Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-06-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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In the senate, on the 14th, the Mica.
raguan canal bill was discussed for a
short time, Mr.. Morgan (Ala.) cont;n-
uing his speech in support of the
measure and in criticism of the Pana-
ma project. The district of Column
bia appropriation bill was passed,
and a large number of private PEN
sion bills were disposed of. The day
closed with eulogies on the late Rep
resentative Stokes, Of South Carolina.
....ln the house Il resolution calling
upon the secretary of war for in
formation as to the lost from all
sources of the war in the Philippines
was laid on the table by a party vote,
81 to &C. The latter part of the SEES
sion was devoted to private pension
legislation, 100 bills being passed.
Latest advices from the orient
state that upon the arrival in Japan,
May 27, of John Barrett, commission
er general to arrange for st. Louis
Worlds fair exhibits, he was met and
accorded an impressive welcome by a
large committee of leading Japanese
manufacturers and merchants, repre-
s%enting all the principal chambers OF
commerce of the empire.
The %Tippecanoc Battlefield associa.
ton held its annual exercises in the
Tabernacle at the battle-ground neaI
Lafayette, Ind, on the 18th. Special
trains on all roads were run, and i'm.
mense crowds attended. The graves
of the men who fell at the battle OF
Tippecanoe were beautifully decorat.
ed. And appropriate addresses were
delivered.
Friendly natives in Manila say a re.
port is current among their country
men that the five soldiers of the Fifth
cavalry who were captured by the in
surgents May 30 have been boloed
to death near Teresa, in Morong
province, Luzon.
The chamber of commerce of Mani
la has presented to Gen. Chaffee a
set of resolutions which express the
regard with which the general and
the arm. i'll the Philippines are held
by the business men of Manila.
The remains of Hamlet Jarvis, Jr.,
formerly u member of the Thirty
fifth volunteer infantry in the Philip
pines, who was murdered two years
ago by insurgents, were buried at
Baltimore. Md. on the 18th.
The fifty-fifth commencement en-
~etciscs of Beioit (Wis.) college began
on the 18th. DR.. +. w. Gunsaulus, q;
Chicago, delivered the h~accalaureate
sermon. There were IS graduates
In the senate, in the 10th, the long
pending London dock charges bill was
passed, after which consideration of
the isthmian canal question was re-
sumed, Messrs. Cullom and Kittridge
delivering speeches in advocacy of
the Panama route. A motion by Mr..
Proctor (Vt.) to agree to a confer
ence with the house on the army APP
preparation bill was so vigorously
opposed that it was withdrawn for
the present....In the house, under
suspension of the rules much. mis-
cellaneous business was transacted,
including the adoption of resolutions
appropriating $4,000 for plans for a
memorial in Washington to Abraham
Lincoln. Two bills amending the pen
sion laws were passed. The resolu-
ton calling on the secretary of war
for his reasons for the dismissal of
Rebecca j. Taylor, Il clerk in the de-
partment, was laid on the table, 1909
to 81.
The geological expedition to Mon
tana under Prof. NJ. S. Farr, left
Princeton, N. j., on the 10th. The ex-
petition will encamp near Big Tim
Der, Mont, and will make researches
for mammoth marine animal fossils
in the region of Fish creek and Fort
Pierre.
Queen Wilhelmina Of Holland is
convalescing at Castle Schaumburg,
in the valley of the Lain. She drives
out daily with the queen mother, and
is recovering her color. The young
queen smilingly acknowledges the
greetings of wayfarers whom she
passes.
Senator Hoar, from the committee
on the judiciary, on the 10th, report
ed ~favorably the house bill providing
for q communication of sentence of
prisoners in federal prisons amount
ing to from five to ten days per
month for good behavior.
Baron ~Schbusawa, of Japan, who is
studying the financial system of the
United States, accompanied by Mr..
Kogoro Takahira, the japanese min
lister to the United States, called on
the President, on the 10th, and paid
his respects.
An order issued at the war depart
ment, on the 10th, directs Gen. Bus
bee, on the completion of the Ryan
court-martial in the Philippines, to
| proceed to his home in this country
and await retirement.
1t was announced in Madrid, on the
10th, that the Spanish government
had decided to appoint a minister to
: Cuba. w.