Iron County register., 1899-11-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The st. Charles hotel and six other
buildings at Wagner, 1. T., were de-
stroyed by fire, on the night of the
18th The hotel was filled with guests
and there were several narrow es-
capes. One guest, Fort Smith travel
ing man named Whiteside, was burned
to death. Two others, names un-
known, are missing. Property loss,
$4,000.
President Loubet unveiled in the
Place de la Nation in Paris, on the
10Th, a statue symbolizing the Triumph
of the Republic. The premier, M. Wal
deck Rousseau, and all the other mem.
bers of the cabinet were present. The
ceremony was witnessed by an i'm
Mepse crowd.
Chicago engineers are designing an
earthquake-proof steel palace for the
crown prince of Japan, which is to
mark the advent of American steel
construction in the Mikado's land, and
the imperial government has appro-
priated $3,O00,000 to pay for its cree
ton.
The first definite news regarding the
fate of Winston Churchill was con-
veyed to his mother, on the 10Th, by
press reporter. The fact that his
wound is not necessarily dangerous
and that he was alive in Pretoria
caused her the greatest qualification.
Adviees received at Cape Town, on
the 18th, show that on the 18th COM
bined force of Free State and Trans
vaal burghers occupied Co1esburg.
Cape Colony, without opposition by
the residen IS, and proclaimed the dis
trict to be Free State territory.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Sydney, N. S. W., published on
the goth, says that a disastrous civil
war has broken out in the British pos
session of New Guinea, II villages hav~
ing been obliterated with a heavy
slaughter of the inhabitants.
Former residents of Texas, living in
Chicago, met at the fremont house.
on the 10Th, and made plans for the
establishment of the Chicago Texas
club. James Pfouts was elected pres
ident and J. NJ. Cox secretary.
Rev. DIR. Richard Stoors, pastor of
the Church of Pilgrims, Brooklyn, has
re signed because of failing health. He
had been in poor health all fall and for
sou1e time unable to attend to the du-
ties OF his position.
Troop G, Sixth cavalry, which had
been in the Coeur d'Alene district for
several months, left for SaE Francisco
oil tie 10Th.
The postmaster general has ordered
that private mailing cards addressed
in the domestic mails or to the Philip
pines, Guam, Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico
and Canada, need not hereafter bear
the words Postal Card" or Carte
Postel," though that is still necessary
for other postal union countries. Do
mestic postal cards also are directed
to be admitted to the foreign mails
when the words "Carte Postel' are
placed on them.
The sensation in Washington, on the
Goth, was the formal transfer by Ad-
miral Dewey to his wife of the title to
the ownership to the home, 1747 Rhode
Island avenue, and it's contents, con-
stituting the gift to him by the people
of the country. The news created an
indignant feeling against Admiral
Dewey. Many of the contributors
have asked to have their money re-
turned to them.
The lower parts of Athens and
Piraeus, the port of Athens, Greece,
were flooded as the result of heavy
rains, on the Goth. Several houses
fell and furniture, goods and cat
tie were swept away. There was some
loss of life also, and railway communi-
cation was interrupted.
With flags flying and soldiers cheer
ing and with the band of the Forty
first infantry on her deck playing The
Girl / Left Behind Me-" the United
States transport Logan steamed down
the bay from New York, on the Goth,
and out to sea on her way to the Phil
ippines.
Bond purchases, on the Goth, at the
several sub-treasuries under the recent
offer of the secretary of the treasury
were reported as follows: ST. Louis
SIC, 200. Baltimore $4,1OO, Philadelphia
s116, 900 and New York $49s, 900.
The Fifty-6rst Iowa regiment, just
from a years campaign in
Luzon, will be at once re-mustered as
a body into the Iowa national guard,
which it left to go to the war.
A meeting of the executive council
of the Spanish War Veterans was held
at the Ebbitt house in Washington, on
the Goth, to draft a constitution and
bylaws for the organization.
The racing yacht Shamrock is being
at Greenock, Scotland.
She was towed most of the way across
the Atlantic, sailing under her own
canvas only 230 miles.
The United States supreme court ad-
iourned, on the Goth, for the usual
recess of two weeks.