Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-12-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS,


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Senate-Immediately after the con
clusion of the routine business, on the
18th, the senate resumed discussion of
the Cuban reciprocity bill, with Mr..
Foster La as the speaker. He OPP
posed the bill or the ground of its
enactment into law would prove in.
furious to the sugar producing and
other important interests of the United
States. The president sent to the SEN
ate the following nominations: Assist
ant treasurer, Thomas j. Atkins, at
st. Louis, Mo. Envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to Pan.
ANA, William |. Buchanan, of New
York.
General Manager Gridley of the Chi
cago, Peoria & st. Louis railroad
stated. on the 18th, that there was no
truth in the report that the road had
been sold to the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton, and declared that no offers
had been made for the road from any
source. He said the Chicago, Peoria
e st. Louis would allow other roads
to use its tracks TO st. Louis for the
Worlds fair business.
Adjt.-Gen. Scott issued an order, on
the 18th, at Springfield, H., announc.
ing the appointment of John V. Clin-
a as inspector of rife practice of
the Fifth Illinois infantry, vice Butler,
to rank as captain. The reelection Of
Albert E. Butler as first lieutenant
of Troop c, First cavalry, was con-
firmed.
Chicago was selected, on he 18th,
as the place for holding the next ma
tional republican convention. The
vote was as follows: Chicago, 43;
Pittsburg, 7; st. Louis, 1. The COM
mittee fixed June q, at IL o'clock, as
the time for the meeting of the CON
vention.
Tom Clark, a member of the Belknap
gang of counterfeiters. which had
headquarters in Chicago, and wanted
at Rock Island, Galesburg, Rockford
and other places in Illinois, was ar
rested, on the 18th, at Cedar Rapid.
Ia, by federal authorities. Clark con-
fessed.
John J. Berry, of Ramona, Kas., sued
Charles HapgooG, millionaire pillow
manufacturer, for $4,000 personal
damages and $55,0 600 settlement dam
ages. Berry was Hapgood's loan and
land agent, and was recently charged
With embezzlement, but acquitted.
M. V. Coons, n banker of Cleveland,
O., completed the deal. on the 18th,
for over 10000 acres CT oil land In
Montgomery and the eastern part of
Chautauqua counties, Kas.
Senate-The senate spent the 14th on
the Cuban bill, most of the time being
occupied by Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, in
an elaborate argument against the on
st~itutionality of the proceeding. He
claimed that no treaty changing the
revenue laws that was not first author
lied by legislation originating in the
house of representatives was valid. Mr..
Bailey also opposed the bill as a mat
ter of general policy Brief speeches
were made by Senators Teller, Depew
and Lodge At 40 o'clock the SEN
ate went into executive session, and at
Ais adjourned. ..... House-The house
was in session for a little more than
four hours, on the 18th, during which
time there vas a general discussion on
varied topics The pension appropria-
ton bill was before the house, but no
conclusion on it was reached The 18TH
milan canal and the Republic of Pan
ANA, the tariff, tobacco interests and
questions affecting labor were debated.
The house, at 4:15, adjourned until the
18th.
Viola Sands Hazard, thought to be
the oldest woman in Rhode Island,
died, on the 14th, at her home at Wake
field, R l., at the age of los years. She
was known Is the only descendant of
the sole survivor of the ship Palatine,
which was wrecked at Block Island in
the eighteenth century, and which be-
came celebrated as the phantom ship"
in Whittier's poem.
d. G. Copley, member of the executive
board of the Western Federation of
Miners, who was arrested at Victor,
Col, on the 18th, by the militia, was
released, on the 18th, by an order Of
Gov. Peabody. He was one of 23 men
charged with dynamiting the Sun G.
Moon mining property at Idaho
Springs, Col.
School children placed a bolt on the
track where the incoming Rock Island
& Pacific passenger train from the east
at a point ten miles east Of Colorado
Springs, Col, on the 14th, and the loco
motive, baggage car and first coach
were derailed. Three trainmen were
badly hurt.
United States minister Beaupre re-
ported to the state department at
Washington, d. G., from Bogota, on the
18th, that everything was quiet there
and he saw no occasion to postpone his
leave of absence, and he would start
at once for the United States. .
The chief justice of the supreme
court OF the United States, on the 18th,
announced o recess Of that body for
i - g. "a a.