Iron County register., 1898-12-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

lost in the flames.
The steam barge Ketcham, which
had been overdue, arrived safely at
Chicago on the 21st.
Thomas Crosby, the 13-year-old son
of Mrs. Margaret Crosby, a wealthy
widow living in Edgewater, a suburb
OF Chicago, shot and instantly killed
Deputy Sheriff Frank Nye, on the 22d.
while Nye was attempting to serve a
writ of restitution.
Secretary Alger says that Maj.-Gen.
Otis has rendered most satisfactory
service in command of the military
forces in the Philippines and will be
retained in that position. Whether or
not he will be appointed governor gen
eral of the archipelago depends upon
future events.
On the 22d Arbuckle Bros Chicago
house began selling sugar direct to re-
tailers, ignoring the jobbing trade.
Sales were made at $50 per pound for
standard fine granulated, which was
one-eighth of a cent under the trust
price.
The ship Tacoma sailed from San
Francisco, on the 22d, for Honolulu
with Ill army mules on board. At
Honolulu the mules will be turned out
for few weeks exercise and Will then
be reshipped along with 200 mules and
horses already in Honolulu, and the
whole lot will be taken to Manila for
the use of the United States troops
stationed there.
The president, on the 21st, nomi-
mated, and the senate promptly con-
firmed Ethan Allen Hitchcock, of ST.
Louis, at present ambassador to Rus
sia, as secretary of the interior, vice
Cornelius n. Bliss. resigned.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad three miles from
Railway, n. J., on the 21st, which re-
suited in the loss of two lives and Sc
rious though not fatal injuries to four
persons.
The Rosalie, which arrived at Vic
toria, b. c., on the 22d, from Skaguay,
reported the wreck of sloop which left
Wrangel two weeks ago for Skaguay,
with party of 12, bound for Atlin. 1t
is feared that all on board were lost.
James p. Miller, Yale divinity stu
dent, and three-years' graduate, was
arrested in New Haven, Conn.,, on the
22d, for shoplifting. He was seen by
detectives to purloin three books in a
bookstore, and by tracking the man
they discovered that he was evidently
a professional shoplifter. Five hun
dred volumes were discovered at his
rooms and at his home.
An evidence of thrift in the navy de-
partment is general order sent out,
en- the Esd, to all of the nine naval sta
tions. that the stricted economy is to be
exercised in all expenditures of public
money by the department officers I'M
til further orders.
The Kansas Southwestern Railway
Co. has filed articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state of Kansas.
The capital stock of the company is
| S., 100000
According to dispatch received in
Madrid from Iloilo, Island of Panay,
several engagements have lately taken
| place between the Spaniards and the
insurgents. and many of the latter
have been killed or wounded.
The Spanish minister of the colonies,
Senor Giron, announces that the pay
| ment coupons of the Cuban mortgage
bonds have been issued.
Ohio school children have contrib
| uted S4,379.41 toward the Lafayette
| monument fund.
Soon after two o'clock on the morn
ing of the oath the American line
steamship st. Louis, having aboard the
members of the American peace COM
| mission, arrived at quarantine, New
York. The commissioners went to
Washington and delivered the treaty
of Paris to the president as n Christ
mas present to the people of the Unit
ed States.
''Take immediate possession of
Iloilo," was the text Of an order sent
on the Esd. by Secretary Alger to Gen.
Otis, who is in command of the mill
tary forces at Manila. The details for
| the expedition are left to the judg-
| ment of Gen. Otis, who will also de-
| termine the forces necessary to occu-
py that position.
A Vienna dispatch says that several
hundred Montenegrian soldiers, who
were recently overtaken by a snow
storm in the Larapas, were frozen to
death. The expedition sent to their
rescue found the snow drifts so heavy
that it was impossible to save them.
The United States cruiser New York
| from Havana arrived at New York, on
the 23d, with Admiral Sampson and
, Mrs. Sampson on board. To some news
papermen who boarded the New York
| at quarantine, Admiral Sampson said
he had come home to attend his
daughters wedding on January 4, at
Glen Ridge, n. J.
A counterfeit 81 silver certificate
has been discovered. It is of the series
OF 1896, Bruce. register, and Roberts,
! treasurer, and apparently printed
from photo-etched plates on heavy
bond paper. No attempt has been made
to initiate the silk fiber, and the treas
ury number has been trat ed with blue
writing fluid, which blurs when
dampened. as does the REQ coloring ap-
piled to the seal.