Iron County register., 1897-09-30

DIEGO SARKIoN, mule buyer for the
Spanish army in Cuba, has purchased
5000 mules in the United States within
the past ten months.
THERE are indications in Washington
that the Hawaiian annexation treaty
will be fought in the senate during the
coming winter. Sugar interests, 1t Is
asserted, are opposed to annexation.
THE stockholders and creditors of
the Rotch spinning corporation, at
New Bedford, Mass, have subscribed
S525. 600. necessary to place this mill on
d sound financial footing. The energy
of parties interested has saved the Hol-
land and Rotch mills from wreck and
effected a reduction of over 81, 800, 600
in their debts
Miss EVA BEEN, who had been on
trial for a week in the federal court at
Wichita, Kas.. charged with robbIng
the Hutchinson (Kas-) post Office, was
found not guilty by the jury, on the
23d. The verdict was received with
wild excitement.
THE city of Santiago de Cuba, Span
ish stronghold, hereto considered
to be as impregnable as Havana itself.
was raided and practically captured
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They remained there nearly all day,
and retired only after securing a large
amount of valuable plumber. Gen.
Weyler succeeded in suppressing the
news until the Esd.
GEN. ELLIS. who commands one of
the wings of the punitive expeditions
against the revolted tribesmen in In
dia. has captured the camp of the Had
da Mullah, the priest who was one of
the chief instigators of the troubles.
The camp, which was located in the
Bedmanai pass, was only taken after a
stiff fight
THE town of Flat Rock, o.. was
thrown into furore. on the oath, by
the report that Wesley Nading, we'll
known and wealthy citizen, in fiji of
jealousy, had shot and killed his wife
and then fired a bullet into his own
brain, infiicting a fatal wound.
A LANDSLIDE occurred near Sheep
Camp, on the Chilcoot pass, in Alaska,
on the 10Th, in which Is men are said
to have lost their lives. Only one body
was reported recovered, that of man
named Choynski, a cousin of Joe
Choynski, the prize-fghter.
EVERY business house in the town of
Alton, Is miles west of Muskogee, 1. T.
was destroyed by fire on the oath. The
Frisco railroad depot was among the
buildings. Fifteen cars loaded with
wheat were also destroyed; loss over
$780,
OWING to the floods having washed
away a bridge of the Bangalore-My-
sore railroad, near Maddur. East In
dia, an engine and five cars filed with
passengers were precipitated into the
river, on the cath, causing great loss of
life.
CONsUL-GENERAL PRATT, at Singa-
pore, China, reports to the state de-
partment that loan has been author
lied there to the amount of S.. 900, 900
to begin the construction of a railway
system of about $40 miles in length in
the Malay peninsula.
MORE than half the village of Raven
stone, near Newport-PagneH, Buck
inghamshire, England. was destroyed
by fire on the gath. The flames con-
sumed 40 thatched cottages with barns,
etc, leaving $50 people homeless.
GEORGE Fox, formerly of Rockford,
ILL.,, died at Michigan City. Miss. on the
oath, of yellow fever. His wife and
seven children are there. and friends
have been unable to get help to them
because trains do not stop at that place,
it being in the section afflicted with the
scourge.
POLICE MAGISTRATE DoNOHUE, of |
Troy, n. Y, apparently possessed of |
more religious zeal than judicial abil- |
ity, sentenced John Burns, Catholic, |
on the oath, to jail because he attempted |
to eat meat on Friday.
A DISPATCH from Madrid of the Gath |
says that Gen. Woodford's recent in |
terview with the duke of Setuan has |
brought to the front again the sugges-
ton that Spain accept indemnity and |
free Cuba.
TYPHOID fever is ravaging the Turk
ish troops in Thessaly. Six Thousand |
men have already been invalided home
and 1000 others are awaiting trans
portation back to Turkey.