Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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In the senate, on the 10th, the army
appropriation bill was passed, after
an amendment offered By Mr.. Bailey
CTex.) providing that no part of the
appropriation made by the measure
should be used in d%efraying the ex-
penses of the special embassy to the
coronation of King Edward VII. of
England had been withdrawn. The
house transacted some minor bust
ness and then laid aside public busi-
ness to pay tribute to the memory of
the late Representative Rufus X.
Polk, of Pennsylvania, and the late
Senator j. Ii. Kyle, of South Dakota.
The state department received a
cablegram, on the 18th, from United
States Consul Ayme, at Guadeloupe,
stating that he would leave for Marti-
nique that night. The state depart
ment cabled Consul Ayme Saturday
to proceed at once to Martinique and
report upon the situation there, but
it is thought at the department that
its instructions have not vet reached
him, and that realizing the need of
prompt action he has gone to Marti-
nique of his own volition.
There has been so great a demand
for copies of the response of Secre-
tary Root to the CulberSon 1cs0lutiGn
with reference to the conduct Of the
American army in the Philippine that
it has been found impossible to com
ply with all requests for copies. At
the instance of Senator Allison the
senate has passed an order for the
printing of 1000 additional copies Of
the secretary's communication.
In the bicycle contests held at the
Pare DIES Princes, Paris. on the 18th,
Tom Linton, the English cyclist,
broke the worlds record for distance
covered in one hour on a bicycle. He
rode II kilometres and 907 metres in
the hour. Roll. the German 2yclist,
was two laps behind Linton, and Har-
ry Elkes, the American, was third.
Walter l.. Myles, son of Miles
Myles. of Edwarddale, rear Wilkes
barre, Pa, a junior pupil of the nor
NAL school at West Chester, Pa, died,
on the 18th, from injuries received in
being struck by Il pitched ball. The
ball hit Myles behind his left ear and
felled him to the ground. He was Is
| years old.
George Pritchard, an actor, died of
typhoid pneumonia at st. Joseph's
hospital in Denver, Col, on the 18th
He was leading comedian of the Den
yer theater stock company when ia.
Ken i'll. Mr.. Pritchard was 81 years OF
:ge. His mother lives at Griffin, Ga.
In the senate, on the 18th, Senator
Foraker (O.o made a set speech ON
the army in the Philippines, in Which
he defended the army from the fire
in-the rear to which it had been Sc
long subjected, declaring that TIN
american army had shown a hu
mainly unsurpassed in history
House amendment to the bill making
an appropriation of 100000 for tn,
relief of the people of the Frencl
West Indies was concurred in....lr
the house "A bill granting 5000 600, fo
the relief of the sufferers in the grea
calamity in the West Indies wa
~passed-106 to 9-Mr. underwood,
(Ala.) being the only one to object
The rest of the day vas devoted t.
business of the District of Columbia.
NJ. Severe, the Brazilian aeronaut
who aspired to be the rival of N
Santos-Dumont, met with an accidcn
while man%euvering his dirigible ba.
loon, the Pax, in Paris, on the 12tl
which cost the life of the aeronau
and a machinist who had made tn
assent with him.. After the balloo
had reached an altitude of LOO fee
some arrangement of the machinei
caused Il leakage of gas which ignite
and the balloon exploding. it's occ,
pants were dashed to the earth an
both crushed into shapeless masses.
NJ. II. Clark, f. II. Gum and ii.
Player, three of the most prominer
men in the British tobacco trade, a
: rived at New York, on the 18th, G
the steamship SaXonia. None of the
will commit himself to any statemel
on the object of their visit, but a.
| mitted that they would leave at on'
Tor the south.
Anticipating action by congress f'
the relief of the survivors of ii
. dreadful disaster in the Lesser A
titles. the president, on the 18th, ga
orders for the immediate dispatch
t United States vessels with army al
navy stores for the starving survive,
e of the awful catastrophe.
Carbondale, Kas., a small town
y miles south of Topeka, was almost e
tirely destroyed by fire, on the 12t
t Loss, $50. 1000. All the best wells
town yer pumped dry in an ineffec
l. ual effort to subdue the flames. TT
It telephone exchange was among Il
buildings burned.
al General superintendent Ressigu
Of the Santa Fe, denies that the
were any fatalities or injuries co
l. nected with the wreck of the Ca
fornia flyer, on the 18th, at Revel
Mo.