Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-06-12
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In the senate, on the 7th, after
t~ransacting some routine business
and discussing for a time the bill to
relieve shippers from the London
dock charges, consideration of the
isthmian canal project was resumed,
Mr.. Mitchell (Ore.) continuing his
speech, begun on the 5th in opposition
to the Panama route. In the house
the entire day was spent voting upon
amendments to the anti-anarchy bill,
but all failed except one proposed by
Mr.. Mccall (Mass.), to strike from
the anarchist section the word "as-
sault" where it is coupled with kill
ing" in the inhibition against con-
spring for the killing of the chief
magistrate of a foreign country.
An excursion train on the Detroit
d Mackinaw railroad, which left AL
pena, Mich, on the Sth, for Saginaw,
consisting of an engine and IL
coaches and carrying over five hun
dred passengers, was wrecked at
Black River, while running 40 miles
an hour. One man was instantly
killed, three were probably fatally in
jured and nearly fifty others received
injuries of various degrees of severi-
ty, ranging from bruises and cuts to
broken limbs.
At a meeting of white and Indian
citizens of the Usage nation, on the
Sth, a petition to the secretary of
the interior was drawn up. and
signed, asking that a franchise to
build through the reservation be re-
fused tbs Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway Co., unless the company con-
structs it's line through Pawhuska,
the Usage capital. The present sur
vey of the road misses Pawhuska by
six miles.
Gov. Jefferson Davis of Arkansas,
on the Sth, accepted the invitation of
the Baptist church of Russellville, his
home, and rejoined that church. The
governors friends claim that this is
Ii vindication of him by his home peo-
pie against the action of the Second
Baptist church of Little Rock in
withdrawing fellowship from him.
Prof. Friedrich Hirth, holder of the
chair of Chinese philology at the
University of Munich, has accepted
the offer of the Chinese chair at Co.
lumbia university, N. Y, and will be-
gin his lectures there next October.
King Victor Emmanuel, on the Sth,
received George Won L. Meyer, the
United States ambassador, who is
about to leave Rome, by way of Ham
burg, for home.
In the senate, on the 9th, during
the early part of the session, the
naval appropriation bill was consid-
cred. All of the committee amend
ments were disposed of, except that
relating to the construction of two
additional battleships, two cruisers
and two gunboats. Mr.. Harris (Kas.),
an engineer of recognized ability,
made an interesting contribution to
the isthmian canal discussion, strong
ly advocating the ~Nicaraguan route.
In the house the bill to protect the
president, vice-president, members of
the cabinet andforeign ministers and
ambassadors and to suppress the
teaching of anarchy was passed by a
vote of IT'S to 3S. The remainder of
the day was devoted to the bill to
transfer certain forest reserves from
the interior department to the agri-
cultural department, and to author
ize the creation in such reserves of
game and fish preserves.
The suggestion that Lord Kitchen
err, with the connivance of the govern
ment, entered into a secret compact
with the Beers, to induce them to
surrender, was denied by the govern
ment leader, A. j. Balfour, in the
house of commons, on the 9th. Mr..
Balfour declared that so far as the
government "a aware, no pledges
and nc assurances were given by
Lord Kitchener, which had not been
published.
Ten men and one woman were
killed and about thirty persons were
injured in a fire in Chicago, on the
9th, which destroyed the sanitarium
connected with the St. Luke's society,
at Wabash avenue and Twenty-first
street. The awful struggles of those
pinioned to their cots or restrained
by window gratings presented scenes
which those witnessing them will new
err be able to Danish from their mem
cries.
Trains on the Rock Island ran into
Hobart, Mangum and other western
Oklahoma cities, on the 9th, for the
first time in two weeks, those cities
having been isolated by the destruc-
ton wrought by the floods in the
Wasbita river. The supplies of gro
ceries and other staples had ran low
in the cities and their want was keen
ly felt by the people.
Early on the morning of the 9th
fire destroyed the Arcade and the Cit
liens national bank block and the
Shackelford building, in Saratoga, N.
Y, and caused the loss of five lives.