Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
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on the 18th, handed down a decision
sustaining the eight-hour law. The
decision was by Justice Smith, and
was in the case of w. w.. Atkin, of
Kansas City, Kas., who, in filling a
street paving contract for the city,
had worked his men more than eight
hours a day. He was convicted in
the district court of violating the
law, and appealed.
The seventh annual convention of
the international Brotherhood of
Steam Shovel and Dredge Engineers
and Cranemen of America, which
closed at Chicago, on the 18th, adopt
ed a standard scale of wages for
shovel and dredgemen employed OF
the Nicaragua and Panama canal
work, as follows: Engineers, $3.50 per
month and board; cranemen, 5000 per
month and board.
Luther. r. Marsh, the well-known
spiritualist, preached two sermons
at Christ Universalist church in
%hlttilNtoNH. ~. i's oh IIIC l"bh' VII
'tJesus, the Christ" He affirmed his
belief in the divinity of Christ, and
declared that modern sp%iritualism
had its birth in Christ's
ment of His identity to many after
the resurrection.
Gov. George X. Nash was inaugu-
rated into office for a second term
at Columbus, o., on the 18th. The
inaugural ceremonies were held in
the rotunda of the capitol. There
was a military and civic parade in
the afternoon. In the evening there
was a public reception in the judi
ciary building.
Ten thousand dollars was contrib
uted, on the 18th, to the national
fund for a Mckinley memorial by the
workingmen of Homestead, Pa. The
majority of the men gave a half
days pay, from the lowest laborer
to the heads of departments. There
were a few, however, who gave moth
ing.
The United States cruisers Chicago
and Albany and the gunboat Nash
vile left Nillefranche, on the 18th,
for Genoa, to await the arrival of
~Rear-.Admiral j. b. Cromwell.
A report from Seoul, Corea, says
that Russia, without waiting for Co.
rea's permission, has pushed her tele-
graph line across the Toomen river
into Corean territory.
The German cruiser Gazelle left
Eiel, on the 18th, for Venezuelan wa
tiers.
In the senate, on the 18th, Mr..
Nelson (Minn.) called up the bill
providing for the establishment of II
of and urged
its immediate passage. He was piled
with questions by senator's, who OBJ
jected that time enough for looking
into the merits of the measure had
not been given. The bill finally went
The senate spent half an hour
in executive session and adjourned.
lin the house the day was spent in
a general discussion of the pension
appropriation bill, the first of the an
nual budgets to be presented. Messrs.
Grosvenor and Hepburn defended
their course in the last congress in
opposing the veteran preference"
bill, and Mr.. Rixey (Va.) advanced a
confederate homes and to open ma
tl,nal soldiers homes to eX-confed-
crates.
The London grand jury, on the 18th,
found a true bill against DR.. Krause,
the former governor of Johannes
burg. Transvaal, on the charge of in
citing Cornelius Broecksman, the ex-
public prosecutor of Johannesburg
(who was executed September 30,
last) to murder John Douglas Foster,
an English lawyer, who was attched
to Lord Roberts staff.
The Cherokee, Choctaw and Chicka-
saw nations have, by their councils,
passed resolutions asking congress
to do away with tribal government
and asking that territorial govern
ment be instituted instead. They say
that two governments can not well
exist at the same time.
Secretary Hay and Lord Paucefote,
the British ambassador, on the 18th,
signed a protocol extending for one
year the time allowed British col
onies to adhere to the treaty entered
into between the United States and
Great Britain defining the rights of
their subjects.
Christopher Zug, a pioneer iron
manufacturer of western PennsyI-
vania, died at his home in Pittsburg,
Pa, on the 18th, of general debility,
incident to old age. Mr.. Zug was 95
years old. He was a director in nu-
merous financial and philanthropic
institutions.
United States Minister Wilson at
Santiago, Chile, cabled the secretary
Of state, on the 18th, that the govern
ment Of Chile had adopted the extra
dition treaty submitted by the gov
eminent of the United States.