Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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In the senate, on the 10th, nearly
sixty private pension bills were
passed, together with numerous 9th
er measures of minor Importance,
but little other business was trans
acted. At three o'clock eulogies were
pronounced on the life and character
of the late Senator James III. Kyle, OF
South Dakota....In the house the
f~ortification bill was passed and the
conference report OF the legislative
appropriation bill was agreed to.
While the former bill was under dis
c~ussion, Mr.. Grosvenor announced
that the amendment to the Cuban
reciprocity bill adopted on the 18th,
had not only wiped out the ditferen-
tial duty on sugar, but also did away
with the counteryailing duty on sugar
of the Dingley bill. Mr.. Weeks
(Mich.), in re,joinder, admitted that
the object of the opposition had been
to kill the reciprocity bill.
4 destructive fire visited the south
western part of Kansas City, Mo-, on
the Goth, laying waste q section Of
dwelling houses almost a quarter of
a mile long and a block wide and do
ing damage to the amount of $4,000.
John Slime, of Quincy. ILL.,, a specta-
tor, was fatally injured by a falling
piece of iron, and Edward Bennett, a
fireman, was overcome by heat. About
fifty dwelling houses were destroyed
and sixty or more families rendered
homeless.
Commissioner of Emigration Fitchie
received orders from Washington, on
the Goth. to investigate published
stories that immigrants who land in
New York city at the Battery are
brutally treated by the special po-
lice on duty there. Commissioner
Fitchie returned a prompt denial of
the charges, saying it was only hotel
runners, oilers and SHARKS" who
were driven from the Battery.
Some members of the conservative
party caused an explosion in the mill
tary barracks at Managua, Nicara-
qua, on the night of the 10th. Near
ly one hundred and fifty lives were
lost in the explosion, and the bar.
racks were destroyed.
A post on the outskirts of New
Chwang, China, garrisoned by 40 Rus
slams, was attacked by bandits on the
Goth. One Russian officers and four
privates We're killed.
Seven persons met death in q fire
in Hackney, a populous suburb OF
London, on the Goth. They were a
man, two women and four children.
In the senate, on the 21st, the river
and harbor bill, carrying appropriate
tons amounting in the aggregate to
about $4,000, 900, was passed without
one word of discussion. The Philip
pine government bill was taken up,
but after a few minutes informal
consideration of the military appro-
priation bill, containing. in addition
to the regular items. an appropria-
ton for the improvement of the
buildings and grounds of the West
Point military academy of Sc, 500 900,
three millions of which is appropri-
ated in the bill, was begun. Twenty
four of the 80 pages of the bill were
completed.
In a fight between cattlemen west
of Collinsville, in the Cherokee ma
ton, on the 21st, William Phillips was
killed instantly and William Mayfeld,
Jesse Skidmore and Lige johnson
were MORALLY wounded. All were
prominent cattlcmen who owned pas
lures near Oologah, not far from
C%ollinsyille. The fight was the result
of az old feud between Skidmore and
Mayfield, which had its origin in a
court contest over some grazing land.
Popular uneasiness in Pekin cut
short the outing, of the Chinese court
at the Hunting park. The court ar
rived at the park, which is five miles
from Pekin, on the 21st, and intend
ed to remain there one week. but Off.
Gals hurried after them and begged
them to return Immediately to Pekin
in order to allay the uneasiness OF
the masses, among whom all sorts OF
rumors were circulating.
Engine house No. 2, at South Oma.
ha, Neb., was burned at three o'clock
on the morning of the 2tst, and three
firemen asleep in an upper story mar.
rowly escaped cremation, two OF
them being badly burned. The work
was clearly that of an incendiary
several sections of hose being founc
cut to pieces.
A dispatch from Brussels, on the
21st, said: During the past two
nights strikers in the Liege district
attempted to wreck express trains
and last night a canister filed with
dynamite and gunpowder was fount
near the rails over which the Brus
sells express passed shortly after
ward"
There is a recrudescence of thu
plague at Port Elizabeth, Cape Col
ony. Ten cases have been reported
five Of which have proved fatal.