Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-06

$S5o,OUU. Inc governor maue no rec
ommendation.
Assistant Postmaster-General Mad
den forwarded to the house, on the
2sth, a draft of a bill or provision
for incorporation into the post office
appropriation bill to permit the pay
ment of the postage in bulk on large
quantities of third and fourth class
mail matter, without stamps.
Judge Taft, civil governor of the
Philippines, arrived in Washington IN
the goth. He was met by Gen. Cor
bin and at once driven to the war
department. After an exchange of
greetings, Secretary Root took Gov.
Taft to his home on Rhode Island
avenue, where luncheon was served.
At Toledo, o., on the Goth, Mrs.
Horace c. Allen, wife of the United
States minister to Corea, slipped and
fell On the ice, breaking one of the
bones in her leg. Mr.. Allen and she
were to have started, on the 30th, on
their return to Corea via London, St.
Petersburg and the Siberian railway
The man to whom Abraham Lincoln
presented a jackknife because his
face was homlier than his own, died
at East Liverpool, o., on the 31st. He
was Rev. William Hastings, of To-
ronto, o. Rev. William Hastings was
a powerful and distinguished preach
er, but he was not a handsome man.
The house committee on territories
gave a hearing, on the 31st, to a del
egation from Arizona, including Gov.
Murphy, Chief Justice Street, J. G.
O of it's admission as a state. The
readiness of the territory to assume
all the obligations of statehood was
set forth.
The report that Commandment Krit'
Finger, who was captured by Gen
French, December II, had been con-
demned to death, was not confirmed
in London up to the Goth. 1t was an.
nounced from South Africa, January
20, that Kritzinger's trial would be.
gin soon, but nothing had since been
heard of his case.
A. J. Patterson, convicted of EN-.
bezzling $4,000 in city funds from the
City of Clyde, Kas., of which he was
treasurer, was sentenced, on the 31st,
to three years in the ~penitentiary.
Patterson admitted taking the money,
but alleged that as it was collected
from joints he could not be held ac-
countable for it.
Senator Lodge, on the 30th, intro.
duced a bill authorizing the inspec-
ton of trains coming into the United
States from Canada and Mexico with
the view of determining whether
there are on board aliens who are
not residents of those countries. The
object of the measure is to prevent
Illegal immigration.
The house committee on banking
and currency, on the Goth, ordered
IL favorable report on the bill of Rep.
resentative Cousins, of Iowa, author
izing the selection of reserve banks
in cities of $4,000 population, instead
of $4,000, as at present, and having a
minimum capital of 100000, instead
of $500, 000, as now.
The Treasury club, an organization
of officials of the United States treas
ury department, gave a farewell din
ner, on the 31st, at the Shoreham no.
tel, to Hon. Lyman j. Gage, the re-
firing secretary. Covers were laid
for 65, the guests including Hon.
Leslie M. Shaw, who succeeds Mr..
Gage, and other notables.
Charles II. Hysham, a livestock man
of South Omaha, Neb., on the 2Sth,
purchased the ranch and cattle inter
csts of j.. w. Driscoll, of S%pearfish, s..
d. for $470,000. The property con-
sists of 5000 acres of grazingland and
10000 head of cattle. Hysham's graz
ing land now covers a million and
q half Of acres, a large portion Of
which. is under lease from the Grow
Indians.
Director of the Census Merriam
was before the house committee on
census, on the 2Sth, in advocacy OF
establishing the census bureau On a
permanent basis. He spoke of the
difficulties encountered in carrying
on the work when a service had to
be organized every ten years. After
Mr.. Merriam's statement the commit
tee went into secret session, but
reached no conclusion on the pending
bill.
The president has approved the rec
ommendation of the secretary Of wal
that the sentence of dismissal i'm
posed by court-martial in the case
of First Lieut.. Preston Brown, Jr-
Second infantry, be committed to the
loss of 36 numbers and forfeiture OF
his pay for nine months. Lieut.,
Brown was charged withdrawing killed
a Filipino who refused to rescue q
drowning soldier