Iron County register., 1897-12-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| COmmILLeS OF the Union racine Tdl1
way S13,645. 25O in cash on account oi
the purchase of the road. and turned
over to the committee that amount in
bonds which had been on deposit with
the government in the sinking fund OF
the ROAD.
SAN FRANCISCO and Puget Sound
gamblers are preparing to reap a Klon'
dixie harvest on q scale scarcely less
extensive than the big transportation
companies. They will open big hotels
and gambling resorts from st. Michaels
to Dawson and at Dyea, Weangel and
Juneau.
JOHN DENMARK, farmer, was shot
while sitting in his arm chair in the
dining-room of his home near Van
Etten, n. Y, on the 21st. The fnuzzle
of a double-barreled shotgun was
forced through the glass in a window.
and at short range the murderer in the
dark blazed away with both barrels.
ANGEL PAz. who betrayed the Cuban
| Gen. Castillo to the Spaniards for IS,
| 900. was recently captured by the in
| surgents on his way to Cienfuegos,
tried by drumhead court-martial and
| hanged.
Fourth infantry, stationed at Fort
Sheridan, Ill, appeared before court
martial at that post, on the 22d, to
stand trial on the charge of conduct
prejudicial to good order and military
! discipline" the specific charge being
the causing of Private Hammond to be
dragged over the ground by the heels
from the guard house to the Office of
the regimental adjutant.
A SENTENCE of six years and six
months each, at hard labor, in the
eastern penitentiary and the costs of
the prosecution was imposed by Judge
Butler, in the United States district
court at Philadelphia, on the 22d,
upon John B. Meixel1, ex-cashler, and
Willie E. Hoch, ex-teller of the South
Bethlehem (Pa.) national bank, both
of whom pleaded guilty to embezzle-
ment.
Mrs. OREILLY, widow of the late
John Boyle O'Reilly, the patriot, poet
and editor, died at her home in Boston,
on the 22d, of pneumonia.
THE United States torpedo boat Por-
ter arrived at Savannah, Ga, on the
22d. to arrange for visit of the Erics-
son. The Porter made the trip from
Port Royal in three hours.
On the Esd Assistant Secretary Roose-
velt submitted to the secretary of
the navy the report of Lieut.. Gibbons,
who has charge of naval militia mat
ters. The report speaks in high terms
of the operations of the naval militia
and is approved by Mr.. Roosevelt.
Two sCHOONERs left Boston, on the
Esd, bound for the Klondike. The Mel
lie Coleman, which carried two passen-
gers, will take her owner, Adelbert E.
Clafiin, aboard when she reaches Seat
tie, Wash. The Stowell Sherman had
IL passengers, who constitute a CO.
operative organization.
HERBERT WIswALL, a Boston capi-
talist, who fell down stairway in the
Grand theater at Atlanta, Ga, recent
ly, died on the 22d. An ninquest by the
coroner's jury found that the fail was
accidental The remains were shipped
to Boston.
EMELINE II. RUDD, widow of Commo-
dore John Rudd, United States navy,
was arraigned in court at New Brigh-
ton, Staten Island, on the 23d, to an
swer to the accusation of stealing a
quantity of jewelry from a house in
which she had recently boarded. Mrs.
Rudd admitted that she had taken the
property, but said that she could not
tell why she had done SO.
The steamer Moana of the Union
Steamship Co., of New Zealand, which
sailed from Sydney, N. S. W., on the
Esd, for San Francisco, carried e275, 900
in gold.
f.
tory at Schoenhausen-Allee,G Germany,
on the 23d, one man and two girls were
killed and seven other persons were in
jured.
In reply to a statement recently
made by Minister De LONE, Gen. Co
mez, chief of the insurgent army in
Cuba, charges Spain with the destruc-
ton of S77, ,OOO 900 worth of Cuban prop
erty, and with the wanton destruction
of the lives of lis, 900 pacificos.
FRANK A NovAK, who was chased
%, 600 miles and finally captured at
Dawson City, in the Klondike gold re-
gion, was convicted at Cedar Rapids.
Ia, on the esd, of murder in the second
degree for the killing of Edward Muir
ray, and sentenced to ten years impris-
onment.
THE bonded warehouse of the Ravens
wood Distilling Co., at St. Louis, was
burned, on the night of the 23d, and
with it 200, 900 gallons of spirits. The
loss will exceed 500, 900. The distil-
lery buildings were saved.
PRINCE HENRY of Prussia, brother of
Emperor William, is to take command
of the German squadron in Chinese
waters.
JOHN E. LIGeETr, former president of
the Ligggett s. Meyers Tobacco Co.,
and one of the wealthiest residents of
st. Louis, died, on the night of the 23d,
of herrt disease. Mr.. Liggett was born
in ST. Louis in 1926. He was noted for
his charities, both public and private.
In the special congressional election
in the Sixth Illinois district on the
Esd, Henry S. Boutelle (rep.) was elect
ed by a plurality of S5S. and n majority
over the other three candidates of IA.
LIEUT.. JARVIS, who is to lead the
overland expedition for the relief of
the imprisoned whalers, arrived at
Seattle, Wash, on the 25th.
An interesting game of football was
played at Annapolis, Nd, on the
cath. between the naval cadets and
the young officers of the White squad
ron. Neither side scored in the first
half, but the superior training of the
cadets was evident when they made
two touchdowns in the second. The
game wound up in a fight for posses
sion of the squadron flag.
CAPT. HERRING, of the revenue cutter
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