Iron County register., 1900-06-14
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The British high commissioner at
Cape Town, Sir Alfred Miner, tele-
graphed United States Consul Hay. at
Pretoria. on the 10th, thanking him for
his services in connection with the
British prisoners at Waterfall. A
widespread feeling of gratitude exists
for the good work done by Mr.. Hay,
and also byUnited States Consul Gen
eral Stowe at Cape Town.
Nineteen violent dealth were re-
ported in and about New York on the
10th. The most peculiar was that of
William Snyder, aged 1, a bicyclist,
who was killed while racing with a
trolley car in the borough of the Bronx.
He kept up with the car for half a
mile, then plunged headlong from his
wheel, and was picked up dead.
NJ. Pozzi, the French senator and
well-known Paris editor. was wounded.
On the 10th, in the wrist in a duel with
swords with DIR. De Villers, who is an
intimate friend of Paul Deroulede, for
whose Punishment NJ. Pozzi voted at
the trial before the high court.
A terrific wind storm passed over
central Illinois on the 10th. In Spring
field numerous shade trees were de-
stroyed, and reports from neighboring
cities within a radius of 40 miles show
great damage to fruit trees.
Mrs. Gilbert, wife of the late NJ. n.
Gilbert, Episcopal bishop coadjutor for
Minnesota, died in st. Paul on the 10th.
Mrs. Gilbert had been in feeble health
since the death of her husband several
weeks ago.
BY gas explosion at the Ellsworth
mines at Ellsworth, Pa, IL miles west
of Monongahela, on the 10th
Thomas ForsyJhe and William Rodgers
were killed and three others were
wounded.
Four persons were killed and about
twenty-five injured, of whom three are
probably fatally hurt, in a collision at
aWrwick, r. l., on the suburban line
of the Union Railroad Co. on the 10th.
The dedication of the new Catholic
church at the West Point IN. " mill
tary reservation, over which there had
been much controversy during the
BSSb ILL &C % lOOh RidSC OA CAAS
10th.
The United States training ship Buf-
falo, Commander Clarke T. Hutchens,
left London, on the 10th, and proceed
ed for Southampton.
A new airship, invented by Herr
Weiss smann, mechanic, has been tried
at Berlin. 1t ascended 20 meters and
flew IS, landing safely.
Five hundred inmates of the peni-
entiary in San Juan Porto Rico. mutt
Ned. on the 11th, refusing ~ TAX.
breakfast or to work. They asserted
that the food was not fit to eat, and
the leader struck the warden in the
face. They were suppressed by the
iail authorities, reinforced by mill
Lary guard.
The amount of bonds received at the
treasury office, up tc the 18th, for ex-
change for new two-per-cent. bonds
was 1898, ,5sO,95O, Of which $68,946,5 500
were received from individuals and in
stitutions other than national banks.
Unofficial word comes from London
that Mr.. Reginald Tower, secretary of
the British embassy in Washington,
will shortly become first secretary OF
the British legation at Pekin, which
is just now an important center.
The emperor of China, held prison
er by the dowager empress, has,
TO the powers to rescue him, and let
him run the empire under the joint
protectorate of all the nations.
The Cook prize in poetry, founded
by Prof. Albert S. Cook, of the English
of Yale university, was
awarded to Charles A. Kellogg, Jr.,
1900, of Carthage, No., for his poem
THE Mothers Sleep
After a years suspension, the ar
between the United States
and Portugal establishing reciprocity
on certain articles specified in section
three of the Dingley act, went into eff
feet on the 18th.
Senator Platt, of New York said, in
an interview on the 11th: IF | live |
will serve out my term as senator. But
after 1908 L shall retire from public
life and from active participation in
politics"
Reports from the Un-Nan-Fu dis
trict, China, say that the French min
lister has telegraphed that crisis is
imminent and that he is advising all
to evacuate Yun-Nan.
Samuel T. Davis, a prominent lawyer
and capitalist of Sioux City, Ia, was
struck by street car and killed on
the 18th. He was quite deaf and did
not see or hear the car.
A dispatch from Washington says
that Gen. Macarthur has been ordered
to fill any acquisitions for troops made
by Admiral Kempff.
The conference of Y. M. c. A. secre-
taries at Thousand Islands Park, n. Y,
on the 18th, to meet in 1901
in Boston.