Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-10
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
IN the senate, on the 5th, the In
dian appropriation bill was passed,
after which the Chinese exclusion bill
was taken up and discussed for near
ly three hours, the speeches being
principally for or against the c"nten-
ton that the bill is drawn within
treaty rights of China 80. In the
house, the Chinese exclusion bill oc-
cupied the entire day, the general
debate being closed. Without eXcep-
ton the speeches were favorable to
rigid exclusion and expressive of re-
ceptance of most of the Pacific coast
peoples amendments was foreshad-
owed, with the probable Withdrawal
of the minority and passage of the
majority bill by the house.
The Latter Day Saints Sunday
school conventionatLamon Ia, closed
on the 9TH, after donating $500 TO
Graceland college, $500 to the general
church fund, choosing Duncan Camp
bell, John Smith and Il. S. Salyards
as the revising committee, and APP
pointing superintendent Hougas as a
Sunday-school missionary for the
coming year, upon the financial basis
of the travelling. missionaries.
Eugene McGlachlan. a hcmesteader
from mean Guthrie, Mimi, was found
insensiblc upon the streets of Bemid-
Ii, Mimi, on the 9Th, and died o o
after reaching the hospital. An in
quest was held which developed evil
dence that McGlachlan had been poi
soned and robbed in a resort in Be
midi. His stomach was sent to the
state university for analysis.
The body of former United States
Senator Jos. Fowler,who died in Wash
ington, aged 50 years, was buried in
Lexington, Ky, on the 9th. In the ia
nous Impeachment trial of President
Andrew Johnson Senator Fowler
voted against impeachment, and for
this he was afterwards received with
some disfavor by his party.
The organization of the National
Commercial Travellers association
was completed in Sioux Falls, S. d..
on the 9th. The objects of the asso-
citation are stated in the constitution
to be that of securing better railroad
rates. hotel accommodations and 9TH
er requirements of travelling men.
A lic,ntob from, nr1,,aItn Mich
dated the 9th, says: Northern
Michigan is in the grip of Il bowling
blizzard tonight. Heavy snow is fall
ing and a gale is lashing the lake to
fury. The weather yesterday was
balmy and warm"
In the senate, on the It'll. consider
able time was consumed in discussing
the conference report on the bill to
reduce war revenue taxes, which was
finally adopted. IS to 20. The Chinese
exclusion bill was read for commit
tee amendments. LIN the house the
Chinese exclusion bill, after the
adoption of several amendments
which increased the drastic charac-
ter of the measure. was passed. Late
in the afternoon. senate bill to OK
tend for 20 years the charters of
national banks was passed, the dem
ocrats being taken by surprise, aud
failing in an attempted tilibuster.
The remains of a man and Il wom-
an were discovered in the railroad
station at Gilroy, Cal. OF the 9th,
when a box. which had lain in the
station for. ten years, was opened.
There were no marks by which the
remains could be identified. The box
was left with the station agent by a
rancher named Jamison, who told
the agent that he would send for it.,
but disappeared shortly afterward.
Enrico M~alatesta. the Italian an
archist. was, on the 1th. sentenced
by a court of justice in Rome, to
five months imprisonment for con
tumacy on account ofcertain articles
%applauding the murder of President
Mckinley which were written for and
published in IN anarchist newspaper,
The United States supreme court.
on the 18th, refused to grant the no.
ton recently made to dismiss the
ease of Admiral Sampson, in which he
seeks to ecove prize money for the
guns and armament of the Spanish
vessel Maria Teresa, in connection
with her capture off Santiago.
The son of Prince Ching, who was
selected as the imperial envoy to the
coronation of King Edward, accom-
panied by his suite, left Pekin, on
the 18th, for London. He will return
by way of the United States, and will
visit the principal cities of this coun-
try.
Lord Kitchener reports that the
Boer casualties during the engage
ments OF March 81 ard April 1 were,
at the lowest estimate. 80 men killed
and 80 wounded. Commandment Eras.
mus was killed near Boshof, Orange
River Colony, on the Sd.
The plumbers Of Washington city
struck, on the 18th, to enforce their
demand to stop the employment Of
boy helpers in the places Of the jour
neymen.