Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

are at last learning what are the real
conditions in Cuba. Weyler's misrep-
reservations kept them in ignorance
for two years. They are now discuss
ing seriously what would happen to
| Spain if Cuba should be abandoned.
Not until recently was abandonment
| talked of at Madrid. Cuba's indepen-
dence really looks like an accepted fact
of history.
SUBSCRIPTION books for the 81, 500, 900
first mortgage five per cent. gold
| bonds of the st. Louis & San Francisco
Railway Co.'s southwestern division
| were formally opened at the Office of
Redmond, Kerr .& Co., in New York
city, on the 10th, but were Immediately
closed, the bonds having already been
| heavily ver-subscribed.
EFFORTS are being renewed to secure
the passage of bill by congress to de-
| fine train wrecking with intent to rob
and to provide the penalty of death
therefor. In the last eight years the
number of hold-ups on railroads has
| increased steadily from IL in 1890 to 80
in 1897. In eight years there have been
21S hold-ups. IS people killed :and 81
wounded by the robbers.
THOMAS A. Edison has made a dis
covery which gives promise of revolu-
tionizing the iron business of the
world. 1t is nothing less than a new
metal, which, admixed with iron, rem
ders cast-iron as tough and strong as
wrought iron. The discovery was made
purely by accident.
THE state department has received
from ,Ionsul-Generals Lee a communi-
cation relative to the situation in Gu ba,
in which he says the Spanish plan of
| autonomy is doomed to speedy failure.
An early collapse of the present policy
| is predicted, and Gen. Lee can see no
solution of the Cuban problem short of
intervention by the United States.
| LIEUT.-CoL. FREDERICK FUNSTON, son
of former Congressman E. H. Funston,
of lola, Kas., has returned from Cuba
covered with scars, and having achieved
the highest rank to which an American
has been promoted. He was Gomez
chief of artillery, and operated the ia
nous dynamite guns
AN unexpected fall of snow at Los
Angeles, Cal, on the 10th, did no dam
age to the orange crop, which is now
being harvested in prime condition.
BIZ the falling of cage in the Cres-
ton mine at Minas Pietras, Mex, on
the 18th, eight men were hurled 500
feet to the bottom of the shaft Five
were killed outright and the remain
ing three were notexpeeted to survive.
A NEW disease resembling cancer has
developed in a Kansas farmers herd
recently purchased in Colorado. Forty
heifers, or 65 per cent. of the herd, are
affected, many of which may die.
BRIEF reports from Fort Smith, Ark,
on the morning of the 18th, stated that
the city had been struck by 8 tornado
about IL o'clock on the night of the
| 18th. spreading destruction in every di-
rection. Thirty persons were believed
to have been killed, and fully one hun
dred injured Fire added to the hor-
rorE of the situation.
| p A. LARGY, president of the State
savings bank of Butte, Mont, was
shot and killed in his Office on the 18th.
The killing is believed to be the out
come of litigation resulting from the
big explosion which occurred in Butte
three years ago.
| JUSTICE A. w. NEWMAN, of the Wis
consin state supreme court, VINO fell
on an icy sidewalk and sustained
| fracture of the skull, died on the 12th.
He was 81 years of age and had been a
member of the supreme court for four
years.
MARCUS A. HANNA received the full
vote in joint session, at Columbus, o.,
on the 12th, that was given him on the
separate ballots in the two houses, on
the 18th, for both terms as United
| States senator.
The Inland Iron Forge Co., of Chica-
go, started up, on the 18th, giving en-
Payment to 500 men.