Iron County register., 1896-01-09

poets soon TO sail Tor Armenia, Will
speak in a few cities before her de-
parture. 1t is her desire to secure
pledges for s., ,OOO, 900 to insure all nee
essary support in her new mission OF
mercy.
P. STEERING, secretary of the Dem
ocratic national committee, had, up to
the Cd, received and placed on file the
applications of five cities which aspire
to entertain the next Democratic ma
tional convention. They are: Chicago,
New York, ST. Louis, San Francisco
and Cincinnati.
FoR two centuries, the bells of Trim
ity church in New York city have rung
parting to each dying year, and given
welcome to the new one. At midnight
on the 31st the present chimes, for the
forty-seventh time, announced the
birth of G. new year and pealed forth
notes of welcome.
THE Montgomery County Pa.) His
torical society, the Daughters of the
American Revolution and the Valley
Forge Memorial association have united
in a protest against the removal of the
remains of Gen. Winfield Scott Han
cock from Norristown, Pa, to the ma
tional cemetery at Arlington.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Vienna Freie Presse telegraphs
that Russia and France have actually
promised diplomatic support to the
United States in the Venezuelan
trouble, and he adds that Russia is
prepared to facilitate the United States
loan with her own gold reserve.
A DISPATCH reached the British CO.
lonial Office, on the I'd, that DIR. jamie
SON had had battle with the Beers
before johannesburg, resulting in his
surrender. A number of his followers
were killed and wounded. No details
We're given. Later dispatches con-
frmed the news of the surrender.
THE annual report of the city health
department shows that Chicago has
the lowest death rate of any city of
100000 population or more in the
world. The rate, based on the unre-
vised figures, is ISL for ZOO of popu-
lation, as compared with 1924 last
year, and less than for any previous
year.
ORDERS have been cabled by the navy
department directing the gunboat Pc
trel, now in the Asiatic station, to re-
turn to San Francisco. The Petrol has
been in active service for five years,
and is badly in need of new tubing for
her boilers. The cruiser Boston will
proceed to Yokohama and relieve the
Petrol.
THE Australians have solved the
problem of lighting railroad trains
electrically, according to a report to
the state department from United
States Consul-General Marietta at Mel
bourne. A dynamo placed in bag
gage car is driven by a belt from the
car axle and charges storage batteries,
which furnish the light.
THE czarina opened great charita-
BILE bazaar in the winter palace in st.
Petersburg, on the 1st, in the presence
of large company of guests. Her
majesty had a long and most cordial
ton with Mrs. Breckenridge,
wife of the United States ambassador.
The American stall in the bazaar was
much admired.
MANY letters marked 'sBox G" are
now passing through the mails and
causing anxiety among young Nor
mons. The letters referred to are a
notification from the heads of the Nor
mon church that the recipient had
been selected to go on mission of
which the destination is just as liable
to be the Fiji islands as the southern
states or Great Britain.
The announcement that the duchess
of Marlborough, nee Vanderbilt, was
very ill of typhoid fever in Rome, first |
published by the New York World,
was. on the 1st, apthoritatively pro-
bounced a fake pure and simple The |
duchess, in her usual health. was de-
clared to be prosecuting. with her hus-
band, a study of the aniauities and |
sights of the Eternal city.
THE Venezuelan minister To Wash.
ington promptly cabled hia govern
ment, on the I'd, of the appointment of |
the boundary commission nd the
names of its members. The Venezue-
Ian officials in Caracas had alreaav as /
sumed that the commission wonla he
authorized by congress, and had lost
Eo time in preparing that countss,s
side of the controversy for the Coz.
mlssion's consideration.