Iron County register., 1899-03-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A special from Canon City, Col, on
the Goth. said Arthur Croke, aged II,
| charged with the murder of his father;
L. S. Medler, aged 25, charged with
highway robbery; Dominicll PereIo
and Edward Baker, both waiting trial
for burglary, broke Jail, on the 25th, ny
removing some of the bars of the cage
and digging through the wall. 1t is
supposed they had help from the out
/ side.
| The steamer Tacoma, from Japan,
| for Tacoma, which arrived at Victoria,
! B. c., on the Goth, reported that when
I on her way from Kobe 20 Yokohama
she was caught in the big earthquake
| of the 7th. So severe was the shock
that two officers were thrown off their
feet. The full extent of the damage
done by the earthquake had not been
| learned when the Tacoma left Japan.
| The heaviest fighting and most i'm
portant advance by our troops that
have taken place outside of Manila, &C.
CURED on the Goth and 27th, when The
combined forces of Gen. Wheaton and
! Gen. Macarthur fought their way to
a point beyond Newcanayan, nine miles
| from Manila and only Is miles from
MalolOs, the insurgent headquarters.
In a dispute growing out of a game
of dice in Cincinnati, on the both, Rich
ard \. Roberts, a barroom porter, ran
| a knife into the throat of Charles
| Prietsch, n mechanical draughtsman,
| and turned the knife around in the
| wound. Death was instantaneous.
Prof. Georgson, of the agricultural
department, accompanied by c. II.
| Robson and III. d. Nelson, arrived at
Seattle, Wash, on the Goth, on their
| way to Alaska, where they will test
the agricultural possibilities of that
section.
Indian Agent Anderson, at Spokane,
Wash, reports that Moses, head chief
of the 1000 Indians on the Colville
reservation is dying of Bright's disease
at his place near the Nez Peiim SUBJ
agency. He is nearly so years of age.
\ dispatch from Toulon, France,
says that the experiments made there
with armor-piercing shells have con-
clusively demonstrated the possibility
of a shell piercing war ships armor
and exploding inside the ship.
The fall of snow in Vermont during
the week ended on the Goth, was great
er than at any similar period this year.
In many places in the vicinity of Lon
donderry nearly five feet had fallen.
Addison c. Harris, the new United
States ambassador toAustria Hungary,
arrived at Vienna on the 3kth.
Although forced construction Of the
of no Ire.
seem to authorize the president to APP
point an admiral of the navy in aIdi
ton to Admiral Dewey. 1t is said at he
navy department that there is no in
tention of so doing, as it is perfectly
clear that the purpose of congress was
simply TO provide for the advancement
of Admiral Dewey to that grade.
Capt. Hiram NJ. Chittenden. corps of
engineers, has been placed in charge
of the improvement of the Yellowstone
national park, which includes the con-
structiOn, repair and maintenance of
bridges and roads. He acts under the
direction of the chief of engineers, re-
tanning his station in st. Louis.
Fire destroyed the Armour curled
hair and felt works, Thirty-tirst place
of the 27th, causing a property loss of
nearly 100000, injured II employees.
one fatally, and endangered the lives
of 400 others, six of whom were miss
ing after the fire.
The Missouri house of representa- |
tives, on the 27th, passed the bill pro-
hibiting the sale of cigarettes or cigar
cite wrappers in the state. under a |
penalty of a fine of from so to $1OC; |
also the bill making it felony to |
operate slot machines.
Prof. Walter F. Wilcox, of Cornell |
university, has been appointed chief
statistician of the census bureau. and |
William p. Powell, of Washington city,
will conduct the examination of appH
cants for positions under the bureau.
Articles of incorporation of the Com
pressed Air Traction CO., with a capital
of 5000, 900, were filed at Trenton, y.
j., on the 27th. The company is en-
powered to manufacture and deal in
compressed air in capsules.
The American line steamer Paris,
Capt. Watkins, having on board the
party of Americans now making a tour
of the West Indies, arrived at Havana,
on the 27th, from Santiago de Cuba.
\ dispatch from Iloilo, island of Pa
nay, on the 27th, said the transport In
diana had arrived there with rein
for Negros island, where
the situation was still satisfactory.
Maj. James NJ. Pollard, who had
fame as an expert long-dis-
tance rifle shot, which he gained at
and Creedmore, died in
on the 27th.
The names of the United States
transports Scandia and Arizona have
been changed. The former is now the
Warren and the latter the Hancock.