Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-09-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

1 C1 ~NC" OI1EdhSS AS LII LnS
harbor, fired an admiral's salute of IL
guns. The Spanish gunboat Ysabel
Segunda responded,
1t has been decided by the president
| and secretary of war to manage the
| army without any suggestions from
| outsiders. Troops selected to be mus
| tered out will de discharged,a and those
| chosen for future service will be re-
/ tanned in the service, regardless of the
clamor to have them released.
| Thomas w. Wheeler, son of Gen. Jo-
seph Wheeler, and Second Lieut.. New
ton Kirkpatrick, First cavalry, were
drowned while bathing at Camp Wi
koff, l.. l., on the 9TH.
The merchants of Santiago, who
have been charging exorbitant prices
for their goods, have been brought to
time by Gen. Wood, who threatened
that if they didn't cease their extor-
tionate practices he would open gov
eminent stores and close them up.
Nothing confrmatory of the loss of
| the whaling fleet had been received
| by the Pacific Steam Whaling Co. up
to the 9TH.
Gossip in social circles and in club
land is to the effect that Miss Julia
Dent Grant, granddaughter of the ia
nous general and daughter of Gen.
Fred Grant, is soon to marry the son
of Commodore Gerry in New York.
At meeting of the corporation of
Brown university at Providence, r.
| l., on the 9TH, the resignation of Presi-
dent F. Benjamin Andrews was accept
ed, and Benjamin Clark was chosen to
| succeed him.
The grand army parade in Cincin-
| natl, on the 9Th, occurred under the
| brightest of blue skies, and with ev-
erything in its favor, surpassed all ex-
pectations."
Lazard Freres, of New York, an
nounced, on the 7th, an engagement of
$3.50, 600 in gold for import.
Gov. Johnston of Alabama removed
the state quarantine against New Or
leans on the 9TH.
The British vice-consul, Mr.. Carlo
chino, was killed during the fighting
in Gambia, Crete, on the 9th.
Spanish officials at San Juan, Porto
Rico, are reported to be destroying the
small arms stored in the arsenal there.
| The rifles are hammered into ineffect-
iveness and then thrown into the sea.
Joseph Chamberlain admitted, on the
9Th, that the treaty with Germany had
been signed, thus making it known to
the world for the first time that such
an alliance had actually been made.
So hot was the pursuit of the Kha-
lifa Abdullah by Gen. Kitchener
camel corps, after the recent battle,
that some of the khalifa's wives were
abandoned by The roadside. The derv-
ish losses foot up 11,2OO killed, 10000
wounded and nearly 1000 prisoners.
The president received a message
from Maj .-Gen. Otis, in command at
Manila, on the eth, stating that Aguin-
aldo led been given "a hours in which
| to retire from the suburbs of Manila.
| Should he fail to do SO Gen. Otis will
| drive him out.
1T is stated at the war department
! that the troops to be used to garrison
Cuba pending the establishment of
some permanent form of government
viii be principally regulars. The regi-
ments, however, have not yet been Sc
lected.
Six cases Of yellow fever have devel-
oped in Col. Sargent's Fifth immune
regiment at Santiago de Cuba.
notwithstanding it was recently re-
| ported that Lieut.. Hobson had been or
dered to abandon the attempt to float
the stranded Spanish warship 'Cristo-
bal Colon at Santiago, the work is still
going on, and with prospects of sue
cess.
A cable dispatch from Hong Kong,
| dated the 9Th, announced that q COM
mittee of three FilipinOs, appointed
by Agninaldo, had left Hong Kong in
order to confer with President Nc
Kinley upon the future of the Philip
pines.
A dispatch from Washington, on the
9Th, said 1.-The administration. officials
have had no recent cause to feel that a
critical condition of affairs was near
at hand with the iRsurgent forces in
the Philippines"
Col. James A. Sexton, of Chicago,
was elected comnander-in-ehief of the
G. a Z. at Cincinnati, ON the 6th, re-
ceiEing 424 votes against 241 for A. d.
Shaw, of New York. No other names
| were presented.
T. h. Hawley, present congressman
from the Tenth district, the only re-
publican from Texas, was renominated
| by the convention held at Columbus,
on the sth.
| A dispatch was received ia Londoa.
on the sta, from the British minister
| at Pelxin, Sir ClaRde Macdonald, con-
firming the report that Ii Hung Chang
had been dismissed at his (the min
ister's) request
Col Lopez. of the Fifty-frSt Iowa
regiment, at San Francisco, received q
dispatch from Gov Shaw of Iowa, on
the sth, telling him not to allow his
men to suffer for anything, and add
| ing that the state will foot the bills-
The colonel replied that his reiiment
was all right.
Aurora borealis brought all tele-
graphing at Chicago to q standstill for
| time ON the 9th. The area of dis
turbance extended 500 miles or more in
all directions from Chicago.
Gen. Shafter reached Washington,
on the 9Th, and went Immediately to
the Ebbitt house.
Horrible stories are told by the ref
! ugees from Gambia. They say the
Bashi Bazouks cut open the bodies of
their Christian victims, and threw the
enfrails INTO the flames of the burning
houses. They hurled the British yice
consul bodily into the flames.