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

ment OF the legislature seems 10 De II
favor of it. If the bill is passed a
number of prisoners in the state peni-
Tertiary under sentence of death will
be hanged.
Gen. Lambert. senator for the de.
partment of F~inistere, France, died.
on the 10th, after Il short illness. He
commandedin the defense of the mar
sion made famous by the battle
painter, Alphonse de Neuville, in the
painting known as 1.-The house of the
last cartridge"
Snow fell in Paris, on the eth, fol
the first time this winter. The tenn
perature, however. had risen some
what. Elsewhere in France extreme
weather was recorded, accompanied
by heavy snow falls. Bodies of tramps
frozen to death were found in a num-
Der of places on the roadside.
Forty young men from the Univer-
sity of Chicago will o the south in
the spring to present comic opera be
fore southern audiences for the bene-
fit of local charities. y comic opera
which Will be prepared Immediately
by Marjorie Benton Cooke, a univer-
sity ~literateur, will be presented.
At the age of 100 years and :
months, Mrs. Van Eaton, of Fulda.
Mimi, mother of a Union soldier at
the battle of Shiloh, has sought aid
from the soldiers state relief fund
Action a taken by the hcars. e.
tribution in st. Paul. on the 9th.
granting Mrs. Van Eaton S12 a month.
: The CnitedStates has proposed thai
the questions of indemnity and of
framing new commercial treaties with
China sha be considered by an inter
national commission either at WASH
ington or at the capital of n of the
other powers concerned, thus remoy-
ing these two phases of the negotia-
tions from Pekin.
Mrs. Lulu Prince-Kennedy. who, on
the 10th. shot and killed her husband
of a month. Philip Kennedy, in
Kansas City, Mo-, when inter-
viewed by a reporter in Jail, re-
fused to discuss the tragedy. but
asked whether her deed had created a
sensation and if the papers gave her
credit for being good looking.
William S. Warren was, on the eth,
unanimously reelected president of
the Chicago board of trade for the
ensuing year. This means a continu-
ance of the aggressive attitude of the
board in its fight against bucket shops
and the resulting controversy with
the telegraph companies over the dis
tribution of the boards quotations.
In a paper on the manufacturing OF
table sirupS from sorghum, read be-
fore the kunsas state board of agri-
culture. On the 18th. a. A. Denton, of
Medicine Lodge. foreshadowed the
large possibilities of this industry in
Kansas, and predicted that that state
may yet export as much and as good
strip as is now exported from a
growing states of the south"
Notwithstanding the decision of the
grand army to not hold its encamP
ment at Denver, the Chicago & North.
western. on the 18th. issued notice tc
the effect that it will make a one.
cent-per-mile rate to Denver in cast
the encampment is held there. Thi,
action of the Northwestern IL
harmonious with that previously
taken by the Union Pacific, Rock Isl
and and Burlington.
Prince Herbert Bismarck disavows
h alleged interview with him pub
lished by ii Corrire Della Sera, o.
Milan. in which he was represented al
asserting hat the great German in
dustrial organizations, with the ap
ErovaI of Emperor William n Count
Won Buelow, imperial chancellor, had
compromised with the agrarians anG
would meet the United States with :
sharp protective policy.
Gov. Murphy and Delegate Wilson
of Arizona, were heard by the houss
committee on territories, on the Sth,
in favor of the bill for the admission
of Arizona as a state. Delegate VIII
son used the figures OF the present
census and made a strong showing
for statehood for the territory. Ii
the bill for the admission of Arizona
is reported, it will be accompanied by
bills for the admission of Oklahoma