Iron County register., 1899-02-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The steamer ST. Louis, sailing from
New York, on the Sth, took ,out i426, 900
ounces of silver.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the.eth showed:
Available cash balance, 4S273, ,233, ,629;
gold reserve, $227,716,003.
1t is reported that many cattle on
the western ranges are suffering from
frozen hoofs. This usually proves
fatal.
An earthquake with pronounced
vibrations was reported from Mays
vile, KY, early on the morning of the
9th.
The Delaware & Hudson depot,
Sweeny's hotel, the Saratoga Co.'s an
mex and Schaeffer's .case in Saratoga,
N. Y, were burned, on the 9th, and
Dwyer's saloon, the Sheridan house,
the Spencer house and 91ourke,s alley
were damaged.
The peach and apricot 'crops, of Yer
non and Cedar counties, Mo-, are re-
ported killed. The loss is estimated
at more than 500, 900.
The United States gunboat Nash
vile, bearing the body of Gen. Calixto
Garcia, arrived at Havana, on the 9th,
the guns of Morro castle and the
American squadron saluting her.
Everywhere householders and ships
lowered their flags to half mast, and
black streamers soon 'sIrTmounted the
Caban banners.
BY order of the secretary of war all
soldiers now at home ON furlough or
in hospitals, whose regiments are do
ing foreign duty, will be at once dis
charged from the service. This order
will let out about 200 members of the
Fourth and the Ninth Illinois now at
their homes throughout southern Illi-
nois.
Henry P. Rhodes, ex-assistant Unit
ed States district attorney, died at
Denver, Col, on the 9Th, from wounds
inflicted by himself with razor. He
was 81 years old. The same night
Mrs. Lavinius, a young Russian widow,
said to have been the fiancee of
Rhodes, killed her little son and her
self at the Arno hotel
With the thermometer art 20 degrees
below zero, at nine o'clock at night, o.:
the 10th, one lady and two men were
baptjsed by Rev. Wharton, of the
Christian church at Coal Run, o., on
Tie Muslingum river. A hole was GU:
iii the ice, and the candidates for bap.
tism were immersed.
A silver loving cup was presented, on
the 9th, to Mrs. Sampson by the feet
captains serving under her husband,
Rear-Admiral w. L. Sampson. The
ceremony took place on the cruiser
New York, at anchor off Tomp<ins-
vile, n. Y. There We're present be-
sides naval officers a number of in
vited guests.
Gen. Miles has made use of his
prerogative as commanding general of
the army and issued sweeping order
to the commanding general of every
department in the service prohibiting
the use of canned meats of any sort
in the future. This is the first time
that Gen. Miles has taken matters in
TO his own hands. He directed his of
ficers not receive canned beef, but to
use beef on the hoof entirely.
A peculiar phase of the taking of
Caloocar was the fact that the Amer
lean flag was run up on the house of
an Englishman. His was the only one
which had flag pole upon it, and as
the American colors were hoisted
there was great cheering all along
the line.
Turgusos, inhabiting the Tinur
peninsula, north Siberia, recently in
formed the Russian police chief of the
district that on January last, be-
tween Komo and Pit, in the province
of Yeneiseisk, they found cabin.
constructed of cloth and cordage ap-
parently belonging to a balloon. Close
by were the bodies of three men, the
head of one badly crushed. Around
them were a number of instruments,
the uses of which were not under
stood by the Turgusos.
The London Spectator says: "The
Americans underrate their own ca
pacity for producing men whom they
can trust to govern well. Why, the
whole continent of Europe is already
declaring that the reserve force of
the Union Is too great for the future
security of the remainder OF the
world"