Iron County register., 1899-03-23
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the treasury issued on the 18th showed:
Available cash balance, $277, ,SO9,S ,S71;
gold reserve, S241, ,371.347.
Count Won Beidenfeld, on trial in
Chicago on charge of killing Chas.
Mcdonald, was acquitted on the 18th.
Work is being continued on tie Pan
anna canal, and nearly half of the grea.
undertaking is reported completed.
The queen regent of Spain signed
the ratification of the peace treaty on
the 18th.
Chas. Baum, who formerly conduct
ed department store in Washington,
has filed a petition in voluntary bank
ruptcy. Liabilities, S125,34O; assets,
! 5000
! The transport Grant, whicn carried
Gen. Lawton and his command to Ma
Mia, will soon sail for San Francisco,
! She will bring home only sick and dis
charged men.
Baron Russell of Killowen. lard chief
| justice of England. has been appoin:-
ed 10 succeed the late Baron Herschell
on The Venezuelan arbitration commits
sion.
| ing the normal course.
On the 10th five men were killed ard
two wounded in street fight in Hot
| Springs, Ark. growing out of 4 parti-
san fued.
Admiral Kautz reported the arrival
at Apia, on the 10th, of the cruiser
Philadelphia. He made no mention of
political affairs.
Mrs. Place. the Brooklyn mTrderess,
was informed, on the 10th, by Warde!
Sage, of Sing Sing prison, that Gov
Roosevelt declined to exercise any
clemency in her case. and that she
must suffer the extreme penalty.
Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago
Tribune. died at San Antonio. Tex, on
the 10th, of heart disease, after an ill
ness of a week. His last words were:
What is the news?"
Nine negroes, under arrest at Pal
metto, Ga, charged with arson, were
shot by a mob of masked men on the
10th. Four of the negroes were KILLED
outright and the others badly wound
ed. Gov. Gambler has offered rewards
for the apprehension of members OF
the mob.
Benjamin Peters Hutchinson. "OId
Hutch,' of Chicago board of trad"
fame, died, OH the 10th, at the Lake
Geneva (Wis.) sanitarium. He had been
an invalid for several years, after Il
career that has rarely had an equal.
He was 20 years old.
A resolution was offered in the Penn
sylvania house, on the 10th, by Nc
Whitney, of Allegheny, and adopted
| requesting Gov. Stone to name Mon
dRy, May 1, 1899, as Dewey day" and
designate the same as a legal holiday.
In the distribution of the $4,000. 900
| by the United States officials no dis
| tinction is to be made between officers
and privates. Each Cuban who was
under arms before the protocol was
signed is to receive 500. The rolls
upon which the payments are made
must have the approval of Gen. Co
meZ.
The queen regent, on the night of
the 10th, signed the DEGREES dissolv-
ing the cortes, convoking the new
parliament and authorizing the pay
ment of arrears of pay to the repatri-
ated troops.
The crop of shamrocks this year in
Ireland was unusually large, and the
steamship Teutonic, which arrived Mt
New York, on the 10th, brought 35,OOC
boxes of shamrocks sent to friends
and relatives in this country
The Cuban Generals, Pedro Diaz,
Jesus Monteagugo, Luis Roban. Al
berto Nodarse, Francisco Peraza and
Pedro Betancourt, who had already de-
clared in favor of Gen. Gomez as
against the Cuban military assembly,
have agreed to disband their forces az
soon as the receive orders TO do Sc
FROM Cen Gomez.
The Royal clay works, at Midvale. O..
one of the largestindustries OF its Lind.
is to resume operations, after an idle.
ness of three years.
4 combination ofdecora ted glass aud
metal lamp manufacturers is in prog
ress of formation at Pittsburgh, Ia.
and. it is expected, will be in active
operation before the middle of April.
The pillow manufacturers of the Unit
ed States are forming a combine.
The American-Ha Steam Nav;-
CATION Co., with headquarters at New
York. has contracted with the Tn;on
iron works at San Francisco for tNec
of the largest freight steamers ever
built in the United States.
There is more gold IN the posses
sion of the United States treasury now
than at any time for many years. The
total gold held by the treasury three
years ago was 1927 ,OOO,O0O. The pres
ent total is more than S241.OO0,O 900.
Four companies of the Second volun-
teer engineers, now at Honolulu, have
been ordered to San Francisco to be
mustered out of service.
The battleship Iowa has been or
dered to the Union iron works ut SaE
Francisco TO have new tubes put in her
boilers and condensers.
The collier Brutus is at the Mare Isl
and navy yard being overhauled pre-
paratory to taking a cargo of coal to
Guam.
Mr.. Calvo, minister of Costa Rica,
declares that despite reports to the
contrary, his country at present is
tranquil.
Mrs. Killam, wife of Samuel KillaIn.
well-known farmer, residing five
miles north of Carlinville, Ill.,, gave
birth. on the nth, to triplets, three
girls, weighing five pounds each. che
little ones are all hearty and give
promise to live and thrive.
The Arizona Legislature abolished all
expenditures for the national guard.
The guard which consists of rsr wall