Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE German kaiser is alleged to have
proposed that Germany establish a
protectorate over the Philippines for 20
years, guaranteeing to re-establish Or
| der and bring the rebellion to an end.
1t is said Germany would agree to pay
500, 900, 900 marks in gold into the Span
ish treasury for this temporary protec-
torate.
THE amount of subscriptions re-
ceived, on the 21st, for the new bonds
exceeded shat of any other day since
the law authorizing their issue went
into effect. Among the number were
several 81, 900, 900 subscriptions.
GEN. SKATER and his staff and Rear
Admiral Sampson, with a guard of sol
diers, went ashore at Acerraderos, soon
after the arrival of the fleet off San
tiago, and proceeded to Gen. Garcia's
headquarters, about a mile inland,
where they spent several hours in con-
sultation with the Cuban general.
IT appears that the recent conference
between Sir Henry Drummond Wolff,
the British ambassador, and Gen. Cor
rea, the Spanish minister of war, was
brought about by SPANS extensive
military work in the vicinity of Gibral-
tar. A peremptory demand was made
that the work be stopped, and work
has been suspended.
The Spanish prize steamship Pana-
ma, which was captured by the light
house tender MangroVe, off Havana, on
April 25, was sold at auction, at New
York, on the 81 st, and was purchased
by the government for Sal 900.
BY the capsizing of a boat in which
party of young people were rowing
on Flint river, at Flushing, Mich, on
the 22d, Chauncey Cook, aged IS; Lulu
Loup, IA; Odalina Loup, 10, and Mil
dred Packard, aged two years, were all
drowned. Arthur Maxwell, 20 years
old, in attempting to rescue the party,
was also drowned.
The situation in the mining regions
of Catalonia, Spain, is most serious.
There are 1900 people out of employ
ment and more factories are expected
to close shortly. A renewal of rioting
| is feared.
THE report that Admiral Camara's
| fleet had returned to Cadiz is denied.
1t is said that it could not return with
out creating riots in that city and
Madrid, particularly as the admiral
said at the farewell banquet given to
him that he would never return until
his flag had been stepped in American
| blood.
THERE is absolute lack of drugs in
| Santiago, and the crews of the Spanish
war ships there are on half rations.
THERE is disposition becoming man
| ifest in the senate, in view of the assur-
ance of the Hawaiian annexation New
lands) resolution being adopted, to take
up the treaty and concur in it, thus
preserving to the senate its dignity as
the treaty-malling power in conjunc-
ton with the president.
JAMES MCKINLEY, nephew of the
president, who has just graduated at
| the Canton (O) high school, left Cam
ton, on the 22d, for Washington, for the
| purpose of enlisting in sthe regular
army, after spending a few days with
| his uncle.
| THE statement of the condition of
| the treasury, issued on the 23d, showed:
Available cash balance, Sls7 ,525 ,617 4;
gold reserve, Sl65, 673, $50.
CAPT. MAURICE NJ. LANGHoRNE, a
famous figure in confederate history,
died at his home in Kansas City, Mo,
| WHILE the American troops were
| landing at Baiquiri, on the 22d, under
the protection of Simpsons guns and
Gen. Castillo's force of Cuban's, the lat
ter gave vent to their JOY by continual
shouts for Free Cuba and cries of
Viva los Americanos!'
/ MARTIN THoRNE, convicted of the
murder of VIM. Guldensuppe, a bath
rubber at Woodside, L. l., n year ago.
| was sentenced, on the 23d, to be ex-
ecuted during the week beginning Au-
gust 1.
| DURING a recent typhoon at Port
Arthur a Chinese torpedo boat de-
! stroyer was driven aShore-and 100 men
+, were drowned.
THE arctic exploring ship Fran, haV-
ing on board Capt. Otto Sverdrup's ex-
petition to the arctic regions, sailed
! from Christiana, Norway, on the gath.
DR. hansen, the arctic explorer, and an
immense crowd of people were present
to bid the party farewell.
THE four-story brick building occu-
pied by the Jacques Manufacturing Co.
: of Chicago was burned on the oath.
Loss. $4,000. Pipeman Florence Nc
Auliffe was fatally injured by an eX-
! plosion. Eight other hremea were in
! iured.
THE senate. on the 24Sh. agreed TO ths
conference report on the OaAA. : -Itey
/ biI.