Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-03-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The senate, on the list, spent three

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The senate, on the list, spent three
bours in eulcgies of four deceased
members of the house, Peter j.. Otey
(Va.), James Moody On. c., John n.
Rumple (Ia.), and Thomas II. Tongue
(Ore.). Resolutions of regret were
adopted, and the senate adjourned as
a further mark of resDeCt....The
house held a four hours session, anil
put the District of Columbia appro-
priation through it's last parlia-
mentary stages. The previous ques-
ton on the conference report on the
Alaskan homestead bill was ordered
and a vote on its adoption will be ta-
ken when the house r%econvenes.
When Speaker Henderson dropped the
gayel at noon, Mr.. Richardson, the
minority leader, announced there was
evidently no quorum. The doors were
closed, and the sergeaut"at-arms was
instructed to bring in the absentees.
At the conclusion of the call 2l1 mem
bers had appeared-more than a
quorum-and regular business was
taken up. At 1855 p. IN. the house re-
cessed until II o'clock, Monday, with
the motion to adopt the conference
report on the Alaskan bill pending.
The jury in the case of Annie b.
Wood and other heirs of Silas Arm
strong, an Indian, to recover Missou-
ri river bottom land in Kansas City,
Aas., valued at 81, 900, 900 and occupied
by Armour and Fowler, the packers,
returned a verdict, on the 1st, in IA
vor of the plaintiffs.
President Francis of the St. Louis
exposition left London for Paris, on
the 1st, in consequence ola telegram
from NJ. lie Grave, the French COM
missioner to the exposition, urging
him to visit Paris, and saying Presi-
dent Loubet would like to receive him
at the Elysee.
A woman who gave her name as
Mrs. Charles G. Wellington, commit
ted suicide by inhaling choloform in a
fashionable boarding house at Had
dontield, n. j., on the 1st. She left a
note saying she was the last of a dis
tinguished family.
At a farewell meeting held in New
York, on the LIST, Gen. VIM. Booth,
head of the Salvation army, announced
a plan for the establishment of an in
ternational university for the instruc-
ton of trained rescuers of humanity.
The prisoner who, while trying to
escape at Kansas City, was shot by a
detective, and who gave his name as
James j.. Arnold, was identified, on
the 1st, as Alfred Saunders, of Louis
Vile, Ky.
The senate, on the I'd, passed the
general deficiency bill. When the AID
rich financial bill was taken up Mr..
Teller continued his remarks begun
Saturday. He was followed by Mr..
Carmack. During the course of the
day the conference report on the
Notifications bill and the Alaskan
homestead bill were agreed to. The
immigration and. omnibus public
building bills were sent to conference.
....In the house the conference re-
port on the Alaskan homestead bill
and the immigration bill were adopt
ed. The Often bill to prohibit tobac-
co dealers from giving prizes, the bill
to provide for a delegate from Porto
Rico, a bill to advance Maj. W.. G.
Gongas to the rank of assistant sur
geon general, and a bill for the relief
of Lieut.. B. +. Handforth were passed.
Since last Thursday, when the fill
buster was |inaugurated by the demo-
Gratis, there have been over sixty roll
calls, as against 81 for the entire long
session, lasting from December 1,
1901, to July 3, 1902.
Postmaster-Genera Payne forward
ed to the house, on the I'd, all the
papers in the ease of the %Indianola
(NIiss.) post office case, which post
office was discontinued by the admin
istration because of the forced ADAM
donment of the Office by its negro
postmistress, Mrs. Minnie V. Cox.
The society of American women Of
London gave a luncheon, on the I'd,
on the occasion of the fourth annual
university of the establishment Of
the organization. Commissioner Flor
ence Hayward, of the st. Louis fair,
made an address.
Six men are missing and over TWEEN
| ty-five were injured in a gas eXplo-
sion in the Edison cement works at
New Village, N. j., on the I'd. A large
part of the plant was destroyed.
Capt. Samuel J. Boyd Of the Fourth
police district of st. Louis was in
dicted, on the Cd, the grand jury hold
ing him responsible for the immoral
conditions in his district.
Col. Anthony, editor of the Leaven-
worth (Kas.) Times and other visit
ing Americans in Mexico were re-
ceived in special private audience by
President Diaz on the I'd.
The post Office department, on the
I'd, ordered the mail Of the John j.
Ryan turf exchange held at Newport,
Ky.
A hurricane swept the coast at st.
Johns, N. f., on the I'd, wrecking one
! schooner. Other disasters re feared.