Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-19

Ey Eli D. AXE.
1RoNToN, MISSOURI
Jose Hyginie Duarte Pereira, dele
gate of Brazil to the Pan-Americar
congress, died In Mexico City, on the
10th, from pneumonia, complicated
with heart trouble.
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Official confirmation was given, on
the 10th, of the report that the arbi-
traitor on the projected electrification
of the underground railroads of Lon
don had decided in favor of Charles
T. Yerkes of Chicago.
In the senate, on the 18th. Mr.. Clapp
(Minn.) offered a resolution providing
for the consideration of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty in open session.
It went over until the next Legislative
day.
Hon. Arthur Raikes, at present Sec
rotary of the British legation at Brus-
sells, has been appointed first secre-
tary of the British embassy at Wash
ington, to succeed Mr.. Gerard Lowth-
er, the new British minister to Chile.
The post office department was no.
tined, on the 10th, of the arrest at
Sallisaw, /. T., of John Mankind, ST.,
John Mankind, Jr., and Lee and
Joshua Mankind, charged with the
robbery of the post Office at Paw
Paw, I. T.
Engineer-in-Chief Melville has in
vestigated the published reports that
the machinery of the battleship IL
linois, now in dock at New Orleans,
has been found defective, and as q
result it is declared that the Illinois
machinery is all right.
The twenty-frst annual meeting of
the National Civil Service Reform
league began it's sessions in Boston
on the 18th. The annual report of h
council said the pass year had been
one OF encouragement for the friends
of civil service reform.
The arrest of eight prominent cat
tlemen has been made by order of the
Oklahoma Live Stock Sanitary COM
mittee, on the charge that they at
tempted to drive diseased cattle
across the territorial and federal
quarantine lines
Representative Mercer, of Nebras-
ka, on the 18th, introduced a bill for
a building in Washington for the
United States supreme court, the de-
partment of justice and international
tribunals, to cost not exceeding ST.
100000 for site and buildings.
Gov. Thomas Ferguson of OkIaho-
ma, on the 18th, announced that he
will be out of politics so long as he
Is governor and that he will not par
ticipate in the division of the terri
torial patronage. He prefers, he says
to give all his time to the admins
tration of his Office.
The navy department has awarded
the contract for the construction of
the buildings which are to as
quarters for the cadets at the laval
academy to Noel & Thomas, of Bal
timore, at their bid of So, 44s 900. This
firms offer was the lowest of the four
general bids submitted.
Mrs. Lola Ida Henri BONNIE,
charged with the murder of Census
Clerk James Seymour Ayres, Jr., in
the Kenmore hotel, Washington, on
the night of May Is last, was de-
clared lot guilty by the jury, on the
18th, after a trial, in Washington,
lasting nearly four weeks.
The democratic leaders of the sem
ate have notified the republicans that
the minority does not feel called upon
to provide committee places for SEN
ators McLaurin and Wellington. It
Is understood hat the republican
members of the committee will assign
those members to committee places.
Gertrude Simpson, Is years of age,
who shot and killed her father, DIR. A.
v. Simpson, coroner of Mineral coun-
ty, Colorado, on November Is, was &C.
quilted, on the 18th, after her trial
the charge of murder. The girls
defense was that her father had
her and threatened to kill
her.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the American Forestry association
in Washington on the 10th.
Wilson made the opening
address, referring to the increase in