Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-03-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Senate-The senate, or the 26th, was
in session only about three hours. Dur
ing that time a number of private pen
sion bills were passed and another por-
ton of the District of Columbia appro-
priation bill was read and debated. The
district bill was still under discussion
when the senate took up the pension
calendar. After passing a number of
bills on that list the senate adjourned
80. House-The house began consider
alton of the sundry civil appropriation
bill. Ten hours were fixed for gen.
eral debate on the measurue, but at
the end of an hour and a half there
were no speakers ready to continue,
and the house adjourned for lack of
takers. Chairman Hemenway of the
appropriations committee, and Mr.. Ben
ton (dem.) filed statements on the bill.
Mr.. Hemenway summed up the fiscal
condition for the next fiscal year,
showing that after all legitimate ex-
penses had been paid there would be
$22, 900, 900 surplus for the year. A
number Of minor bills were passed by
unanimous consent, and special orders
were made for the consideration of
pension bills which had the right Of
way.
Rev. John Potts, of Toronto, Ont,
preached on the Hill of Mars, on the
9th, to the delegates to the Worlds
Sunday-school convention. The min
listers and delegates repeated st. Paul's
address to the Athenanians. All the
members, of the party from the United
States are we'll, and will proceed to
Jerusalem, where the meeting of the
convention will be held.
O. S. Strickland, a prominent con-
tracing mason Of Guthrie, Okla, and
William Shaul, of Ponca City, were
killed while engaged in pulling the
framework from a stone arch bridge
northwest of Ponca City IN the 26th-
The arch fell, and Strickland and
Snaul were buried under tons of stone.
the bodies were horribly m%angled.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
late president of the southern confed-
eracy, was stricken, on the 9th, in At
lantic City, N. j., with an attack Of
acute Indigestion. through her re-
markable vitality, Mrs. Davis rallied,
and no Apprehension is now expressed
for her rapid recovery.
The Wabash, White and Patoka riv-
ers, neal Princeton, Ind, were rising
on the 9th. The property loss has al.
ready reached 5000, 900 in southwest
err Indiana. All trains are greatly
delayed.
discussed for three hours the recent
order of the pension bureau making
old age an evidence Of disability, and
then passed the District of Columbia
appropriation bill. The discussion of
the pension order was based on the
resolution offered some days ago by
Mr.. Carmack, directing the committee
on the judiciary to inquire into the
authority of the executive branch of
the government to make such an or
der. The senate, at Ais p. M, went
into executive session, and at 4:25 p.
m. adjourned. 50. House-The sundry
civil bill was before the house, but de-
bate took a wide range. Mr.Gillett
(Mass.) devoted considerable time to
answering some of the statements re-
Gently made on the floor by Mr.. Spight
(Miss.) regarding the race question.
He defended the president for inviting
Booker Washington to dine with him,
and said the president was a mar of
a big heart, as we'll as birth, breeding
and cultivation. MI. Clark (Mo.) made
a speech on the tariff, and declared
unequivocally in favor of the tariff
programme for the democratic party.
A strong plea for the tobacco growers
was made by Mr.. Trimble (Ky.), who
urged the removal of the tax Of six
cents a pound on raw tobacco. House
adjourned at 5:19 p. m.
James B. H%ossford, Of Helena, Mont,
for 20 years connected with the office
of the supervising architect of the
treasury department, and for over two
years superintendent of construction
of the Helena federal building, died
suddenly on the 2Sthof Brights disease,
aged 81 years. Interment at Geneseo,
Ill.
Edgar Waugh, Of Lincoln, Neb., for
nerly an assistant in the Lancaster
county ~treasurer's office, pleaded
guilty on the 28th to the embezzlement
Of $4,000 Of public funds, and was SEN
fenced to serve four years in the peni-
Tertiary. Waugh gave forged tax re-
ceipts and kept the money.
A. G. Stitch, a gas, oil and brick
s%pecula,cr, Of Independence, Kas., has
given $4,000 for a fine arts depart
ment to Washburn college, Topeka, in
honor of the memory of a son and
daughter who at one time attended that
institution.
The POSTWAR er-general, on the 28th,
accepted the designation of Fl. H. Rand
as assistant superintendent Of the d.
vision for salaries and allowances Of
the post Office department. The action
takes effect Immediately.