Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Senate-The entire day In the SEN
ate, on the 18th, was given up to the
consideration of a bill for the modifica-
ton of the agreement with the con-
nections of the Devils Lake reserva-
tons in North Dakota for the sale of
their lands. Messrs. Dubois and Tel
Ter opposed the bill, because it did not
provide for the acquisition of the lands
in the reservation under the homestead
law, and it was defended by Messrs.
H~ansbrough, McCumber and others. No
decision was reached. At 4:10 the SEN
ate adjourned. 80. House-The routine
work on the general deficiency bill was
nearly completed by the house. Pre-
ceding this, the District of Columbia
was legislated for in several minor
matters. The feature of the day was
a speech of criticism on Theodore
Roosevelt, the republican presidential
candidate" by Representative Patter-
son (Tenn.). House adjourned at SIG
o'clock D.. m.
Two boys, Lester Kermode and AL
fred Boyd, aged, respectively, 7 to Is
years, Of Falls City, Neb., lost their
lives, on the 10th, while playing in an
elevator containing 10000 bushels of
shelled corn. Unaware of the boys
presence, the elevator mar opened the
chute to fill a car, and in the rush of
the grain the boys were carried under
and smothered.
While the city fire department, REIN
forced by companies from the suburbs,
was being taxed to it's utmost, fighting
the Occidental hotel fire, in Indianapo-
lis, Ind, on the 18th, an alarm was
turned in from st. Vincent's hospital.
When the first fire company arrived,
n life had been lost and several were
seriously injured in the panic that fol-
lowed.
The Cunard line steamer Etruria,
which sailed on the 18th for New
York, from Queenstown, carried the
Irish section for the st. Louis exposi-
ton. 1t includes lace valued at ST.
800, 900, and several tons of soil gath
cred from the four provinces. The ex-
Sibit is accompanied by Y persons.
David Rothchild, untif recently pres
dent of the wrecked Federal bank,
of New York, was arrested on the 18th
anG taken to police headquarters. At
his own request, no effort was made
to secure bail for him.
A young woman, who, three days
ago, committed suicide in a downtown
hotel in Chicago by drinking caroolic
acid, was on the 10th identified as Mrs
Fife Schinker, of West Union. la.
Senate-The senate, On the 18th,
continued consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill, but did not
conclude it, A number of other bills
were passed during the day, including
measure ratifying agreements with the
Indian and Fort Devils Lake, Rosebud
and Flathead reservations, located re-
spectively in North Dakota, South Da-
kota and Montana. .... House-The
house passed the last of the supply
bills Of the government, the general
deficiency appropriation measure, after
a stormy session, which lasted till SIS
in the evening. Contest was a party
one over the deficiency appropriation
for pensions, which the democrats tried
ineffectively to amend by Incorporating
as a law the recent executive age dis
ability pension order. An effort was
made by Mr.. Moon (Tenn.) to secure
a yea and say vote on his amendment
as to the age disability or6er, but the
speaker refused to recognize him for
this purpose. On a pro forma motion
to recommit the bill, the democrats,
angered by the speakers refusal to
recognize Mr.. Moon, secured a roll call,
but after the vote had been taken, ali
further opposition ceased and the bill
was passed.
Edward Griffith, son of the post
master at Great Bend, Kas., and who
stole a registered package containing
$4,000, en- route from Kansas City to
Great Bend, entered a plea of guilty in
the federal court at Topeka, on the
18th, and was sentenced to two years
in the federal ~penitentiary at Leaven-
worth.
The grand jury in the circuit court
at Springfield, ILL.,, returned a verdict
finding Mrs. Mary Terry guilty of the
murder of 14-year-old Leona Granber-
ry. Punishment was fixed at 20 years
in the p~enitentiary. The woman re-
ceived the announcement of the verdict
without a tremor.
During the st. Louis exposition Chi
cago will be billed as a summer resort
point by all Of the western railroads.
This was decided on at a meeting of a
special committee of the Western Pas
senger association held on the 18th.
Thirteen prisoners escaped from jail
at Pine Bluff, Ark, leaving only four
inmates. The escape was effected by
~tunneling, bricks being picked out of
the walls with a knife and scissors.
Peter Neidermeier, one of the Chicago
car barn bandits, who are under sentence
to be hanged April %, attempted to
commit suicide on the 18th.