Iron County register., 1899-09-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Marine Hospital Surgeon Irwin, sent
to Lisbon and Oporto to investigate
the plague outbreak, has cabled that
he had mailed a report. His cablegram
conveys no information regarding the
plague, and it is inferred that posi-
bly, the situation is not as serious As
has been thought, though there may
be other reasons for the omission.
a dispatch from the viceroy of In
dia, Lord CurZon, asserts that immedi-
ate anxiety regarding the crops in the
central provinces of India has been re-
moved by a heavy rain sweeping in
from the Orissa coast and extending
into the Bagheikhand district and the
inces and of Oudh.
Juan Isidar Jimenes. the revolution
airy aspirant to the presidency of San
to Domingo, left Caimaner, Hayti, on
the 2d, on board the George S. Croiz
for Baracon, from which Eoint he will
proceed to Port-Au-PrInce, and then
to Puerto Plata, where he is inpatient
ly awaited.
The demonstrations organized, on
the Sd, in Cardiff, Hull, Bristol and
Liverpool, England, by the sailors and
firemen's union were we'll attended.
At all the meetings resolutions were
adopted to go on strike unless the in
crease in wages asked for is granted.
A special from Deadwoo6, S. d., says:
A fierce timber fire is raging about
ten miles from this place and threat
'ening a wide extent of country, ana
as everything is dry as tinder and
gale is blowing from the south, the
situation is very serious.
Policeman Patrick O'Keefe, attached
to the East One Hundred and Twenty
sixth street station, in New York city,
was fatally shot through the head and
chest, on the Sd, by Micl,ael Farrelli,
in Ferrelli's saloon, a notorious dive
on Second avenue.
The sixth anniversary of the death
of Henry George was celebrated, on
the Sd. at the Grand Central palace in
New York city, under the auspices of
the Manhattan Single Tax club. About
a thousand persons were present.
A pleasure yacht on the Maumee riv-
er capsized, on the night of the Sd,
entire company aboard, consisting of
nine men and women, were drowned.
The famous Wilder brigade of Gin
cinnati will meet at Chickamauga on
the 18th and 10Th to dedicate a monu-
ment which the brigade survivors have
erected to their fallen comrades there
The governor-generars foot guards
of Ottawa, Ont, on a visit to Albany.
\. ", as the guests of the Tenth bat
talon, made a tour of the capitol, on
the 4th. and visited the executive
chamber. Gov. Roosevelt, who was alb
sent, sent a friendly telegram of wei
come.
\ dispatch has been received at
master of the transport Morgan City,
which is aground near Nagasaki. saying
that all the troops were safe and had
been landed. Gen. Otis sent the trans
port Ohio to take the troops to Ma
Mia.
The central Porto Rican relief COM
mittee has issued another appeal to
the United States in behalf of unfor-
tunates of the Porto RiCan hurricane.
The appeal declares that S150,O00 will
be required to procure for the desti-
tute the bare necessities of life.
The duel between the editors of the
Porvenir and Cuban Libre, of Santi-
ago de Cuba. which was to have taken
place on the Sd, did not transpire, both
parties having been arrested. The pug
nacious journalists were liberated al
ter short detention.
John Y. McKane, formerly the politi
cal boss of Coney Island, and whose
trial and conviction, in 1851. for ballot
box stuffing, gave him noloriety, was
reported, on the 4th, to be dying at his
home in Coney Island of acute dys-
pepsia.
Herman Hundhausen, who, with
Richard Honeck, was arrested in Chi
cago, on the Sd, charged with the muir
der of Walter Koelter, in his boarding
house on Fulton street, made a full
confession of their crime on the 4th.
Sir Robert T. Ried, Q. {. former at
torney general of Great Gritain, COLI
cluded his argument before the Anglo
Venezuelan Boundary Commission, in
Paris, on the 4th, presenting the case
for England.
The Chinese foreign Office (tsung-li-
yamen) has offered the Italians min |
ing rights in the NingHai district, but |
the grant is entirely unsatisfactory to
Italy and is likely to cause complica-
tions.
President Mckinley LEFT Washington, |
for Philadelphia, on the 4th. to be |
present at the grand Sneampment of |
the Grand Army of the Republic.
The corporation of Dublin has grant
ed site near the roturja in Upper |
Sackville street for the proposed statue
of Charles Stewart Parnell.