Iron County register., 1898-03-03

EVIDENCES of i.-feeling toward
American people and exultation over
the Maine disaster do not lessen in Ha-
vana.
THE queen regent of Spain presided
at cabinet colncil, on the cath, which
discussed the relations between Spain
and the United States.
THE treasury statement, on the oath,
showed: Available cash balance, $685.
619,05s; gold reserve, S167, 7,201,747.
THE Madrid Impartial (Senor Ca,
nalejas' paper) declares that the presi-
dent of the United States, while cajol-
ing Spain with words, sharpens his
dagger to stab her from behind, and
winds up by asking: ''How long will
the agonized nation tolerate the incon-
ceivable apathy of the governments"
AMERICANS in Cuba think that if war
comes it will not be through the usual
channels of courtly procedure, but will
be precipiteted by some overt act that
will require short notice and quick ac-
ton
RUSSELL SAGE processes to have in
side information that the battleship
Maine was blown up by the Spaniards
He says he has $1,000, 900 he is willing
to loan the government if it becomes
necessary.
THE Spanish cruiser vizcaya left
New York, on the 25th, for Havana.
When last seen the American flag was
still floating at half-mast.
MAJ. E. J. PECK, deputy internal rev.
enue collector for the Fort Scott dis
trict of Kansas, died at his home in
Fort Scott, on the 25th, as the result of
stroke of paralysis. Maj. Peck was
65 years old. He served in a Wisconsin
regiment during the war.
THE picking, drying and stemming
warehouses of the National Tobacco
Co., situated at Twenty-fUurth and
Main streets, Louisville, KY, were
totally destroyed by fire on the 25th.
The loss will amount to $500
fully covered by insurance.
AT Coalburg Blocks, o., on the 25th,
Angelo Will shot Martha Lawrence,
Joseph Farando, Mrs. Peter Farando
and Daniel Monte. Farando and Noute
are fatally wounded. All the injured
persons are relatives.
THE Italian government has decided
upon energetic action to compel Hayti
to make reparation for the illegal Sc
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steamer at Port-au-Prince.
WM. +. GARRISON, foreman of the
rolling-room at the United States
branch mint in San Francisco, was ar
rested, on the 25th, on a charge OF
stealing gold bullion.
THE safe of Paymaster Ray of the
Maine, which contains, besides many
valuable documents, about S23, 900 in
cash, was recovered on the 25th. 1t
was carried on board of the Right Arm,
and the water poured out of it. The
safe was discovered with great diff
ticulty, because it had been moved from
its regular position in the ship by the
explosion.
For the firs5 time in this administca-
tion the question of arrning and fight
ing to sustain the honor of the country
was considered by the cabinet on the
25th. The president and the cabinet
were of one mind, that the course to-
ward Spain must be firm, and that, if
war was threatened, it should not be
avoided at the expense of honor.
THE United States cruiser Minneapo-
lis, one of the swiftest craft that plows
the sea, looking magnificent in her new
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lying alongside the receiving ship Rich
mond, at Philadelphia, and is ready to
go to sea at a moments notice.
A SOLID train load of milch cows ano
mules consigned to Cuba left Fort
Scott, Kas., on the 25th, on an extra
ordinary fast schedule. The train con-
sisted of ] cars, and it is said the COWS
were going to Havana to supply the
Spanish officers and hospitals.
BILL SCOTT, colored, was hanged at
Greensboro, Ala, on the 25th, for the
murder of John A. Singley, wife and
son, near that place, on the night of
December 1 last. On the gallows Scott
bade all his friends good-by, and said
he had a ticket to Heaven.
Mrs. VANDERvEER De HART, widow
of Capt. w. c. De Hart, who was chief
| of staff for Gen. Winfield Scott in the
Mexican war, died at her home at Eliza
beth, n. j., on the 25th, in her eighty
seventh year.