Iron County register., 1899-05-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
On the 14th Col. Victor Vifquain ten
dered to the president the services of
the Third Nebraska regiment, which
had just been mustered out, but was
willing to re-enlist to take the place
of the First Nebraska, now in Luzon,
but soon to return to this country.
Mr.. Mckinley thanked the regiment
for its patriotic motives. and said that
its offer would be kept in mind should
it ever again be necessary to enlist
more volunteers.
Sir Henry Irving, whose recent work
in the title role of Sardou's drama
''Robesp;erre" at the Lyceum theater,
London, has been exceedingly trying,
was taken seriously i'll, on the 14th,
with an affection of the throat. His
son, Lawrence, who is Sir Henry's un-
derstudy in several notable roles, was
compelled to take his fathers place.
The Belmont mill of Wheeling, and
Benwood blast furnaces, of Martin S
Ferry, O., four of the largest iron
works in that section of the Ohio val
ley, all of which are the property of
the Wheeling Steel and Iron Co, of
Wheeling, have granted 1900 employees
an advance in wages of ten per cent.
Donald Mclean, aged G6, western
railroad promoter, fell over the bal
ustrade on the fourth floor of the Pal
mer house, in Chicago, on the 14th,
landing on the stone tiaging. two
floors below. His thigh was badly in
iured and his skull fractured. He died
soon afterward of his injuries.
One of the largest gatherings ever
seen in Minneapolis, Mimi, adopted
resolutions, on the 14th, in sympathy
with the administration of affairs in
connection with the Philippines. The
names of Mckinley and Dewey were
cheered to the echo several times dur
ing the afternoon.
Gov. Stone of Pennsylvania has made
a cut of 81 900, 600 in the school appro-
priation, and reduced several other
items, whereby he saves in the aggre-
gate 81 100000, which will be applied
to reducing the floating debt of the
commonwealth.
Kansas City (Mo.) Catholic Knights
of America, at their convention, voted
unanimously to endow a chair at the
Catholic university in Washington,
likely to be the chair of English liter
ature.
The Manitou Park hotel and casino
at Colorado Springs, Col, which were
to have been opened for the season
June l, were destroyed by fire on the
18th. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Students of the Princeton (N. J.l
university attacked the procession adj
vertising Pawnee Bills Wild West
show, on the 18th, it being regarded as
an unwritten law that no circus is to
show in that town. The fight began
with stale eggs, cannon crackers, vege-
tables and turfs of grass, but soon
rocks and pistols We're introduced on
the one side and whips and bolas on
the other, and many persons were i'll
jured.
+. y. Nanderlip, assistant secretary
of the treasury; Charles Allen, assist
ant secretary of the navy; Perry S.
Heath, assistant postmaster general;
Brighten. Corbin and Ellis III. Roberts,
treasurer of the United States, have
been appointed a national committee
to take charge of the funds with which
to purchase a home for Admiral Dew
ey in Washington.
Gen. Gomez notified Gov.-Gen.
Brooke, on the 18th. that he could no
longer act in the matter of the dis
tribution of the $3,OOO,0OO to the Cuban
troops. Gen. Brooke will conduct the
distribution without other aid from
Cubans than the identification of priv
ates by the company commanders.
Admiral Farragut's famous old flag
ship Hartford, which for many years
has been on the Pacific coast, is COM
ing east. She has been selected as a
training ship for landsmen, who will
be recruited almost entirely in the cen
tral. west and lake states. The vessel
has been completely modernized.
In accordance with decision by
Judge Dale, adjudging the street cars
of Wichita, Kas., to be public nui-
sance, the cars quit running on the
18th. The lease expired some time ago, |
but the company continued to run de- |
spite the city's protest.
The will of the late Baron Herschell, |
former British lord chancellor and |
member of the Anglo-American-Cana- |
dian commission, who died in Wash |
ington on March / last, was probated |
in London ON the 18th. The estate is |
valued at e153,000.
Columbia university will give the |
honorary degree of IL. ID. to Carl |
Schurz, on commencement day. Mr..
Schurz has already received this de-
gree from Harvard university and
from the University of Missouri.
Howard +. Sprague, an artist. whose
pictures of marine and naval life have
considerable attention, died
in New York city, on the
18th, of consumption, aged 80 years.