Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-10-20

mOned. Inc nature OF ner Illness was
not disclosed.
Gen. F. D. Grant has signifed his
intention of being guest OF the Army
of the Tennessee at its annual reunion
in Toledo, o., on the 27th and 2Sth
inst. He will be accompanied by his
mother, Mrs. U. S. Grant.
The annual report of Commissioner
Hermann of the general land Office es-
Inmates that over IL ,000, 100000 feet of
public timber have been destroyed by
fires in the past IS years, represent
Ing in value many millions of dollars.
Advices just received from Samoa
say the German war ship Bussard has
taken Chief Mataafa and other eXiles
to Apia. Mataafa, it is added, prom
Used to be loyal to the government,
and to observe the Berlin convention.
Red Cross Agent Barnes cabled
Stephen Z. Barton, of the executive
committee, On the 18th, that all volun-
teers in Porto Rico had been ordered
home, and 10000 regulars will be sent
from the United States to take their
places.
Henry Paget. fourth marquis of An
glesey, died suddenly in London on
the 18th. He was born in 1885, and
succeeded his half-brother in 1880.
His heir is his son, the earl of Tx
bridge, who was born in 1875, and is
unmarried.
On the 18th Maj.-Gen. Brooke will
assume absolute control of the island
of Porto Rico. 1t is possible that all
of the Spanish will not have left Porto
Rico at that time; if so, they will be
quartered in barracks until they can
be taken away.
The White Star Line steamship
Britannia, which left New York, on
the 5th, for Liverpool, by way of
Queenstown, arrived at Liverpool, on
the 14th, without having communicate
ed, owing to the bad weather prevail
ing at the time, with Queenstown.
Surgeon-General Wyman of the ma
rine hospital service left Washington,
on the 14th, for a week or ten days
inspection of the work in the south in
fighting yellow fever. He intended to
visit Cincincinnati, and then go to Chat
tanooga, Atlanta, Mobile, New Orleans
and other points.
W. E. p. Schreiner, the Afrikander
leader, and former encouragement of
Cape Colony, whose motion of want of
confidence in the government recently
overthrow the Gordon-Sprigg minis
try, has succeeded in forming a new
cabinet, which is regarded as being a
strong Afrikander combination.
A desperate battle between striking
coal miners at Virden, ILL.,, and the
authorities took place, on the 18th,
in which six miners and five deputies
were shot to death and large num-
Der were injured, some of whom will
die. The governor sent troops to the
scene, and martial law was declared.
The Atlantic Transport Co.'S steam
er Mohegan, formerly the Cleopatra,
of the Wilson and Furness-Leyland
line, which left London for New York,
on the 18th, with so passengers and a
crew of $50, went ashore off The Liz
ard, between the Manacles and the
Lowlands, and it is reported that 169
of those on board were drowned.
Maj. S. u. Beebe, ordnance officer, U.
S. ", died, on the 18th, of yellow fe-
yer at Havana. He was a resident of
Thomson, Conn, where his widow
lives. Maj. Beebe was a graduate of
West Point, and was made major in
the ordnance bureau early in the year.
Among army officers who knew him
he is spoken of in the highest terms.
The war department is constantly
in receipt of requests from soldiers
asking to be mustered out, stating
that the war has closed, and they wish
to go home. The war department Of
ficials say that the war will not be
over until the treaty is ratified by the
United States senate, and that the SOL
diers may be needed for further duty.
The ambassadors of the powers have
transmitted to the Turkish authorities
the decision of their governments on
the subject of Mussulman evacuation
of Crete, which sets forth that, while
adhering strictly to their ultimatum,
Turkey may possibly, later, be permit
ted to maintain small force on the
island as an emblem of Turkish au-
fhority.
In accordance with the general or
der of the military governor all the
Spanish civil courts within Philippine
territory, now subject to American
control, have resumed the exercise OF
their jurisdiction, subject to the SUI
pervision of the American military
government, which reserves the eN-
elusive right to exercise criminal juris-
diction.
The will of George ID. Saxton was
found on the 18th. 1t bequeaths all
his estate, valued at 100000, to Mrs
N. A. Barber, sister of deceased, as
entailed property. After her death
the estate is to be divided among the
five children of the beneficiary,
George, Mary, James, John and Ida
Barber. Mrs. Mckinley. therefore, re-
eetves mothing.