Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The senate was not in session on
the 17th....In the house the day was
spent in discussing the naval appro-
priation bill, the most important
feature of the debate involving a re-
vival of the Sampson-Schley contro-
versy. This arose over an amend
ment to the bill which was presented
by Mr.. Mudd (Md.), and was adopted,
prohibiting the use of Maclay's his
tory of the navy as a textbook at the
naval academy. A number CT minor
amendments to the bill were adopted,
but the consideration of the meas
ure was not completed before the
house adjourned.
The quinquennial convention indie
pendent Order of the Free Sons Of
Israel met at Atlantic City, N. j., on
the 18th, with $50 delegates present
from all parts of the country. The
| object of the organization is to unite
the sons of Israel in the interest of
common humanity, and to spread in
telligence and enlightenment and
more firmly bind the ties which unit
mankind, to succor the distressed
and to relieve the needy"
Gen. Chaffee returned to Manila, on
the 18th, from Lake Lanao, in the in
terror of the Island of Mindanao. He
said he saw several Moro dattos while
there, and had most satisfactory in
terviews with them. Nearly allthe dat
tos, and especially the surviving sui
tans, claimed to entertain friendly
feelings toward the United States.
The annual service of the New York
| City chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution was held in old
Trinity church on the 18th. At it's
conclusion a committee from the
chapter went through the church
yard and decorated the graves of rev.
dictionary soldiers. There are IL of
these, including that of Alexander
Hamilton.
Reports by telegraph. and telephone
from Goliad, Tex, on the night of the
18th, indicated that a portion of the
residence section of the town had
been swept away by a tornado, and
that IA persons were known to be
dead and s. injured.
The accession of King Alfonso
was celebrated with much ceremony,
on the 18th, by all the Spanish resi-
dents of Manila, and Acting Civil
Gov. Wright represented the Ameri-
can government at the principal func-
ton.
In the senate, on the 10Th, only a
brief time was devoted to considera-
ton of the Philippine government
bill, and this was occupied chiefly by
Mr.. Deliver Ca.), in a speech in sup
port of the bill, which, he said, was
one of the most important pieces of
constructive legislation presented
since the civil war....In the house
the naval appropriation bill was fur
Their considered and passed, the feat
ure of the debate being that in an
amendment providing that three of
the ships provided for in the bill
a batleship, a cruiser and a gun
boat-shall be built in government
yards. The bills for eight hours on
government contracts and authori-
zing a national sanitarium at Hot
Springs, Ark, for disabled soldiers,
were passed under a suspension of
the rules.
The Mansion House West Indian re.
lief fund, on the 10Th, aggregated
G25,000. Lord Salisbury contributed
G100, Lord S%trathcona and Mount
Royal, the Canadian high commits.
s%ioner, $500; Lady Strathcona and
Mount Royal, $500; Wernher, Belt &
Co., the South African mining con.
Germ $500, and "Anonymous," per
Joseph Chamberlain, the colonial sec
rotary, 600.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe
has offered the Railroad Y. M. c. A
of Topeka, Kas., $4,000 for a new
building. He stipulates that the as
ISOLATION secure a site and 10000
The proposition has been accepted
and the building, which will be
three-story modern structure, will b.
: started as 500 as the necessary pre-
~liminaries can be arranged.
The worst disaster in the histor,
, of Tennessee mining occurred, on tn
10th, when between 175 and 225 mel
and boys met instant death at thu
Fraterville coal mine, located tw,
: miles west of Coal Creek. A gas ex
. plosion was the cause of the disaster
g A special from Modale, Ia, state
that a storm resembling a cyclon'
: passed through the country west 0
Q there, on the 10Th, and did consider
> able damage to farm property
. though no loss Of life is reported.
The appointment was announced
on the 10th, of Lionel E. G.. Gardel
to be British minister at Havana. MI
Garden has been the consul genera
of Great Britain In Cuba since 1893.