Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-01-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Gen. Carpenter, at Puerto Principe
| Cuba, is forming rural police force
| under the command of Col. Braulia
| Pena.
In the course of his testimony be-
fore the army investigation commits
sion Gen. Eagan called Mai.-Gen. Miles
| commanding the army, ''liar, who
lied in his throat, lied in his heart
lied in every part of his body. who
| perpetrated a gross scandal and who
| should be drummed out of the service
| and imprisoned, and should be avoided
| by every honest man and barred from
| every club"
At the annual meeting of the Penn
| sylvania commandery of the Military
| Order OF Foreign Wars of the United
| States, it was voted unanimously to
present Rear-Admiral Dewey, with the
gold insignia of the order, which the
| United States government allows to be
worn by officers of the army and navy
A fire which broke out at7:3Oo'clock
en- the night of the 18th, in the whole
sale and retail dry goods house of tie
J. S. Menken Co.. at Memphis, Tenn.
caused an estimated loss of half a
million dollars up to ? a. m, of the
| 18th, and the fire was not under con-
troll at that hour.
Maj.-Gen. Breckenridge has been or
dered to proceed without delay to Gu
ba and Porto Rico on an inspection
trip which will last many months. As
a further mark of the disapproval of
the war department, he has been di-
rected to report to Maj.-Gen. Brooke,
whom he is alleged to have offended
during the war.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has offered to
give S250,000 to erect a building for a
public library for Washington, pro-
vided congress would furnish a site
and provide suitable maintenance, not
less than $4,000 per annum. Steps
will be taken at once to secure the
needed legislation.
The gunboat Yorktown sailed from
San Francisco, on the 18th, for Mamie.
She will replenish her coal bunkers at
Honolulu and then go on to Guam be-
fore proceeding to Manila.
boy of II years of age was found
dead of starvation on DeImonte street,
Havana, on the 10th. Corporal Hunter,
of Co. A, Tenth regiment, found the
body on a pile of stones with some
candles at its head. placed there by
strange hands.
Adyices from Lexington, Va, say
that William /. Wilson, ex-congress-
man and president of the Washington
and Lee university, at Lexington, has
been offered the presidency of Yale
college and that he will accept the po-
sition.
A combination of chewing gum man
ufaeturers of the United States was
practically consummated, on the 18th,
when the last contracts necessary to
amalgamation were executed in New
York city. The capital involved in this
combination amounts to about SIS
100000 Six firms have signed con-
tracts.
Jennie Ward, d modiste, died at
Marietta, Wis, on the 18th, practically
of slow suicide. Four weeks before
she went to The Menominee hospital
determined to die, made her will, and
absolutely refused to take any medi-
cine or allow the physicians to do
anything for her. A love affair is said
to have caused her action.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 18th showed:
Available cash balance, $500, sol ,321;
gold reserve, S237, 259, 766.
Brighten. Charles P. Eagan, COM
missary genral of subsistence of the
army, will make formal apology to
the war investigation commission for
the vituperative language employed
by him before that body in his dis
cussion of the conduct of Maj.-Gen.
Miles.
Reports are current in Washington
that the Chicago packing interests are
working behind a screen to under
mine Gen. Nelson A. Miles and to
bring about his retirement from the
army. They do not, however, dare to
attack him in the open.
Robert c. Lambe, ex-mayor of Car
lyle, ILL.,, was convicted, at Salem, on
two counts charging forgery and en-
bezzlement. The cases came up in the
Marion county circuit court on
Grange of venue from Clinton county.
Sentence was deferred
For one small flower, a new species
of pink carnation, the sum OF $4,000
has been offered by representatives OF
Harlow n. Higginbotham, of Chicag-
go. who was president of the Column
bian exposition. and who distinguished
himself by appearing in evening dress
at a midday reception given to the
Infanta Eulalia. The price is said to
be the highest ever offered for q "arna-
ton.