| Ah 1C oCAdOCS On GAC G1SUy Vic uCdGn
of Mrs. VIM. P. Frye, wife of the
president pro tenn, was officially an
nounced, and without the transaction
T, of any business, the senate, out of re-
spect to her memory, adjourned.
In h house, after a session of only
25 minutes, during which the death of
Representative Wise, of Virginia, was
announced and the customary resolu-
ton passed and committee appointed,
out of respect to his memory adjourn
ment was taken, under the concur
rent resolution previously adopted,
until January 3, 1901.
After looking up the laws of the
state on prize fighting, Gov. Nash of
Ohio said, on the 21st, that he not
only found ne warrant for interior
ence by himself in such exhibitions,
further than to urge local guardians
of b law to be vigilant, but it was
his opinion that only a jury, on trial,
was qualified to decide whether such
"a performance was merely a sparring
match or a prize fight and unlawful.
DR.. j. E. TODD, state geologist for
South Dakota, has issued a warning
to farmers on the possible exhaustion
Of the artesian water supply. He
holds that the great basin underlying
most of the state may be exhausted
by wastefulness, and recommends
smaller wells, checking the flow in
winter and When not needed and re-
striction of the number of wells in
stated areas by legislation.
Two naUSnanar rannrtarS amn1oua1
on the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald,
on the 21st, located the house in which
the kidnapped youth Eddie Cudahy was
held prisoner for more than a day.
While exploring the premises with a
lighted lamp they had a narrow es-
cape from being shot by police officers
who had just arrived upon the scene
and mistook them for the child-rob-
bers.
The British secretary of state for
war, Mr.. st. John Broderick, an
nounced, on the 21st, that, in view of
the prolongation of the war in South
Africa, members of the imperial yeo-
many will be paid five shillings in
stead of one shilling and two pence
per day. Militiamen are promised
priority of return over regulars.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $150,000,0 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
21st, showed: Available cash balance,
$139, 9s7, 800; gold, $104,37S,259
Advices from southern Luzon say
that a lieutenant and 60 men of the
Ninth United States cavalry attacked
a large body of insurgents recently
near Guinobatan, Province of Albay.
After the battle As dead insurgents
were counted, together with many
wounded. Only one American was
wounded.
1.-The War of Women theatrical
company, headed by Miss Hope Booth,
has disbanded in Milwaukee owing to
lack of sufficient receipts to pay h
members of the company. Several of
the company who reside in New York
city are in financial distress.
John Riley Chamberlain, a veteran
of the civil war and a graduate of
Miami university at Oxford, o., died
in Cincinnati, on the 23d, aged ~. He
had been engaged in newspaper work
in Cincinnati for IS years.
w. E. Jones, who has been treas
urer and assistant secretary of the
Baltimore &c Ohio Southwestern rail-
way and its predecessors for over
thirty years, died in Cincinnati, on
the 23d, aged SO years.
Theo. D.. Poole, United States mar
shall for the northern district of New
York; member of the F~ifty-fourth
congress from 1894 to 1896 and a civil
war veteran, died of apoplexy at SYRIA
cuse on the 22d.
The Canadian Pacific will open a
school in Winnipeg, Man., for the
teaching of shorthand and telegraphy
to it's junior employees to enable them
to qualify for more important posi-
tons.
Emperor Nicholas and the Russian
ministers of finance, war and foreign
affairs, do not expect to leave Livadia.
where the czar is convalescing, before
the middle of January.
Hoshi Toru, japanese minister to
the United States, has resigned his
portfolio in consequence of the per-
sistent allegations of his implication
in financial scandals.
Assistant secretary OF war MelkIe-
john arrived in Lincoln, Neb., on the
gath, to assume personal management
of his canvass for a seat in the Unit
ed States senate.
The death of former Gov. Roger
Wolcott makes a vacancy in the cleo
toral college that is to cast the votes
of Massachusetts, for president of the
United States.
The government of Chile. which re-
Gently invited tenders for 400 freight
cars, has accepted the entire number
from American manufacturers.