Iron County register., 1899-01-05
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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6 IL, 100000. The shipments to Amer
lea increased e. ,OO0, 900.
The assertions made by Gen. Miles
backed up by the reports of various
officers in connection with the beef
furnished by the contractors for the
use of the army in Cuba and Porto
Rico, have led to the appointment of
a board of officers to investigate the
entire subject.
The Merritt & Chapman Wrecking
Co.'S outfit arrived at Santiago, Cuba,
on the 30th, to raise the former Span
ish cruiser Reina Mercedes, which was
sunk on the edge of the channel lead
ing to Santiago harbor during the first
bombardment of the Santiago fortifi-
cations by Admiral SIMPSONS squad
ron.
Charles Willard, desperate charac-
ter, shot and killed Sheriff J. w. Will
Jams and Deputy Lamers at Seaside.
Ore, on the 3Oth ,and wounded Deputy
Miller, and was himself killed by State
Senator Fulton. Willard was suspect
ed of burning Senator Fulton's sum-
mer cottage after robbing it, and the
officers were searching his house for
stolen goods.
The plans for the muster-out of
large number of volunteers have been
perfected. They wait on the passage
of bill by congress which will change
the present method and which will
have an important bearing on the situ-
alton in the new possessions. The
Fourth Missouri will be included
amOOp those mustered out
Harry F. Bailey, cashier of the Cole
brook On. H. national bank, was ar
rested, on the night of the 2sth,
charged with the misrepresentation of
funds of the institution, the alleged
shortage being $34. $50, through over
| drafts distributed among ten depos-
itors.
The cruiser Buffalo arrived at Port
Said, on the 2Sth, en- route to Manila,
! just 1872 days out from New York.
Thus she has broken all naval records
| up to this point in her voyage. She
is needed badly at Manila, as she car
| Ties 700 sailors to relieve men in Dew
| ey's fleet whose time has expired.
The net earning of the Burlington
| system for the month of November
| were $S37 ,66O, an increase of $237, ,7O1
over the same month of last year. For
| the five months ending November 80,
the net earnings were S3,927,714, de-
| crease of SO, 9,SS5 from the same period
of the preceding fiscal year.
| After several days of premonitory
noises and the falling of small quanti-
ties of stone and dirt, part of the
mountain Rocher Rouge, at the mouth
of the ST. Gothard tunnel, in Switzer-
| land, fell, on the 27th, almost obliter-
ating the village of Airolo. Three per-
sons are known to have been killed,
and the loss OF life would have been
frightful had not the inhabitants heed
ed the warning and withdrawn to a
safe distance. The property loss is al
most incalculable.
| The east-bound California train No.
4 on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad was wrecked, on the 2Sth, II
miles east of Trinidad, Col. No one was
killed, but IL persons were more or
less injured, and corpse en- route to
| Philadelphia was crema ted in the
burning of several wrecked cars.
Advices received at Washington, on
| the 2Sth, showed that Gen. Rios, the
/ Spanish commander, had surrendered
/ Iloilp to the insurgents, thus compli-
| eating matters somewhat in the Phil
| ippires.
Ccnsul-General Goodnow has noti-
hal that the Chinese government has
to be landed in China.
The war departments published
summary of army stations, just is
sued, for the first time includes Ha-
yana as a regular post, showing about
1900 troops there.
The war department, on the @Sth,
re scinded the order for the eInbarka-
ton of the Third Nebraska regiment
of volunteers, and substituted six bat
teries of the Second regular artillery.
1t would appear from official advices
/ that it is the purpose of the govern
ment to go slow on mo7ing volunteer
troops, in view of the intention to mus
ter rlany of them out
The island of Guam will probably be
different from the other colonial pos
sessions or dependencies of the United
States, in having a naval instead of a
military governor. The reason is that
the sole purpose of the selection and
requirement of the island was to OBJ
tain a conveniently located naval sta
| ton for our warships.
Mrs. Kate J. Adams, well-to-do wo-
man, was poisoned in New York city,
on the 2sth, by taking a dose of bro
mo seltzer contained in a bottle in sill
YER holder received by Harry Cornish,
the athlete, boarder in the house, as
a Christmas present, through tAa mail.
The bromo was found to be charged
with cyanide of potassium.
King Humbert of Italy has signed a
decree amnestying or reducing the
punishments of the rioters who took
part in the disturbances last spring.
About 700 persons who were sentenced
by court-martial and about 1000 who
were condemned by civil courts, have
been liberated, but all recidiyists or
habitual criminals, have been excluded
from the benefits of the decree.
Former Gov. Merriam, of Minnesota,
is said to be slated to succeed Secre-
tary Hitchcock as ambassador to Rus
sia.
! 1t is reported that the efforts to
revive the Clio coal pool have utterly
! failed.