Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

III INC senate, on the 2Otn, AFTER n
usual time devoted to routine bust
ness, Mr.. Carmack (Tenn.) occupied
the remainder of the session in COM
pleting his speech on the Philippine
government bill, begun on the 25th,
in which he continued his extremely
caustic criticism of the administers
tons policy, with gloomy forebodings
of h end to which it would Lead.
The house, after an hour devoted to
the passage of bills by unanimous
consent, suspended public business
and devoted the remainder OF the ses-
sion to eulogies of the late Repre-
sentative Stokes, of South Carolina,
and the late Representative Crump,
of Michigan.
Capt. l.. w. V. Kennon, of the Sixth
infantry, reported from the Island of
Negroes, on the 27th, the surrender of
the ladrone leader, Rufo, with 15S Off
GERS and men of his command, to-
gether with IL guns, 40 bolos. seven
spears and a few rcvolvers and dag
gers. Capt. Kennon says this sur
render means the opening up of the
whole of the southern coast of the
Island of Negroes.
Ninety men belonging to the first
and third squadrons of the Second
cavalry, L. S. A., in charge of Lieu
tenants Reaney and Pope, formerly
stationed at C~ienfuegos and Matan-
zas, Cuba, arrived at New York, on
the goth, on board the steamer Albis,
and proceeded to Fort Ethan Allan,
VT, after landing. There were also
on board $50 horses belonging to the
Second cavalry.
Will Price and Bernard Suffer were
killed by an explosion of dynamite
at lssaquah, Wash, ON the 27th. There
was not enough of Suffers remains
left to hold an inquest upon. The
cause of the explosion is not known.
A freight wreck occurred on the
Lake Shore g. Michigan Southern road
at Grand Rapids and Indiana crossing,
near Kalamazoo, Mich, on the 27th.
Twenty cars were piled up and 10 cars
were burned. The loss is heavy.
A dispatch from Rome says: ut is
believed in vatican circles that Arch
bishop Corrigan is to be created a
cardinal at the May consistory, to-
gether with Archbishop Begun, of
Quebec"
The transport Grant arrived at San
Francisco, OF the 27tb, from Manila
with 1,61O passengers, including the
Twelfth United States infantry and
four companies of cas"~'z.
In the senate. on the 2sth, house
amendment to the oleomargarine bill
were agreed to. Mr.. Simmons On. CT
spoke in opposition to the Philippine
government bill. The conference re-
port on the Chinese exclusion hill
was adopted, and consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill was
begun, but not concluded. I'm the
house the general debate on the agri-
cultural appropriation bill was con
tinued and concluded, after which
Slow progress was made. only % of
the 40 pages of the bill being disposed
of. The sensation of the day was a
speech by Representative Sibley (Pa.j
in denunciation of Gen. Jacob II.
Smith for orders alleged to have Teen
issued by him in the Samar cam.
paign.
Warren r. Dunton, aged 6S years,
first lieutenant U. S. A., and brevet
major, retired, detailed as professor
of military science and tactics at
kemper military school at Boonville,
Mo-, died in that city on the 2sth.
His home was at Dorset, VT, where
his remains were takea for interment.
Maj. Dunton enlisted in 1861 as first
sergeant in Company T., Fifth volun-
teer infantry, and was made brevet
major on account of meritorious
service at the battle of Fredericks-
burg.
The surrender of the insurgents of
the island of Samar. headed by Gen.
Guevarra, who succeeded Gen. Luc-
ban in that island, was officially an
nounced, on the 2Sth, though. some
southern ports were yet to b. heard
from. 1t is believed, however, in Ma
Mia, that the instruction in Samar
is ended.
City Marshal II. N. Maxwell, of Lex
ington, Okla, in a battle with George
and Jack Goodin, brothers, near that
city, shot both men with a double
barreled shotgun, killing George in
stantly. A coroner's jury, on the
2Sth, held Maxwell guiltless.
The Dominion government has un-
der consideration a reduction of the
royalty on Yukon gold from five per
cent. to either three per cent. or two
and a half per cent. II will be col
lected in future by an exp,tt tax, and
there will be no exemption.
Judge Dunno released, on the 28th,
on bonds Of $4,000 each, five of the
seven men indicted in Chicago in
connection with the charges of al
legged jury bribing in the Union Trac,
ton Co. transfer cases.