Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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lie schools of the Philippine archipel-
ago, has written a letter to Pedro
Palermo, Filipino politician, saying in
structions have been given to every
school throughout the island, to cele-
brate annually the birthday OF Jose
Rial, the Filipino partiot who was
executed by the Spaniards. The life
and history of Rial will be recited
in the schools on this day.
Clark and Barnes, two of the 26
convicts who escaped from the Fort
Leavenworth (Kas.) federal prison
November E, during the outbreak, ar
rived at the prison from Lawton,
Okla, on the Sth, in the custody OF
Deputy Warden Lemon. Clark was
one of the leaders of the mutiny n
a reward was offered for his arrest.
This leaves but seven convicts still at
large.
Col. John Doniphan, a prominent
figure from Missouri in the Mexican
war, who served with his uncle, Gen.
A. w. Doniphan in the signally-suc-
cessful campaigns against Mexicans
and Indians, is dying at his home IN
ST. Joseph, Mo. Col. Doniphan is SO
years old, and has been in feeble
health for some time.
The London papers that
when the duchess of Marlborough,
formerly Miss Consuela Vanderbilt,
visits the United States with her chill
dren this winter, she will spend
--s4L how fnfhnr NIr X
Vanderbilt, at his country home, Idle
Hour, and r~eturn:sto Great Britain in
February.
The British government has decided
to prosecute Conor O'Kelly, NJ. T.,
chairman of the Mayo county council,
and several officials of County Mayo,
Ireland, under the crimes act, for
holding meetings and delivering in
timidating speeches in detinance OF
the orders of the police.
The Queens hotel, at South Sea,
England, was burned down early on
the morning of the Sth. Forty of the
guests escaped from the building IN
their night clothes. Two chamber
maids were ~suffocated and several
fremen and others were injured.
The Cramp ship building company
of Philadelphia has notified the porte
that it is ready to mmenc building
a cruiser for the Turkish govern
ment, and has asked the government
to send officers to supervise the YES
sells construction
In the senate, on the 9th, the CHIEF
incident of the open session was an
acrimonious contention between Sen
ators McLaurin and Tillman, OF
South Carolina, the direct sequel OF
a very bitter controversy which arose
between them in their own state last
spring. Mr.. Hoar took occasion to re
mark that, in his opinion, both the
South Carolina seats were vacant as
the result of their designations, ten
dered to the governor, and which he
declared, became Immediately opera
tive and could not be withdrawn
The episode was brought to az
| abrupt close by Senator Lodge NOV
ing an executive session. The hous'
was not in session.
A meeting of the presidents O.
Presbyterian colleges and universities
| of the middle west will be held at thu
Auditorium hotel, Chicago, on tn
| Goth. The object of the meeting is t.
form a permanent organization, an
in general devise means for advancing
the educational work of the Presby
terrain church.
Agitation has been started in ldaht
in favor of opening the Occur d'Alen'
Indian reservation to white settlers
This reservation, which partly SUI
rounds Lake Occur d'Alene, contain
more than 500, 900 acres, including
much fertile land and valuable for
ests of white and yellow pine
DR.. j. w. Van Eman, aged Il years
a prominent physician, died in Lea'
enworth, Kas., on the 9th, of bloc
poisoning contracted three weeks ag
by scratching his hand while pei
forming an operation. He was a men
Der of the pension examining boart
Thomas B. Ferguson, of Watong;
Okla, assumed the Office of governo
of Oklahoma on the 9th. Gov. Fergl
son made no speech and vouchsafe
no promises. 1t is said that all c
the officials of the jenkins admin:
tration will be removed at once.
Engineer-in-Chief Melville has il
vestigated the published reports tina
the machinery of the b~attleship 1
linois, now in dock at New Orlean
has been found defective, and as
result it is declared that the Illinoi
machinery is all right.
The state department has been o
fcially advised that the crown primo
of Siam, Maha V~ajiravudh, has con
pleted arrangements to visit til
United States next October. Nc men
Der of the royal family of Siam hs
ever visited America