Iron County register., 1898-03-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


said: United States Minister Wood
ford is making arrangements for the
care of American citizens and interests
with his British colleague, Sir Henry
Drummond Wolfe, as the representa-
tive of the only nation favOrably dis
posed toward the United States in the
event of war between Spain and Amer
ica.'
WORK on the big government con-
tract is now under rapid headway at
the Otis steel works at Cleveland, o.
Five enormous gun carriages are being
constructed there for 13-inch guns to
be used on United States battleships.
SENIOR II. VENTURA, secretary of the
Portuguese legation in st. Petersburg,
committed suicide, on the 22d, by shoot
ing himself with a revolver at the
house of a lady with whom he had quar-
relied.
GEN. HENDERSON, of Iowa, on the
22d, introduced a bill in the house to
revive the grade of acknowledgement
of the army.
CONSUL GENERAL LEE has unofficially
advised several Americans in Havana
whose business is not imperative to
Law. The situation is admittedly be-
coming graver every hour, as the opin-
ion of naval experts continues to grow
that the Maine was destroyed by an
act of treachery.
THE marriage of Miss Marion Olive
Hansen and Ignatius Donnelly, the
editor and reformer, was sole1nniZed at
Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 22d, with
much pomp and ceremony. The nup-
tials were celebrated in the church of
the bride, the Norwegian Methodist,
which was filed with congregation
of about 600.
CHARLES MERRITT, said to be a dis
charged postal clerk, was arrested by
the Kansas City (Mo.) police, on the
23d, charged with having had hand in
the Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf
hold-up on the night of January 4.
ROBBERS blew open the safe of tn c
State savings bank at Webster City,
Ia, with dynamite, on the night of
the ed, and secured S., 200. The n oise
of the explosion attracted a crowd of
people to the scene, but not before the
robbers had escaped in a stolen buggy.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY GAGE
says the treasury is in good condition
| for war if war should come. The avail
able cash balance in the treasury, on
| the 22d, was S225, 14S ,696, of which S167,-
O4I, ,425 is gold, 500, 900 being the
traditional gold reserve.
On the Esd the president nominated
| Oliver J. ID. Hughes, of Connecticut, to
be United States consul at Sonneberg,
| GERMANY.
| MuIIIoNAIRE GEORGE w. SIMMONS,
proprietor of Oak Hall, Boston, and
one of the most widely known retail
clothiers in the United States, was
| found dead, on the 23d, at Nahant,
| Mass. 1t was supposed he committed
suicide by shooting. No cause as
! signed.
c. w. MARTIN, alias Charles Davis,
was arrested in Omaha, Neb., on the
| 24th. by Supt. Tillotson, of the Pink.
| erton service at Kansas City. Martin
| is wanted for aiding in the robbery OF
the Bank of sheridan, Mo-, on the 18th.
He had large sum of money on his
| person when arrested.
WILLIAM 0. MOODY, formerly book
keeper and cashier for the banking
| firm of Dunlop Bros, Chicago, pleaded
| guilty to the embezzlement of S26, 900 OF
/ the funds of the Oak Park Building and
Loan association and S2,747 from Dun
| lop Bros. He was sentenced, on the
| 24th, to an indeterminate term in the
penitentiary.
Mr.. NJ. w. GAIT, widely known as the
| leading ieweler in Washington. dieC
| suddenly on the night of the 23d. He
| was over 30 years of age. His son-in
| law, Mr.. Fendall, a well-known attor
nev. died suddenly in the Waldorf ho
tel, in New York city, few days be
| fore.
RoBERr LAW, the pioneer coal dealer
| of Chicago, died, on the oath, of Bright
disease. He was 76 years old. Mr.
Law began operating coal mine:
| throughout the state in 1880, and until
recent years was one of the leading
| operators
THE last rites over the body of Frances
| f. Willard, president of the Woman
| Christian Temperance union, were per
| formed at Evanston, Ill, on the 24th
The city was in mourning, schools and
busfness houses being closed, and flag
at half-mast out of respect for the deac
temperance leader.
THE president is now said to incline
to the belief that the responsibility foI
the destruction of the Maine rests upor
Spain, but that force will have to be
used to induce that nation to accept the
responsibility.