Iron County register., 1899-12-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| lister to Turkey, left Constantinople
on the 21st, for the United States, OF
| leave of absence.
Gen. Lord Roberts, who is perhap:
the most independent man in the Brit
ish army, has given the war Office tt
distinctly understand that he will no
submit to or have have any plan o.
operation thrust upon him by the wal
department, and insists upon having
carte blanche as regards the conduct
of the campaign.
The battleship Texas, Capt. Sigsbee
commanding, left Havana, on the 21st
carrying ISL caskets containing the
remains of the victims of the Maine
horror which were inferred in Colon
cemetery. Father Chadwick, who was
chaplain Cf the Maine, accompanied
them.
The state bank commissioner OF
Kansas says that the people of Kansas
have more money than ever before,
the tabulated quarterly returns show
ing deposits amounting to $25, 100000
an increase of $1,OOO,0oO over the
amount reported three months ago.
Samuel Goldberger, a saloonkeeper
and Tammany election district cap
tain of the First election district of
the Eighth assembly district, of New
York city, who was convicted of col
onizing in the recent election, was, on
the 21st, sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment in Sing Sing.
T. C. Kirby, proprietor of hotel at
Perry, Kas., shot and killed G. A.
Foley, on the 21st, and, riding to Os-
kaloosa, surrendered to the sheriff.
Foley was a boarder at the hotel. Kir
by asserts that the dead man had be-
trayed his daughter.
Winslow Robinson, wealthy resi-
dent of Stapleton, Staten Island, died
at his home, on the night of the 21st,
from a pistol shot wound inflicted an
hour before. The police have report
ed the case as one of suicide. The
family claim it was accidental shoot
ing.
The Carnegie Steel Co., on the 22L,
posted at it's various works in the vi
cinity of Pittsburgh, Pa, the Duquesne
steel works, furnaces and foundry. the
Carrie furnaces, the Homestead stee!
works, the Lucy furnaces, the Key
stone bridge works, tie Upper Union
mills and the Lower Union mills, no.
tees of a 7.14 per cent. advance in
wages, making a total of 25 per cent.
increase made by the company, vol
unfairly, since the adoption of the last
general scale.
A terrible disaster occurred at Amal-
n CT
the Gulf of Salerno, on the 22d, an
enormous rock upon which stood the
Cappuecini hotel slid bodily into the
sea with a deafening roar and without
a moments warning, carrying with it
the hotel, the old Capuchin monastery
below, the Hotel Santa Calerina and
several villas. Many persons were
buried in the debris, which also crushed
four vessels to the bottom of the sea,
destroying their crews. The Capuchin
was 6s7 years old.
James Duane Taylor, one of the i'm
portant officers in New York city of
the Wagner Palace Car Co., and SON
in-law of the founder of the company,
committed suicide at the Grafton
hotel, in Washington, on the 21st, by
cutting his throat with a razor.
During a dress rehearsal of the
Christmas programme at st. Francis
Catholic school, Quincy, Ill, on the
22d, the dress of a little girl caught
fire at gas jet, and in the panic tnat
followed eleven little girls were burned
to death; five more were fatally
burned, and two priests, four nuns
and the janitor received serious burns.
Upwards of forty school children
were drowned, on the 22d, in an ice ac
cident at Frelinghem, Belgium, near
the French frontier. They had been
given a holiday with permission to
play on the frozen River Lys. TIL.
ice broke suddenly end the children
only a few being rescued.
treasury issued on the 22d showed:
Available cash balance, S291, ,S4s,262
gold reserve, $241, ,415,422.
Rev. Dwight L. Moody, the we'll
known evangelist, died at his home in
East Northfield, Mass, at noon of the
22d. He was nearly 63 years of age.
Mr.. Moody never rallied from the col
lapse that followed his exertions duI
ing the great revival at Kansas City,
Mo-, in November.
Rich gold-bearing quartz has been
found near the western line Of Saline
Kas. The discovery was made by
Mullen, a farmer, while dig
ging well. Steps have been taken t."
bave eastern parties make q thorough
assay of the quartz.
The case of Mrs. Sanderson. at
Marshall, Mich, charged with attempt
INK to murder her husband by feeding
him ground glass in his oatmeal, went 4
to the jury on the evening of 1he 22d,
and at midnight a verdict of not guilty /,
was returned.
The South Dakota state inspector of |
mines has completed his report. It |
shows the output of gold il the |
Black Hills for the year to be se,- |
81, ,436. This is an increase of s., ,OO0,-
100 over the output of last year.
Recent advices from South Africa
rdicate that notwithstanding :he
act that Gen. Methden is strongly in
renched, Gen. Cronje has him in a
,sd box-between The horns of
resent as it were. Enteric fever is
mcng Gen. Methuen's men. l