Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

President zelaya of Nicaragua has
accepted an invitation from the pres
ident of Costa Rica, Senior Iglesias, to
visit Limon, Costa Rica, in order to
confer on matters pertaining to the
proposed Nicaragua canal. The ac-
ceptance of this invitation is con-
tingent upon the passage by the
United States senate of the Mica
ragua canal bill. The date of the
proposed visit has not yet been de-
cided upon.
Seth G. Axtell, professor of Greek
in Kalamazoo college for the past IL
years, died at Kalamazoo, Mich, on
the 23d, from grip, aged 60 years.
Prof. AXtell, who was a graduate OF
Brown university, from which he
held the degree of NJ. A., was presi-
dent of Leland university at New
Orleans from 1878 to 1882, and presi-
dent of Central college at Pella, Ia,
in 1889 and 1890.
During a quarrel at the supper ta-
BILE, on the 23d, Liberty Kempf, a
well-known business man, of Wash
in1ton, Ind, brutally choked his wife.
The woman managed to get Il revolt
YER and fired five shots at her hus-
band, one bullet penetrating the
brain. He died within a few mo-
ments.
One of the strangest cases in the
medical history of Lacrosse, Wis, ter
minated, on the 23d, in the death of
| Mrs. Frank Wichmann, who had been
in a trance for seven days. During
| that time she had taken no food or
water, and was apparently dead. Her
case baf1led the physicians.
The funeral of Judge Noah Davis
was held, on the 23d, from the Pres-
byterian church in Albion, N. Y. The
services were conducted by Rev. r.
w. Lewis, assisted by Rev. Il. S. Dun
ham, of the Episcopal church. The
burial was at Mount Albion.
DR.. Sweepson, one of KnovXille's
richest citizens, died in that city, on
the 23d, aged II. He ii a Nirginian
and owned the Richmond street ear
| system during the civil war. His es-
tate is valued at 81 900 1000.
The election of Maxine Cork to be
an honorary member of the academy
of sciences, has been annulled. Cork
has been summoned to appear before
a tribunal to answer for political of
lenses.
NJ. Koloman de Tisza, eX-Hungarian
prime minister and leader of the lib
eral party, died at Buda-Pesth on the
23d. He was born in 1890.
In the senate, or the 24th, a few
bills of minor Importance we're
passed and then the oleomargarine
bill was taken up. Mr.. Proter, chair
man of the committee on agriculture,
made the opening statement in sup
port of the measure. which he said
will protect an honest product
against a fraud The bill places a
tax of ten cents a pound on oleomar-
garine colored in imitation of butter,
and reduces the present tax of two
cents per pound on oleomargarine in
| it's un%colored state to ~one-quarter OF
n cent per pound....ln the hoige
during the discussion of the Moss
Rhea contested-election case, Mr.,
Boreing injected an attack Oh the
Goebel election law into the discus.
sion, but Mr.. Rhea declined to be
drawn into a debate ON an issue not
directly involved in the Use
"The American exporter should not
rest under the impression that Ger
many or any other country a drive
the United States out of the markets
of Greece" says United States Con
sui Mckinley, at Athens. in a report
made public at the state department
on the 24th, and bearing date of Feb
ruary 81. Consul Mckinley says tina
the United States is close behind Ger
many in the Crecian markets ant
could outstrip the empire with well
directed efforts.
The secretary Of the treasury, up
on further consideration of TIL
question, has informed the Danisl
minister, through the secretary o
state. that if sugar is shipped iron
the Danish West Indies to the Unite
States prior to the ratification of tn
treaty ceding the islands to the Unit
ed States and deposited in bonde
warehouses, it can be withdrawn TO
consumption only upon the paymen
of duty.
Judge Palmer, in the district cour
at Denver, Col, on the Gath, issued
permanent injunction restraining tn
Denver Retail Clerks union from er
forcing a boycott against a reta.
merchant in that city by stationin
pickets in front of his store and al
tempting by this means to turn ava
trade.
Gen. Greedy has invited bids fo
, supplying a system Of wireless tie
/, egraphy between Nome City and S
Michael, Alaska, 104 miles, acros
Norton sound. Bidders must prov
the capacity of their apparatus b
60-mile tests along the Atlanti
scoast.