Iron County register., 1900-05-10
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The senate was not in session on
the 5th. =. In the house the sundry
civil bill, carrying SCI, 100000, about
ten million dollars more than any
previous sundry civil bill, was passed.
| This leaves the general deficiency and
military academy bills the only supply
bills unacted upon by the house.
a fire that started at the river end
| OF the Mallory line steamship pier at
! the foot of Maiden lane and the East
river, New York city, on the 7th, COM
| pletely destroyed the pier and it's val
uaEle contents. The police place the
| loss at $1,000,000. Several barges
| which were moored near the pier were
also destroyed, and many rescues of
! their captains and of the members of
| their families on board were made.
Rev. Jose III. Herts, who was rabbi
| of the Witwatersrand Hebrew congre-
CATION of Johannesburg until last De-
| cember, when he was expelled from
the Transvaal by President Kruger, ar<
| rived in New York on the steamer
Etruria on the 5th. He pronounces the
so-called republic of the Transvaal an
oligarchy, misgoverned on strictly
medieval principles.
Gen. Pantelon Garcia, the highest in
surgent officer in the Philippines, ex-
cept Aguinaldo, was captured, on the
9th, by Lieut.. f. V. Smith, of Gen.
Funston's staff, in the town of Jaen,
three miles northeast of San Isidro.
Province of New Ecuji. He had long
eluded pursuit.
The United States revenue cutter
Bear sailed from Seattle, Wash, for
Alaska, on the 9th, loaded with sup
plies, which will be given to the Point
Barrow Indians as a reward for their
services in aiding the Bear expedition
during the efforts last year to rescue
the WhalerS.
r. Kondo, president of the Nippon
Yusen Kaisha, one of the leading
steamship companies of Japan, has
come to this country to make a study
of the methods of transportation by
rail and water lines. He will visit Pa
citic coast centers and then go east to
New York.
A serious railway collision took
place, on the evening of the 9th, on
the Western railway, between Serves
and Chaville, France. Thirty-eight
persons were injured, three of them
seriously.
Madame Sarah Bernhardt and NJ.
Coquelin, it is announced, will make
tour of the United States to last six
months
In the senate, on the 7th, Mr.. Teller
(Col), in speech, urged an
expression of sympathy with the Beers
in their contest with Great Britain.
The naval appropriation occupied the
remainder of the session without be-
ing completed, notice being given that
the armor plate provision would be
considered in secret session on account
to the senate's attention. . In the
house, its being suspension day, quite
a number of bills were passed, the
most important being senate bill
amending the general pension laws
in accordance with recommendations |
Ct the G. A. r. Mr.. Sulzer On. W
attempted to secure action on his reso-
luton expressing sympathy with the |
Ioers, but was cut off by the speaker. |
The final report of the executors of |
the estate of the late Geo. NJ. Pullman, |
1T is expected, will show that the es- |
tate, which amounted to something |
over $S,00O,OOO when the will was filed,
las grown to ST. ,0OO. 900 under the ad- |
ministration of Robt. T. Lincoln and
Norman B. Ream, the executors. The
Il
handling the estate will be more than
half u million dollars.
y three-story brick building at 1902
Grand avenue, in the business center
Of Kansas City, Mo-, occupied on the
ground floor. by Jacob Goodman as
secondhand store, and above by Mrs.
Mary Sohn as a rooming house, col
lapSed at 4:20, on the afternoon of the
9TH, burying seven persons in the
ruins. 1t is believed none of the in
jurcd will die.
Herbert w. Bowen, United States
and consul general at Teher-
an, Persia, has had conferred upon
HIM by the shah of Persia the decora-
ton of THE Grand Gordon of the Lion
and the Sun" The decoration is one
Of first class, and came as a surprise
to Mr. Bowen. Before he can accept
it permission must be granted by con-
gres<.
The Pensinsular Sugar Refining Co.,
of Michigan, has brought suit in the
United States circuit court for New
York, against James Speyer, Ferdi-
nand, Herman and Martin Eydmann,
bankers of New York city, to recover
100000 on bond, which, it is claimed,
was forfeited.
The Mansion house Ottawa fire re-
lie: fund, on the 9TH, amounted to
6 80 900, including s 100 contributed
BY Sir Henry Irving.