Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-03-28

BY ELI D. AXE
IRoNToN. MISSOURI
The Latin-American scientific con
gress was opened at Montevideo, Uru
quay, on the Goth.
The Minnesota state senate, on TIN
22d, passed Senator Chilton's bill pro
hibiting the marriage of insane, cpl
1eptic and idiotic persons and requir
ing a medical certificate of all appIi
cants for marriage licenses.
Four negroes representing, it is said
1000 of their race living near Elbert
county, Georgia, appeared before Gov
Chandler, ON the 10Th, and asked that
he furnish transportation to them
that they might go to Liberia.
The statement of the treasury bal.
ance in the general fund, exclusive OF
the $15O,OOO, 900 gold reserve in the
department of redemption, issued on
the 22d, showed: Available cash bal
ance, s154,213,195 ; gold, 500, Asa, 321.
sit is reported here" says the Am
sterdam correspondent of the London
Daily Mail, that d company of Amer
lean volunteers, mostly Bostonians,
recently landed at Kobi bay, Tongal,
crossed Swaziland and joined Gen.
Louis Botha."
The National Antarctic Expedi-
TONS steamer Discovery was launched
at Dundee, Scotland, on the 21st. The
Discovery was christened by Lady
Markham, wife of Sir Clements Mark
ham, president of the Royal Geo
graphical society.
Gen. BaiIloud (French) and Gen.
Lorne Campbell (British) dined to-
gether at Tien Tsin, on the 22d. The
offending French soldiers at Tien Tsin
had been punished and assurances
given that the offensive conduct of
the French troops would not occur
again.
Mayor Van Wyck of New York re-
ceived the following c~ablegram from
Andrew Carnegie, on the 21st, in reply
to the one sent by him to the latter:
"Many thanks, my dear mayor, for
your kind telegram. Delighted and
grateful for opportunity to serve New
York"
Rev. DIR. Frederick A. Muhlenburg,
one of the ~best-known Lutheran
clergyman in America, died at Read
ing, Pa, on the 21st, aged 50. He was
the first president of the Muhlenburg
nnllnnn on6 for II EaorS wv nrOfaS-
sor of Greek in the University Of
Pennsylvania.
The funeral services of Hon. Mark
s. Brewer, ex-civil service commission
er, who died in Washington on the
10th, were held in the First Presby-
terrain church at Pontiac, Mich, on
the 22d. At the conclusion of the
ceremonies the body was inferred in
Oak Hill cemetery.
The London Daily Mail says: "It
is reported in high circles that King
Edward contemplates q big exhibition
in London on the lines of the Taris
exposition, the idea being to inclose
the Thames from Westminster bridge
to Albert bridge, including the whole
of Battersea park"
Two hundred girls working in the
overall department of Swoiford Bros
dry goods factory at Kansas City,
Mo-, were locked ou- on the 2uth.
The firm recently reduced the. price
for making ~overalls from $1.25 to 95
cents a dozen, and the girls had
threatened to strike,
Senator Chilton's bill to prevent the
marriage of idiotic, insane or epilep-
tic persons was killed in the Mime
sofa state senate, IN the 10Th, not re-
ceiving enough votes for passage. 1t
required a certificate of health from
a physician as a prerequisite to secur-
ing a marriage license.
Gen. John Bates, now in command
of a force of volunteers in the Philip
pines, has been ordered to return to
the United States and to relieve Gen.
Merriam in command of the depart.
ment of the Missouri. He will prOba-
bly, be at his new post in Omaha by
the latter part of April
HI II Will iEISlAlCIIl -hS-
Kinley's recent order that the Treas
urer Of Cuba should be u ~itiZcn of
hat island, Gen. Weed. on the 18th,
cabled tc II e war department that he
had appointed Charles I:olos as treas
urer of Chr Secretary Roo. con-
frme.! The appointment
The grand jury of Hudson county,
New Jersey, on the 10th, handed down
an indictment against Thomas c.
Barker, for the shooting of Rev. John
Keller at Arlington on February 3
last. The Indictment has three counts,
one for atrocious assault, one for as
sault with intent to kill and one for
simple assault.
The 2S4 convicts in the coal mine at
the state p~enitentiary at Lansing,
Kas., mutinied, on the 10Th, seized Is
guards, stopped work and took com
plete possession of the mine. The con
victs held the guards as hostages for
the enforcement of their demands for
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