Iron County register., 1899-11-16
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| of kites, supporting a cable, on which
trolley" kite is made to travel The
trolley kite carries bomb of high ex-
| plosive powder which is automatically
| released.
Admiral Dewey's flagship. the cruis-
er Olympia, having gone out of COM
| mission, the admiral hoisted his flag
over the staunch little clipper Mildred,
at Washington, on the 9th, and made
his first cruise to New York, anchoring
| at the Waldorf-Astoria.
| Late advices from Manila indicate
that Aguinaldo and his army have
left the railroad and are retiring on
| Boambang, in the interior, in which
| event he will soon be isolated and I'M
able to replenish his supplies of war
| material.
The lord mayors parade in London,
OF the 9th, said to be more brilliant
than ever. appeared to American eyes
to be nothing more than pretty fair
| circus pageant. The lord mayor,
| guarded by small squadron of the
Middlesex yeomanry, riding in gor-
geous gilt carriage, drawn by SIX
horses, was strongly reminiscent of
| Inc udNS VI 9lO,OOO
The diplomatic world and the lead
| ing writers, across the water, are still
| discussing the Berlin disclosure of the
relations of England and Germany as
the most important topic of the times.
America is generally admitted to
have come out well. The American
state department has obtained the
best harbor in that quarter of the Pa
cific.
Arthur G. Webster, alias ST Paul
Tip" pleaded guilty, at Newport, r. l.,
on the 9th, to robbery, and was SEN
fenced to 25 years at hard labor. He
was wanted at ST. Louis for the muir
der of a policeman, but preferred to
take his chances in the penitentiary.
Train wreckers ditched a Michigan
Central train between Alexis and
Vienna, Mich, on the night of the 9th.
Three persons were fatally and score
or more otherwise hurt. The bolts
that held the fish plates had been re-
moved.
A syndicate of American, English
and German bankers has about per-
fected arrangements with the govern
ment of Guatemala to advance to that
country S15,OOO.OOO, relieving it of its
debts and placing the country on
firm financial basis. Under the terms
of the arrangement the money will be
loaned for term of 25 or so years and
will draw interest at one per cent. In
addition the syndicate will be allowed
to control certain percentage of the
customs receipts of the different ports.
Considerable excitement has been
created in southern Illinois over the
fact that, in Saline county, oil in pay
ing quantities and of the very lest
quality has been secured at depth of
1000 feet near Texas city. Several
wells are to be sunk and reports in
dicate that in other points efforts will
be made to secure oil.
The war department received a dis
patch from Gen. Otis, on the 10th, stat
ing that hope of saving the transport
Hooker had been abandoned. Her
supplies will be taken off, and the hulk
will be sold at auction at Manila. The
vessel was worth about $15O,OOO.
At Hollywood cemetery, Richmond,
Va, on the 9th, under the auspices of
the United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, in convention there, the monu-
ments TO Jefferson Davis and Miss
Winnie Davis were unveiled with APP
propriate ceremonies. Gen. FitZhugh
Lee rode at the head of the procession
Treasurer Holder of South Australia,
considers that the advantages in Brit
ish supremacy in the Tonga islands are
fully equivalent to the surrender of
British rights in Samoa.
Orders for the mobilization of the
necessary reserves for the British sup
Elementary division, announced Thurs
day by Lord Wolseley, were issued on
the 10th. The men will join between
November IL and 20.
1t is asserted in Berlin that Maj. Won
Reitenstein, winner of the long-dis-
tance military ride from Berlin to vi
emma, has gone to the Transvaal to join
the Beers.
The statement of the treasury is
sued on the 10th showed: Available
cash balance, $500, SOC. .5S1; gold re-
serve, $3.50, ,OO1, ,1O4.
AS the result of an investigation
conducted by an anti-Quay news
paper, five men, all residents of Wash
ington, were, on the 10th, held in bail
for court, at Philadelphia, on the
charge of repeating, impersonating
election officers and other fraudulent
relation.
Gen. Wheaton scored a brilliant sue
cess. on the 7th, in landing at San
Fabian on the Gulf of Lingayen,
Luzon. He had with him the Thir-
teenth and Thirty-third infantry, and
their landing and charge up the beach
under cover of a terrific lombard
ment from the gunboats was daring
and spectacular, and almost without
casualties.
Senor Capote's report gives IS: mu-
inequalities now existing in the is
land of Cuba. He finds that 2s2 towns
and hamlets were destroyed during
the war with Spain, and that the APP
proximate population of Cuba is now
1871, ,0S2, less by 314,605 than it was III
1887.
The most interesting feature OF the
new situation in Luxon is the fact that
Aguinaldo has been forced out of the
Tagalo country into region to the
north. where Tagalo is not spoken, and
where the mountains are filled with
Negritos and other savage tribes, who
are hostile to the TsRalos.