Iron County register., 1897-12-09
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| this dramatic utterance IN Spurnlng
| autonomy: Between Cuba and Spain
there extends a bottomless ocean of
tears; there boils an immense sea of
| blood, and there is an imp assable
mountain of hatred"
A TERRIBLE railway wreck occurred
at Warsaw, Russia, on the 3Oth. While
a passenger train was stationary at the
terminus heavy freight train crashed
| into it, owing to the error of points
man. Eleven persons were killed out
right and % others were seriously in
jured.
The Bristol City line steamer Exeter
| City, which arrived at New York, on
| the 3Oth, from Bristol and Swansea,
fell in with the British schooner Elite,
| Capt. Hargrave, dismasted and in a
| sinking condition, rescued the crew of
five men and brought them safely to
| port.
The rumor that John G. Carlisle, ex-
secretary of the treasury, intends
to settle in New York, City, has been
strengthened by the report that the
house at No. Washington square,
has been rented, Furnished, to Mr..
Carlisle for the winter.
FRANK A. KEITH and Maggie God
frey committed suicide together in
| Lowell, Mass, on the 3Oth, by inhal-
ing gas. They were penniless.
| On the 3Oth Secretary Alger stated
that he had finally decided to approve
| the sentence of the court-martiali in the
Lowering case.
ORE dock No. 4, of the Chicago &
| Northwestern railway, at Escanaba,
Mich, one of the largest in the world,
was burned, on the 3Oth, together with
the steamer Nahant, which was lying
alongside. Two lives were lost
OFFICIAL reports from Havana have
it that only four insignificant skir-
mishes have taken place recently be-
tween Spanish troops and insurgents.
The imperial German budget for
| 1S9s-99 balances with an expenditure
| of ], ,437, 139, 979 marks. 1t includes an
increased expense for the Office of the
imperial chancellor, bringing his sal
| ary up to the amount which he re-
ceived as stadthalter of the reichland.
1t includes, also, a large increase for
the army and navy.
| THE E. J. Lobdell bicycle rim fac
tory, at Marietta, o., was burned to
the ground on the 1st Some depart
ments were running, and the men i'm
mediately turned on the factory stream,
but without avail. Large quantities
of benzine and paint were saved at
great risk to the firemen.
The West Vancouver Coal Co., in
which H. C. Holiday and other San
Francisco capitalists are interested, is
about to develop its coal mines at the
north end of Vancouver island and eo-
tablish coaling station for Alaskan
! steamers.
| ALL sorts of wild rumors were cur
rent in Berlin and at Kiel, on the 1st,
probably based in the main upon the
speech of Emperor William at the
opening of the reichstag, as to the re-
lations between Germany and China.
But most of the reports were dis
| credited.
| The deplorabIe condition of the ISL
and of Cuba grows more apparent
Refugees and reconcentradOs are be-
coming more and more miserable. Ac-
cording to the representatives from
San Domingo, smallpox is making ter
| rible ravages among the reconcentra-
dos.
| The canals of the state of New Y ork
| were closed for the season, on the 1st,
and active work was begun at once by
the contractors to complete the i'm
provements under the $40 act. The
business of the year was unusu ally
poor.
The boiler in the engine room at the
| Glenwood coal mine at Des MoineS, Ia,
| exploded on the 1st. Twenty men
| were in the engine room and not one
escaped injury. Eleven were fatally
| injured. The building was wrecked.
| The December statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close of busi-
ness November so, the public debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to
| 81, ,0O9, 226, 466 decrease since October
so of S11, SSS, 125.
PERU is the first of the South Ameri-
can countries to open negotiations
with the United States for reciproci-
| ty treaty under the Dingley law. The
negotiations were begun through the
Peruvian minister at Washington,
Senior Eguiguren, the Peruvian gov
ernment at the same time taking &C
tion giving authority to the president
to conclude n treaty without submit
ting it to the congress of that coun-
| try.
THE special joint congressional COM
mittee, which had been engaged at in
| tervals for the past two years in IN
vestigating the use of alcohol in the
arts, has concluded the taking of testi-
mony, and the members are now en-
gagged in preparing their report, which
| the law requires SHALL be submitted
during the first ten days of the ap-
preaching session of congress.
| Mrs. NANCY ALLISON MCKINLEY, the
venerable mother of the president, was
stricken with paralysis at her home in
Canton, O., on the I'd. Although the
shock was not severe, the physicians
gave very little hope of her recovery,
owing to her great age-s9 years-and
the members of her family were notified
and FASTENED to her bedside.
SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, who
arrived in Washington, on the I'd, said
the people of the Pacific coast gener-
ally favor the ratification of the Ha-
waiian treaty.
material help from the United States
in relieving the distress. which he finds
to be beyond his expectation when he
began to undo the work of Weyler in
Cuba The state department at Wash
ington will cooperate in every way
possible to make whatever may be un-
dertaxen effective.