Iron County register., 1899-08-31
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

department. nOnOraDiy ulScnarSlng
from the volunteer army Brig.-Gen.
Irving Hale, to take effect on October
/. Gen. Hale went to the Philippines
as colonel of the First Colorado, and
was made a brigadier general for gal
liant service.
Acting Mayor Guggenheim of New
York city received a dispatch from
Admiral Dewey, on the 24th, acqui-
escing il, the request of the commit
tee that he time his Homecoming so
as to arrive in New York harbor Sep
tember IS, thus assuring the two days
celebration without an intervening
Sunday.
Juanita Terry, who, with others,
was killed at a railroad crossing at
Seabright, y. J., on the 23d, was the
posthumous child of Juan Pedro Ter
ry, a son of old Tomaso Terry, the
founder of the house, and on becom-
ing of age she would have inherited
S6,000.00O from her fathers estate.
The period of 80 days that was given
to unemployed persons, in Havana, to
find work has elasped. .and hereafterall
street idlers will be arrested and sent
10 NlN1Cd. the 1OIilDS OIL
whence they will probably be sent to
the Isle of Pines to work in the mar
bic quarries there.
Frederick Hartman, a well-known
farmer, who lived just south of Cum
berland, Ind, was found dead IN the
well near his house on the 24th. 1t
is supposed that he committed suicide
on account of i'll health.
The Indiana Chickamagua commits
sion has set September 10 and 90 for
the dedication of the Indiana monu-
ment on that famous battlefield. Ad-
dresses will be delivered by Gcv
Mount and other prominent Indiana
men,
Former Judge Henry Hilton is dead.
The end came at Saratoga. Y. Y, on
the evening of the 24th. Mr.. Hilton
had been seriously i'll there for some
time Henry Hilton was conspicuous
as the manipulation of the great y. +.
Stewart estate.
At several places in Tazewell and
Mclean counties, ILL.,, men belonging
to threshing gangs and the families of
farmers have suffered from ptomaine
poisoning of late. attributable in each
case to partaking of pressed chicken
Peculiar atmospheric conditions are
supposed to have affected the food.
In a speech at Ocean Grove, \. J.. on
the 25th, President Mckinley eulogized
The old flag, saying, among other
things: Il believe there is more love
fer our country and that more people
love the flag than ever before. Wher-
ever that flag is raised it stands not
for despotism and oppression, but for
liberty, opportunity and humanity.
and what that flag has done for us we
want it to do for all people and all
lands which, by the fortunes of war,
have come within its jurisdiction"
1t was stated, on the 25th, that the
Missouri Pacific and the Wabash
would meet the cut in packing-house
products to the southeast announced
by the Burlington to take effect on
September L. The Burlington threat
ems to wipe out the differential alto
gether if the terminal lines make any
cut. A lively war seems unavoidable.
All of the standing rigging on the
Americas cup defender Columbia was
SCI Oh 1hC -OlLi. dN DAISiol- II. I-s
and the boat was worked out of the
slip to her moorings in the stream.
Since the beginning of the Spanish
war there have been enlisted in the
regular army 9O,671 men. This includes
those who were discharged after the
close of the war and the increase of
the regular army for service in the
Philippines. No less than S1G,065 ap-
piled and were rejected.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 25th showed:
Available cash balance, S275, ,S21 ,2S4;
gold reserve, $246, ,331 ,S45.
Although, according to the latest re-
ports, the plague at Astrakhan. Rus
sia, is not bubonic, but mi1der and
pneumonia, the Roumanian govern
ment has issued an order closing ths
Russo-Roumanian frontier.
The South African republic volks>
raad. on the 25th, by Il vote of Is to 9,
adopted the report of the majority Of
the dynamite commission, continuing
the monopoly,
EN-Gov. Samuel Merrill, of Iowa,
who has resided in Los Angeles. Cal,
paralysis, on the 25th, and was thought
to be dying.
The Chinese ministe1 at Washing
ton, in a diplomatic way, has notified
the state department that if Chinese
are to be excluded from the Philip
pines, the United States may expect
retaliation from China. He said the
Chinese government conld not pre-
serve it's self-respect if it were to al
low the United States to prohibit the
immigration of Chinese into its pos
sessions.
A cable dispatch received at the war
department, on the 25th, from Maj
| Gen. Wood said Maj. Russell B. Harri-
son, who is i'll at Santiago of yellow
fever, appeared to be out of danger.
Ex-PTesident Harrison, v no is in Paris,
is being kept informed of his sons
condition.
An official report has been issued by
the president of the superior board of
health of Porto Rico, showing that
there has been 2,312 burials of victims
| of the recent hurricane. One thou
sand families are missing, together
with their houses. The report states
that the number of destitute persons
is 25e!eOO.
Prominent farmers and business
men of Kansas have organized the
| EarmeEs- FEEDERS ton of the Mississip-
pi valley. with a capital stock of 500
| 9O0. 600. The purpose of the trust il
to control the price of farm products
of the Mississippi valley, and espe-