Iron County register., 1899-11-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

An explosion occurred, on the 18th,
in the glazing house of the California
powder mill at Santa Cruz, Cal. Four
cylinders, containing $4,000 pounds of
powder, exploded, wrecking the mill,
blowing down miles of fencing, de-
stroying the saltpctre warehouse.
breaking panes of glass in Superin-
tendent Peyton's residence, some dis
tance away, and extinguishing the
electric lights in Santa Cruz. Patrick
Hughes, night watchman, was killed.
Capt. w. r. Abercrombie, United
States builder of the military road
from Port Valdes to the interior of the
Copper River country, in Alaska, has
completed highway for a distance of
IS miles from the coast which is easi.
ly navigable for men and horses and
much of the distance is a wogan road.
The government, Capt. Abercrombie
says, can complete the road to the
Yukon next season.
y worlds championship meet of
aquatic sports is to be held at Van
couver, B. c., next year. 1t is pro-
posed to have rowing and sailing
tournaments continuing throughout
three days. 4 local committee having
the matter in charge is in communi-
cation with leading oarsmen, and Jake
Gaudaur, the present champion, has
already been secured as one of the at
fractions.
Gen. ParedeZ, former commander
in the army of ex-President Andrade
of Venezuela, who had refused the de-
mand made upon him by Gen. Cipriano
Castro and the de facto authorities to
surrender the town of Puerto Cabello,
even when this was reinforced by the
request of the British, American, Ger
man, French and Dutch consuls, sur
rendered, on the 18th, after a terrible
battle.
The attempt Of Russia to secure a
loan in Germany has almost certain
ly failed. German financiers discour-
aged the proposed loan, as they had
been reliably informed that the Trans
siberian railroad is likely to prove
far more expensive than is generally
surmised. Moreover, Russian finan-
cial crash is expected soon.
The Allan line steamer Sardinia,
from Montreal and Quebec, with the
Canadian contingent for South Africa,
arrived at the Verde islands on the
18th,
The Tennessee volunteers landed at
San Francisco, on the 18th, and went
into camp at the Presidio preparatory
to being mustered out.
The United States supreme court,
on the 18th, advanced the hearing of
the case on its docket involving q con-
tiict between the Choctaw and Chicka-
saw Indians, on the one side, and the
Nichitas on the other, over the pos
session of large tracts of land in In
dian territory. The case was set for
the first Monday in March.
a magazine used by the Bradford!
nitroglycerine company to store the
product of their factory, located two
and a half miles east of Gibsonburg,
o., exploded on the 18th. The shoc;;
was felt at towns within a radius of
40 miles, and the effect of the expio-
sion in the immediate neighborhocd
was terrific.
Superintendent of Public Works
Partridge stated, on the 18th, that the
canals of New York state will be closed
on Friday, December 1, except the
Black River canal, which will close
November "a, unless the weather is so
severe as to cause suspension of nav
igation before the date set. The sea-
son has been prosperous one.
The construction board of the navy
department, at its meeting in Wash
ington, on the 18th, took up the sub
ject of new construction in the navy
for the coming year. This was at the
request of the secretary, and will forul
the basis of his recommendations to-
congress for new vessels during the
coming sessions.
The replies of the European nations
interested in China to the request OF
the state department for a formal un-
dertaking to preserve the "open door,
in the east are not expected for several
weeks, inasmuch as the exchanges arc
not taking place in Washington, but
at the various European capitals.
A charter was obtained in Charles
ton, W. Va, on the 18th, by the Ma
tional Tinplate Co. of Wheeling, au-
thorized capital, S5,OO0,000 The pur-
pose of the company is mining, smelt-
ing and working iron and other ores
and conducting general mining ard
manufacturing business.
President Mckinley has promised to
make an address at Mount Vernon on
December IA, when the Masonic OBJ
servance of the one hundredth ami
versary of Washington's death viii &C.
cur.
A pension of SIS per month was
granted, on the 18th, by Commission
rr Evans to Adelaide w. Bagley, moth
er of Lieut.. Worth Bagley, who was
killed in the war with Spain.