Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS,

The session of the senate, on thu
18th, was devoted to the delivery o
eulogies on the late Senator Cush
man X. Davis, of Minnesota....In the
house, after the passage of severa
bills of minor Importance, the de
bate on the river and harbol
appropriation bill was resumed
the main feature of which was
an elaborate speech by Mr.. Catching:
(Miss.) in defense of the Improvement
of the lower Mississippi. The speech
received much attention and at its
close Mr.. Catchings received an i'm,
pressive ovation.
JOS. Yates Paige, for the past six
years chief clerk of the comptroller OF
the currency in Washington, died, on
the 18th, of pneumonia. He was well
known to the banking interests of the
country. Mr.. Paige was born in AL
bany, n. Y, in 1850, of a family dis.
tinguished in the states history.
Grief, caused by the death of his
young wife after a few short months
of married life, impelled Robert E
Lee Pryor, of Eastbank, ". Va, tc
send a bullet crashing into his brain
in Georges hotel in indianapolis, Ind,
on the 18th. he died a few hours Ia
ter at ST. Vincent's hospital.
Capt. n. H. Fraser. of Union
Springs, Ala, on the 18th, offered,
through Chief-of-Police Albion HiXon
of that place, $500 reward for the re-
turn of his son, Bass Fraser, who is
supposed to have been kidnapped from
school in Atlanta, Ga.
Thomas Clifford Moshier, aged 25, of
Gorham, Me-, was dubbed to death,
and his mother brutally assaulted by
two men, one of whom as negro.
who broke into their house, on the
night of the 18th, for the purpose of
robbery.
The Spanish government hasdecided
to send war ships to watch the coast
of the lower provinces, in order to
prevent the importation Of arms by
the Carlists, who are still agitating.
Secretary Hay received a c~ablegram
from Minister Conger, at Pekin, on
the 18th, announcing hat the Chinese
Observation-Disclosures had been directed to
sign the joint note of the powers.
1t is officially reported in Yokohama
that 400 fishermen are missing and
that they are supposed to have per-
ished in a storm, January 10, off the
west coast of Japan.
President Mckinley was so much
improved in health, on the 18th, that
he was able to go out for a snort
drive.
In the senate, on the 18th, the army
reorganization bill being under con-
s~ideration, Mr.. Teller (Col.), speaking
to an amendment he had offered, de-
livered a sensational denunciation of
Gen. Eagan, former cOmmisSary gen
eral of the United States army, and
of the administration which had re-
tired him as "a decoration and a re-
ward" Mr.. Carter (Mont.) appealed
for an early passage of the bill, de-
claring that delay now would mean
an additional expenditure of 100000
a day. Absolutely no progress was
made with the measure, not a single
amendment being disposed of finally.
I'm the house District of Columbia
business was postponed and the river
and harbor bill was proceeded with,
good progress being made. Many
amendments were offered, but, with
out exception, all of them failed of
passage.
NJ. Charles Hermite, a noted mathe-
matician, died in Paris on the 14th.
He was born in 1922, was a member of
the Institute, of the Academy of
Science. and of other learned institu-
tons. The deceased, who was a COM
mander of the Legion of Honor, was
the author OF many works on methe-
MATES.
After a ~protracted series of expert
ments, a Chicago physician is said to
have succeeded in ~perfecting a meth
cd by which human bodies may be
cremated with the use of liquid air
at a ost which is nominal in COMPARE
sol with the present expensive meth
DDS.
The house appropriations commit
tee agreeu to report favorably the
bill appropriating $4,000 to provide
for the electric illumination of the *
terror of the capitol, White House and
public buildings on the occasion of the
Inauguration of President Mckinley.
1t has been decided that President
McKinley's personal escort to the cap
ito1 and return on the fourth of
March will be Troop A, of the First
regiment of cavalry, Ohio national
guard. This organization was similar
ly honored four years ago.
w. E. Stanley was inaugurated gov
ernor of Kansas for a second time at
noon IN the l4th. The other state
officers sworn in are also serving a
second term.
A bill making kidnapping a capital
offense was introduced in the Tennes-
see house, on the 14th. by Representa-
tive Steel, of Bedford.