Iron County register., 1899-08-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Frank Mcconnell in their fight at San
| Francisco, on the night of the 10th
died, on the 18th, without having re-
| gained consciousness.
| The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 18th showed:
Available cash balance, $273, ASS, ,635;
| sod reserve, $246,22 ,3O4.
The national encampment of the
| Spanish-American war veterans will be
held in Washington city September 8
ard 9.
Kansas farmers are contracting the
sale of their corn crop at Is cents per
bushel in the field. In Brown and
Marshall counties number of farmers
have agreed to deliver large consign-
| ments of corn on January 1, at %
cents a bushel
Frank Bangs was instantly killed by
| falling into a corn-sheller at an ele-
vator in Beatrice, Neb., on the 18th.
A wagon load of corn had just been
driven in, and the trap was opened to
receive the grain. Bangs fell through
the trap into the shelter, and was
caught by the sharp steel prongs or
grapples and torn to pieces.
The wedding of Miss Julia Dent
Grant. daughter of Gen. F. D. Grant,
to Prince Michael Cantacuzene will
take place at Newport, r. l., Septem-
Der 25. Bishop Henry c. Potter will Of
ficiate. The ceremony will be held at
the All Saints church. Mrs. Potter
Palmer will give her niece dot of
S5OO,O0O.
The gunboat Democracia left Quay
mas, Mexico, recently, and a rumor
was started that she went to intercept
a vessel from San Francisco carrying
| gatling guns, rifles and ammunition to
| the Yaquis. She did not return, but
| it was rumored that she had captured
the filibuster.
Ex-Judge Richard Prendergast, one
of Chicago's most prominent lawyers,
died, OH the 18th, of anaemia- An OPP
Grafton of TRANSMISSION of blood from
John Morrissey-a young man whom
| the attorney had helped to success
! full career-was performed, which af-
forded temporary relief, but re-
lapse came and death followed.
Adjt.-Gen. Corbin has been highly
pleased to discover that the soldiers
| offering themselves for the volunteer
regiments have, in large numbers, had
experience in Cuba and elsewhere. The
| per cent. runs from about 90 to 90.
according to locality, making an av-
erage of about 40 per cent. that may
| be called veterans.
| One of the ten new regiments of vol
linteers to be organized under the or
| der issued on the nth, will be as
sembled at jefferson Barracks, ST.
Louis. 1t will be the Forty-siNth, and
will be commanded by Col. w. S.
| Schuyler, formerly captain in the
| Fifth cavalry.
| Eight hundred insurgents attacked
| Angeles, Luzon, on the 18th, but the
Tv elfth regiment drove them into the
mountains. Three ditched locomotives
were captured. None of the American
troops was injured. The insurgent
loss is not known.
The insurgent faction in the state of
| los Andes. Venezuela, under Ger
| Citriano Castro, was completely de-
| feated by the government troops in Il
| bloody battle which lasted IS hours
The loss of the insurgents is placed at
| 600 killed and wounded, and that of
| the government at 800.
| Twenty cases of the curious eontag-
| ious cutaneous disease, which is rapid
| ly spreading about Downs, Ill, have
been discovered in Bloomington. 1t is
| less severe than in the country.
Bloc mington doctors diagnose the city
cases as impetigo contagiosa-
The American line steamer St Louis,
which sailed from Southampton, on
! the 18th, for New York, has among her
! passengers Rear-Admiral A. S Crown
| inshield, chief of the bureau of naviga-
| ton of the United States navy depart
ment, and Prince Hatfield.
The inquiry into the killing of Capt.
| Pollock at the soldiers home at Mil
woukee, by David Anderson, promises
to develop into general inquiry as to
| the treatment of the inmates of the
home by the officers in charge.
| The lord mayor of Dublin has issued
an appeal to Irishmen throughout the
world to subscribe to fund for a
memorial to the late Charles Stewart
Parnell, the foundation-stone of which
will be laid in October next.
Assistant Secretary Taylor has Sc
lected the property at the corner of
Minnesota avenue and Seventh street,
as site for the public building at
Kansas City, Kas. Compensation, S20,-
900.
The legislative council of Western
Australia, on the 18th, passed a bin
enfranchising women.
BY an explosion, on the 18th, in the
Llest colliery, in Glamorganshire,
Wales, 25 persons were killed and
many others were injured. The ex-
plosion occurred during the night
shift, when there were only so men in
the mine.
viewed the newly organized Twenty
sixth infantry, commanded by Col.
Rice, at the Plattsburg IN. W bar
| racks, on the 18th. Mrs. Mckinley
presented handsome silk flag to the
regiment, which is expected to leave
Tor Manila shortly.
The Phoenix Bridge Co., of Phoenix
vile, Pa, has received the contract to
build the great Kagashina viaduct in
Japan. The viaduct is to be of steel, of
five spans, and about 1000 feet in
length and 100 feet high. Several
leading European concerns were in the
competition for the contract.
Crump Arbogast was shot and killed
and Robert Reidy was shot through
the body by Sheriff Stephenson and
deputies at Ell, Dorado, Clay county, w.
Va. The men had been 'robbing and
burning stores, and committing