Iron County register., 1899-05-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| story regarding the new gold dis
coveries at Point Nome, Alaska, which
| its advices declare exceed in richness
those of the Klondike.
An eastern syndicate is said to have
| secured control of the Wisconsin Tele-
| phone CO., which operates nearly all
the lines in that state.
Ii is estimated that n quarter of a
| million persons viewed the gunboat
Nashville, on the 11th, from the Mis-
souri, and Illinois shores, from the
| great Eads' bridge and from skiffs and
other water craft. About $4,000 per-
sons visited and inspected the vessel
complete denial was given at the
treasury and interior departments, on
the 18th, to the sensational story of a
| deep-laid counterfeiting scheme that
had been unearthed in the photographs
ic room of the patent Office. The story
| was declared to be fake.
In a great fire, on the 18th, in the
! town of Gura Humora, province of
| Bukowina, Austria, 200 buildings, in
| eluding the principal church, the town
hall and other public offices and all the
| school houses, We're destroyed.
The commissioner of internal. reve-
| nue has held that conveyances from a
husband to a third party and from the
| third party to the wife of the original
! grantor, to operate as a gift to the
| wife, are each taxable.
| In the 100 hours cycling contest at
| RoubaiX, France, ended on the 18th,
| Charles ". Miller, of Chicago. won first
/ prize. He covered 2,25S kilometers.
! Joseph Harvey, of Howard City,
| Mich, 80 years old, killed his wife,
! his infant child, his father-in-Iaw, his
uncle and his grandmother, and, as a
! fitting consequence to this succession
| of murders, tried to commit suicide,
! but did not wound himself seriously.
| y dispatch from London, on the 18th,
| states that Tom Nickalls, father of the
| famous scu1lers Guy and Vivian Nick
| alls, also known as king of the
! American Railroad Market" died at
Pattison Court, Red Hill, aged ~.
Assistant Attorney General Boyd, at
! Washington, has rendered, at the re-
quest of the secretary of the treasury,
a decision which has been approved
by the attorney general, in which he
holds that transactions known among
stock brokers as puts are not taxa
bic under the war revenue act, al
though calls" are subject to the tax.
Admiral Dewey has sent, and the
National museum, at Washington. has
received, two cannon which he cap
tured from the Spaniards at Cavite
near Manila. In one of them two
shells and a grape shot were found.
There was small panic at the mu-
scum when the discovery was made.
The heads of the religious orders in
the Philippines, according TO dispatch
from Rome to the Daily Mail, have
presented a petition to the pope, in
which they protest against the Ameri-
can atrocities.
The war department will not send
any troops to Manila by way of New
York and the Suez canal. All troops
now under order for Manila, or to be
ordered there during the next few
months, will be sent by the way of
San Francisco.
The Protestant church of ST. John,
at Ballinasloe, near Dublin, has been
destroyed by fire. The edifice contain
ed valuable memorials of Clancarty
and other old and distinguished Gal
way families. The loss is e 10000.
- French warship arrived at Tan
giers, on the 11th, for the purpose of
enforcing the demand that the kadi of
Robal be punished for insulting the
French military mission.
\ construction train on the Pitts
burgh & Western railroad, near Wam-
pun, Pa, crashed through the trestle
at Spanglers Run, landing so feet be-
low. Two men were killed and six in
iured. The trestle was temporary
structure.
\. Rowie, a passenger from Califor-
MIA on the eastbound Union Pacific
overland train. suddenly jumped
through the coach window while the
train was near Chappelle, Neb., on the
11th. 1t is supposed that he suddenly
became insane.
Private dispatches received in Lon
don say that the forces of Generals
forced, on the 18th, by fresh troops
from Manila, and fighting had been re-
sumed.
Tod Sloan, the American jockey, was
presented to the prince of Wales by
Lord William Beresford, at Newman
ket, on the 18th. He was not bit
fiustered at the honor.
Four men were instantly killed by
the slide of a portion of large culm
bank at Centralia, Pa, on the 18th.
Several were badly injured.
The Empire Steel and Iron Co., of
Cincinnati, which has recently secured
a number of plants in the middle
states, bought the Victoria furnace at
Goshen, Va, on the 18th. and all of
what are known as the Potts Valley
coal properties, including over 1000
acres of coal land.
Former Gov. Roswell p. Flower, of |
New York, died, on the night of the |
18th, at the Eastport Country club, at |
Eastport, Long Island. Mr.. Flower |
was taken ill early in the day with |
severe attack of acute indigestion. In |
the afternoon symptoms of heart fail |
ure supervened, and he grew steadily |
worse until the time of his death.
a movement is on foot in London for |
the suppression of Sunday newspa-
pers.
John E. Zebley, of New York. in |
vestment broker, has filed a petition |
in bankruptcy. The total liabilities |
are S717 $50, of which there are NOM |
inally secured 1901, 1928; unsecured, |
S1s1, 1,641; assets, none. Mr.. Zebley has |
been in business since 1876. He was |
formerly president of the Consolidated |
Electric Co., of st. John, and the Lew
is-Meyer Construction Co.