Iron County register., 1899-12-28

way from $3.50 down to 81. Ihe DulIG
ings must be removed at once.
A dispatch from Malta states tha
the steamer Cameo passed there, Oh
the Goth, and reported that she picked
up. on December Is, in latitude D.
north, longitude &c east, the crew Of
the Italian brig Lenuccia, Capt Muroa
from Rockland, Me-, for Palermo.
Advices received in Berlin, from
Apia, Samoa, on the Goth, said sligh,
disturbance had occurred at the vii
lage of LuatEanu, owing to depreda
tions upon the property of three chiefs
who were expelled for refusing to paS
the poll tax imposed by the consuls OF
the dreibund
The post office department has de.
cided on an issue of stamps commem.
orative of the Pan-American exhibition
at Buffalo, n. Y, next year. The
stamps will be of the same size as
those now issued and will be Of the
denominations of one, two, three, four.
five, eight, and ten cents.
The secretary of the treasury has
the appropriations relating to Alaska,
under the control of the treasury, are
so specific that they can not be ap-
piled for the relief of Alaskan natives
on Kodiak island, who are reported to
be in a destitute condition.
The National City bank of New York
city has been designated as the de-
pository of internal revenue receipts
through which the distribution OF
accept the offer of the treasury de-
partment and pledge United States
bonds to secure such moneys.
The yellow fever hospital, located or
an island across the bay from Santi-
ago de Cuba, was destroyed by an in
cendiary fire on the goth. During the
epidemic last summer many hundreds
of American soldiers and civilians were
treated there. Large quantities of hos
pital supplies, tents, cots and blankets
were destroyed.
The supreme court of Ohio, on the
22d, gave out the syllabus of its decI-
sion in the case of the State against
w. III. Halliday, auditor of Franklin
county, in which it held that tele-
phones of the Bell company should be
taxed at their rental value, which is
about one hundred per cent. above the
commercial value.
At the instance of the secretary Of
the navy. Senator Hale, on the 18th,
introduced a bill providing for the
classification of the vessels of the navy
into four classes, torpedo boats except
ed. The bill provides that vessels OF
more than 5000 tons displacement
shall be first class, and provides for a
graduation downward.
Statements were published in Lon
don, on the 10th, from Boer sources In
Brussels and Berlin, that President
Kruger was willing to conclude peace
on the basis of the status quo, but that
otherwise he would call upon the Beers
in Cape Colony to join in proclaiming
the independence of the Cape terri
tories of Great Britain.
Gov. Mount of Indiana said, ON The
21st: ''Of course the wishes of Mrs.
Lawton should be consulted, but it
would be most fitting and appropriate
that Gen. Lawton should be buried in
the National cemetery, near the seat
of the government he served to long.
1t would be a grand thing if all our
heroes could be buried there
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist.
whose fame was worldwide, died ar
his home in East Mortified, Mass, on
hn 70 1xyr @har lo%h = =
bedside, and the dying mans last mo-
ments were spent in comforting them.
His last joyous words were: Il see
earth receding; Heaven is opening,
God is calling me-" A moment later he
expired.
Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood formally
took charge of the governor generals
Office in Havana, at nine O'Clock ON the
morning of the 21st. His first act was
to accept the resignation of the MEM
bers of the advisory cabinet of Gen.
Brooke, who, almost without exeep-
tion, had rendered themselves particd-
larly obnoxious to ma jority OF the
Cubans.
The home of Luke Darst, of Cheshire.
o., was burned ut midnight ON the /
21st. Darst and eight children were
asleep in the second story The fathe!
rushed from the house and bade his
children to jump from the high win
dows into his arms. Seven of them i
were rescued in this manner, but Char
ence, a ten-year-old boy, was burned
10 death.
Within two hours after the publica- |
tion of the appeal of army officers for /
funds to left the mortgage on the late
Gen. Lawton's home, $500 was sub
scribed in Indianapolis, Ind, by seven
persons. Capt. w. E. English, who |
served with Gen. Lawton, in the Span |
ish-American war, headed the list with |
800. III. H. Hanna, who was at the |
head of the monetary commission, also |
subscribed 500.
NJ. Emile Zola said, on the 21st: |
A'The great mass of the FSench people |
are unacquainted with the more or less
complicated dispute which eliminated
In war in South Africa. In the eyes
of the unreas0ning mob powerful Ms
fion is assailing small, weak people.
The impulses OF the mob. although IT,
reasoning, are frequently generous
Herein iK the explanation of public |