Iron County register., 1900-02-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The floral emblems were magnificent
| Peace and quiet prevailed in Ken
tuoky's capital city during the funera
procession.
Mary Stafford, a school-teacher in
Hill settlement, Mimi, just across the
state line from Sisseton, S. D., with II
OF her young pupils, was lost in a rag.
iEg blizzard at night, and that all did
not meet with death is due to Miss
| Stefford's great heroism. Although
! she suffered from badly-frozen hands
| feet and face, her wee charges are all
safe. She conducted them to a farm
| house, arriving at IL o'clock.
Senator Depew introduced a bill, on
! the 9th, granting to the public land
states a percentage of the proceeds of
the sales of public lands for the m
coIragement of mining interests.
About five years ago Middlesboro,
Ky, was startled by the assassina ton
of Thomas Howard, 4 prominent lum-
herman. On the Sth John Lewis
Howard, the 15-year-old son, who is
| dying with consumption, sent for of
| ficers, and to them confessed that he
and his mother, Mrs. Amanda
Howard, did the killing. Mrs. Howard
was arrested.
An interesting suit was decided in
the circuit court of Desha county, Ark,
on the Sth. Four years ago S. NJ. Court
ney. of Winchester, replevined a steer
from L. NJ. Belser, of Arkansas City.
The steer was valued at $50, and dur
ing four years the parties were fight
ing in the courts the costs of the case
were run up to 5000. The defendant
won.
The wheat harvest of South Austria
liza is estimated to be six bushels per
acre, leaving an eXportable surplus of
1851 tons.
The steamer Prairie sailed, on the
9th, from Baltimore, for Newcastle,
England, with a crew for the cruiser
Albany and government exhibits for
the Paris exposition.
Writers in the Naval Annual say that
as a result of our war with Spain for
eign nations are building battleships
mainly, with a tendency toward small
ler caliber guns, and placing reliance
chiefly in rapid-fire batteries and i'm
proved target practice.
The execution of James K. Brown,
in Hudson county, New Jersey,was a
bungle, as the moose was fastened SO
carelessly that the victim slowly stran-
gled. Brown left a statement denounc-
inc hanging as brutal and immoral.
Rear-Admiral McNair, who ranks
next to Admiral Dewey, has asked to
be relieved from the SUPPLEMENTARY
of the naval academy on account of
continued illness. Commander Vain
wright succeeds him.
At the hearing by the house post Of
fee committee on charges concerning
polygamous officials, notice was re-
ceived, on the 9th, that one postmaster
appointed in Utah had been indicted.
Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Chapman-Catt
are making an exciting race for the
presidency of the Woman Suffrage as
scciatjon, whose national convention
is now in session.
Says a Washington dispatch of tbs
9Th. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty gains
friends and supporters daily. Even the
senator's who would like one feature
or another put differently are coming
out with announcements that they
will vote for ratification.
Mr.. Alexis Frye, superintendent of
Cuban schools, in his report to the
governor general upon the develop
nent of the school system since the
work of reorganization began, about
two months ago, says that the whole
country seems ON fire with enthusiasm
TOR education