Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

President Roosevelt, on the nth,
vetoed a bill pensioning Thomas +.
Walter, a lieutenant in Il Pennsylva-
MIA volunteer regiment, in the civil
war. who was cashiered. by sentence
of a general court martial. for DISC
bedience of orders, which was ad-
mitted at the trial.
The house of bishops of the EpiS-
copal church. in session at Cincinnati,
elected the following bishops: Salina.
western Kansas, Nathaniel Seymour
Thomas. of Philadelphia; Honolulu,
Henry Bond Restarick. OF San Diego,
Cal: Porto Rico. James II. Van
Buren,, formerly of Lynn, Mass, and
later of San Juan.
Alderman Thomas Carey, of Chi
cage, recently offered his workmen
prizes of $500 and 500 for triplets
and twins, respectively, in their fami-
lies. On the 18th William Roach be-
came entitled to the larger amount.
There are two boys and a girl, all
healthy.
The Presbyterian creed revision
committee completed its labors, at
Washington. on the 18th. and adj
journed. The committee agreed
unanimously %pon a report to be
made to the general assembly, which
meets in New York on May Is.
The nationalist papers in Ireland
bail the return of the coercion regime
as a boon. 1--WE are glad" says one.
Let the Irish in America and Great
Britain note it. The castle people
have declared war on our rights. Let
there be war"
President Loubet was present at the
opening of the new Sslon in the
grand Palais DIES Champs Elysee on
the 18th. The critics found that the
exhibits were rarely above mediocre.
There was no great picture. Several
Americans, however, received warm
compliments.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $50, 100000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
18th, showed: Available cash bal
ance, $lT1,o16, Tj4; gold. 500, OO2, 900.
The North Montana Roundup as
ISOLATION at Helena, Mont, adopted
a resolution, on the 18th, protesting
against the re-inspection of stock by
the inspectors of Colorado and wy
oming while in transit from the south
to northern ranges, when federal in
spectors have given a certificate of
health for them.
That portion of the Rosebud Indian
reservation to be opened for settle.
ment the coming summc contains
1000 0 acres.
The democratic minority in the
house Of representatives. with the aid
OF the beet sugar 'insurgent" repub-
Leans, on the 18th. won a victory,
against the allies of the Sugar trust.
They forced the republican managers
of the house to accept an amendment
removing the differential on refined
sugars imported not only from Cuba,
but from all other places.
NJ. Camille Flammarion announced
at the last meeting Of the Societe
Astronomique de France that one
billion minutes would have elapsed
at 6:10 p. Ii. of April IS, since the be.
ginning of the Christian era.
Mrs. Lottie G. Dimon, widow of AS.
sistant Manager Dimon of the Amer
lean Bridge Co., was awarded a YER
dict of 100000 against the New Yorl
Central Railroad Co.. in the supreme
court at White Plains, n. Y, on the
18th, for the killing of her husband
in the Park avenue tunnel collision
in January last.
The question of establishing a re
gency is being earnestly considered
by The Netherlands government, ant
1t is thought probable, in view Of tn,
long illness of Queen Wilhelmina, tina
the states-general (%parliament) will
be summoned, in joint session, at al
early date to take action in the mat
ter