Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-14

THE bank of Bengal's rate of dig
count has been reduced from eight &c
seven per cent.
The president signed the resolutions
annexing Hawaii, on the 9TH, at z
p. M.
The formal announcement by the
president of his purpose to collect the
customs revenues of the Philippines as
war measure, was prepared, on the
9Th.
REAR-ADMIRAL DEWEY has given no
tice that he will not allow any more
board ship.
SEVEN of the soldiers who left San
Francisco on the second expedition to
Manila are back at Camp Merritt, hav-
ing returned on the Rio Janeiro. They
got as far as Honolulu, where the regi-
mental surgeons ordered them back on
account of physical disability.
THE quarantine station at Mobile
bay, Ala, was burned, on the 9Th, in.
Guiding fumigatiDg machinery, wharf,
etc. The fire caught from the boiler
furnace. The plant can be again put
in working order with the insurance
money.
THE Plant line steamer Halifax ar
rived at Boston, on the sth, having on
board 162 survivors of the French line
steamer La Bourgogne, which was
sunk in a collision with the ship Gro
martyshi off Sable island, on the 4th.
THE return of Assistant Naval Con-
structor Richmond z. Hobson, of Mer-
rimac fame, to his ship. the flagship
New York, on the 18th, was marked by
wild enthusiasm on the part of officers
and crew.
DURING the week ended July 8 the
failures were, for the United States,
229, against zoo for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were II, against 80 last year.
The transports Yale and Columbia,
with Gen. Nelson a. Miles and staff,
and / ZOO men, intended as reinforce
ments for Gen. Shafter, sailed from
Charleston, S. c., on the 9th.
THE San Francisco Examiner SAYS
that the United States gunboat Ben
nington will proceed to the Ladrcne
islands, and may remain there to hold
them.
All of the vessels belonging to the
fleet of Admiral Camara arrived at
Port Said, on the 9th, from Suez and
left in the evening o n their way back
to Spain.
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium starts in
August on a long yachting cruise. He
will make a considerable stay in the
United States.
Gov. McCORD of Arizona has received
indefinite leave of absence from his du-
ties as the executive of Arizona, and
will take command, as colonel, of the
regiment of infantry now being re-
cruited in the four territories
THE associated banks of New York
city held, on the 9th, SJ3, as, 300 in eX-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
DEsERTERs from the Spanish camp at
Santiago told the American officers, on
the 10th, that the Sp tniards were max
ing hasty preparations to evacuate the
city. They were sacking the city and
plundering the houses of families who
fled to the hills when Gen. Skaters
notice of bombardment was given.
The Spanish commander at Santiago
offered to surrender the city If al
lowed to march out with the honors of
war and take his force across the is
land. The offer was declined, and he
was told that only absolute surrender
could be considered.
THE suggestions offered bv the pres
ident in regard to Offering thanksgiv-
ing for victories and prayers for the
sick, wounded and bereaved and, incl
dentally for honorable peace, were
generally carried out throughout the
country, on the 10th, the president set
ting the example.
ADMIRAL CERvERA, in conversation
with an American officer, asserted that
the Cristobal Colon did not have her
big guns on board, adding, in response
to a query, that they were either in
Italy or the pockets of the chief of
ordnance.
IT is understood among the army of
ficers in the vicinity of Santiago that
as soon as the place has fallen it is the
to invest Nuevitas, the prin-
cipal port in Puerto Principe province.