Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-06-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The senate was not in session ON
the 21st... In the house Mr.. Brown
low CTenn.) introduced a joint reso-
luton providing for a survey of the
isthmus of Darien for the ascertain
ment of it's availability for an inter-
oceanic canal. A feature of the de-
bate on the Philippine civil govern
ment bill was q speech in defense of
the army by Mr.. Mcclellan (dem., N.
W, a son of the civil wal general.
''There may have been instances of
cruelty in the Philippines" he said,
but there should be no differences
among Americans about unfolding
III soldiers while they are under fire.
The army is not, never has been and
never will be the asset Of one political
party"
At Jefferson, Ia, on the 21st, Mar
shal Swearingen attempted to arrest
Horace Shipman for q breach of the
peace. Shipman shot the marshal
dead. Sheriff Anderson and a posse
surrounded %Shipman's house, and, af-
ter a battle, in which fully 500 shots
were exchanged, shipman was killed.
A passenger train on the Sioux City
branch of the Chicago, st. Paul, Min
neapolis & Omaha railroad jumped
the track near Easten, Ia, early on
the morning of the 23d. Two train
men were killed, five others serious
ly hurt, and a number of passengers
received minor injuries.
81 do not threaten: I act" This
was the reply made by the president,
on the 21st, to a senator, who asked
if it were true that the president had
threatened to call an extra session
of congress if the Cuban reciprocity
bill was not disposed of before ad-
journment.
In a fight between eight cowboys
and Bud" Lee and an old Indian
fighter, near Tucumcart, N. NJ, five
of the cowboys were killed. Lee and
the Indian fighter escaped. They had
attempted to drive Lees stock away
from a spring.
Mother" Jones, well known to la
Dor organizations, was arrested at
Clarksburg, W. Va, with several Unit
ed Mine Workers, under an i%niunc-
ton issued by Judge Jackson, of the
circuit court. They were jailed.
At 2 a. m. of the 23d the st. James
hotel at Dallas, Tex, collapsed. One
dead and three injured were taken
from the ruins in a few minutes, and
about twenty remained.
Snow fell, on the 21st, in various
sections of the upper peninsula of
Michigan.
In the senate, on the Esd, Mr.. Quay
(Pa.) moved to discharge the COM
mittee on territories from further
consideration of the measure to ad-
nit as states the territories of Okla
homa, New Mexico and Arizona. Mr..
Beverage (Ind.), chairman of the
committee, said the measure had
been put over until next session be-
cause it was not believed there would
be time to consider it at this one.
No action was taken on the motion.
\ partial report of the conference on
the army appropriation was agreed
to....In the house the debate on the
civil government bill vas continued.
The debate was very animated, and
was participated in by Messrs. Gros-
venor (O.), DeArmond (Mo.), Bart
lett (Ga.), j. r. Williams Qll.), W. w.
Kitchen (N. c., Mcmahon (Pa.) and
Richardson (Tenn.). The debate will
probably be continued for some time.
There was a night session of the
house Monday.
The Mississippi river commission
met in st. Louis en- the 22d. The 3d.
600, 900 which congress has appropri-
ated for this years expenditure be-
tween Cairo and the gulf will be al
lotted by the commission at this
meeting. Engineers from the lower
Mississippi are to be heard, and will
| give the commission their opinions of
needed improvements in different
parts of the river course
The bill for the amendment of the
bankruptcy law which has passed the
house of representatives and is now
before the senate committee on judi
ciary will not receive further consid-
Grafton during the present session.
A decision to this effect was prac-
t%ically reached by the senate com
mittee on the 23d.
The dead body of Arch Buckner
was found, on the Esd, in the woods
near Rock Bridge, Mo. The clothes
were nearly burned off and the flesh
charred. He was last seen alive with
a companion, with whom he was
drinking. The companion has disap-
peared.
David T. Littler, former state sena-
tor and a well-known republican lead
err, died at Springfield, ILL.,, on the
23d, of Bright's disease. For over
twenty years he was q strong factor
in Illinois politics.
Walter Davis, a 12-year-old boy liv-
ing near Lenox, Ia, committed sui
eide, on the 23d, by hanging himself
with a halter strap.