Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


On the Sd Gov.-Gen. Wood of Cuba
issued an order giving freedom to 40
men in the province of Santa Clara,
Cuba. Some of them had been detained
! without trial and others were suffer
ing excessive punishment.
On the Sd VIM. Waldorf Astor con-
tributed $1,000 to the prince of
/ Wales hospital fund.
The Venezuelan government has con-
! ferred the order of the ''Bust of Boil
! var" upon Admiral Sampson, Captains
Taylor, Cook, Sigsbee, Chadwick and
Goodrich, and Commanders Mead. Day
ton, Symonds and Todd, of the United
States navy, and Representative Hit,
on the Sd, introduced a bill authoriz-
ing the acceptance of the decorations.
| Gen. Wheeler has drafted a bill for
! the establishment of permanent
army post at Huntsville. Ala, and it
will be introduced by Congressman j.
+. Stallings, with the support of all the
| Ala bama congressman.
! The American bark Sachem. Capt.
Nickel, from New York, December 13,
| for Hong Kong, with kerosene, ar
rived at St. Thomas, D. W. l., on the
| 4th, in distress.
The promotion of Gen. Macarthur
/ by the president was confirmed by the
| senate on the 4th.
The Davenport, Rock Island & North
/ western road, one of the new lines
| built in Iowa this year, was opened
| for freight traffic on the 4th.
| Mr.. Wilson, of Idaho, introduced
! bill in the house, on the 4th, for con-
stitutional amendment authorizing uni
form marriage and divorce laws.
w. Murray Crane was inaugurated
governor of Massachusetts on the 4th.
AT the same time the other state Off
cers-elect took the oath of office. Gov
Cranes address was devoted wholly to
matters of state interest.
Because the Arkansas authCS.ities
would not pay any more than SIS for
his return to the penitentiary in that
state, whence he escaped, eight month:
ago, having IL years yet to serve, the
police of Denver, Col, have turned
Wyatt Sharpe loose.
At the instance of School Trustee
Heating, who is president of the An
cient Order of Hibernians, the school
management committee of the Chicago
board of education ordered all histo-
ries of England that refer to England
as the mother country to be thrown
out of the list of supplementary read
ing for seventh and eighth grades.
While in a fit Of rage. on the 4th,
Charles Root, Il Kalamazoo county
(Mich) farmer living in Texas town
ship, cut his wifes throat and then
his own in the presence of their two
children. The elder is only two years
old, and can give no Ineligible ac
count of the tragedy except that his
parents had been quarreling.
The Philadelphia grand jury returned
true bills of Indictment in the election
fraud cases in the thirteenth division
of the Seventh ward, during the recent
election for state treasurer. when
Lieut.-Col. Barnett of the Tenth Penn
sylvania volunteers was elected. There
are nine defendants.
The power house of the Cudahy Oil
Co., located north of Muncie, Ind, in
the blackboard county oil fields, was
demolished by an explosion, causing
loss of $4,000. Forty producing oil
wells must lie idle until repairs are
made in the machinery.
Andrew Carnegie has promised the
college of Emporia (Kas.) $4,000 for
library building as soon as the pres
emit debt is paid. B. H. Gragg, finan-
cial agent of the college, raised $4,000,
on the 4th, from the Topeka presby-
terry. Emporia citizens have given S.
600, and the synod of Kansas promises
$4,000, which will be enough to pay
all obligations of the college.
The worlds first aluminium te!e-
phone system was put in operation be-
tween Pittsburgh and New Ken
sington, Pa, a distance of Is miles. 1t
proved so much of a success that it is
said the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
ordered similar system.
The president issued an executive
order, on the 5th, setting aside certain
lots of ground at Honolulu as military
reservations, subject to outstanding
leases and private rights.
The statement of the condition ofth
treasury issued on the 5th showed:
Available cash balance, $2S3, S91, 027;
gold reserve, $3.50, ,s3s.
Mrs Lily Langtry, the actress, ar
rived at New York, on the 5th, on the
steamer Lucania.
Failures in the United States for
the week ended on the 5th, as report
ed by r. G. Dun & Co., were 273,
against 243 for the corresponding week
last year. In Canada the failures were
IS, against "a last year.
Dr. William A. Hammond, former
surgeon general of the army, died in
Washington on the 5th.