Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-02-14
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the senate, on the 9th, almost the
entire session was devoted to consid-
Grafton of the naval appropriation
bill. All the committee amendments
were adopted, but when the measure
was about to be placed on its passage.
a discussion OF the armor plate ques-
ton was precipitated by Mr.. Butler,
and to enable some others to speak
upon the subject, the bill went over.
Eulogies upon the late Representative
Alfred c. HarIner, of Pennsylvania,
concluded the session."...1n the house,
consideration of the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill occupied
the session until two o'clock, when it
was laid aside, and the remainder OF
the session was devoted to eulogies of
the late Representatives DAILY, of New
Jersey, and Wise, of Virginia.
A special cablegram from London,
on the 18th said: "At ten o'clock this
morning the gates of A~ylesbury pris-
on. will swing open and Mrs. Florence
Elizabeth Maybrick, the American
woman whose ease has stirred two
continents for years, will walk out a
! free Ii is understood that L
thus granting clemency to Mrs. May
brick. the king wishes to emphasize
| the character of his regard for Amer
lea"
A collection of autograph letters
and documents of William Penn, in
| GLIDING his will, written by himself in
| 1905, were sold at auction in London,
on the 10th, for 355 guineas. The col
lection was purchased by a London
| dealer, after B. f. Stevens, the United
| States dispatch agent and purchasing
| agent for American libraries, had bid
$50 guineas. The documents were the
property of Lady Sudely.
Three thousand male citizens of To-
, peka, Kas., in mass meeting, on h
10th, decided that the numerous joints
of the city must close their places.
They issued an ultimatum, giving the
| iointists until the 18th, at IL O'Clock
noon, to quit business. If this were
not done, warning was given that a
| thousand armed men would on
the Joints and remove them by force.
Representative Albert D. Shaw, OF
| HaGCrUOWH, ~. LD
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic, was found dead on the
morning of the 10th, in his Dom at
| the Riggs house, Washington City. Al
physician summoned immediately af-
ter the discovery of the body, pro-
nounced death 10 be the result of apo
pIexy.
In the senate, on the nth, the naval
appropriation bill vas passed early
in the session. The shipping bill was
then taken up and kept before the
senate during the remainder of the
legislative day......In h house, MI.
Payne, chairman of the ways and
means committee, submitted the reso-
luton of the committee to disagree
with the substitute proposed by the
senate as an amendment to the war
revenue reduction bill, and asked for
a conference with the senate. This
precipitated a lively debate on the
2 constitutional limitations of the pow
er of the senate over revenue leglsla-
ton initiated by the house, which
consumed most of the days session.
Representative Babcock, of Wiscon-
| Sill, on U1c I1bils 1ntI OuoNOo " Jill ~
pealing a considerable part of 'Sched-
ule Con Metals" of the tariff act of
July "a, 1897. The proposed repeal ap-
plies to bar iron, round iron, beams,
boiler iron, anchors, hoop iron, rail-
way bars, steel ingots, wire of various
kinds, nails and wheels for railway
purposes.
AT the weekly meeting, on the 11tn,
the PRESBYTERIAN ministers of Phil;A-
delphia adopted a petition to the
management of the Pan-AmerIcan
exposition, at Buffalo, n. Y, asking
that the exhibition be closed on III
DAYS. This action was taken in com
pliance with a request made by the
American Sabbath union.
Senator Foraker, from the commit
tee on Porto Rico and Pacific islands
on the 18th, reported a bill providing
that Hawaiian coins may be received
) at par for all government dues, AND
that when so received they shall not
; be again put into circulation.
While a mob was besieging the jai
at Crested Butte, Col, on h nth
and threatening to lynch George Blu
t ric, he committed suicide by hanging
: himself to a window bar in his eel
j with an electric light wire.
!, The Berliner Tageblatt publishes
e dispatch from a correspondent In 81
IBERIA, who cites evidence going t.
show that Russia considers that he
. recent acts have annexed Manchuri;
T and Mongolia.
y John w. Power, ex-state senator
e brother of ex-United States Senate
g T. C. Power, died at Fort Benton
!; Mont, on the 18th. He had been
Heading business man of Montana TO
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