Iron County register., 1900-05-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| The trial of pullman, Nolan an
Walsh, charged with attempting to de
stroy Lock No. "a of the Wellant
| the gath.
In the Methodist general conference
On the oath, Homer Eaton and Georg'
+ MAINS were reelected as agents D
tie Book Concern at New York, A. e
Jennings, at Cincinnati, and Samue
II Pye, at Chicago. Mr.. Pye for man,
| years managed the agency at S.
| Louis.
| Oklahoma will this year take hei
place among the great fruit producing
sections of the country. Strawberr1e.
have been shipped in large quantities
several hundred bushels a day going
from Guthrie alone. Cherry shipments
| to all the leading cities of the north
| began on the Gath.
Nearly 1000 men were thrown out of
work when, at noon, on the gath, the
converter and billet mills of the IlIi-
nois Steel Co., at Joliet, were closed for
an indefinite period. Only the blast
furnaces and merchant mills. are now
llInning.
BY the explosion of boiler in the
sawmill of Capt. James A. McFerrin, at
;surleston, Tenn, on the oath, six per-
sons were killed. Capt. McFerrin him
self, the proprietor, aged IS years,
formerly in the internal ravenue serv-
ice. is among the dead. His body was
thrown $50 feet.
Among the mass of dispatches indi-
eating the approach of the wars end
in South Africa, is the intelligence that
referendum is in progress among the
I:oer lighting men to decide whether
the war shall be continued.
Gov. Beckham of Kentucky, ON the
2Gth, issued to Hon. j. c. S. Blackburn
his commission as United States sena-
tor to succeed William Lindsay. The
commission is certificate of election
by the last legislature on January .
for the term beginning in March, 1901.
The apartments of Mrs. F. NJ. Belts,
wife of a well-known physician at
1882 Court place, Denver, Col, were
entered by a burglar, on the 25th, and
diamonds and other jewelry valued at
$1,000 were stolen. Roy Brock, Il
young man living in the house, was
arrested on suspicion, but none of the
stolen articles have been recovered.
A dispatch from Georgetown, Brit
ish Guiana, on the 25th, said that
steamer, with three conveys, was car
ried over a cataract in the Potara river,
British Guiana, 40 lives being lost.
The vault of the Bank of Dover,
Mimi, was blown open by burglars, on
the night of the cath, and 81 4,5OO taken.
The burglars escaped.
Eleven thousand additional troops
will be sent to South Africa from Eng
land during June.
Gen. Chaffee and his wife sailed for
the United States from Havana, on the
25th, on the transport Burnside. Prior
to his departure, Gen. Chatfee gave
reception at the palace, which was
largely attended by Cubans and Amer
leans. The Cubans regret TO have Gen.
Chaffee leave.
A crisis in the fortunes of the al
lied Boer forces is believed to be at
hand. It is thought that Gen. De Wet
and Commandant Olivier will be una
BILE to hold the Free State forces to-
gether if the Transvaalers cross the
Vaal without making a final stand in
the Free State.
Late reports from the seat of war
say that the British were rapidly ad-
vancing. Gen. Hamilton had effected
junction with Lord Roberts. The
country in front of them was clear
of Beers to Viljoen's Drift. The Beers
were evacuating all their positions
south of the Vaal river, and 5000 had
already crossed to the north bank.
The president and members of his
cabinet went to Fredicksburg, Va, on
the 25th to attend the memorial serv-
ices of the Society of the Army of the
Potomac at the national cemetery and.
incidentally, to assist at the laying of
the corner stone of the Fifth corps
monument, presented by Gen. Butter
Geld.