Iron County register., 1900-05-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Canadian school children, by way Oh
retaliation for the sending of a mes
sage of sympathy to President Kruger
by the school children of Philadel-
phia, viii raise funds and send a reso-
lution of sympathy and admiration to
Aguinaldo and his Filipino compa-
triots.
News from the scene of active opera
tens in South Africa indicates that
t ere is slight chance of the Beers,
he hurriedly raised the siege
Vyepener and allowed Generals Bra
bant and Hart free passage into the
town, being caught. They have Il
clear road open to them so long as
they skirt the Basutoland boundary
toward Lady brand.
Jesse Fields, one of the most noted
of all the mountain feudists in Ken
fects of a pistol shot wound received
ON the gath. Fields was one of the
leaders in the famous French-Ever-
sole feud, in which 80 of Perry coun-
:y's most prominent men were killed.
A ST. Louis, Iron Mountain & South
ern passenger train was held up by a
lone negro bandit near Higginson,
Ark, on the morning of the G7th. The
negro confined operations to one pas
>enger coach, compelling the passen-
gers to hand over their valuables at
the point of pistol. He made his es-
cape.
Gov. Roosevelt of New York has Civ
en- it out fiat-footed that he would not
accept a nomination for vice-presidcnt
of the United States under any con-
sideration. He says he would rather
retire to private life. This declaration,
he says, is final.
1t is now asserted that the porte
has revived the project of building a
cruiser in the United States to dis
guise the payment of Indemnity, and
ahmed Pasha is going TO New York
TO negotiate with the Cramps on the
subject. The amount of the indemnity
would be added to the cruisers price,
and the contractor would hand it over
to the government.
1t was reported, on the 2Tth, that
there were 800 Beers at Bosman's kop,
in the Smithfield district; 100 at
Snithfield, 400, with two guns and a
Maxim, at Grys' kop, and 200, with two
guns. at Klotter drift, Caldeon river.
The American National institute in
Paris was inaugurated, on the evening
IF the 27th, by soiree, given at the
temporary premises of the institute,
Under the presidency of Nj. Sully-
Prudhomme, the poet.
The Iron Mountain train robber
proves to have been a white man. He
wore a black paper mask and gloves.
His mask was found, covered with
blood, at a point near the where he
lett the train, and it is believed he was
shot, as the train porter sent a bullet
after him. The robber secured $425.
The people of Galena, ILL.,, on the
2Tth, celebrated the seventy-eighth
anniversary of the birth of Gen.
Grant, their townsman who became
president. Gen. Grants integrity as I.
warrior, a statesman and a plain
townsman was eXtolled by Gov. Roose-
welt, and the people who greeted the
sentiments cheered also the speaker.
A commercial house in Madrid has
received a dispatch from Cuba saying
lildI Jesus hdD1, Ine CuDdn Ieduer, ms
headed an ''1nsurrectionary move
ment in the Province of Santiago
which the sender of the dispatch be-
licves to be supported by the chief
towns of the province"
Pretoria advices of the 27th say that
United States Consul Hay, has won
diplomatic success. His position is
e. ceedingly difficult, but he is pur-
s, ing an impartial, determined policy,
and has succeeded in considerably
ameliorating the condition of the
British prisoners.
A dispatch from Kimberley, South
Africa, says that enteric fever is so
rampant there that the city officials
are urging the military authorities to
remove from the town and discontinue
the use of public buildings jas hospi-
tails, with the view of better safe
guarding public health.