Iron County register., 1899-08-10
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


The trail from Valdes to Copper
river, in Alaska, has been completed.
and the old trail over the glaciers
| abandoned.
Six of the ten new volunteer regi-
! ments are recruited to nearly their
full complement. The returns received
at the war department, up TO the night
of the cd, showed a total force of o.
| 0S2, leaving less than 5000 men to be
! enlisted.
The Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers
| landed from the transport Hancock, at
| San Francisco, on the Sd. The men
made a magnificent appearance as
they marched to the Presidio amid the
| cheers of the thousands who lined the
streets. They looked sturdy, bronzed
and healthy, and marched as if they
were used to it.
Maj-Gen. Otis cables that the Thir-
| ty-sixth regiment, 500 strong, has been
equipped and sent to San Fernando.
| The Thirty-seventh, also 500 strong,
was being assembled for equipment,
and Lockett's cavalry regiment was re-
cruiting rapidly.
a letter from Gen. Funston has been
received by d. r. Anthony, Jr., of the
| Leavenworth, (Kas.) Times. The gen
eral announces that he will stay in the
| army until the war in the Philippines
| is at an end, and will not muster out
with his regiment.
Mai j.Gen. Lawton is to have COM
| mand of all the cavalry troops in the
| Philippines when the active campaign
| opens in the fall. The plan of cam
| paign decided upon by Gen. Otis CON
templates larger use of cavalry tnan
in the last campaign. He already has
in the Philippines the entire Fourth
! cavalry.
Lady Randolph Churchill, the Amer
! lean woman, who rules the social set of
| London, will not wed William Waldorf
Astor, as rumored, but is to be mar
| ried to Lieut.. G. F. Cornwallis-West,
whose mother was a great beauty in
her DAY. 1t is said. the wedding will
take place in October.
| Sigmund S. Albert, son of Adolph Al
bert, a well-Inown merchant of Tan
caster, Pa, has resigned from West
Point military academy, where he has
been a cadet more than year, and has
returned home. The alleged reason for
his resignation is that he was subject
ed to persecution because he is u He
brew.
Capt. A. F. Burton of Company i.
| Fifty-first Iowa, from Nillisca, has
been relieved of command of his com
pany, and is at Manila awaiting dis
honorable discharge. He is charged
with having hidden in a ditch when
| INT
Ex-Chief Justice W. L. Chambers, of
the Samoan islands, and family, arrived
az Colorado Springs, Col, on the 4th.
They remained there as the guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Connor until the
5th, when they left for Washington,
D. G.
Vice-President Hobart left Long
| Branch, on the 4th, for Lake Cham
plain, for Il ten days visit to President
Mckinley. The vice-president APP
peared to be in good health when he
| left.
The number of enlistments, on the
4th, was 391, making a total of 9,4Ss.
| This left 5000 yet to be enlisted.
Rev. DIR. w. III. Milburn, the blind
chaplain of the United States senate,
vas prostrated by sunstroke and fell
unconscious, on the Sd. ,Ehile deliver
| assembly at Lincoln park. He was
taken to Lincoln and revived under
care o. physician.
A Northwestern passenger train ran
into a wagon and team near Humboldt,
Ia, on the 4th, instantly killing two
men who were in the wagon. and in
iuring the third so badly that he died
in a short time.
The Corean government has granted
concession to a German syndicate
to build a railroad from Seoul, the
capital, to Gensan, in Broughton bay,
on the west coast of Corea.
The national council of administra-
ton of the G. A. r. Will meet in the
Continental hotel, Philadelphia, at p.
M, September 4. The thirty-third ma
tional encampment will convene for
business at 10 a. m, September 6, in
the Grand opera house. The parade
will be on the 5th.
C. T. Barnes, former agent of the
Adams Express Co., at Marshalltown,
Ia, but discharged last spring, has
been arrested ON four specific charges
of forgery filed by the Iowa Central
Railroad Co., in raising express bills,
his fraudulent transactions, it is al
legged. amounting to nearly $1,000
United States Senator James X
Jones. of Arkansas, is still in bad
health in London. and is going to the
continent, upon the advice of a special
list in heart affections. He as taking All
solutely no part in politics, and tn.
papers are being kept from him so as
not to worry him with rumors and re-
ports of a political nature.
A Newport News (Va.) dispatch, OF
the 4th, said: mo new cases and Iwo
deaths is the situation at soldiers
home at Hampton. Gov. Wocdtin
claims that one of the deaths was due
to consumption and not to yellow
fever"
At Carrabelle, Fla, as the result Of
the recent tornado, only nine houses re-
main of a once beautiful and prosper
Gus town. A communication from the
mayor states that 200 families are
without homes or shelter and many
are completely destitute.