Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-08-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important EventA
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

regarded as one of the Spanish strong
holds.
GEN. GOMEZ has won an important
victory over the Spanish forces under
Gen. Jiminez Castellanos, forcing the
trocha between Las Villas and Ca
maguey. Over 800 Spaniards and 40
Cubans were killed and many wounded
on both sides.
THE statement of the condition OF
the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed:
Available cash balance, $3.50, 1869, Ill;
gold reserve, $50, 252, 696.
NJ. d. DAVIS died at his home near
Beverly, KY, on the eth, of malarial
fever, aged II years. He was one OF
the organizers of the grange move
meat, and was the first grand master of
the order.
On the 10th Joseph Saxton, an uncle
of the wife of President Mckinley, re-
siding at Canton, o., was struck by
a street car and serio Isly injured. He
is well advanced in years, and suffered
from defective hearing. His injuries
were not necessarily fatal
On the 10th John FL. Lane, storekeep-
err of the United States transport Min
newaska, dropped dead in his boat at
Savannah, Ga. The troopship was wait
ing to carry the Third regiment of i'm
munes to Santiago. Lane was SIS years
of age and the father of Capt. Lane OF
the Ninth police precinct, New York.
THE steamer Farralon, from Skaguay,
Alaska, arrived at Vancouver, B. c., on
the 9th. The purser and captain claim
hnf &c in hn SOL 70 in
drafts. The purser says that when she
left Skaguay the town was in flames,
and that the fire was fast approaching
the dynamite stores, with no prospect
of checking it.
AT St. Louis, on the 10th, the coro-
ner's jury in the case of Frank Kaent-
ner, who was shot and killed, on the
night of the sth, while trying to escape
from Special Policemen Leinert and
Cremins, whom he mistook for high
waymen, returned a verdict holding
Cremins on a charge of homicide.
ADvICEs received in Yokohama from
Seoul say Corea intends to adopt the
gold standard.
The August report of the statistician
of the department of agriculture shows
the following average conditions on
August 10: Corn, 81; spring rye, 3d.
barley, 70. 3; Irish potatoes, $50; spring
wheat, 96. 5; oats, 81. 2; buckwheat, 81 p.
THE London Daily Mail, commenting
on the appointment of Mr.. Curzon as
viceroy of India, says that a charming
incident of the new viceroyalty is the
nationality of Mr.. Curzon's wife, who
was formerly Miss Letter, of Washing
ton. 1t adds that this is the first time
an American lady has been called to
assist the imperial government.
CONFEDERATION has been caused at
Madrid by the realization that the
United States will not under any cir
cumstances permit the debt of Cuba to
be foisted on the eventual masters of
the island, whoever they may be. The
Spaniards have been hoping that "the
tail would go with the hide"
THE Spanish government, responding
to an offer of the United States to sur
render Admiral Cervera and the 1900
prisoners taken from the Spanish fleet
at Santiago, declines the offer, on the
ground that the Spanish government
has never consented to the paroles of
Cervera and his men.
On the 10th the British foreign Office
formally announced the appointment
of George n. Curzon, until now the
parliamentary secretary of the foreign
Office, as viceroy of India, in succession
to the earl of Elgin.
A PEACE protocol was drafted, on the
10th, and handed to NJ. Cambon, the
l. H. f-y- in
1t embodied the presidents original
demands on Spain, and was accom-
panied by the assurance that if it was
not promptly signed negotiations would
cease.
PLANS for the temporary government
of Cuba and the territory which will
be acquired from Spain as a result OF
the war are now under serious consid-
Grafton by the president and members
of the cabinet.
The steamer Mariposa, conveying
the Hawaiian commissioners and 154
men of the First New York volunteers
TO Honolulu, sailed. on the 18th, from
San Francisco. She was detained at
her dock all night awaiting the arrival
of delayed English mails.
THE steamer City of Topeka, which
arrived at Fort Townsend, Wash.
from Skaguay, Alaska, on the 18th, re-
ports that the recent fire at Skaguay
was not as disastrous as reported. Only
few deserted houses in the outskirts
of the town were burned. A few hun
dred dollars will cover the loss.
AMBASSADOR CAMBoN received a ca
hn of he
announcing SPANS approval of the
peace protocol and directing him, as
the diplomatic representative of Spain
to attach his signature to the instru
ment, which was expected to be done
in the diplomatic reception room at the
state department some time during the
day.
WOLFE CooNE, full-blood, and Watt
Duncan, half-breed, have been nomi
mated for principal and assistant chic
of the Cherokee nation. The nomina
lions show the attitude of the full
bloods. 1t means that they will bitter
" resent any changes proposed by the
United States
ADvIcEs from Kalgoorlie, West Aus
tralia, say thousands of people are
rushing to the vicinity of Lake
Gwynne, close to Kanowna, where 6
nugget of gold weighing 95 pounds
was recently discovered The excite
ment in the mining districts is reported
to be intense.
THE transports Mauteo and Berk
shire sailed north from Santiago. or
the 18th, with the Twenty-frst reg
ular infantry and the balance of the
Seventy-first New York thus compile
ting the embarkaton of the First di