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

The United States gunbOat Newport,
Capt. B. F. Tilley, on the Goth, towed
to Key West, Fla, the Spanish sloop
Pacquett and the Spanish schooner Pr
renee, coasting vessels, which she had
captured off Havana.
COMMANDER HORACE ELMER, until
recently commander of the Mos
quito fleet, and who was retired be-
cause of ill-health, relieved by Admiral
Erben, died at the Mansion house in
Brooklyn on the 26th.
GOVERNMENT officials at Jacksonville,
Fla, are making arrangements looking
to the immediate invasion of Cuba.
Twenty of the leading Cuban physicians
have been engaged to go with the army
from that city, and 20 young men who
speak English will accompany them as
interpreters.
Upon the recommendation of Capt.
Lemly, judge advocate general, Secre-
tary Long, on the Goth, directed the
release from Boston naval prison of
% sailors. The men had been in pris-
on for various infractions of military
law, and the department thought tina t
conditions warranted their restoration
to active service.
Spain to demand an indemnity, through
the French embassy, for the "Ameri-
cans acts of piracy"
THE powder mills at Santa Cruz, Cal,
blew up, on the Goth, wounding sew
eral employees, and killing seven out
right. The buildings afterward caught
fire and the damage done was very
great.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY members of
the Michigan naval militia were drawn
up on the deck of the United States
steamer Yantic, at Detroit, on the
27th, ready for departure for Norfolk,
when orders were received from Wash
ington not to start until further no
tice.
A TORPEDO boat destroyer, flying the
Spanish flag, passed Dover, England,
on the 27th, Steaming west.
A TERRIFIC storm ragged on the Vir-
ginia and North Carolina coasts, on the
9th, the wind blowing so miles an hour
from the northeast.
THE governor of Manila telegraphed
to Madrid, on the eth, that an engage
| ment between the Spanish and Ameri-
can squadrons was hourly expected.
THE senate, on the eth, confirmed
John B. Moore, of New York, to be as
sistant secretary of state.
ORDERS were issued, on the 9th, to
recruit the regular army to it's full war
strength of 81 900 men.
The Spanish torpedo-boat DESTROYER
AudaZ arrived at Ferrol, on the 27th,
having steamed 600 miles in 81 hours.
The American squadron at Hong
| Kong sailed direct for Manila on the
27th.
The Spanish warship Pelayo, accom-
panied by a torpedo boat, passed Glib
raltar, on the eth, bound for Cadiz.
On the 2Sth Gov. Pingree telegraphed
| the secretary of the navy that the
Michigan naval contingent was organ
lied, in accordance with the latest or
der of the department, and asking the
secretary to wire when the reserve
should start. Two hundred and twenty
five men were ordered to report imme-
diately at Norfolk, Va.
PROF. CARL BELZ, originator of the
system of calisthenics taught in the
Kansas City (Mo.) public schools, died,
on the 2sth, the result of an operation.
He was born in Milwaukee, in 1882, of
German parentage.
PRESIDENT Nc KINLEY has practically
determined to appoint Charles Fl. Allen,
of Lowell, Mass, assistant secretary of
the navy, to succeed Theodore Roose-
| Welt, who viii be appointed lieutenant
colonel of regiment of mounted rifle
men.