Iron County register., 1901-06-27
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERB.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| are to study for year in normal
| schools of the United States, these
! schools having offered them free tut
! ton.
Lord Pauncefote of Preston, the
| British ambassador to the United
| States, took the necessary oath and
his seat in the house of lords. on the
| Goth, for the first time during the
| present parliament.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral injured by Lightning during Sc
we're electric storm which passed over
Indiana on the night of the goth.
Gen. Robert Nugent died at his
home in Brooklyn, on the night OF
the Goth, as a result of a bullet
| wound in the stomach received at the
battle of Fredericksburg, Va, Decem-
ber Is. 1862, while charging at the
head of Mcagher's ish brigade. Tkis
wound has troubled Gen. Nugent ever
since
Like the constitutions of most of
the South American republics, the
Caban convention has followed the
constitution of the United States as
model. The adoption of the Platt
amendment makes it sufficient for all
the purposes of this government in it's
relations with Cuba.
There is great excitement atHeIena,
Mont, over the discovery of a rich
lead of gold which assays $4,000 to the
ton. A landslide exposed the vein
The transport Thomas, carrying
teachers to Manila, will sail July 23.
Judge Taft cabled approving the ap-
ointment of Supt. Atkinson, who will
have charge of the schools at Manila,
and ten additional teachers designat-
ed from Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Uni
versity of California and University
of Michigan.
Exports from the United States in
the fiscal year 1901, now about to end.
will probably reach 81 500, ,OOO, 900. the
highest point ever recorded for a sim
gle year in the history of our export
trade.
The University of Michigan, on the
goth, conferred the degree of bach
elor of arts upon Gen. I.eeford VIII
son, of Indiana, ex-scIicitor general Of
the treasury department, and that IF
master of arts upon Vaudeville White,
professor of pedagogy, university Of
Missouri.
William F. Case, aged Sc, hanged
himself and cut his throat at Terre
Haute, Ind, on the goth. His dauch-
ter, at whose home he lived, found his
dead body in the barn. He used the
knife on his throat after stepping off
a feed trough.
Wheat harvest has begun in Saline
county, Ill. Portions of the county
have the heaviest crop for years.
Corn crop well in hand and clean of
weeds. The tobacco crop will be light
on account of dry weather.
A. Nj. Leary and J. L. Davis en-
gagged in a duel at Waynesboro, Miss,
on the Goth, in which both were iu-
stantly killed. The trouble arose as
the result of a family feud. Davis
opened fire on Leary with pistol. he
fired three times. After Leary was
down he fired a shot with a pistol,
killing Davis.
The Engineering and Mining Jour
nal, on the 22d, published complete
estimates of the gold output in the
United States and in the world at
y
562 for the United States, and $780,
924, ,654 for the world at large (com-
pairing with $99, 9,51S,712 and $311 sos
947 in 1S99) do not differ materially
from the estimates OF several months |
ago.
At the Kiel regatta, on the 21st, "A
yachts sparticipatedinth in the races. Neith-
er the Iduna, belonging to the Ger
man empress, nor any of the 9TH
er noted yachts at the gathering, won |
first prize.
W. W. Astor has contributed 6 5000 |
to the Queen Victoria jubilee nurses
fund.
On the 21st r. G. Dun q Co. report |
ed: Failures for the week num- |
bered 1913 in the United States, against |
174 last week, and IA in Canada, |
against Is last year"
The secretary of Mr.. Joseph Cham |!
berlain, the British colonial secretary, |
declares that the rumors of the sur
render of Gen. Botha are unfounded. |
Fourteen persons are believed to |
have been killed and a number in |
iured, On the 21st, as the result of a |
fire following an explosion among |
quantity of fireworks in the store OF |
Abraham NJ. Rittenberg, at Paterson, |
n. J. The cause of the explosion Is |
rot known, and the property loss will |
not exceed $4,000.
Incomplete accounts of the raVages |
of tornado along the Keya Paha riv-
er, on the goth, proclaim it the most |
destructive of life and property of
any storm of the kind that ever oc- |
CURED in the state of Nebraska. |
Whole families were wiped out, and |
many persons were left wounded AID |
shelterless.
One of the important duties 70 !
which Gen. Corbin will attend in the |
Philippines will be the enlistment OF |
natives as a part of the insular army. |
Lieutenants of the regular army |
are to be selected as captains of com |
panies, and non-commissioned officers |
of the regular army will serve as first |
and second heutenants and battalion |
and squadron staff officers.
At a meeting of the Toxic (Japan) |
city council, on the 21st, Hoshi Toru, |
former minister to the United States, |
was assassinated by political enemy,
who plunged a sword into his body.
Agoncillo, the European representa- |
tive of Aguinaldo, has given up his
apartments in Paris and left for Mar
seilles. It is said he is about to re-