Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

House-The house, on the Esd,
adopted a resolution requesting Of the
secretary of the navy information as
to the number of horses, carriages and
automobiles maintained at the eX-
pense of the government for officials
of the navy department. The urgency
deficiency bill was reported and no.
tice given mat the bill would be called
up for consideration Immediately after
the army bill had been disposed of.
The house then went into committee
of the whole, and resumed considera-
ton of the army appropriation bill. An
amendment by Mr.. Slayden (TeXas),
limiting the appropriation for books
to the purchase of technical works per-
tanning to the work of the war depart
ment, was agreed to. The paragraph
providing 1921, $50 for a submarine ca
bic from Sitka to Fort Liscum, Alaska,
went out on a point of order.
United States Senator Joseph Ralph
Burton, of Kansas, was indicted, on
the oath, at st. Louis, by the federal
grand jury, on a charge that he re-
ceived $4,000 from the Rialto Grain
and Securities Co., of st. Louis, for
services rendered at Washington, D.
c., in an attempt to prevent the post
Office department from issuing a fraud
order against that concern.
Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, the aged
mother of Mabel Bechtel, who was
found murdered, last October, at Allen
town, Pa, was acquitted, on the 23d,
of the charge of being an accessory
to the murder after the fact. Her trial
occupied nine days, and the jury dellb-
Grated on hour before rendering the
verdict of not guilty.
|. N. Walker, conductor of the Iowa
Central wrecking train which collided
with a switching train near Peoria,
ILL.,, Jan. %, killing three men, was
arrested, on the 23d, on a coroner's
warrant charging him with man
slaughter. He was released on $4,000
bonds, OF the oath.
Maddened by the intense cold, which
had frozen its ears and trunk, an ele-
pnant belonging to an animal show
which had been exhibiting at a St.
Paul Minn.l theater, on the oath, al
most killed its keeper, Conrad Castens,
and partially wrecked the Milwaukee
freight house.
Two masked men entered the office
of the Anheuser-Busch distributing
plant at st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 23d,
and, at the point of revolvers, com
PEELED the manager to give them $3.50,
all the funds on hand.
Senate-The senate, on the 25ths
heard further discussion on the ques-
ton of appointments to office made
during congressional recesses, listened
to a speech on the isthmian canal ques-
ton by Mr.. Morgan, and passed a num-
Der of bills of a semi-public character.
Among the bills passed was n autho-
rizing the erecting of a monument to
the memory of John Paul Jones. The
senate, at 500, went into executive
session, and. at sos p. m. adjourned
..... House-The house passed the
army appropriation bill, carrying APP
proximately SIS, 600, 900, after adopting
a number of amendments. The pro-
vision for the consolidation of the
acknowledgements department and the
record and pension Offices of the wal
department into one bureau, to be
known as the military s~ecretary's Of
flee, was stricken from the bill on a
point of order raised by Mr.. Grosvenor
of Ohio. At 4:05 p. m. the house adj
journed.
The north and central wings Of the
state school for INDECENT children, a
Owatonna, Mimi, was Quilted by fire
on the 25th. All the inmates WERE
taken from the building uninjured
Nineteen babies domiciled in the south
wing were safely taken out. The loss
was not stated, but there was insur.
ance on the building of $50. 000.
Aldermen A. l.. Gray and George
Schwartz, City Attorney Fontaine ant
City Assessor P~armentier, of Greer
Bay, Wis, were arrested, on the 25th
on warrants based on indictments re
turned by the grand jury chargin,
them with bribery. All were admitted
TO bail.
In every one of % churches in Bel
bingham, Wash, resolutions wer
passed, on the oath, calling upon Sen
ators Ankeny and Foster, of the stat
of Washington, to cast their ballots /
the senate against the seating of Sen
ator Reed Smoot, of Utah.
On recommendation of Senator Hey
burn, of Idaho, the president, on tn
25th, appointed H. Smith Wooley,
former bishop of the Mormon church
to be assayer Of the mint at Boise City
Idaho.
The chief justice Of the suprem
court Of the United states, on the 25tl
announced that on February 2 tn
court would take a recess for thre
weeks.
David e. Thompson, United State
minister to Brazil, arrived at Ne
York, on the 25th, on the steamer Tel
lnyson, from Rio Janeiro.