Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-23

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Gov. Smith of Maryland has issued
. proclamation calling on the people
Of that state to observe January ~
as Mckinley Memorial day.
Delegate Griffith (rep.; introduced,
on the 18th, in the Maryland house
of delegates, n bill to appropriate 3d.
600 to purchase and crest, in the state
house, a life-size bust of Rear-Amiral
". S. Schley.
The British foreign off &c issued
the correspondence on the lsthmian
canal treaty in the form of a parlia-
mentary paper on the 18th. This cor
r~espondence added nothing of inter
est to the known facts.
United States Minister Wilson at
Santiago, Chilli, cabled the secretary
of state, on the 18th, that the govern
ment of Chill had adopted the extra
dition treaty submitted by the gov
eminent of the United States.
Owing to grave doctrinal differ
ences, Gen. Booths son-in-law anu
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Booth-Clib-
born and Percy Clibborn, have re-
signed from the Salvation army n
Joined the church of John Alexander
Dowie.
Can't. Joseph B. Eaton, at present
captain of the Boston navy yard, mas
been selected to command the bat
tleship Oregon, which is now fitting
out on the Pacific coast. The ship
will be permanently attached to the
Pacific station.
Gov. Odell of New York issued a
proclamation, on the 10th, concurring
in the suggestion of Gov. Nash OF
Ohio, that Wednesday, January ~
the birthday of the late President Me-
Kinley, be ittingly observed by the
people of the United States.
At a session of the B-icklayers'
and Mason Int national union,
held at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 18th, a
resolution was adopted indorsing the
efforts of the Civic Federation 10 Sc
cure the settleme; OF all disputes
between capital and Labor by arbl'
tration.
Christopher Tug, a pioneer r
manufacturer of western Pennsyl-
vania, died at his home in Pittsburg,
Pa, on the 18th, of general debility,
incident to old age. Mr.. Tug was 50
wears old. He was a director in nu-
merous financial and philanthropic
institutions,
The population VI Canada was Of
fcially announced by the census de-
oartment on til. 18th Il IS SHOWN
by the census of 1901 to be 5,639,66
an increase of o25,!t?5 for the decade,
The representation in the house OF
commons will he reduced from 2i3 e
cl0 members.
Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote
the British ambassador, on the 18th
signed a protocol extending for one
wear the time allowed British col
onies to adhere to the treaty entered
into between the United States anG
Great Britain defining the rights OF
their subjects.
The Cherokee, Choctaw and Chicka'
saw nations have, by their councils
passed resolutions asking congress
to do away with tribal government
and asking that territorial govern
ment be instituted instead. They say
that two governments can not well
exist at the same time.
Breakdowns Of government EN-
ployes have been frequent in thu
Philippines, lately, including some
members of the commission They
are feeling the effects of overwork
A meeting of the commission will be
held to consider the matter, and
Saturday half-holiday will be in
augurated.
The jury in the case of George
Klein, accused of the murder of his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline Klein, il
Baltimore, Md, on the 10th, acquit
ted the prisoner on the ground of in
sanity. Klein knocked the woman
down and kicked her to death because
she threatened to have him arrested
Tor abusive language.
One Of the latest official acts o
Gov. Shaw of Iowa was the p~arolinl
of A. L. Wood, of Winterset, VIII
had been confined in the penitentiar.
at Fort Madison for perjury. Woo
served in the legislature, was
prominent editor, and was postmas
ter at the time of his conviction. Hi
term was half served out.
Luther r. Marsh, the well-know
spiritualist, preached two sermon
at Christ Universalist church i
Middletown, N. Y, on the 18th, o
"Jesus, the Christ" He affirmed h
belief in the divinity of Christ, an
declared that modern spiritualisi
had it's birth in Christ's %aunounc'
ment of His identity to many afte
the resurrection.