Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-06


Iron County Register.
By ELI ID. AXE.
IRoNToN. MISSOURI
The Venezuelan congress has rati-
fed the election of Gen. Castro as
president for six years.
Bills to permit the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. to tunnel beneath the
North and East rivers and the boz
rough of Manhattan, New York city,
passed the state senate and assembly
on the 26th.
Insurance against assassination is
one of the new ideas Prince Henry
has brought to American shores. He
carries a policy of $90O,0 900 against
assassination, and is said to be the
only man in the world so insured.
The ways and means committee di-
vided IN party lines, on the Goth, on
a motion to n%on-concur in the senate
amendments to the Philippines tariff
bill, the democrats voting against
the motion, which, however, pre-
vailed.
Oil is said to have been struck near
Garrison Point, Mont, on the North
ern Pacific, Is miles west of Helena.
Floyd Brown, who was prospecting,
is said to have discovered the fluid,
which contains a high percentage OF
petroleum.
The battleship Illinois, which is to
be the flagship of the European
squadron, has been ordered to report
at the New York navy yard, to make
ready to convey observation-disclosures
inshield to his new assignment. He
will sail On March 25.
Lord Kitchener celebrated the an.
niversary of Majuba Hill by admins
tering a signal defeat to the BoeI
commanders in the field under Gen
Louis Botha. 1t is said that Botha
himself was captured, but managed
to escape in the confusion.
In the city court of Leavenworth,
kas., on the 10th, Manager de Coursey
of the Leavenworth Street Car Co.
was fined $50 for dismissing w. P.
Sullivan, an employe, because of his
connection with II labor union. This
is the first conviction under the new
state law.
II II. Scott, a wheat expert, who
has travelled two weeks over the Kan.
sas wheat belt, reports the plant in
better condition than even before at
this season. Scott says he has
watched Kansas wheat for 25 years,
and he never before saw such a fine
prospect for a crop.
The Corn Products Co., which was
recently Incorporated at Trenton, n.
j., filed an amended certificate, on
the Goth, increasing it's authorized
capital to $50, 000, 900, of which $780,
000,0 900 is to be preferred stock. with
seven per cent cumulative dividends
and the remainder common stock.
Quartermaster-General Ludington
of the army, and Godfrey Cabot, of
Boston, a carbon manufacturer anC
exported, were before the house com
mittee on coinage on the 21th. They
both favored the metric system, and
were of the opinion hat the system
bids fair to be universally adopted.
Gen. Smith, in command of United
States troops on the island of Sa-
mar, cabled, IN the Goth, that Lieut.,
S~trebler's scouts had captured Lux
ban the notorious leader of the Sa-
mar rebels, and taken him to Laguan
Capital of u small island of that
name north of and adjoining Samar).
The National Council of Women,
on the Gath, adopted a memorial to
congress asking an annuity of $4,000
for Miss Clara Barton, for her serv-
ices for the Red Cross society. and
also decided hereafter to pay the
recording and corresponding secre-
taries of the council for their sery-
ices.
The ]coroner's jury which had been
investigating the cause of the explo-
sion of the boiler at the Penberthy
Injector Co.'S plant in Detroit, Mich,
on November 26 last, which resulted
in the loss Of 80 lives, brought in
a verdict, of the 2Sth, that the boiler
was defective and censured its ma
kcrs.
Surgeon-General Sternberg. on the
2jth, received a private letter from
Col. l.. NJ. Maus, commissioner of
public health at Manila, in which he
says that sickness among soldiers in
the Philippines appears to be decreas-
ing, and that there are no longer any
complaints in regard to proper care
of patients.
John d. Rhodes, a rough rider who
was wounded at San Juan Hill. is I'M