Iron County register., 1900-05-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

appropriation bill without complet-
ling it. The resolution for an investi-
cation, by the committee on Cuban af-
fairs, of postal and other irregulari-
ties, with authority to visit Cuba, if
necessary, to pursue the inquiry, was
agreed to. The remainder of the ses-
sion was given to District of Columbia
business, the most important measure
considered providing extensive depot
and terminal improvements in Wash
ington for the Baltimore & Potomac
and Baltimore & Ohio railroads and
for the removal of the Long Bridge"
the highway from north to south dur
in the civil war. In the house con-
sideration of the Alaska civil govern
ment bill was practically completed, a
few paragraphs only being passed
| over until the 2Sth.
In the midst of flowers, sent in gen
erous quantities by friends from all
over the country, Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, one of the foremost women of
the country, received her friends in
Boston, on the 27th, the eighty-frst an
| niversary of her birth. Messages of
| congratulation also poured in. Mrs.
Howe was in excellent health.
Lord Roberts has wired the British
war Office that there is urgent need of
more rolling stock, and the London
Daily Express asserts that contracts
have been placed in the United States
for so locomotives and many cars, the
British manufacturers being unable to
fill the orders with requisite speed.
A former Corean official has con-
fessed, under torture, the names of
those concerned in the murder of the
queen. Numerous arrests have been
made and it is possible that all impli-
Gated will be executed.
The illness of Mrs. Gladstone was,
on the 2Sth, reported to be more seri-
Gus. Her strength was gradually fail
ing, and the members of the family
had been summoned to Hawarden.
Three officers of the Turkish inn
perial guard have been placed under
arrest because found in possession of
plans of the Yildiz kiosk and of the
sultan's private apartments.
The national bazaar, opened at
Kensington, London, on the oath, by
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from tn war, netted 6 $4,000.
Several prominent Uitlanders have
joined Lord Roberts as guides and ad-
visers with reference to the country
around johannesburg.
In the senate, on the 28th, Mr.. Well
ington (Md.) referring to a secret un-
derstanding existing between the Unit
ed States and Great Britain, Mr.. Lodge
(Mass.) challenged him to the proof.
Mr.. Wellington said he believed the
proof could be found in the secret
archives of the state department. Mr..
Lodge replied that the secretary of
state had emphatically denied that
such an agreement existed, and the
country believed his statement. The
reading of the sundry civil appropria-
ton bill was completed, but not all
of the committees amendments were
disposed of. The proposition to con-
tinue the life of the industrial COM
mission until October 81, 1901, was,
the Alaskan government bill was
passed, and some odds and ends of leg
islation were cleaned up.
There was a run on the bank of the
Columbus Savings and Loan Society of
San Francisco on the 2Sth. For some
time depositors had been taking out
money, but on the date named over
two hundred and fifty persons with
drew their deposits from the institu-
ton.
The Portuguese government has in
formed the committee representing
the parties to the Delagoa Bay railway
arbitration award that the minister of
finance is ready to pay and desires to
know where the money will be re-
ceived.
A rumor was current in the lobbies
of the house of parliament, on the
2Sth, which was said to have originated
at the Carlton club, that the marquis
of Salisbury will retire from politics
at the next general election.
The Santa Fe Railroad Co. an
nounced, on the 2sth, that its first
San Francisco-Chicago train would
start July 1. Three limited trains be-
tween Chicago and San Francisco will
be operated weekly.
Count Goluchowski, the Austro-Hun-
garian minister of foreign affairs, in
a speech in Buda-Pesth, on the 2sth,
said: 'The driebund is to-day what it
was 20 years ago-a peace alliance par
excellence"
Prof. L. Tobin, who founded colleges
at Vinton, Waterloo, Iowa Falls and
Fort Dodge, Ia, died, on the 27th, at |
the last named place. He had wide |
and acquaintance.
Sir George Grove, former director of |
the Royal College of Music in London,
died on the 2sth.