Iron County register., 1899-03-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Sir Thomas Upton, the challenger
for the Americas cup, has decided not
to attempt to sail the Shamrock across
the Atlantic under her own rig. He
will tow her with the new steel yacht,
the Erin.
Gen. Brooke reported from Havana
that there were no deaths in his COM
mand on March 81.
Aunt" Katy Snodgrass, of Milford
Center. o., died, on the 23d, of the grip,
aged 1O3. She was the oldest wom-
an in the Woman's Relief corps in the
United States, and noted character
in that part of the state.
While in Cuba Secretary Alger will
act upon the proposition to divide the
island into four military departments.
This has been under consideration in
the war office for some time.
Reports received at the war depart
ment from the medical officers serving
with the troops in the Philippines
show that Aguinaldo's army is using
brass-tipped bullets.
The governors of the New York
stock exchange have voted the usual
holiday on Good Friday.
Mrs, Marion \. Williams, fatally in
iured in the Patterson block fire, in
Omaha. died. on the 23d. making the
third victim. All the other injured are
doing well.
Mrs. Rachael Esterbrool<e, widow of
the celebrated pen manufacturer, died
at her home in Plainfield, y. j., on the
24th, aged 81 years.
1t is learned on good authority from
Pekin that Ii Hung Chang is again
upon the point of being restored to
power.
\ dispatch from Buenos Ayres, says:
Henry W. Warren, of Denver, Col, the
Methodist bishop, continues to i'm
prove.
1t is reported from Newark, \. J.,
that the manufacturers of fertilizers
are about to effect a combination.
The Chinese ministerto Rome has in
formed the Italian government that
China absolutely refuses the demand
of Italy for concession at San Nun
bay.
Notwithstanding the fact that Gen.
Otis, the American commander at Ma
Mia, has refused to sanction negotia-
tions between the Spaniards and Fill
pinOs for the release of the Spanish
prisoners, held by the latter, the Span
ish government persists in making of
ferS of ransom.
The Roumania sailed from Santiago.
Cuba, on the 23d, with the remains of
554 soldiers who We're killed or died in
Cuba, and 12O from Porto Rico. The
Roumania was expected to arrive in
New York on the 2Sth, where arrange
ments will be made to send the re-
mains of soldiers to their former
homes, when so requested.
The terrible distress in the famine
stricken districts of Russia, especially
in Samara, continues. Thousands of
persons are subsisting on garbage and
water cruel, or bread composed of
chopped straw, bran and Il very small
proportion of wheat. Typhus fever and
scurvy are prevalent.
Preparations continue to be made
for the general movement against the
Filipinos determined upon by Gen.
Otis. 1t is probable that it will not
take place until the arrival, about
April ?, of the Sheridan, with the last
of the American troops destined for
the islands.
The Tennessee house of representa-
tives, on the 23d. passed the senate bill
making all contracts entered into in
Tennessee hereafter payable in any le-
gal tender. The bill was so amended
as TO exempt contracts already in eX-
istence. The bill now goes to the gov
ernor.
Henry c. Barnet. who died last No
rember from poison sent to him in
KutnOw powders, was summoned to
attend as juror in trial term, part Q,
Of the New York supreme court. He
did not put in an appearance, and
Judge Werner placed against him the
usual fine of 500 for contempt of
court.
John W. Mackay, on the night of the
I'D, gave every woman employe of the
Postal Telegraph Co. in San Francisco
two seats at the opera TO hear Romeo
and Juliet" Each one was presented
with large bouquet of her favorite
flowers. His generosity cost Mr.. |
Mackay about 81 100.
\ Berlin dispatch of the 23d said |
hat Michael Munkacsy, the famous |
painter, who has been Sc
.luded in hospital for the insane at |
Bonn for more than two years, was |
lying.
The steamer Laurada. which recent
V arrived at Seattle. Wash, from the
lorth. brought S15O,OOO from the Klon-
like, being the first shipment of treas
Ire from there this year. The fact of
he gold dust being on the vessel has
lot been made public before.
Rates to Dawson City have been cut
n two by the formation of a transpor-
alton company combination, includ-
ng various steamers running between
Seattle and Skagway, the White Pass
/ Yukon railway, and the steamers on
lake Bennett and the Upper Yukon.
Francis Harrison Pierpont, the first
governor of West Virginia, died at
Pa, on the night of the
'4th, after an illness of several days.
The ex-governor had been in a feeble
'hysical condition for several months
~ reason of his advanced age-s6
ears. He was the last of the war
governors.
Fire, on the oath, destroyed the
>aEgler stove works and the plant of
he Cleveland Machine Screw Co., at
'leveland, o., involving an aggregate
oss of $500,000. Lieut.. Roth, of Fire
company No. Z, was caught under a
alling wall and killed.
Owing to the extreme age of the
ope, Archbishop Martinelli, the apos-
olic delegate at Washington, does not
hink the pontiff can live much long