Iron County register., 1899-12-07
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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ner was defeated, on the 1st, by II
votes on a resolution of want of con
fidence.
Two members of the crew of the lit.
tie gunboat Urdaneta, who recently
escaped from the Filipinos, report thai
the boat made a gallant fight. Cadet
Woods was mortally wounded. Mitch.
| ell, Drummond, Sloan and Grey were
| killed, and at last accounts October
! 3O) Farley, Herbert and Burke were
| alive and well.
Gen. Lord Methuen, en- the Both
| sent to Gen Foresteer-Walker, al
Cape Town, urgently demanding re.
| Inducements. \ battery of artillery
| q detachment of cavalry and two bat.
| talions of infantry were Immediately
| forwarded.
| Such indications as have reached
London respecting the battle of Mod
| der River, fought on the 25th, have in
creased the anxiety of the public for a
| full list of the casualties and detailed
| account of the action which Lord
| Methuen described as Zone of the
| hardest in the annals of the British
/ army"
Gen. Lawton was at Bambong, on
| the 10th, and was in telegraphic COM
| municaticn with the insurgents. The
commanders of the opposing forces
were considering propositions looking
| to the surrender of the inSurgent
forces to the Americans.
The deer-hunting season just ended
resulted in a total of eleven hunters
killed and seven wounded in the Michi-
gan and Lake Superior sections of Wis
consin and Minnesota. Most of those
shot were mistaken for deer. Few
were shot through their own careless
ness
Jacob Schneider celebrated Thanks
giving, at Duluth, Minn., by attacking
his wife with a meat ak, and after
chopping her horribly, saturated the
house with kerosene and set fire to it,
He perished in the flames, but the
wife was saved by her daughter.
The demand from South Africa for
wheat and -four is greater than ever
before. Since the season opened six
cargoes have been shipped from Port
land Ore. Others have been declined
on account of lack of tonnage, but It
is probable that at least six more car
goes will be shipped this season.
The 1899 output of Cripple Creek.
Col, will exceed $4,000, 900, making Il
grand total of sos, 100000 This esti,
mate is based on returns for II months,
the record for the past two months
and the general condition of the mines
For two months past the output has
only been limited by the capacity OF
mills and smelters.
After the return of the kaiser to Ber-
lin, on the 3Oth, a report, originating
from the lobby of the reichstag, was
spread that Queen Wilhelmina of the
Netherlands is to be married to none
other than the Crown Prince Freder-
ick William of Germany.
DIR. Franklin p. Gillespie, of Glenrs
Valley, Ind, was sentenced in the
United States court at indianapolis, on
the 1st, to three years at hard labor in
the Columbus (O.) penitentiary and
fined 500 and costs, for counterfeit
ing. y petition, signed by 200 or more of
DIR. Gillespie's neighbors was read, say
ing that his reputation previous to his
arrest had been good. Gillespie also
made pathetic plea for mercy, but the
court would not relent.
The National Watch Co., of Elgin, H..
surprised its 2.4Oo employees, on the
LIST, by giving notice of restoration
of the wage scale of 1892 The advance
was unsolicited.
The steamer Anselma de Ia Reinaga.
Capt. Thomas, cleared from New Or
leans, on the 1st, with 900 mules for
the British government, and sailed, on
the I'd, for Cape Town.
BY a eave-in of an excavation for n
sewer in Denver, Col, on the 1st, sever
al laborers were buried. The body of
George Holtz was taken out an hour
later. 1t was not known how many
were in the trench.
What is declared to be mountain of
gold has been discovered in southern
Illinois, near Cairo, and several Chica
go men are developing the immense
claim. Though it is nearly a year
since the discovery was made, its eX-
istence has leaked out through the or
ganization of a company which has ac-
guired control of the property.
An unknown white man, closely
masked, held up the two messengers in
a Southern Express Co.'S car near
s c., on the night of the
LIST, and under cover of a revolver, COM |
peiled them to give up S1,70O in cash.
Five thousand dollars in another safe |
WAS overlooked by the outlaw, who ac- |
eomplished his work without any aid. |
All the cotton manufacturers of Fail |
River, Mass. represented in the Fall |
2iver association have decided to grant l
an advance of ten per cent. in wages,
on Monday, December IL. In l
al. about $4,000 hands will benefit by /
the raise.
Co aceount of the sO-called "diabol- |
ical insults to the queen and govern
ments' of Great Britain by the French
press, the prince of Wales has decided |
to withdraw as honorary president #
the Royal British Exposition commits
sion, and As prominent British firms
have cancelled their exhibit contracts.
The Lafiin-Raud powder works at
Turck, near Columbus, KaS., were
blown up. on the Ist, tearing one man
nto atoms. fatally fnjuring two other
employees and seriously injuring four
men in the vicinity. The explosion
hook the earth for miles around !.