Iron County register., 1900-05-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The news of the passage of the Ha-
waiian bill making Hawaii territory
under the presidency of Sanford 3.
Dole, was received in Honolulu on May
with rejoicing. Preparations are be-
ing made for immense public celebra-
tlons.
Philip w. Shaw,a prominent planter,
was shot and fatally wounded by Will
liam Fisher and his son, negroes, two
miles from Minter City, Miss, on the
night of the 18th. A posse was organ
lied and both negroes caught, and TAX
and shot.
There is talk in Pretoria of Presi-
dent Kruger contemplating departure
from the capital. There seems no
longer any doubt of the intention of
the Transvaal to transfer the seat of
government to the Lydenberg district,
and to endeavor to make final stand
there.
Rev. William Armstrong Ecl>ols. pas
tor of the Presbyterian church at Mid
dleport, o., and Il commissioner to the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church, at st. Louis, fell dead in the
auditorium of the church on the 18th,
lust before the converting of the as
sembly.
Friends of Admiral and Mrs. Dewey
say that the latter has changed her
mind since her return to Washington.
Mrs. Dewey, her friends say. hopes
that the admiral will reconsider his de-
termination to enter politics.
Gov. Smith of Montana will enter
=
ton of Clarl. as United States sena-
tor, whose appointment, he claims, was
the result of u conspiracy entered into
by Lielt.-Gov. Spriggs and Clark's
friends.
Nine hundred fresh, rosy-cheeked
Irish girls took Battery Park, New
York, by storm on the 18th. 1t was a
regular Irish day at the barge office.
The Teutonic brought this big grist OF
Irish girls and women. Eleven hun
dred more are expected OH the goth.
Warrants were issued in San Gran-
cisco, Oh the 18th, for the arrest of
Mrs. Craven, Justice of the Peace
Simplin and Adolph Sylvia. The first
two were indicted by the grand jury
in connection with the Fair-Craven
case. Their bail has been fixed at S10.-
600 each.
Senator Sewell, from the committee
on military affairs, on the 18th, made
a favorable report on the house bill
appropriating annually S1,0O0,000 for
the militia of the various states.
Dun's Weekly Review, issued on the
10th, said: "'Failures for the week
have been 1T in the United States,
against lat last year, and so in Cana
da. against II last year"
United States Minister Loomis, at
Caracas, has informed the department
of state that an official census just
taken fixes the population of Venezue-
la at 2,225,527 persons.
The strawboard and paper box fac
tory of the Utility Paper Co., cover
ing five acres, at Hartford City, Ind,
was burned on the night of the 18th.
Loss, 100000; covered by insurance.
It was officially announced at Pre-
toria, on the 18th, that when the
laagers and forts around Mafeking
had been severely bombarded the siegs
was abandoned, British force from
the south taking possession of the
place.
The Boer generals, Duprey ana
Daniels, with 40 men, sure ndered to
the British at Hoopstad, on the 18th.
and on the same day Hutton's mounted
infantry captured, 30 miles northwest
of Kroonstad, Commandant Botha,
Field Cornet Gassen and % others.
The Cunard steamship Carintha,
while on her way from New Orleans
to Cape Town, ran full speed on the
shore at Point Gravois, on the south
coast of Hayti, on the 18th. The Ca
rintha has 1,450 mules on board,
shipped for the British army in South
Africa. There were 140 men on board.
Both the Yosemite Valley stages
one going each way-were held up,
on the night of the 18th. by a lone
highwayman at Big Neck Flat, Cal.
About $500 was secured from the pas
sengers. Neither the women nor the
Wells Fargo treasure boxes were mo-
lestsds