Iron County register., 1897-09-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


at San Sebastian, on the 18th, and in
doing so made a short complimentary
speech. Half an hour later the queen
received Gen. Stewart L. Woodford,
the new minister.
SURGEON WAsDIS, who has been at
Ocean Springs, Miss, for some time,
was taken i'll on the 18th. This infor-
nation came from Surgeon Murray,
who did not state the nature of the i'll
ness, but it is supposed to be yellow
fever.
SURGEON GUITERAs, the yellow fever
expert, reported, on the 18th, to Sur
geon-General Wyman from Mobile,
Ala: Have found one case of yellow
fever at the city hospital. Norwegian,
who has not been out of city: probably
fatal termination. One suspicious case.
I apprehend serious outbreak"
CARLoTTA. the insane ex-empress OF
Mexico, is so dangerously i'll at Brus-
sells that her death is feared at any mo-
ment.
REV. JAMES G. Z. MCCLURE Was. on
the 14th, elected president of Lake
Forest university at Chicago.
THREE masked bandits stood ten
Omaha (Neb.) citizens up in line at an
early hour on the morning of the 18th
and relieved each of from $40 to 500.
The victims were members of social
party who had taken possession of a
beer garden for little entertainments
A WOMAN, demented and almost nude,
was found in the woods near Melrose
Park, Cook county, Ill. on the 14th,
by some farmers. The woman was in
a terrible condition from exposure and
privation, having been living in the
woods for at least a month. Her de-
scription is said to tally in many re-
spects with that of the missing Mrs.
| Luetgert.
| Col. S. HARVEY, of Colorado Springs,
Col, took from Cripple Creek, on the
I4th, piece of ore weighing over 100
pounds, which was literally alive with
free gold, and which carried values ag-
gregating fully $1,000 to the ton.
| On the 18th the president appointed
Daniel B. Hainer, of Pennsylvania,
United States district attorney for the
western district of Pennsylvania. Mr..
/ Hainer was formerly member of con-
| gress.
| ADvICEs from st. Michaels say that a
| gang of burglars attempted to crack
the big safe of the North American
! Transportation 81 Trading Co. at that
place, containing 81, OOO, 900 of Klondike
gold. The burglars were frightened
away just as the treasure was within
their grasp.
| A CONSPIRACY to smuggle large guam
titles of phenacetine, in which several
prominent druggists of New York city
are said to be involved, has been nipped
by the seizure, on the 14th, of 400
ounces of the drug in Hoboken, n. ].
THE king of Siam is Frances guest.
On the l4th he was taken to ST. Quen-
tin and, with President Faure, re-
viewed 20, 900 troops of all arms. The
king was visibly impressed with the
sight.
DISPATCH from Madrid, dated the
18th, said: ''The war department is
concentrating 5000 troops with the in
tention of Immediately dispatching
them as reinforcements to the Spanish
army in Cuba"
THE Michigan Salt association has
advanced the price of salt within the
state ten cents barrel, the second ad-
vance within 60 days. To outside
agencies the latest advance is five
cents. Salt is now qouted at go cents
barrel
TIE jackson Hill coal mine, in Sui.
livan county, Ind; was destroyed by
fire, on the morning of the 14th, caus
ing loss of $50. 900 and preventing SOC
men from returning to work, as they
were preparing to do. There was sus'
piciOn of incendiarism.
MAJ. MOSES P. HANDY, the special
commissioner of the United States tc
| A.. d., 1f -
Paris, on the 18th, and had a long in
terview with n. Boucher, the minister
of commerce and industry.
PLANS for eight big railroad bridges
to be built ON the line of the Nippon
railway of japan, have been completed
in the office of j. A. l.. Waddell, o.
Kansas City, Mo-, under whose direc
ton the structures are to be built.
THE cage in which ten men were
being lowered into shaft No. of tn,
Alden Coal Co.'S mine at Nanticoke
Pa, on the 18th, suddenly dropped u
the bottom of the shaft Eight of th'
men were severely injured, and the in
juries of four may prove fatal
ABNER GLE, the millionaire lumber
man, died at his home in La Crosse
[ Wis, on the 18th. He had been en-
l gagged in the lumber business sine
: 1851, and ranked among the wealth
/ lest and most influential business mel
2 in the northwest
{ MEL GOODMAN, an employe of tn
/ Phoenix iron works of Phenixville
Pa, has just received word that by tn
death of his sister he becomes sole hei
e to an estate of $500, 900 in Staffordshire
= England.
r THE long-overdue steamer Excelsio
t which left St Michaels, Alaska, 70
= San Francisco early in August, but wa
. compelled to put back to Unalaska 70
d repairs, after having broken two blade
# of her propeller, arrived at San Fran
cisco, on the 18th, with 6S passenger
and a large amount in gold.
s Or the 10th Secretary Gage let
It Washington for Chicago, to renal
d until about October 10.
g IL is said that the biscuit war Ia
- ended in consolidation of companie
: with a combined capital of $50, 600, COS
= COMMISSIONERS McNEELY met tn
n chiefs and headsmen of the Shoshone
and Bannocks at Ross Fork, Idaho. o
the 18th, when the minor details c
the agreement for the sale of tn
lower end OF the Fort Hall reSerya ito
were completed.
= Two STEAMERS, the Tzarvitch an
Nalpitla, collided, on the 18th. in til
River Volga, near Astrakhan. Th
former sank. Her passengers, pani
!. stricken, jumped into the river. Man