Iron County register., 1899-11-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
on. Ellis H. Roberts, the treasurer

Hon. Ellis II. Roberts, the treasure
of the United States, in his report to
Secretary Gage, made public on the
5th, sums up the operations of the last
fiscal year by saying that "a notable
activity was exhibited in all kinds of
currency, with marked increase in
the use of gold coin and in less de-
gree of silver coin, while the prosperi-
ty of the country has at no time left
any part of the government notes in
the treasury above the demands of
daily business in its several Offices"
Among the passengers who arrived
in New York, on the 5th, on the steam
er ST. Paul, from Southampton and
Cherbourg, were Mrs. Francis Hodg.
son Burnett, Lillian Nordica, Gen. Ben
| iamin Harrison and wife, Julian
Storey and Madame Storey, eX-Con-
gresham Jas. Hamilton Lewis and Ed
ward d. Winslow, United States consul
at Stockholm.
Something of sensation was caused
at Great Falls, on the 5th, by the ar
rest, in Choteau county, Mont, of State
Senator Philips and Deputy Sheriff
Green on charge of sheep stealing. 1t
| is alleged that these men got away
with a band of sheep numbering 1877.
At the preliminary examination both
men were held in $4,000 bounds.
Advices from Honolulu by the trans
port Ohio, which arrived at San Fran
cisco, on the 5th, report the arrival
there of the ship Charles E. Moody,
FDIl- 1,o
was about 100 days out from the navy
yard at Norfolk with coal for the army
at Honolulu, and had not been spoken
since early in June.
There was no improvement in the
condition of Vice-President Hobart On
the 5th. Messages of sympathy were
received from President Mckinley,
Secretary of State Hay and Mrs. Hay,
and Gen. Wesley Merritt. Among tic
callers at the Hobart residence was
Att'y.-Gen. Griggs.
Miss Helen Gould, in behalf of
women and for the protection of the
American home, wrote letter, on the
5th, to Adj't.-Gen. Liller, a Spanish
war veteran, asking him to use his in
fuence in congress to prevent the seat
ing of the pologamist Roberts.
While running from the police, who
surprised him and some companions
in the act of burning the president in
effigy, Martin Williams, a student at
the Conference seminary at BucEhar-
non, w. Va, was shot in the head and
k-obably fatally wounded.
A municipal pownshop, operating
under d law passed by the last legis-
lature, was opened in Chicago, on the
9th, and judging from the number of
applications for loans, will be a sue
cess. The institution is operated IN
der a state charter, and loans money
at one per cent. a month instead of the
customary five to ten per cent. and up
wards charged by pawnbrokers.
Maj. Count Esterhazy, the reputcd
author of the bordereau which brought
about the conviction of Capt. Dreyfus
on the charge of treason, was SEN
fenced in Paris, on the 9th, by default,
on his cousin Christians charge of
swindling, to three years imprison-
ment and to pay a fine of so francs. He
was also ordered to refund the $4,000
francs claimed by Christian.
Chairman Graebner of the commit.
tee on railroads, on the 9th, introduced
an ordinance in the Milwaukee COM
mon council providing for street car
fares for the city as follows: A four
cent fare from $50 to 7:30 in the
morning and five to 80 in the even
ing until January 1, 1905, after that
four cent fare all day, including trans
fers.
At Bacolod, in the Island of Negros,
the first autonomous government of
the Philippines was established on the
9th. Gen. Smith, governor of the ISL
and of Negros, administered the oat',
of Office to the judge of the supreme
court. who in turn swore in the gov
ernor, three judges, IL councilmen, the
auditor and secretary of the interior.
An Iowa man has invented a ma
chine weighing not more than rs
pounds which can be attached to any
vehicle now drawn by horse and is
capable of reaching a speed of so miles
an hour. 1t is said stock company,
backed by $I,OOO,OOO is soon to be
formed in Milwaukee to manufacture
the machine.
George I'll. Daniels, general passen-
ger agent of the New York Central
railroad, is said to be at the head of
a movement to abolish the practice of
clipping" on dining and sleeping cars.
The movement already has found
hearty approval and backing among
officials of several of the trunk lines.
DIR. Havelburg, sanitary inspector OF
the Marine Hospital service at Rio de
Janiero, Brazil. reported by cable to
the surgeon general. on the 9th, say
ing that the plague diagonEis at Santos
had been confirmed by the bacteriolog'
ical examination just completed.