Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-05-19

THE house committee on foreign al
| fairs agreed, on the 18th, to report "a
| vorably the resolution for Hawaiian an.
neXation.
A BoMBARDMENT of Manila is lmmi.
nent should the Spanish attack the
| American blockading squadron.
THE schooner Jennie 5. Butler, from
Cienfuegos, which arrived at Boston on
| the 18th, reported that her mate, John
Purchase, of Portland, Me-, was killed
by Spaniards before the vessel sailed
from Cienfuegos.
LLoYDs' agent at Manila cabled from
Hong Kong, on the 18th, that the block
ade of the capital of the Philippine is
lands was strictly maintained, and
that the cable was aboard an Am erican
vessel.
OWING to demonstrations on the part
of the students, the universities of Ma
pies, Bologna and Rome have been
closed. The suppression of newspa-
pers continues.
a SPECIAL from st. Thomas, on the
18th, reported that Admiral Sampson
had left San Juan to meet the Spanish
fleet said to be near the island of Mar
Unique.
The second Spanish fleet was still at
Cadiz, on the 18th, and, it was expected,
would escort a strong military expedi-
ton to the Philippine islands.
AFTER the landing of the Gussie ex-
petition at Cabanas the bodies of three
Spanish soldiers, killed by the Ameri-
can fire, were found. The Gussie
failed to land her cargo.
THE first battalion, First regiment
Oregon volunteers, numbering about
$50, arrived in San Francisco on the
18th.
The following dispatch was received
from Admiral Dewey on the 18th.
Maintaining strict blockade. Reason
to believe that the rebels are hemming
in the city by land, but have made no
demonstration. Scarcity of provisions
in Manila. Probable that the Spanish
governor will be obliged to surrender
soon. Can take Manila at any moment.
Climate hot and moist On May IL
captured gunboat Callao, attempting to
run blockade. Have plenty coal One
British, one French, two German, one
Japanese vessel here Observing"
DUFFY DwYER, a player at the Gem
theater in Deadwood, S. D., shot his
WIZ anu IllSh SllOI anu h1IACu hIDIoS1Is
on the night of the 18th, at the Clark
house, a tough clearinghouse. His wife
was an actress at the Gem and he was
jealous of her. 1t is thought the wom-
an will live.
EDWARD VENT, ;6 years old, his lit
tie daughter, Lulu, four years old, of
Baltimore, Md. and Miss Lucy Plugrath,
of Chicago, were drowned in Round
bay, Maryland, on the 18th. The boat
in which they and three others were
sailing was capsiZed.
EDUARD REMENYI, the hungarian
violinist, dropped dead at the Orpheum
theater, in San Francisco, on the 18th,
while performing.
The Spanish fleet of four ar med
cruisers and two out of the three tor
pedo-boat destroyers, which were re-
ported off Curacao, Dutch West Indies.
on the 18th, anchored in the harbor of
Curacao on the 14th. The ships were
in fighting trim, and apparently ex.
pected an early encounter with the
American fleet.
THE plant of the Baltimore (Id.) Bis
cult Co. was damaged $1,000 by fire
on the night of the 18th. Three hun
dred men had worked all day on rush
orders for the government, and this
stock, as well as a large quantity of
flour, was consumed and the machinery
practically ruined.
News has been received of the almost
total destruction, on the 18th, of the
town of Chipley, Fla, on the Pensacola
& Atlantic railroad. Nearly every bus
mess house in the rl2cu was burned.
also the new railroad depot and many
private residences.
THE war department has information
that the Spanish army in Cuba has an
effective force of 5000 men. The esti-
mate is so much higher than it had ever
been reported that the government
hardly credited the report.
GEN. JAMES f. SMITH, commanding
the First regiment, California volun-
teers, was ordered, on the 18th, to leave
San Francisco with his regiment for
Manila on the steamer City of Pel1in
on the night of the 10th.