Iron County register., 1898-12-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

There was a falling off of 1OO,O11
votes in the Iowa election this year
from that of two years ago.
On the 3Oth the comptroller of the
currency appointed Mr.. Arthur j.
Shaw receiver of the Citizens national
bank of Spokane Falls, Spokane,
Wash, vice Mr.. r. E. NJ. Strickland,
resigned.
On the both the German ambassa-
dor at Vienna, Count Philip Won Eulen-
berg, presented to Emperor Francis
Joseph, the gift of Emperor William,
in honor Of the formers jubilee. 1t is
magnificent service of porcelain.
A large withdrawal of gold from
the Bank of England was made, on the
3Oth, for the United States and Ger
many. Money rates rose in conse-
quence, and the higher discount rates
caused fall in stocks.
Senior Sagasta, who has heretofore
been skeptical on the point, now adj
mits that Carlism is the greatest ex-
listing danger in Spain. The authori-
ties are all alarmed at the indications
of a rising. The CarIist plans have
been elaborately devised, even to the
extent of appointing a governor of
Madrid.
One hundred and ffty-four lives
went out with the wreck of the
steamer Portland off Cape Cod. Six
persons included in the published list
of the dead decided at the last mo-
ment not to undertake the perilous
passage, and, therefore, are safe. But
it is learned that 21 other passengers,
whose names were not included in the
original list, were on the Portland
when the vessel sailed, and went down
in the storm, swelling the number of
dead to 154.
The Denver (Col.l mint receipts for
November show a total of 81 ,923, us,
as against $1,237, ,199 for the same
month of 1897. The total receipts fer
the first 10 months of 1898 are $751;
269,271, as against $1O,920,S44 for the
same period in 1897, gain of S7.34S,-
APT. The gold output of the Cripple
Creek district during November is es-
timated at S1,447, 500.
1t transpires that the fugitive Kan
sas cattle king, Grant Gillett, was in
the tolls of an adventures who, from
the lavish display of jewelry and cost
ly raiment she made when visiting
Kansas City with Gillett, may be re-
sponsible for some of his shortness OF
funds. She is said to hail from st.
Louis.
A colony of 16 negroes left Okla
homa City, Okla, on the 1st, for Lii
IBERIA. 1t is headed by an intelligent
farmer named Appleberry, who re-
Gently sold his farm on Fork Creek for
SO, 900. All have some money.
The dissolution of the United States
of Central America, after a national
existence of less than a month, was
announced on the 1st.
The estimates of the total shipments
of ore from the several ports of Lakes
Superior and Michigan for the year
1898, is IS, 500, ,OGO tons.
Two British brigades have been or
dered to the Swat valley, owing to
the Mad Mullah's successes over the
local tribesmen.
1t was reported in Constantinople,
on the Cd, that there had been renewed
fighting in Yamen, the principal divi-
sion of Arabia, one of the chief towns
of which is Alden, the British naval
station, on the gulf of that name. The
Turkish troops are said to have suf-
fered a serious defeat between Hodeida
and Sana.
Mrs. VIM. Mantell, who killed her
husband and attempted suicide in
Alameda, Cal, on the night of the I'd,
will recover. She claims to have been
secretly married to Mantell a month
ago. She declares that they quar-
relied, and that he had knocked her
down before she shot him.
The sixteenth victim of the Union
Elevator holocaust at Toledo, o., was
found in the ruins, on the I'd, the
body being that of six-year-old Harold
Parks, son of Supt. Parks, who almost
met his death in the flames. Four
members of the family lost their lives
in the fire.
Official election returns from all
counties IN Michigan but two show
Gov. Pingree's plurality to be 1881
Seventy-eight amateur racing men
will throw off allegiance to the League
of American Wheelmen by competing
in unsanctioned races in Madison
Square Garden.
Arbuckle Brothers have reduced the
price of refined sugars lie cent. 1t is
generally understood that the other
refineries win follow with a similar
reduction.
DIR. Won Hollenben, the German am
bassador to the United States, who is
now in Berlin, lunched, on the I'd, with
Emperor William, and at his majesty's
request expounded at length his views
regarding the present and prospective
situation of Spain and the United
States.
At the cabinet meeting, on the I'd,
the president suggested that $4,000
of the war emergency fund be set
aside for cleaning the city of Havana
and putting it in sanitary condition.
This proposition met with the unan-
imous approval of the cabinet.
AS soon as the peace treaty is signed
the good intentions of the United
States government towards the Filipi-
nos will be made as emphatic as possi-
BILE. The policy will be to win over
the leaders and the rank and file with
kindly treatment, if such course win
do it. In the meantime the American
forces on land and water viii be ready
to enforce American sovereignty.