Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


THE protection of American interests
demands the termination of Spain's
hopeless effort to crush Cuba back into
submission to Spanish rule. A justi-
fed sympathy for a people who have
successfully demonstrated their right
to recognition as belligerent nation
in their struggle for national freedom
demands that the United States shall
insist upon fair play for such a nation.
The Union elevator, located in East
st. Louis, Ill, and owned by the Union
Elevator Co. of st. Louis, was totally
burned, on the night of the 25th, with
the contents, about 8, 100000 bushels of
grain, a greater part of which was
corn. Eighty-fve cars loaded with
corn, owned by E. b. White & Co.,
were also consumed, as we'll as the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy freight
house, the stable of the Transfer Co..
and numerous cottages. The total
loss, it is estimated, will not be far
from 81, 600, 900.
JOHN LAIRD, the ship-builder of Birk-
enhead, England, died on the 25th.
HENRY STARR, the famous southwest
ern bandit, passed through st. Louis,
on the 25th, en- route to the Columbus
CO., penitentiary, where he will, in all
probability, spend the remainder of his
life.
The senate, on the 25th, confirmed
the nomination of. w. Griggs, of New
Jersey, to be Encouragement of the
United States
The Madrid papers sharply stigma
tie the Maine incident as ian act of I'M
warranted provocation." Most of them.
however. counsel the people of Havana
to show forbearance. In official circles
the tendency is to accept the argument
that the United States Is friendly.
GERMANY has introduced ''corvee"
labor in its East African colonies. Each
village will be compelled henceforth to
furnish q certain number of its inhab-
itants to labor for the government,
either on plantations or otherwise. and
without receiving any pay; that is to
say, as slaves.
JUDGE LEWIS E. MCCoMAs (rep.) was
elected United States senator from
Maryland, on the 25th, to succeed Ar
thur p. German (dem.).
A GENERAL order has been issued by
the navy department for the prepare
ton of all warships now out of COM
mission for immediate service, and a
few days will see another formidable
squadron ready for any emergency.
The city council of Toronto. Ont,
on the 25th, adopted a resolution that
no aliens, particularly the subjects of
the United States. shall hereafter be
employed on any civic work either to
be constructed or in progress of con-
struction.
The suburban residence of A. j.
Drexel, Jr.. at Philadelphia, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire on the night
of the Gath. The loss will reach $780,
600, and is covered by insurance.
The oldest citizen in the state of
Iowa, William McCarty by name, died
at Ottumwa, on the 25th, aged 1O4 years.
He was a native of Ireland, but had re-
sided in America for 20 years.
The monetary convention at Indian
apolis, after two days session, adj
journed, on the Goth, subject to the call
of the chairman, Mr.. Hugh Hanna.
The steamer City of Seattle sailed
from Tacoma, Wash, on the goth, for
ALASKA, carrying 600 passengers.
The steamer Orizaba, of the Ward
line, which left New York, ON the 26th,
carried 100000 pounds of provisions
and 800, 600 grains of quinine, collected
by the Cuban relief committee, to be
distributed among the suffering people
of the island under the direction of
Consul-General Lee at Havana.
ELEVEN persons were killed, on the
Goth, by an explosion of gunpowder at
Flores, in the Argentine province of
that name.
THE Berlin Lokal Anzeiger's China
correspondent says that a German sail
or named Schulz, of the cruiser Kaiser,
while on outpost duty at Tsimo. the
extreme German position in Kiao-Chau
bay, was murdered by the Chinese rab-
BILE.
w. B. GORDON, the mining engineer
who lost his life in the Spokane (Wash. }
fire, rushed from the presence of one
Mrs. Gordon and met death in trying
to rescue a second Mrs. Gordon, and
now q third, whom he deserted aE
Wickes, Mont, comes to the front.
REV. LEROY CHURCH, one of the most
widely-known Baptist ministers in the
west, and founder OF the Standard. the
Baptist denomination organ. died in
Chicago on the Goth. He was born in
June, 1915.
PRESIDENT Dole of Hawaii arrived in
Washington on the 26th. After being
duly Installed at the Arlington he was
called upon by President Mckinley,
and. later in the day, returned the call.
DR. JAMESON, the former leader of
the Transvaal raiders, arrived in Lon
don ON the 2Sth.