Iron County register., 1899-03-16
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

near Toulon, France, on the 7th, are
of foreign manufacture.
The Canadian government has decid-
ed to construct a telegraph line to the
Klondike territory. The plan is to
Dawson City.
The American flag has been raised
over the island of Cebu.
Promoters of the rolling mill COM
bine, into which it is proposed to take
81 plants west of Pittsburgh, Pa, were
in Cleveland, o., on the 10th, negotiat-
ing with the owners of the Union roll
ing mills. 1t is believed the mills will
be taken into the combine.
In the will of John Quincy Adams,
which was filed for probate in Chicago,
on the 10th, the sum of S15O,OOO is be-
queathed to educational and religious
institutions.
Senior Munoz Rivera, who was recent
ly relieved of his office as Porto Rican
secretary of state, will soon leave Por-
to Rico for the United States, by way
of Cuba.
Despite repeated rumors to the con-
lliC wal hO
tention of taking official action in the
case of the Tenth colored immunes
and other regiments that have been
making trouble in transit through the
south, since their discharge.
So far as the officials of the navy de-
partment are informed, Admiral
Dewey is in excellent health and de-
sires to continue in his present COM
mand. But there are rumors that he is
breaking down.
On the same scaffold, but back to
back and with heavy black curtain
between them, Cordelia Niau, or Poir-
ier, and Samuel Parsiow were hanged
in the Jail at st. ScholastiGue, Quebec,
on the 10th, for the murder of Isidore
Poirier, the woman's husband.
4 Manila dispatch says that Gen.
Rios, the Spanish commander, has
been ordered to take command of the
Caroline, Marianne and Pelfew islands
before handing them over to Germany,
which apparently has purchased these
groups.
Admiral Dewey will Immediately set
the whole fleet in action, patrolling
the coast of Luzon and supporting the
forces which are to be sent to take all
the islands. Admiral Dewey and Gen.
Otis will hoist the flag everywhere in
the Philippines for it's moral effect.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th
says that Inspector-GeneraI Breckin-
ridges report will show that fully
100000 pounds of canned beef was
reshipped from Europe for use by the
United States army during the war
with Spain. Of the total 10000 pounds
was shipped to France in the spring of
1898 and was rejected by the French
government.
The United States transport Grant,
which sailed from New York January
10, having on board Maj j.-Gen. Lawton,
the Fourth infantry and a battalion
of the Seventeenth infantry, arrived
at Manila on the 9th.
The beef" court of inquiry trans
ferred its field of operations to Chi
cago, on the 9th, and began the inspec-
ton of the packing houses, which
they found all swept and garnished,"
in anticipation of their visit, as was
to have been expected.
While the transport Sheridan was
coaling at Naletta, Malta, on the 9th,
by permission of the governor, Gen.
Fremantle, the American troops, 1000
strong, were landed, and the governor,
his staff and numerous other officers.
military and naval, reviewed them as
they marched past on the Florian
parade ground. The Americans Great
ed a splendid impression.
A Paris dispatch of the 9th says:
''The fireworks of the Dreyfus affair
are only just commencing. One thing
is certain, it is all up with Gen. de
Boisdeffre. He and Gen. Roget are re-
sponsible for Col. Henry's forgery and
death. All the excitement, however,
will end in smoke and the pardon of
Dreyfus."
Admiral Dewey has been instructed
to prescribe his own uniform for the
exalted rank to which he has been ap-
pointed.
The Brazilian government has ac-
cepted the proposal of Great Britain
to submit the Guiana boundary dis
pute to arbitration.
a Washington dispatch says: The
statement can be repeated on the au-
thority of the detail office of the navy
department that Admiral Dewey will
not be relieved at Manila until he
chooses to make application for such
relief. So far he has not given any
intimation of a purpose to apply for
relief in the immediate future.
Smallpox has been widely prevalent
at the national capital of late, and the
health authorities are bending every
effort to check what has threatened
to assume the aspect of an epidemic.
There were 35 cases of the disease in
the smallpox hospital on the 10th,
with an aggregate of So so far re-
ported.
President Mckinley is being urged
to visit Chattanooga on his return
from Townsville, Ga, where he is
soon to be the guest of Senator Hanna.
His return will be about the tirue of
the dedication of the monuments of
Kentucky, GeoIg and Illinois at
and the Chattanooga
spring festival.
In the Lake county Qll-) circuit
court, at Waukegan, on the 10th, Carl
Pehlke, who. on August II, stabbed
to death Rev. Samuel BreakweIl on
guilty to murder and was sentenced
The streets of Highwood, pleadef7
% prison for Life by Judge Carver.