Iron County register., 1899-08-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

y party of tourists were going up
the side of the Schneeberg, in the
Austrian Tyrol, on the 27th, when the
cable by which the car is moved broke
near the summit. The car, which was
filed with passengers, was precipitat-
ed a distance of 5000 feet, and was
dashed to pieces in the valley below
Five of the passengers were fatally in
jured.
Adolph Luetgert, the Chicago ux-
oricide, died suddenly, on the 27th. in
his cell, at Joliet penitentiary. He
was stricken with angina pectoris ami
psssed away before assistance could
be given. Luetgert had been, appar-
emily, in splendid health for weeks
previous to his death.
Mrs. Ivy Crabtree, the 16-year-old
daughter of Walter S. Warthen. living
neGr Carmi, Ill.,, is charged with the
murder, by arsenical poisoning, of her
brother, Floyd, Is years old. The girl
has made a full confession of her
guilt, but says that she intended to
poison her father and stepmother, and
meant no harm to her brother.
All that is mortal of the late Robert
G. 1ngersoll rests in a bronze urn at
the home of Walston H. Brown, in
Dobb's Ferry, \. Y. The body was ere
mated at Fresh Pond, Long Island, ON
the 27th, and the ashes were taken
back by the family to the scene of his
death.
The body of Mrs. George S. Norton
was inferred, on the 27th, in the Paw
ling (N. j. cemetery in strict accord
with her strange dying wishes The
body was seated in her favorite rock
ing chair and inclosed in a great
square box of white chestnut, re-
sembling a large family ice chesT.
The two negroes who murdered
Fred Bennett, white. railroad en-
ploye, while resisting an attempt to
rob him, at Mount Pleasant, Ia, were
captured by the sheriff, on the 27th,
after four days chase. They have
been fully identified and proceeds OF
the robbery were found on them.
The joke of the season is on Mr.. and
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, Jr., who
started from Newport, r. l., for Mar
ragansett Pier, on the 27th, in an au-
tomobile, and returned in a farmers
wagon. 1t was all owing to the TACT
that an automobile, like most other
vehicles, will not run through mud
three feet deep.
\ wealthy Colorado merchant, whose
identity the police disguise behind the
fictitious name of George Edwards"
was robbed of $1,000 through panel
game" operated in the house of Nellie
Miller, in Chicago. The money con-
| sisted of seven 81 900 bills. This is the
largest amount of money ever secured
| in a similar robbery in the levee dis
trict. The Miller woman has been ar
rested.
The first race for the Seawanhaka
| cup at Dorval, Que, on the 2Sth, re-
suited in victory for the American
challenger, Constance, over the Ca
madam defender, Glencairn, I'LL, by
two minutes and Is seconds. The re-
suit was a surprise to the large crowd
| OF Montrealers who were present at
the course to see the race.
a private letter from Gen. Ludlow
in Havana to a friend in Washington
| city, gives a very encouraging account
| of the situation in Havana. He SAYS
| that the health conditions of the city
are such as to leave the doctors with
out employment to a great extent. The
2,2OC troops in the Havana command
| are in excellent condition.
The quartemaster at Chickamauga
| Park, Tenn, on the 2Sth, started a
| shipment of 4s2 horses and mules for
the army in the Philippines via San
/ Francisco, in compliance with an order
from, the war department.
Honest" John Salisbury, former
member of the board of city aldermen
at Kansas City, Mo-, and for many
years a prominent live stock commits
sion man, committed suicide at his res
idence in that city, on the 2Sth, CUT
ting his throat with pocketknife. He
had been mentally unbalanced for sew
eral months.
The census in Cuba will be placed
under the supervision Of persons IA
miliar with census work in the United
States. This means the selection of a
general supervisor for the Cuban CEN
sus.
The steamer Moana, which arrived
at San Francisco, on the 2Sth, brought
S5uo, 900 in sovereigns from Sydney for
San Francisco and eastern banks.
| Mrs Margaret Foraker, mother Of
| United States Senator Joseph B. For
aker, died at her home in Hillsboro,
| O., or the 2Sth. She had been i'll for
long time.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 2sth
showed: Available cash balance, $279,-
656,41s; gold reserve, $245,731,754.
Isaac Rask, a seaman of the United
States cruiser Olympia, who died of
tuberculosis, was buried in the Luther
an cemetery at Trieste, Austria, on the
2Sth. The burial was attended by COM
panies of Austrian and American ma
rines. Admiral Dewey, who attended
the funeral, sent wreath, which was
| placed on the coffin.
The Paris Gaulois publishes re-
port of an interview with Gen. de Ne
grier, in which he is represented as
saying that he regards himself as no
longer belonging to the army, and that
he intends to retire to the country.
| Mai. Esterhazy finally declined TO
testify at the Dreyfus trial. This was
anticipated by the defense. The COM
maRdant at the last moment showed
the white feather, or "Uhlan plume,
as it is mockingly termed, notwith-
standing ne was offered safe conduct.
Lieut.-Col. Plummer, who is organ
izing the Thirty-fifth infantry at Van
couver Barracks, WASH, advises the
acknowledgement that a number of the
Oregon men desire to re-enlist for
| service in the Philippines if given an