Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the senate, on the 12th, the feat.
ure of the continued debate on the
Chinese exclusion bill, was the sharp
criticism of Minister WI, of China,
because of his protest made to the
secretary of state against the enact
ment of the pending bill, by Messrs.
Mitchell (Ore.) and Teller (Col.).
Messrs. Foraker TO- and Hoar
(Mass.) defended Minister WI, who,
they declared, had done no more than
his duty, in which he would have been
d"erelict had he done less. In the
house the day was devoted to private
pension bills, III of which were
passed; among them that to Mrs. Nc
kinley of $1,000 Il year, favorable ac-
ton on which was unanimous.
At Guthrie, Okla. Chief Justice Bur
ford, of the territorial supreme court,
on the 18th, rendered a decision
holding that the recent city elections
at Chandler and those at Lawton and
the other cities in 1.-The new south
western counties of the territory are
void, having been brought about by
special proclamation. The decision
maintains that only the regular cleo
tions next year will be legal.
Louis Levin,a well-known merchant,
was found dead in bed at St. Joseph,
Mo-, on the 18th, by his ten-year-old
| son who had slept with his parent
all night,but rose in the morning and
did not discover his fathers death I'M
til about noon. Physicians say that
Levin succumbed to an attack of apo
pleXy some time during the night.
David f. Clark, aged So years, a
tourist, fell dead. on the 18th, in a
restaurant in Colorado Springs, Col.
An autopsy revealed the fact that
death was due to an ante-mortum
blood clot in the heart. The deceased
was On his way home to Syracuse, N.
Y, after spending the winter on the
Pacific coast.
The announcement, on the 18th, of
the presence at Pretoria of the Or
ange Free State and Transvaal lead
ers and generals who had been at
Klerksdorp considering terms of
peace, caused a decided increase in
the hopefulness of the British public
concerning the possibilities of peace.
Rev. Thomas j. Sheppard, for many
years president of the Kansas state
conference of the Methodist Protest
ant church, died at his home in Kan
sas City, Mo-, on the 18th. at the age
of 81 years.
The United States cruiser Brook
lyn arrived at Gibraltar, on the 18th,
and took on coal
In the senate, on the 18th, the days
session was devoted to further con-
sideration of the Chinese exclusion
| bill, Messrs. Foraker CO., and Nc
Lamin Is. c. speaking against the
| pending measure. Mr., Teller (Col.)
| spoke for the bill, arguing that the
right to abrogate treaties was fully
recognized. Mr.. Lodge (Mass.) gave
notice of an amendment to strike out
the clause prohibiting the employ
ment of Chinese sailors on American
| ships. ... In the house most of the day
was devoted to further discussion of
Cuban reciprocity. the conference re-
port on the post Office bill having
first been adopted.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the
city of Hutchinson. Kas., $4,000 for a
public library building on condition
that Hutchinson furnish a site and APP
propriate $1,500 yearly for mainte-
lance Conditions will be agreed to.
1t is reported that a thousand of
Gen. Mas troops, who were taking
part in the Chao Yang expedition
have deserted and joined the rebels
in southern China, taking with them
their arms, munitions and treasury.
The faculty of Vassar college has
awarded the Babbott fellowship for
the ensuing year to Miss Elizabeth
Kemper Adams, of the class of 1898
Miss Adams is at present studying
English in the Chicago university.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt viii
attend the ceremonies incident to the
installation of Nicholas Murray But
Ter as president of Columbia uni
versity at New York.
The conference report on the pos
office appropriation bill was adopted
by the house, on the 14th. after som,
criticism of the pneumatic tube pro
vision.
', c. M. Dickinson, the United State,
consul general at Constantinople, ant
Mrs. Dickinson, left that city, on Til,
18th, on their way to the Unite,
States.
Representative Newlands, of Neva
da, on in the 14th, introduced a bill
in congress to remove all duties OF
beef imported from foreign coun
tries.
Senator Kearns, on the 18th, intro
duced q bill annexing to Utah all tina
: portion of Arizona territory lyin,
north and west of the Colorado river
!. The president, on the 14th, desip
mated the Guaranty Trust Co. of Ne,
York as the fiscal agents of the Unit
ed States in the Philippines.