Iron County register., 1897-12-02

WILLIAM HUNTER, a switchman on
the Missouri Pacific railroad. fell from
a freight train in the company's yards
in St Louis, on the 25th, and was de-
capitated by the wheels of the cars.
HERR ALFRED VoN SALETr, director
of the Coin museum in Berlin sue
cumbed to an attack of influenza on
the goth.
WHILE, drunk, on the Goth, Antonio
Milagno. of Erie, Pa, threw a can of
coal oil in his wife's face, which
caught fre.from lamp, she was carry
idg, g,enveloping her in flames. Help ar
rived in time to prevent her from burn
ing up where she stood. The woman
was laid on her bed, and when the Off
GERS arrived they found Antonio stand
ing over her plucking the cooked flesh
from her breast and arms in fiendish
glee and cursing like demon.
Mrs. CAROLINE ABKE, aged 20 years,
who lived alone near Leavenworth,
Kas., was found dead in her home on
the 26th. Marks on ner neck indicated
that the woman had been choked to
death. A lock on an outside door had
been broken, apparently by burglars,
and the house was ransacked. Mrs.
Ablxe was eccentric, and was believed
to possess considerable money.
THE armored cruiser Brooklyn was
drydocked in the timber dock at the
New York navy yard in Brooklyn on
the Goth. Because of the ships inn
mense displacement, the task of get
ting it into the dock was looked for
ward to with some anxiety. 1t was
liSh
trouble and slight damage.
Col GEORGE A. Butte, a prominent
mining man of Telluride, Col, is miss
ing, and his friends in Telluride be-
lieve that he has been murdered, as
he had large sum of money when he
left that camp.
HIRAM MAxIM's new rapid-fring gun
was tried at Portsmouth, England, on
the 26th, with remarkable results.
With Is pounds of cordite it showed an
effective range of $4,000 yards.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY is a firm be-
liever in the doctrine that the best way
to preserve peace is to be prepared for
war. He desires peace with Spain;
therefore, he is making preparations
which are calculated to inspire the be-
lief in the minds of the hot-blooded
Spaniards that, if they provoke war,
they will be inviting their downfall.
CoNsUL-GENERAL LEE has reported to
the state department that the number
of American citizens in Cuba depend
ent upon the appropriations made by
congress is now 1907. OF the suffering
Americans 75O are in Havana province.
253 in Matanzas. and the others are
scattered in the remaining provinces.
The Chinese merchants of San Fran
cisco have combined to suppress the
murderous highbinder societies. These
business men have signed a compact
not to submit to furthur blackmail,
and without their usual income the
high binders will be forced to leave the
city or go to work.
The Madrid Official Gazette publishes
the royal DEGREES granting autonomy
to Cuba and Porto Rico, thus removing
the anxiety that had begun to be ex-
pressed on all sides as the result of the
governments reticence and unex-
planned delay.
The naval trial board has made q re-
port upon the recent two-days' trial of
the big battle-ship Iowa at sea. The
report thoroughly sustains Commodore
Dewey's comment that the ship is as
fine a type of her class as there is in
the world.
A DISPATCH to the Frankfort Ger
many Zeitung from Rome, on the Goth,
that a sanguinary conflict had
taken place between the French and
British at Nilxki, in the La gos HiDter
land, in which the British were
SECRETARY Lone has recently placed
with the American Ordnance Co. orders
as follows: Ten thousand six-inch
shells, $4,000 one-pounder shells for
rapid-fire guns, 25, 900 armor-piercing
she'll tips, 80 rapid-fire shell guns.
AN unofficial report says the Lover
ing court martial at Fort Sheridan.
returned a verdict of guilty
as charged in the specifications, with
the recommendation that Capt. Lover
ing be reprimanded by the reviewing
This was the case of the
brutal treatment of Private Hammond.