Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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A committee representing the stu
dents of the Kansas Wesleyan univer-
sity, who are a unit in defense of DR..
Frank D.. Tubbs, professor of natural
science, dismissed because of alleged
heresy, issued a manifesto, Dill the 9th,
denouncing the board of trustees for
'dupIicity and unfairness." The in
coming junior and senior classes seem
determined to carry out their threat
to leave the university if the trustees
do not accede to their demands.
President Harper of the University
of Chicago announced, on the 9th,
that the university had begun to es-
tablish affiliated preparatory schools
in different parts of Europe to give
opportunity to the children of col
lege age whose parents are travelling
abroad during the year to have the
benefits of foreign residence without
obstructing the progress of the stud
les.
Most elaborate arrangements have
been made for the twentieth inter-
national convention of the Society Of
NllTlSIidn EnutdNOI Ill N1lClIlildJI, OH
July 6 to 10. AS many were unable
to attend the convention in London
last year, a larger attendance than
usual is expected, especially since
these conventions hereafter will be
held only once in two years.
Oliver Crosier and Emil Bergdorf
were drowned in Summit lake. nea
Akron, o., on the 9th. They, with
Michael Shay. were crossing the lake
in a boat. when EergdOrf began to
rock it and the frail craft upset. Shay
cTawled on top OF the overturned
BOAT and made a desperate but fruit
less effort to ave his companions.
United Gates Senator Beveridge,
according to the St. Petersburg
correspondent of the London Daily
Mail, will not find much difficulty in
securing from the Russian govern
ment a concession for a steamship
line from the United States to Nladi-
vostock or Port Arthur.
The Chinese in Pekin express great
satisfaction at the announcement of
the intention of the court to return
TO Pekin in September. All the for
eign troops, with the exception of the
legation guards are expected to have
withdrawn by the middle of that
month.
Maj. w. H. DAILY surgeon general on
the staff Of Lieut.-Gen. Miles in Porto
Rico, committed suicide in Pitts
bureh, Pa. on the 9th, by shooting
himself in the right temple.
It is understood in Washington that
former President Kruger of the
Transvaal will not visit the United
States during the coming summer or
fall. At one time there was a pros
pect that Mr.. Kruger might make
such 4 visit, but those having some
knowledge of his intentions say the
visit will not be made, at least for
the present.
n. b. Carskadon, a prominent attor-
ney of Kansas City, Mo, dropped dead
of heart disease on the 10th. He was
born at hiser, w. Va, in 1860. At the
time of his death he was acting as at
torney for Frank Rockefeller in his
case against Frank Siegel, former
president OF the defunct Siegel-San-
ders Live Stock Co.
Judge Baker, in the district court
at Omaha, Neb., on the 10th, decided
tina the statute known as the female
i labor law of Nebraska, prohibiting
owners of manufacturing and me
chanical concerns, stores and shops
from working female employees more
60 hours a week, is constitution
al.
The United States gunboat Concord
left Yokohama, on the 10th, for Una
laska, where she is to assist in en-
forcing the liquor laws in that section
and otherwise take up the duties for
merly performed by the gunboat
Wheeling, which recently was put u
of commission.
DR.. August NJ. Unger and f. Way
land Brown, on trial in Chicago for
conspiracy to defraud insurance COM
panies through the death of Miss
Marie Defenbach, were found guilty,
on the 10th, and sentenced to the
penitentiary under the indeterminate
act.
although the war drags its slow
length along" says Consul-GeneraI
Stowe, at Cape Town, in a report TO
the state department, business has
been fairly good in the British colon
les. and the imports from the United
States have not fallen off in value"
King Edward appears to have de-
cided to secure worthy pictorial illus
trations of the incidents of his reign.
He has commissioned Seymour Lucas
to paint a picture of the royal recep-
ton of the Moorish embassy.
The state in the case of Lulu Prince
Kennedy, on trial at Kansas City, Mo-.
for numbering her husband, rested, |
on the 10th, and court adjourned for
the day. :