Iron County register., 1899-04-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

to the president, is confined to his
home by illness, the result of over
work.
The f. &. G. Brooke Iron Co., at
irdsboro, Pa, on the 3tn, increased
cent.
A heavy fall in the price of wheat
in the Chilian market was reported on
the 5th.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the secretary of state at Trenton,
y. j., on the 9th, of the international
Powder and Dynamite Co., with an au-
thorized capital of $1O,0o00OO. The
company is formed to manufacture
powder and dynamite.
Thomas Molloy, secretary and treas
urer of the Onondaga Coarse Salt as
sociation, and receiver for the Amer
can Dairy Salt Co., died at Syracuse,
n. Y, on the 9th. He mad been con-
necteC with the salt industry for about
3S years.
The French government has decided
to grant a temporary drawback on
sugars used in the manufacture of
transparent soaps for export.
Special dispatches from Troppau,
capital of Austrian SiIesia, say there
is a probability that the three emper-
o1s will meet in the autumn at Skierni-
vice, a town of Poland, AZ miles from
Warsaw.
Notice was posted in the Penn iron
works of Lancaster, Pa, on the 9th, of
an advance of 25 cents ton for pud
ding, and a corresponding increase
for all skilled laborers.
Gov. Thomas of Colorado, on the 9th,
signed the bill passed by the general
assembly legalizing prize fighting
when conducted by licensed clubs.
The American members of the COM
ing disarmament congress were for
mally announced on the 9th. They are:
Andrew ID. White, ambassador to Ger
many; Stanford Newell, minister to
the Netherlands; Seth Low, president
OF Columbia university; Capt. William
Crosier, U. S. A., military attache;
Capt. A. t. Mahan, U. S. N, retired,
naval attache; Fredrick Nolls, of New
York, secretary.
A large delegation of prominent citi-
zens of New Orleans, headed by Sena-
tor Caffrey and Representatives Meyer
and Davey, called at the White House,
on the 9th, and invited the president
to visit New Orleans on the occasion
of the peace jubilee on May 8. The
president informed the committee
that it would be impossible to accept.
Robert NJ. Cox, prominent in busi
ness and political circles in Peoria, ILL.,,
for the past so years, was found dead
in his bed on the morning of the 9th.
He was widower without children
and leaves an estate estimated at $685.
600.
Santiago" Morphy, alias Mexican"
Morphy, wanted in the City of Mexico
on the charge of embezzling $4,000
from the National Bank of Mexico,
was arrested at Kansas City. on the
9th, by local detectives. Morphy at
tempted to escape, but was ''persuad-
ed'' to submit.
The directors of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Co. met in San Francisco, on
the 9th, and reelected the old officers.
Gen. Weston, on the 9th, assumed
command of the commissary depart
nent as acting commissary general.
With full military honors and III
the presence of the president, his
cabinet, the general commanding the
army and his staff and many diplo-
matte and civic dignitaries, funeral
services were held, on the 9th, at Ar
lington cemetery over the remains of
$50 soldiers of the United States,
brought from Cuba and Porto Rico.
Il the burning of the palatial home
of Wallace c. Andrews, president of
the New York Steam Heating Co., in
New York city, on the morning of the
7tb, Mrs ST. John, married daughter
OF Mr.. Andrews and her young son,
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, their two sons
and several domestics lost their lives.
Brighten. Roy Stone has called the
attention of the president to the star
vation and distress in Porto Rico. he
thinks that the desperate state of the
people may lead to insurrection if re-
lief is not forthcoming.
With the Stars and Stripes dropping
gracefully over the stern of each, the
former Spanish gunboats Alvarado
anc Sandoval sailed into New York
harbor, on the 9th, and, amid the
VI tuOuSdHuS persons l1neu
up on shore and on the Brooklyn
bridge. they proceeded to the Brook
lyn navy yard. where they win tie up
for a couple of days before going TO
the Portsmouth IN. H. navy yard.
Samuel NJ. Graham, we'll known
throughout central Pennsylvania, was
instantly killed at Phillipsburg, on the
9th, while attempting to get kodak
picture of a large stump, which was
about being blown out of the ground
with dynamite. a silver striking him in
the neck and nearly decapitating him.
On the 7th the state department re-
ceived the formal invitation from the
government of the Netherlands to par
ticipate in the disarmament confer
ence, to be held at The Hague, begin
ming May Is.
About 5000 cotton mill operatives
are on strike in Rhode Island, and the !
movement Is expected to spread