Iron County register., 1898-11-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

she has been driven from the western
continent
That the trial of Mrs. Cordelia Bot
kin for the murder of Mrs. John p.
Dunning of Dover, Del, will commence
on the Jay set, December S, at San
Francisco, is now assured. Judge
Carroll Cook issued an order directing
the county auditor to pay for the
transportation and meals on the route
of Il witnesses whom Chief of Police
Lees desires to appear and to testify
at the trial.
The American commissioners will,
it is said, present to Spain's repre-
| sentatives strongly-worded docu-
ment announcing that the United
States is determined upon the cession
of the Philippines, and that Spain
| must agree to this at once or this
country will proceed to take posses
| sion by force of arms.
The Spanish papers at Manila assert
| that a sanguinary mutiny has taken
place on board the steamship Bernar-
| dino, and that the native crew mas
sacred their Spanish officers. These
papers also appeal to the United States
to control the natives.
1t is stated that the Spanish peace
| commissioners, upon the resumption
of the conference, on the 10th, an
nounced their refusal to discuss any
question involving the abandonment
of Spain's sovereignty over the Phil
| ippines.
The whereabouts of Walter A. Stall
man, for years furrier in Chicago, is
an object of much interest to a large
number of wealthy women. 1t is
claimed that he has disposed of large
quantities of furs which were brought
to him by women for repairs and for
storage during the warm months.
Miss Abbie III. Zaner, directress of
nurses at Portland hospital, received a
dispatch from Surgeon General Stern
berg of the United States army, on the
10th, to proceed to Manila Immediately
with as many trained nurses as could
be secured in Portland.
epresentative-elect Roberts, of
Utah, may be excluded from the house
of representatives if the charge that
he is a polygamist, living openly with
more than one wife, can be sustained.
The Canadian cruiser Petrol, which
is patrolling the fishing grounds in
Lake Erie waters in the vicinity of
Sanduslky, o., has seized a lot of gill
nets belonging to American fishermen
which it is claimed were set in Cana
dian waters.
The National Municipal league will
hold its next conference for good city
government in indianapolis beginning
on the 30th.
Two freight trains on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific collided at Mos
COW, Ia, on the 18th. One man was
killed and one injured. A wrecking
train which was about to start to the
scene from Wilton was run into by a
fast mail train. The fireman of the
mail train was badly hurt, and 16
men ON the work train were injured,
some seriously.
In the gloom of smoke, storm and
fog that darkened the rails of the
Pennsylvania railroad, on the morning
of the 18th, between Jersey City and
Harrison, 'belated suburban train
dashed into a gang of workmen, kill
ing ii and injuring four. Five others
Tins lived in Jersey City.
The Maryland board of public works
has decided to sell all the interest of
the state IN the famous Chesapeake &
Ohio canal. This interest has cost the
state in one way or another about $25,-
0OO, 900, but it's present value is indie
terminate, as it is now in the hands of
receivers.
J. A. Brandreth, who claimed to be
"a nephew of the millionaire pillmaker
of that name, was found dead in his
cell at the county Jail in Fresno, CAL,
on the 18th, having been arrested the
night before on a charge of vagrancy.
He was n graduate of Yale.
Jutaro Komuro, the new minister to
the United States from Japan, accom-
panied by Y. Murota, the japanese
minister to Mexico, Kei Chong Ye, of
Corea, Zozi Amari, of Mexico, and
Messrs. Matsumato and Uno, of Japan,
are en- route frurn the Pacific coast to
Washington.
In Brown, Rock and Dixon counties,
Neb.. thousands of acres have been
swept By prairie fires, and much grain
and many barns and several houses
have been destroyed.
The dead body of ]. B. Gronninger,
a wealthy ranchman of Terry, Mont,
was found on the Big Four tracks at
Delaware, o., ON the 18th. There was
strong evidence that the man was muir
dered and his body placed on the
track.
Herr H. III. Meier, founder of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Co.,
died in Bremen On the 18th. He was
50 years of age
The transport Minnewaska, with the
First engineers and Representatives of
the Red Cross on board, left Ponce, P.
r., for home, on the 18th.
Col w. J. Bryan's health does not
mend as rapidly as he hoped it would,
and upon recommendation of his ply
sician he has been granted an addi-
tional ten days leave of absence, which
permits him to remain in Lincoln un-
til December 4. Col. Bryan complains
of lack OF strength and vigOr-
The serious illness of Edward 4.
Green has resulted in "A reconciliation
between him and his wife, Mrs. Hetty
Green, the richest woman in America.
Mr.. Green sustained stroke of paral-
yxis a short time ago and has been
coslfined to his rooms in the Cumber-
land, New York city, for several weeks.
Two persons were injured, sH en-
gine and passenger coach destroyed
and N railroad station burned by a
rear-end collision, on the 18th, be-