Iron County register., 1899-05-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| trophe are at hand.
On the 4th Emma Marshall, the En-
glish novelist, died in London. She wa:
the authoress of a long series of his
torical novels.
The Junction City & Fort Kearney
branch of the Union Pacific railroad
extending from Junction City, Kas., tc
| Belleville and Concordia, will be sold
under foreclosure proceedings at juno
ton City on the 9TH
Further conferences are being held
in New York city for the purpose o1
completing details of the proposed
consolidation of bicycle makers. AL
options have been obtained.
Severe seismic disturbances visited
the southern and eastern districts o1
| Peloponnesus on the night of the 18th
The town of Liguditza was seriously
damaged, many houses being thrown
down.
Further conferences are being held
| in New York city for the purpose oi
completing details of the proposed
consolidation of bicycle makers. AL
options have been obtained.
Mr.. LIE Grande Power, for eight
years labor commissioner of Minneso-
ia, was before the industrial commits
sion, at Washington, on the 4th. He
| spoke especially of farming conditions
| in the northwestern states, saying
that the present tendency among
farm hands was toward the ownership
of the lands, and that n greater per
certage of farmers now owned their
own land than so years ago.
Richard Harding Davis, of New
/ York, writer, and Miss Cecil Clark.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Mar
at ST. Gabriel's chapel, Marion, Mass,
Oh the 4th, Rev. Percy Browne, of
koNbury, Mass, of1iciated.
The entire interest of Andrew Car
negie Steel Co. has been purchased by
his copartners in the business, with
| Ii. c. Frick at their head. The exact
| figures which represent the purchase
price could not be learned. 1t is said,
however, the price is over S150,000.
1t is expected that Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British ambassador to
| the United States, will be elevated to
the peerage on the occasion of the
| queens birthday, May "a, in recogni-
tion of his distinguished services at
Washington.
Gen. Polavieja wants all of the $2O,-
600, 900 received from the United States
for the Spanish army. The naval au-
thorities are equally insistent, setting
forth the necessity of replacing the
fleet destroyed at Santiago. Further
more, Marquis Villa Verde, the finance
minister, threatens the government
with bankruptcy unless the whole
sum is devoted to making up the def
cit in the revenues.
The duke d'ArcoS, the new Spanish
minister to the United States, accom-
panied by his wife, left Madrid for
Paris, on the 4th, en- route for Wash
ington. He expects to sail from En-
gland on the Goth inst.
Buried treasure in the shape of II
81, COO bonds, bearing unclipped cou-
pons, which adds several thousand
dollars to their value, was found by
Thomas Lawson, a negro laborer,
while digging in the cellar of a Cincin-
natl department store.
Three hundred and fifty miners, ac-
cused of participating in the late riot,
arc confined at Wardner, Idaho, under
guard of United States troops. Over
500 troops are in the Coeur d'Alene
district, and all fear of further out
breaks is past.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury issued on the 5th showed:
Available cash balance, $3.50, $40, ,27S;
gold reserve, S245, OCT.
Gen. Ramon Guerra, formerly Vene-
zuelan minister of war and marine,
who started the revolution in Vene-
zuela last February, has been finally
severely defeated by the government
tloops, and has escaped into Colombia.
Gen. Otis, on the 5th, reported the
capture of over 10000 bushels of rice
and $50 tons of sugar at Balinag; also
$500, 900 worth of stores at Malolos
and much rice and corn belonging to
the enemy at other points.
Makers of steel fence wire who are
outside of the trust met in Chicago, ON
the 5th, for the purpose of forming a
combination and erecting a plant at
some point within the Indiana gas
belt.
The duke d'Arcos, the newly-ap;
pointed Spanish minister to the United
States, started from Madrid, ON the
5tL, for his new post at Washington,
by way of Paris.
The New York state board of abitrn-
ton has decided to hold public inveH-
tigation of the dock troubles at Buffa-
10.
There is reason to believe that Pres-
ident Mckinley has been advised that
Admiral Dewey contemplates coming
home within a very short time. His
return will, of course, be dependent
Upon the success of the commissions
negotiations with the Filipinos.
The post office department, on the
9Th, made public the letter of Edward
Atkinson, of Boston, on which the ac-
ton of the department in seizing his
pamphlets were based. Many letters
asking information about the subject
have reached the capitol.
Nail Carrier Brinale has just re-
turned to Victoria, b. c., making a
perilous trip from the Stickine river
to urge the dominion and provincial
governments to send Immediate relief
to upwards of 200 men, who are facing
starvation on the Ashcroft trail. !
Mules and dogs had been the sole diet
of the men for weeks when the mail
carrier left.