Iron County register., 1899-12-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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be closed Saturday the 23d.
Gen. Otis cables that Lieut.. Batson,
who organized and commanded the
Macabebe scouts has been seriously
wounded in the foot, and that amputa-
ton will probably be necessary. Lieut..
Batson is recommended for a maiorate
in one of the staff corps as a reward
for efficient service.
Winston Churchill, the British news
paper correspondent and former Off
Ger of the Fourth hussars, who was
captured at the time Of the armored
train disaster near Estcourt, Natal, No
vember 16, has escaped from Pretoria.
The society of Hamburg Germany
fruit-dealers has adopted a resolution
declaring emphatically that America n
fruit is indispensable there, and pro-
testing enegetically against a duty.
Without dopbt the Hamburg chamber
of commerce is of the same opinion,
and will take similar course. I'M
ports of American apples are said to
be increasing.
The Western Pennsylvania institute
for the deaf and dumb, situated at
Edgewood, was completely destroyed
by fire on the evening of the 18th. The
500 pupils in the building were panic
stricken, but the teachers quickly Sc
cured control of them, and it is bc
lieved all were saved. Loss, $150,OOO;
insurance, 100000.
Mrs Nettie F. Craven, who claims to
be the widow of the late ex-senator
James G. Fair, of California, won
partial victory in Judge Troutt's court.
on the 18th, when the court decided
that she might prosecute her claims
for a family allowance of $4,000 a
month. Mrs. Craven will now be per-
mitted to prove, is she can do 90, her
the deceased senator.
Senator Foster, of Washington, OH
the 18th, introduced bill extending
the bounty provision of the homestead
law to soldiers who served in the war
with Spain and who have served or ale
serving now in the Philippines.
DIR. F. C. Rainier, a physician of Fort
Scott, Kas., was accidentally shot and
killed, on the 18th, while hunting with
a party of friends, near that city. The
trigger of his gun caught on posi-
and his head was blown off. DIX.
Rainier was a graduate of the Sterling
medical college of Columbus, o.
Another serious reverse overlook the
British arms in South Africa, on the
18th, when the forces under Gen. Bull
ler, moving to the relief of Ladysmith,
were repulsed at the Tugela river
with the loss of ten guns captured and
one destroyed and a long list of casual
ties. Gen. Butler withdrew his forces
in time to prevent a crushing defeat,
The delay that this repulse involves
seriously endangers the beleaguered
city to whose relief they were going.
1t has been suspected that large
quantities of military stores were ip
the possession of Cubans at some point
in the interior. On the 18th the mayor
of Tunis, a small town in the district
of Holguin, voluntarily disclosed the
location and surrendered three effec
tive field guns, 10000 rifles and a la1gs
amount of ammunition to the Amerj.
cans.
Representative Elliott, of South Car
oh tic 1Olhs d DIIr 1ot
the building of a new cruiser to BE-
named the Charleston, to take the
place of the cruiser of that name -e.
GENTLY lost in the Philippines.
Gen. Otis has in custody many trs-
poT-tant persons who We're connected
with the so-called Filipino govern
mert, but no decision as to their fu-
ture disposition has been reached by
The president.
Our officers in the Philippines have
received instructions to deal sternl,
with disbanded Filipinos who have
taken to the brush and are acting a.
Eanditti.
Matthew Williams, & well-known
politician In Oklahoma, who was elect
ed, and has been serving as prosecut-
ing attorney for Pawnee county since
January 1, 1899, dropped dead while
making a speech in a law case to q
jury, at Perry, On the 18th.
The immediate effect of Buffers de-
feat, it is said, will be the mobilization
OF England's whole naval and military
power All the reserves will be sum
moned to their quarters. The entire
will be called into service. |
Every ship in the navy viii be COM |
missiOned as warning to European |
powers to keep their hands of.