Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13

bears interest at three anu One-nal1'
per cent, and subscriptions to it will
soon be opened.
Andrew Carnegie, on the night of
the 9th, formally presented to the
Stevens Institute of Technology, at
Hoboken, N. j., the building erected
at his expense and known as the
"Carnegie Laboratory of Engineer
ing"
Mrs. jefferson Davis will visit Jack.
son, Miss, to greet the last legisla-
ture that will assemble in the his
toric capitol. 1t is understood that
'Beauvoir," her old home on the gulf
coast, will be purchased by the state
and converted into a home for indi.
gent confederates.
John NJ. Spann, president of the
Commercial club, and a charter mem
Der of the Columbia club, dropped
dead in the Union station at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the night of the 5th.
He was so years old, and was one of
the wealthiest and most prominent
men of Indianapolis.
The Minnesota state board OF
grant the petition for an absolute
pardon for James and Cole Younger,
and the two noted convicts will have
to remain in Minnesota, being now
out of prison on parole, but limited
to the state borders.
A truce has been declared in the
trouble at the State School of Mines
at Golden, Col, and it has been
agreed to submit all differences be-
tween faculty and students to arbi-
tration. Under this agreement the
deserted school has been reopened
and the suspended students rein
stated.
Word was received, on the 9th, OF
the death of Jonathan Clark at his
plantation, Fruitland, Fla. Mr.. Clark
was a pioneer citizen of Chicago, and
is said to have erected more buildings
in that city than any other man.
The decedent was born in England 70
years ago. Death was due to heart
disease.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern shop employees at Washington,
Ind, who had been out on n strike
for several weeks, declared the strike
off, on the 9TH, having already con-
ceeded every point and lost the con
test. The men agree to return to
work in a body or singly, as the COM
pany might desire.
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On the 18th the state department
received a report from Consul-Gen-
eral Holloway at St. Petersburg on the
unusual topic Railroad Accidents in
Russia" He says a recent report Of
the minister of ways of communica-
ton showed that in 1899 there we're
4,447 accidents, or an averge of a lit
tie more than II per diem.
Representatives Babcock and Long,
members of the house ways and
means committee, called on President
Roosevelt, or the 4th, and discussed
with him Cuban reciprocity. 1t was
stated by a republican member of
the ways and means committee that
there was little further doubt that
the committee would report some
measure of Cuban reciprocity.
Returns received from Manila indi-
cate the election, in most cases, of
natives as governors of provinces.
Capt. Harry H. Bandholz, of the Sec
ond infantry, defeated Maj. Cornelius
Gardener, OF the Thirteenth infantry,
the present governor of Tayabas
province. The military men claim
that accepting elective office will
necessitate resignation from the
army.
On the opening of the Colonial leg.
islature at Kingston, Jamaica, on the
4th, the governor, Sir Augustus Hem,
ming, announced, for the first time
in many years, a slight surplus in the
transactions of the year. The inn
provement in financial condition is
due, in a great measure, to the
growth of the fruit trade between
Jamaica and the United States ant
England.
Capt. Charles S. Sigsbee, chief o
the naval intelligence bureau, wa
the guest Of honor Of the Cincinnati
Business Mems club at their ban
quet on the night of the 9Th. Cap
Sigsbee, spoke at length on the navy
outlining the work, and generally rec
ognizing the efficiency Of that depar'
ment Of the government and of II
inestimable value to the ~expandin
commerce Of the country.
What is regarded by physicians Q
n of the most difficult skin graf
ing operations ever performed he
been completed in Chicago. On ii
body Of five-year-old Marion Weave
s19 square inches Of skin has bee
grated. Tho operation took FL
months, as the surgeon could opera
only every fortnight, owing to Il
low state Of the boys vitality. II
new cuticle covers the patient's chez
abdomen, back and sides