Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-03-27

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REPRESENTATIVE Hill, of Connecticut,
on the 18th, introduced a bill for u
coinage of the silver bullion IN the
treasury purchased under the act OF
July IA, 1892, into subsidiary silver
coin.
The Servian cabinet, on the lsth'
rendered it's resignation, owing TO
the adoption by the skuptschina (the
national assembly of a civil service
ref~~n measure, against the wishes
of the ministry.
The rules committee OF the NC"
York state assembly, on the 19th' IA
vorably reported a bill approprlatlhg
100000 for New York states repre-
sentatiou at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition at st. Louis.
Senator Proctor, on the 10Th, intro
duced a bill continuing in force the
present law for the exclusion OF Chm
csc until the expiration of the exist
ing treaty with China or until a new
treaty shall be negotiated.
The Portuguese troops in East Al
RIGA captured 1862 slave dealers ana
killed so others at Pemba Bay, re-
Gently, when the government forces
attacked 10 strongholds of the slave
dealers, and liberated 700 slaves.
Five hundred returned emigrants,
disappointed with life in the United
States, have just passed through Ber-
lin on their way to their OLD homes
in the provinces of east and west
Prussia and in Russia and Austria.
The New York stock exchange Will
be closed on Good Friday and the
following day. The board of man
ayers of the New York produce ex-
change also voted to close the ex-
change on Good Friday, March %.
The annual report of the Ameri-
can Telephone Co, of Boston, just is
sued. shows total earnings of SILL
COG, SIG. against $0,534,449 in 1900; net
revenue $7,39S,2S5 against $5,4S6,o57
in 1900. Surplus, after dividends, ST.
34s.262, against 81, 407 ,456 in 1900.
A general heavy rain fell in Kansas,
on the night of the goth, and in many
places continued throughout the next
dav. The fall was especially heavy
in the wheat belt, and it is believed
came in time to save the crop from
injury from drought and high winds.
Letters received from Port-au-
Prince, Hayti, say that the whole
country is disturbed owing to the
bad political situation. The govern
ment is making numerous arrests in
several quarters, principally Jacmel,
where it is feared a revolutionary
outbreak in imminent"
The Cologne Gazette says that 4
four-volume autobiography of Rich
ard Wagner, beginning in 1864, has
been privately printed at Basel and
Bayreuth. Thirteen sets of the work
have been issued before general pub
LEGATION, supposedly for the criti'
cisms of judicious friends.
The secretary Of the interior. or
the 10Th, sem to the senate the draft
of a bill providing for the enlarge
ment of Yellowstone park. In q
communication accompanying the
bill, the secretary says the extension
of the park boundaries is necessary
to protect the game in the park.
The political situation in Hayti is
critical. The authorities continue
making arrests. The prisoners OF. i'm
p%ortance are taken on board the
Haytien war hipCrete-au-Pierot The
authorities at Port-au-Prince believe
the disturbances will be quelled be
fore tehy reach the stage of being
considered revolutionary.
The Franco-Russian note relative
to China, which was published, or
the Goth. was handed to Secretary
Hay by Ambassador Cambon, fol-
France, and Count Cassini, for Rus
STA. The note is regarded ofticiall.
as simply another pledge on the par
of the signatory powers to maintain
the 'open door" in China.
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The agreement between the Domln
ion government and William Mar
conf for the establishment of a wire
less telegraph station at Cape Breton
has been brought to a satisfactor,
issue. 1t is expected that wireless
communication will be established be
tween the Dominion and Great Brit
ain by the beginning of June.
The supreme court of California
in a decision handed down, on TIL
10th, declared the trust clause in TIL
will Of the late Senator James G
Fair invalid, and the property will a
once be distributed among the chi
dren of the deceased senator. 1t /
estimated that the estate is wort
more than twenty million dollars.
United States Consul-General Pc
ry NJ. De Leon, at Guayaquil, Ecua
dor, has applied for and been granite
a leave of absence, and will come {
Washington, shortly, to confer wit
the state department with regard I
the recent troubles in Ecuador grow
ing out Of claims of illegal arres
and imprisonment Of American cit
The government bill arranging IL
PROVISIONAL, consular and con
mercial relations between Austri'
Hungary and Mexico was agreed u
on in the upper house Of the reich