Iron County register., 1899-10-26
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

18th, Collector of Customs Chenoweth
and a companion killed two of the
number, the other four making their
escape. y quantity of smuggled mescal
and contraband stock was seized.
A dispatch from London says: The
calling out of the militia indicates
plainly that the British government
considers it necessary to take timely
precautions against some foreign COM
plication which threatens to super
yenc upon the Transvaal trouble.
The United States legation at Lima,
Peru, informs the state department
that new lighthouse has been estab-
iished by the Peruvian government at
the port of Molendo. The light will be
visible IA miles.
Gen. Lawton's forces met those of
Gen. Pho del Pillar, at San Isidro, on
the 10Th, and the Filipinos were de-
feated.
1t is reported that Col. Baden
Powell, commander at Mafeking, drew
the Beers over a mine charged with
Lyddite, the new and powerful eXplo-
sive, and at 'tjust the right moment"
the mines were exploded. Fifteen hun
dred Beers, it is said, We're killed.
The Pullman Palace Car Co. has alb
sorbed the Wagner Palace Car Co. The
Wagner company will go out of busi-
ness December 21- The capital of the
new company, so rumor says, will be
500 ,OOO. GOO and rumor also has it
that Robert I. Lincoln will be presi-
dent of the corporation.
William Henry Appleton. son of the
founder of the great publishing house
of D. Appleton & Co., and for many
years head of the firm, died in New
York, on the 10th, aged s5.
The temporary Alaskan boundary
line, as agreed upon between London
and Washington, viii it is stated,
run at least % miles from tidewater,
and excludes Canada from the Lynn
canal.
Miss Helen Gould has been travelling
in the west, and has been received with
great kindness everywhere. In fact
Miss Gould says the people treat her
too well.
Admiral Dewey occupied a theater
box in Washington, on the evening of
the 10Th. As soon as the people sight
ed him, there was an ovation.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will arrive about
The 31st from Cuba, on a furlough
There are rumors that the general
may be a candidate for United States
senator from Virginia.
The grave of John Tyler, former
president of the United States, in
Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Va,
which has been neglected and un-
marked for 81 years, will receive atten-
ton. A monument will be erected
The eX-president, his wife and daugh-
tee. lie side by side, their last resting
place being known TO but few
A cablegram from Manila, ON the
,2Oth, says: Capt. MacRae, with;a bat
talon of the Seventeenth infantry,
marched to the town of Jose Malinas
for the purpose of dispensing band of
300 insurgents, under Juan Dicarot,
who had recently been annoying out
posts and travellers along the road from
Santa Ana to Arayat. The insurgents
fled in the direction of Magal&ng.
n mining man from Sonora, Mexico,
reports the disappearance and sup
posed murder of DIR. L. Theodore Wun~
schow, an American, and his servant.
On August 16 they left the town OF
Bariaricoa for Santa Helena Wun-
schow had a large amount of gold in
his possession, which he was taking to
Santa Helena to exchange for draft.
They never reached Santa Helena.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew says
the Vanderbilt will is satisfactory to
Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the talk
about a contest in nonsense.
VIM. Eugene Doughtery, father of
May Robson, who is the wife of Actor
York, on the Goth, aged 81. He was
labor reporter on an evening newspa-
per in New York and had formerly
been employed as newspaper msin in
Chicago.
A party of Germans who were del
.egates to the commercial congress at
Philadelphia are touring this country
for the purpose of investigating Amer.
lean methods of manufacture and agri-.
culture.
The Berlin Freissinige Zeitung says:
1.-THE debt of the empire has enorn-
,ously increased since the death of Will
lam l.. and all to further Germany s
weltmatch. 1t is time to call halt"
An unknown steamer ran into and
sank a fishing schooner in Boston har-
ibor on the night of the goth. OF the
nine men aboard the fisherman only
two are thought to be saved.
On the goth Columbia fairly and
squarely defeated thechallenger Sham
rock in the third race for the Ameri-
cas- cup. Sir Thomas Upton, owner
of Shamrock, said: ,''NVe have been
fairly and squarely beaten. The Co
llrmbia is the better boat. I shall chal-
1cnge again unless some one else
Genes forward. In that case I shall
step aside
At St. AIMS, Lake county, MICS, on
the 10Th, joe I.efoTe, "a negro, was
burned at the stake. He confessed that
he and two other negroes entered the
home of j. HI. Gambrel planter,
bound and gagged Mrs. .Gambrel and
her two daughters, aged IS and IL, Il
son aged ~, and the baby, saturated
them with coal oil and burned them
alive Joe Smith, ore OF the negroes,
was held for further investigation, and
Bob Anderson, the other accused, was
being searched for.
While Admiral Deweyis flagship,
Olympia, lay in the North river, New
York. after the city's reception of the
cnnouering navy captain, his ship was
looted of property worth $1,000 be-
longing to the admiral and some of his
staff officers. One of Admiral Dew
ey's swords and a pair of silver ean-
dlesticks, given to an officer of the
Olympia by Emilio Aguinaldo. were