Iron County register., 1899-01-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
rne losses by nre IN the United
States during 1893 aggregated s1i3.-
139, ACT, as compared with $121 ,001 1877
in 1897.
Mrs. Botkin's lawyers do not pro-
pose to accept as final the verdict of
the jury finding her guilty of the MUIR
der of Mrs. Dunning, but will make an
effort to obtain a new trial and a pos
sible reversal of the judgment.
The mayors of several cities through
out the country issued requests to the
citizens to display the national flag on
the 1st, in honor of the formal evacua-
ment.
Statistics show that, during the year
just ended, the total number of fatal
casualties in this country was 7,345, as
follows: Explosives, 629; mines, $50;
falling buildings, ETC., 500; tornadoes
and storms, 502; lightning, 255.
notwithstanding the war between
the United States and Spain, the loss
of life upon the field of battle during
1898 has been smaller than for several
years. The total is estimated at 65,-
600, as compared with 1O3, ,451 in 1897.
The loss of life by railroad accidents
during 1898 was $3.50, as compared
with 2,764 in 1897. The number of per-
sons seriously injured was 2,616, as
compared with 2,42s in 1897.
The total number of suicides report
ed throughout the United States in
1898 was $500, as compared with $500
in 1897. Of this number 1856 were
males and 1854 females.
During the year just closed there
were 7,S40 murders reported in the
United States against $3.50 in 1897, a
gratifying decrease.
The torpedo boat Farragut has been
formally turned over to the govern
ment by the builders, at San Francis
CO. The trial board, after a thorough
inspection, expressed themselves as
thoroughly satisfied with the craft.
Orders have been issued by the navy
department for the discharge of a
large number of men who enlisted for
one year from ships undergoing re-
pairs at the various navy yards.
At the landing of Lord and Lady
Curzon at Bombay the Stars and
Stripes wer conspicuous among the
decorations of the city in honor of the
nationality of the new vicereine.
Work on the battleship Ohio has
been begun at the Union iron works,
San Francisco. The Ohio will be the
largest ship ever built ON the Pacific
coast.
Daniel Ia Forte, known by his Indian
name as Te-Hes-La, president of the
Six Nations, and a principal in the
case of Onondaga, Indians against
John Boyd Thacher, in the supreme
court of New York, for the recovery
of wampum, died, on the 1st, at his
farmhouse on the reservation. He was
Sc years old, and is survived by a wild
ow and grandson, which latter will
succeed him as chief of the Six Ma
tions.
John c. Chase, elected on a socialis-
tic platform, took the oath of Office as
mayor of Haverhill, Mass, on the I'd.
In his inaugural speech Mr.. Chase as
sured the members of the city gov
ernment and the people that every
atom of power" possessed by the
mayor would be exercised in the de-
fense and support of the principles
of socialism, insofar as they may be
applicable to a municipality"
Thomas Townshend Buckhill, queens
counsel and member of parliament in
the conservative interest for Mid-Sur-
rey (Epson), has been raised to the
bench of the high court of judicature
in succession to Justice Henry Haw-
kins, who recently retired from the
exchequer division and was raised to
the peerage on the 1st.
President and Mrs. Mckinley re-
ceived the seasons greeting, on the I'd,
from the great throng of callers, repre-
senting every branch of public life,
who attended the White House recep-
ton. 1t was the first time since the
present administration began that cir
cumstances permitted the observance
of this custom.
Gen. Horace Porter, the United
States ambassador to France, and
John K Gowdy, United States consul
general there, held the usual New
/
Year receptions, on the I'd, at the
United States embassy and consulate
in Paris. These were largely attended
by distinguished Parisians and Ameri-
cans.
Ex-Gov. James E. Campbell, of Ohio,
who had been confined to his room in
9 hotel in New York city for several
days from illness, was reported to be
much improved on the I'd. His physi-
clan said he believed the ex-governor
tr be out of danger.
The body of the late United States
Senator Morrill, arrived at Montpelier,
VT, on the I'd, from Washington. On
the train which bore the body was
also the body of the senator's wife,
who died at the capital several months
ago.