Iron County register., 1899-05-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch f-cm Manila, en- the 7th,
| said: ITO clear the Filipinos out of
| Bacolor, about five miles southwest OF
| San Fernando, will be the next task OF
the Americans. The rebel general Mas
cardp has q force of 5000 men there,
well-armed and possessed of plenty OF
ammunition. His troops have never
met American soldiers, and they think,
| according to reports carried to San
Fernando, that they whip the whole
lot"
| BY direction of the president, who
approves the findings, Acting Secretary
OF War Meiklejohn made public, on the
7t;l, the report and findings of the mil
! itary court appointed to investigate
the charges made by Maj.-Gen. Miles,
| commanding the army, that the beef
supplied to the army during the war
with Spain was unfit for the use of the
troops. Both Gen. Miles and Gen. Ea-
gan were censured.
The French minister to Pekin, M.
Tichon, has demanded mining conces-
sions to the value of 100000 taels in
! the province of Szechuan, one of the
| largest in China, and traversed by the
4angs-Tse-Kiang, \ as indemnity for the
recent imprisonment of a French mis-
sionary. The demand is considered eX-
| horbitant.
The United States cruiser Buffalo
arrived at New York, on the 9Th, from
Manila, after q very quick run of IL
days, which included stops at Singa-
pore, Port Said and Gibraltar. The
Buffalo brought about 500 officers and
men of Admiral Dewey's squadron,
mostly long-term men whose time had
run out.
By the capsizing of a boat off Belvi-
Gere point, Cal, on the 18th, Frank j..
Grimm and Herbert G. Edwards were
drowned DR.. Allen and II. o. Hay
defelt, who were also in the boat at the
time of the accident, were saved.
Ezra F. Merrill, aged "a, proprietor
of the chutnes and toboggan slides at
Coney Island and n reputed million
aire died, on the 7th, from the effects
cf an accident he met with a few days
before, on one of the slides.
The United States transport McClel-
Ian. Capt. Nerickly, arrived at New
York, on the 18th, from San Juan,
Ponce and Santiago, with II cabin pas
sengers and 1O2 discharged soldiers on
board.
Rudyard Kipling has been offered
and has agreed to accept the degree of
IL. d. from Magill university at Nom
treal, Can.
Formal orders were issued by Secre.
tary Long, on the Sth, directing Rear
Admiral John c. Watson to proceed to
Manila to relieve Admiral Dewey as
commander-in-chief of the Asiatic
station, who will return home, at his
own request, as soon as the work of
the Filipino commission, of which he
is member, is completed.
Brig.-Gen. George w. Davis, appoint
ed to succeed Maj.-Gen. Guy V. Henry
az military governor of Porto Rico, ar
rived at San Juan, on the Sth, on board
the United States transport McPher-
son. He was welcomed by the insular
secretaries and officials of Porto Rico
aid San JuaI.-
Another meeting of citizens opposed
to the continuation of war in the Phil
ippines is to be held in Chicago before
tie end of the month. Invitations to
attend are to be issued to all governors
anG senator's who have gone on record
as being opposed to the fighting in the
Pacific islands.
The Northwestern Plow Manufac-
turers' association met at the Great
Northern hotel, in Chicago, on the sth.
1t was unanimously voted that the ad-
vaEce in price of raw material is so
great that Is per cent. should be added
to- the selling price of manufactured
goods.
r. F. Whalen, one of the largest
paint manufacturers in the country,
states that the meeting soon to be held
in Chicago is for the purpose of rails
ing the price of paint all over the
country. He also stated that COM
bine might result from the meeting.
In personal communication recent
Il received by prominent official of
the administration from Gen. Leonard
Wood the latter makes this gratifying
statement concerning Santiago: The
city continues extremely healthy"
The Iowa state board of control an
nounced, on the sth, they would ask
the legislature at its January session
for an appropriation to establish
binding twine factory In the state
prison.
Maj. L. Overman, United States
army, retired, was instantly killed, on
the sth, by falling from a staging on
which he was at work at his summer
home in Nantucket Mass
The Yukon Sun estimates the total
output of gold for the Klondike region
for the winter of 1s9s-99 at $40, ,O00, 900.
Vice-President Hobart spent COM
Portable day, on the Stb, and was re-
ported to be improving slowly.