Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-31
E.ATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the senate, on the goth, senate
bill providing for American register
for the foreign-built barkentine J. G..
Pfuger, of San Francisco, was passed.
Mr.. Hawley made an effort to secure
consideration of conference report On
the army reorganization bill, but OBJ
lection was made and report was laid
over. The Indian appropriation bill
was then taken up....In the house,
the bill to revise and codify the postal
laws being under consideration, per-
sistent efforts were made to load the
bill down with amendments, all of
which were successfully resisted. At
the close of the day only % of the 221
pages remained to be considered. The
session closed with eulogies of the
late Senator Gear, of Iowa.
An Italian steamer called at st.
Vincent, CIVIL, ON the 27th, a~ndreport-
ed having been compeued, after fruit
less efforts at towing, to leave the
British steamer Cavour, on January
"a, in latitude O.4 degrees north, longi-
tude "a degrees west, with her engines
disabled and u~nrepairable at sea-
The town council of Kiel has reject
ed the plan of Herr Krupp to build
floating docks Immediately adjoining
the Krupp shipbuildings works at Kiel,
as the chamber of and the
National society had objected on the
struct the harbor-
Many of the IN delivered at
the various churches in New York
city, on the 27th, were in memory of
the late Queen Victoria and euIogistic
of her character. Several churches
held regular memorial exercises.
William Coleman, a w~elI-known
railroad man, who was for years in
charge of the accounting department
of the st. Joseph & Grand Island rail-
way, died suddenly at st. Joseph, Mo-,
on Cne 27th.
The Porto Rican house passed the
Hollander bill to provide revenue for
the people of Porto Rico and for 9TH
er purposes, by a vote of % to IA.
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung an
unce that Emperor William has Of
fered King Edward VII. the dignity of
admiral of the German navy.
me z and czarine have returned
to st. Petersburg. Their arrival was
made the occasion for great public |
rejoicings.
The Beers have summarily expelled
the British, numbering 20, from
B~alersburg, giving no reason for do
ing so.
In the senate, on the 2Sth, Senator
Towne Cslinn.) celebrated his retire
ment by his first and only speech in |
that body; delivering a fervid address
in advocacy of his resolution for 4
cessation of hostilities in the Philip |
pines At the close of his speech, Mr.. |
Clapp, his successor, presented his Gre
dentials, was sworn in and took his
seat, Mr.. Towne retiring. The rest
of the day was devoted to the Indian
bill, the discussion turn
ing on irrigation and little progress
being made....In the house the major
portion of the day was occupied in the
of District of Columbia
business. The bill to revise and codify
the postal laws was finally passed, all
amendments having been voted down.
Public School Superintendent Cooley
of Chicago issued a bulletin, on
the 2Sth, declaring that all chill
dren in the schools must be
vaccinated Immediately and ordering
all unvaccinated pupils be kept
out of school until compliance with
the directions. Many children who
had not been vaccinated were sent
home.
One of the finest equipments ever
for the observation of a total
solar eclipse vas finished, on the 2Sth,
by Prof. John A. Brashear, of Ale
gheny, Pa, for the Smithsonian 'insti-
and the United States naval
observatory. The instrument will be
taken to the Island of Sumatra for
use On May II.
Mr.. Horatio Rubens, one of the spe-
cial consul fer the government in the
post Office fraud cases at Havana, says
that c. f. W. Nicely, the alleged en-
bezzler, will be given a fair trial and
every opportunity to establish his in
.nocence. The trial will be in public
and before a jury composed of seven
The house committee on patents, on
the 2sth, killed a bill to extend the life
Of the Hyatt patent, on which over
hundred and fifty cities and towns
are paying royalties in connection
with their filtration plants. The bill
was vigorously opposed by the munich
palities interested.
By a vote of 80 to SIS the Chicago
city council, on the 2sth, defeated
Mayor Harrison's plan of repeating
the midnight saloon-closing law.
Hurricane-like snowstorms prevailed
in many parts of Germany, on the
2sth. and considerable damage was
done.