Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
IN the senate, on the 7th, the state
hood bill again occupied most of the
day, Mr.. Kean continuing but not
concluding his speech on the subject.
The claim of the opponents of the bill
that it does not contain a sufficient
safeguard against polygamy gave rise
to Il general debate. A large number
of bills 10 which there was no oppo-
sition were passed during the day..
The house, by a unanimous vote,
passed the antitrust bill. The senate
amendments to the army appropria-
ton bill were concurred in and the
bill was sent to the conference.
News OF terrible less of life and
destruction of property in the South
sea islands by tidal wave, on January
10, reached San Francisco, on the Sth.
The loss of life is estimated at 1000,
eight white people being among the
drowned. The surviving natives were
left destitute of food, shelter n
clothing, the storm having swept ev-
erythiDg away.
A very distinct shock of earthquake
was felt in st. Louis about $50
o'clock on the night of the 8th. At
the same hour the shock was felt in
many places in the states of Illinois,
Missouri and Kentucky, but no serious
damage was reported from any point.
Mrs. Lafayette Taylor, of Center
vile, Sullivan county, N. Y, con-
fessed, IN the Sth, to the murder Of
her husband on January rs, and also
that she and her 1~4-year-old daughter
had cut the body in small pieces and
burned it, to escape detection.
A campaign against crime in Ken
lucky was ~inaugurated by the Louis
vile Ministerial association, on the
Sth. Special services were held in
most of the churches in the city and
Mt many points throughout the state.
The former crown princess of Sax
ony left Geneva. on the Sth, and went
to q Swiss sanitarium for quietude
and medical attention, being much de-
pressed by the refusal to allow her to
visit her sicl; child.
Henry 5. Monroe, one of the city's
Oldest settlers and Il veteran member
of the Chicago bar, died of pneu-
monia, on the Sth, aged II years. He
was an Intimate friend of Stephen A.
Douglas.
The Columbia theater, at Frank
fort, Ind, was burned, on the Sth,
presumably the work of an incepdi-
airy.
DR.. Paul Haedicke, well known as a
journalist both in America and Ger
many, cicG In New York, on the Sth.
In the senate, on the 9th. Mr.. Car
mack spoke on the Rawlins resolu-
ton calling on the secretary of war
for reports from certain courts mar
tial. He charged that murders in the
Philippines by American soldiers had
become so common that they could
not bear investigation, and criticised
the conduct of both the president and
secretary of war. Mr.. kean continued
his speech on the statehood bill, and
several senators INDUCED in a debate
on the question of the interference of
the Mormon church in politics. Mr..
Elkins spoke in favor of statehood
for New Mexico. The house spent
almost the entire day on two District
of Columbia appropriation bills, II
to authorize the government to ad-
vance So, 000, 900 to the district and
the other the conference report on
the union station bill. The former
was defeated and the latter sent back
to conference.
No progress was made at the con
ference, on the 9th, between the Chi
cago Building Managers association
and the striking employees, and a gen
eral strike in all the large office build
ings in the city is looked for.
A. charter was issued by the secre.
tary of state of Missouri, on the 9th,
for an electric railroad to extend
from Brookfield to Glasgow, Mo-, and
thence to st. Louis, to be completed
in time for the Worlds fair.
In a fight with Filipino insurgents,
ON the Sth, Inspector Harris and one
man of the constabulary were killed
and ten other Americans wounded
while the insurgents left Is dead and
three wounded on the field.
The health authorities of San Fran
cisco issued a statement, on the 9th
declaring that there vas not a case
of bubonic plague in that city, ant
denouncing as false all reports to the
contrary.
Tony Grillo and his wife, keepers
of a boarding house at Portage, Pa.
were killed by an explosion of dyna
mite under their house, on the 9th
done for the purpose of robbery.
Five hundred families were rem
dered destitute by a fire which de
stroyed $40 homes and many public
buildings in the town Of Krutz, Aus
tria, on the Sth.
There were four deaths from thu
plague at Mazatlan, on the 9th, ant
Al cases in the la~zaretto.
Mrs. Jane Odell, an aunt of Gov
Odell Of New York, died at Newburg
N. Y, on the 9th.