Iron County register., 1899-05-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Crime" y large number of women
were present. Addresses were made by
several prominent advocates of cor
poreal punishment.
The Illinois Steel CO., on the nth,
informed the navy department that it
will not bid on armor for battleships
and cruisers owing to the heavy pres
sure of private work. The decision oc-
casions regret in naval circles, as it is
desired to have the competition as
general as possible.
The political sensation of Kansas is
the return of former United States
Senator William Alfred PETER to the
republican party. PETER says that the
democracy has swallowed up the popu-
lists, nationally, and the issues upon
which the peoples party was built
have settled themselves.
In the district court at Omaha, Neb.,
on the 10th, judgment for $210,000 and
a decree of foreclosure was rendered
against the estate of the late Anthony
j. DreXel, of Philadelphia. The suit
concerns real estate in Omaha. The
Omaha Bridge and Terminal Co. was Il
party defendant.
The steamship Monawa, which
sailed from San Francisco, for Aus
tralia, via Honolulu and Samoa, on the
nth, carried important dispatches
from Washington to the American
commissioner and Admiral Kautz.
NJ. Deschanel, president of the
French chamber of deputies, has been
elected a member of the French acad-
in, +n hn Int
Marie Eduard Herve, editor of the
Soleil, who died on January last.
The Maryland Steel Co. shipped, on
the 18th, on the steamer Falls of the
Tee, $50 tons of steel rails for the Aus
tralian government. The same con-
cern is shipping another consignment
to the same government.
Maj. John \. Logan, assistant adj
jutant general of volunteers, rendered
his resignation, on the 18th, and was
honorably discharged.
About 1000 Buffalo On. " grain
scoopers, on the 18th, repudiated ar
made for settlement of the
strike by Bishop Quigley and passed
discharging the committee
acting with the bishop. The resolu-
tons call upon President Mcmahon to
deal directly with the Lake Carriers
as sociation.
Dan Sully, the actor ana theatrical
cy, in New York, on the 18th. Liabih-
ties, $3O,71S; assets, S25, including the
of six plays value at 81
each.
War department officials expect that
within two months the Pacific trans
port fleet will be on its way home from
with the last of the volunteer
The entire Pacific fleet is
now being overhauled and provisioned
for the voyage to Manila and return.
The jury at Muscogee. I. T., in the
case of eX-Deputy United States Mar
shall Nelson NJ. Jones, charged with
being a member of the mob which
burned the two Seminole Indian boys
in Oklahoma, in January, 1898, re-
turned a verdict of guilty.
Arrangements have been made to
put the cruiser Olympia in dock when
she arrives at Hong Kong so as to
scrape her and put her in trim for
her long voyage home. Her ginger
Tread" work, which was removed and
stored before she started for Manila
bay, will also be replaced.
DIR. Belle Howard and her husband,
George NJ. Howard, wanted in Peoria,
ILL.,, for the murder of Eta Binkley,
we're arrested at Tacoma, Wash, by
Sheriff Vendeventer, of Seattle. The
sheriff had been on the trail for three
working under instructions
from Sheriff Kifnsey, of Peoria.
Charles Z. Tinsley, an engineer in
4 Kansas City (Mo.) apartment house,
who had been exposed to smallpox,
locked himself in his house, on the
him to tent on the city hospital
grounds set apart for suspects.
\ man was killed by West Shore
train at Fort Montgomery, n. Y, on
the 10th. The body was hurled into
the air, and one of the victims legs be-
,ame entangled in the telegraph wires,
he body swinging there until removed
Oy the coroner.
The funeral ship Crook, which has
been transformed into a regular army
transport, sailed from New York, on
The Goth, for Savannah, Ga, where she
will embark the Second regiment of in
'antry for transportation to Cienfue-
COS, Cuba.
Carnegie & Co., of Youngstown. o.,
bought $4,000 tons of pig iron from the
and Shenango valleys, on
he 10th, paying therefor SIG per ton.
Lieut.-Col. Edward j. McClernand
oIS hnC
ordered to Matanzas, Cuba, as adjutant
general of that department.
r. G. Dun & Co report failures for
he week ended on the 10th: lat in
he United States, against $50 last
rear, and II in Canada, against 90 last |
year.
Ex-United States Senator Charles |
died at his home in Blooms
ourg, Pa, on the 10Th, after an illness
If less than a week.
Russell Sage has contributed $4,000 |
toward the fund of $40O,OO0 needed to |
ouild home for the Woman's hospital |
If New York city. His gift brings the |
amount subscribed up to 100000.
Two military and two civil Filipino |
appointed to cooper
tie with three citizens of Manila in ne |
yotiating terms of peace, arrived at |
on the 10Th. They submitted |
40 new proposition, but wanted an ar
nistice pending the session of the Fill |
oino congress. 1t was refused.
The honor of entertaining Gen. |
Funston and the Twentieth Kansas on |
heir return home has developed hot |
light between Topeka, Leavenworth |
md Kansas City as the place for mus