Iron County register., 1898-12-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


The ministers of the four powers in
terested in the proceeding, Great
Bhitain, France, Russia and Italy, went,
on the Goth, in royal carriages, to the
palace,and formally announced to King
George of Greece the appointment of
his son, Prince George, to be high
commissioner of the powers in Crete.
The prince, later, received the con-
gratulations of the ministers.
One of the most terrific billiards
ever experienced there swept west of
New England, on the 26th and 27th,
doing great damage to sea walls and
other exposed property. Snow fell to
the depth of three feet in some places,
and railway traffic was much inter-
fered with. Although vessels in har-
Dor were warned in time many were
lost with much loss of life.
The energetic action of Oscar S.
Strauss, United States minister to
Constantinople, has obtained a con-
cession which the united powers had
been for Is months vainly endeavor-
ing to secure, namely, the granting of
travelling permits to foreigners in the
interior of Asia Minor.
The Pittsfield express, for New
York, on the Danbury & Norwall1 di-
vision of Lhe New York, New Haven &c
Hartford railroad was wrecked, on the
Goth, by the breaking of an axle. No
lives were lost, but several persons
were seriously and perhaps fatally in
jured.
The steamer Fearless, Capt. James
McKenna, the last of the Arctic fleet
to arrive at San Francisco this winter,
reached port, on the 9th, with moth
ing to show for her four years voy-
age. She is one of the vessels that
were cought in the iceat Point Barrow.
A convention of tobacco growers
from all over Kentucky was held in
Lexington, KY, on the Goth. Numer-
Gus circulars had been sent out, and
many delegates were present. The
object of the meeting is to fight the
plug tobacco trust
A dispatch from Simla says: ''The
Mad Mullah who, with 600 men, has
been threatening to pass the Swat
frontier, has crossed the Swat river
and fighting has occurred between
his followers and the Indo-British
forces"
Harley Bates and Fred Hallway, of
Portland, Me-, engineer and fireman
of Boston & Maine locomotive driv-
ing a snow plow, were killed, on the
27th, by the engine plunging over an
emhankment.
The Cubans, Gen. Masso says, enter
tain profound admiration and graft
tude for the Americans, but neverthe-
less they will oppose annexation or
protectorate. They are confidently
the United States to speed
lily recognize their ability to manage
their own affairs, on which basis only,
Gen. Masso concluded, is permanent
peace possible.
The bank of Hornellsville, n. Y, of
which ex-State Forestry Commission
er F. G. Babcock is president, failed to
open its doors for business, on the
2sth, and posted a notice to the effect
that the bank had gone into voluntary
with the approval of State
Bank Superintendent Kilburne.
The navy department published, on
the 2Sth, through the Office of the
naval intelligence, the ''Views of Ad-
miral Cervera Regarding the Spanish
Navy in the Late War;" in which that
officer foretells with almost prophetic
accuracy the fate which actually over
took the navy of Spain.
Col. Charles F. Dick, secretary of
the National republican committee
and congressman-elect from the Nine
teenth Ohio district, arrived in Cleve-
land, on the 2Sth, and held a confer |
ence with Senator Hanna concerning
preliminary plans for the national |
of 1900.
The war department., in view of the |
that peace treaty will be |
signed, is arranging to muster out |
more troops. 1t is probable that from
&c, 600 to 10000 volunteers will be mus |
tered out as soon as selections of reg |
iments can be made.
Spain has accepted the United |
States offer of $4,000, 900, and at a
joint session of the peace commissions,
in Paris, on the 2Sth, consented with
put condition to relinquish Cuba, and |
to cede Porto Rico, Guam and the
Philippine islands.
AT 9:40 o'clock on the evening of the
27th, a severe earthquake shock oc-
CURED at Patras, Greece, causing the
to become panic-stricken.
At 1920 p. m a second shock was ex-
oerienced. No fatalities have been re-
ported.
Tugs returning to Boston, on the
18th, after tour of the harbor re-
ported about 35 vessels of all sizes
larbor.
Five prisoners convicted of counter
letting or passing counterfeit money
we're taken from ST. Louis, on the 2sth,
% the states prison at Jefferson City.