Iron County register., 1899-03-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

considerable interest is being mani
tested throughout the country in the
result of the municipal elections sooT
to be be held in Cuba. At some points
| the campaign has already reached q
| stage of activity that is a revelation
10 the unsophisticated Americans.
The senate, on the 1st, passed tn.
bill appropriating S2O,oO0.OOO for pay
ment TO Spain, on account of the PHI.
| ippines, without dissenting vote Oh
| voice.
Advices received from Apia, Samoa
under date of February II, say that af,
fairs there were still in an unsatisfac.
tory condition.
The United States supreme court adj.
journcd, on the 1st, upon the an.
nouncement of the death of Lord
Herschell.
The Covington (Ky.) post office was
robbed of stamps and money, reported
to amount to $4,000, on the morning
of the at.
Queen Marie Henrietta of Belgium is
gravely i'll of bronchial pneumonia.
There has been another advance m
tin plate of ten cents per box, max
ing the price $3.70, a net advance of d
cents since the trust was formed.
An assay of black sand found in the
Kotalinqua river, Alaska, made by DIR.
Willis Z. Everett, of the Smithsonian
institutions said to show that one ton
of it contains S776 worth of platinum,
besides iron oxide of gold worth
S1O2.s4, two pounds of tin, two pounds
of copper and one troy ounce of iridos-
mine.
Gen. MaXimo Gomez asks Goy.-Gen.
Brooke to reduce the American army
of occupation to 10000 men, retaining
10000 Cuban soldiers in the service of
the military government. At least SO
says Senior Manuel de Cespedes, who
acted as interpreter at a council, N
Havana, adding that Gen. Brooke took
the proposition under consideration.
Gen. Toral, who commanded the
Spanish troops at Santiago de Cuba,
has been arrested in Madrid, and inn
prisoned, previous to being tried by
court-martial, on the charge of capitu-
lating to Gen. Shafter at that place on
July IA, last.
After considerable delay the former
Spanish cruiser Mercedes, which was
sunk off Santiago de Cuba harbor on
June 6. last, has been raised and
pumped out, the government tugs as
sisting the wrecking company. She
was towed up to Santiago on the I'd.
A gigantic casket trust is now in
course of formation, and should ex-
pectations be realized, one dying three
months hence will do so at a greater
expense than now, as it is contemplate
ed to make sharp advance in burial
receptacles.
Representative John w. Crawford, of
the Fourth congressional district of
Texas, died at the Providence hospital,
Washington, at midnight of the I'd. of
heart disease and other complications.
The president, on the I'd, sent to the
senate the nomination of Assistant Ma
val Constructor Richmond p. Hobson,
to be advanced ten numbers, from No.
of the list of assistant naval construc-
tors, to be No. on the list of naval
constructors, for extraordinary hero
ism.
Rudyard Kipling was reported, on
the night of the I'd, to be on the road
to recovery, but his two daughters.
Josephine, six years old, and Elsie,
three years old, were still suffering
from pneumonia, the disease with
which their father has had so severe a
struggle.
A Manila dispatch says that Agui-
naldo's army is disheartened as the re-
suit of the recent actions. Many COM
panies of the insurgents have retired
because their officers skulked and re-
fused to lead their men.