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THE LONG K
 PECTED MESSAGE.
Dewey Has Manilla At His
 Mercy.

WASHINGTON, May 7.-At 9;3o o'clock the Navy de- pament received the long expected cabegram from Admiral Dewey
 dated Hong Kong, cipher, and brief consisting only five lines The naagaon bureau locked and experts put decpherng the cable which made public translated.
 In brief Dewey states senced batteries com pete the cable himself and has the bay and every thing else completely at his mercy.
 He has, however been unable take possession of the of Manila for the lack
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A Third Message
WASHINGTON, May-A further dispatch from Dewey
thing at pre- sent.

WASHINGTON, May.-A further dispatch from Dewey reads:
 "CAVITE May Al have taken possession of station Cavite, the Phpne Islands. Have destroyed the Qualifications at the bay entrance control the bay completely and take the city time The squadron excellent health and spirits The Spanish loss fully known very heavy killed including the captain of the Reina Christina assisting protecting the Spanish sick and wounded25o sick the hospital within excitement at Manila Will protect foreign residents. (Signed) DEWEY
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HAS EFFECTED A LANDING,
A Second Dispatch Tells of the Capture of the Qualifications and 256
 Prisoners.

WASHIGTON, May "A second dispatch from Com modoe Dewey that he had taken heocatons effected landing Cavte He had 256 wounded Spanads his prisoners the of Manila his mercy be taken any tme He said he any thing present.
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Iron County register., 1898-08-25
REAR-END COLLISION.
SIX Perrons Killed Ousrieks and Twenty.
Six Injured-TerribleS Scene About
the Little Station.

SHARON, Mass, Aug. s22.-A fright.
full rear-end collision occurred IN the
Sharon station of the New York, New
Baven & Hartford railroad at 1880 last
night, when an express train, which
long train crashed into the first sec.
tion, composed of local cars.
As result six persons were killed
and % seriously injured. The injured
were nearly all removed to Boston on
a special train, which was met by am
balances and surgeons. The rear car
of the local train was completely de-
molished and a portion Of the second
car, while the engine of the express
train was crippled.
The two trains which were in the
collision were usually combined in one
long train, but as the traffic yesterday
was so heavy it was divided, the first
section running as local accommoda.
ton, while the second, which started
from Mansfield Is minutes later than
the first, ran as an express.
The local train due at Sharon at 7:O2
was 13 minutes late. 1t left Mansfield
on time, making two stops and had
lost the 13 minutes between Mans
field and Sharon. 1t was due in Can
ton Junction, the next station beyond
Sharon, two minutes ahead of the ex-
press train, which should have passed
it there.
Sharon is situated on q curve, and
both the outward and inward tracks
are protected by electric block signals.
There were about thirty people in the
last car and most, at the time of the
accident, were either upon the front
platform or standing by the door.
The scene about the little station at
Sharon was a terrible one. A large
corps of surgeons and two undertakers
arrived soon after the accident, and
Immediately set to work to relieve the
suffering and care for the bodies of the
dead, There were very few lights
about that portion of the track where
the accident occurred, and the sur
geons were compelled to do their work
in almost total darkness.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
A HEARTY WELCOME HOME.
Michigan Naval Reserves Receive Veri.
table Ovation Largest Crowds
Ever Seen in Detroit.

DETROIT. Mich, Aug. 22.-With hon.
ors BETTING them Detroit citizens
yesterday welcomed home the Michi-
gan naval reserves, who served
throughout the war on the auxiliary
cruiser Yosemite. A special train car
ried a party of relatives and friends to
Toledo yesterday morning where the
men were given their first welcome.
On alighting from the train at the
depot in Detroit, the reserves were met
by one of the largest crowds ever seen
senden fred salute of welcome, all
the steamers on the river and the
locomotive whistles Ginning in with
shrill blasts.
Amid the cheers of thousands the re.
serves and a military company which
was waiting to do them honor paraded
through the principal streets.
1t was a veritable triumphal process
sion. Windows were filed and roofs
crowded, all waiting to cheer the first OF
Michigan's returned heroes. The men
presented a fine appearance. being
bronzed and burned until they looked
like the Spaniards they had being
fighting.
After being reviewed by a party of
officials and friends, the men were dis
missed and went to the homes they
had not seen In four months. To-day
the reserves will be mustered out of
Uncle Sans service and become civil
tans again.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
FACTS ABOUT PROSPERITY.


The claim that we are in the midst
If prosperity that is rolling over the
country in great, bounding waves, is
becoming weaker and weaker. The
sonorous cry of dollar wheat for the
farmer" IS not longer heard in the
land.
On the contrary, the trade journals
have an apologetic, .glad-it-is-no-
worse" sort of tone, and are figuring
dexterously to make as good show
ing as possible. Wherever falling OF
has occurred, it is ascribed to the war,
albeit rather timidly and weakly, while
wherever gain appears it is blazoned
for considerably more than it il
worth, and attributed to the natural
improvement coming from restored
confidence - etc. In nothing does the
disposition to minimize the bad fea-
lures and maximize the good appear
more strongly than in the compari-
sons made.
Bradstreet's, for example, always
lays it down as rule that the number
of business failures is an infallable test
of business conditions. In its issue of
July 2, that journal deals with this
matter somewhat at length. It mild
ly deplores the fact that the failures
for the quarter ending June 80 were
greater than those for the previous
one, but it finds some consolation in
the circumstance that for the two
quarters together the failures were
fewer in number than for the same
period in any year during the last
four.
In demonstrating this point Brad
streets presents the following table:
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
A PROCLAMATION.
an Executive Order by the President Car
rying into Eject the Tariff Regu-
IatIons for Porto Rico.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-The presi-
dent has issued the following cxecu.
tive order, carrying into effect the tar.
iff regulations for Porto Rico. which
were promulgated by the war depart
ment yesterday.
EXECUTIVE MANSION. Aug. 49, 1897.
BY virtue of the authority vested in me a.
rommander-in-chief of the army and navy o:
the United States of America, do hereby or
der and direct that, upon the occupation and
possession of any ports and places in the island
Of Porto Rico by the forces of the United States
the following tariff of duties and taxes to be
levied and collected military contribution
and regulations for the administration thereof
shall take effect and be in force in the ports anc
places so occupied
Questions arising under said tariff and regu-
uIations shall be decided by the general iI
command OF the United States forces in thai
.sland.
Necessary and authorized expenses for the
administration of said tariff and regulations
shall be paid from the collections hereunder.
Accurate accounts of collections and ex-
penditures shall be kept and rendered to the
secretary of war. WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
GAINS FOR DEMOCRATS.
The Republican War Record VIII
Open the Eyes OF the People
This Fall.

With a coherent and aggressive cam
paign, the democratic party will make
extensive gains in the fall elections. In
states of conrolling influence, New
York and Illinois among them, the
prospects are particularly good. Gross
violations of trust by the republican
governments in these two great states
have turned the sentiments of the
voters strongly toward the democrats
on local issues. Maryland is certain to
rejoin the democratic column through
local questions forced upon the people
by republican incompetence and job
berry.
In the next house the democrats
should have a clear majority. The
party should come out of the campaign
well intrenched for the greater con-
test of 1900.
New issues favorable to the DEM
ocrats are not confined to republican
wrongdoing in local affairs. AS the
facts are brought to light it becomes
evident that the conduct of the war was
stained with political jobbery which in
some of its consequences reached the
proportions of shameful treason. The
generosity of the people was traded
upon to promote favorites, to en-
gineer huge contracts, to discriminate
against the soldiers of the democratic
states and to prepare for seizing the
proceeds of corruption in Cuba and the
Philippines.
Hobson's heroism developed by acci-
dent the fact that, against the protest
of naval officers, some political broker
had secured the purchase of the Merri-
mac at more than twice her value, net
ting to those in the deal not far from
$500, 900.
Scandal surrounds the entire man
agement of the Santiago campaign.
The worst of the truth is still to be ex-
posed, but enough is known to compel
the conclusion that the war depart
ment has been a busy center of polit-
ica1 corruption, to the secrifce of the
lives of hundreds and the health of
thousands of our soldiers.
All Americans prefer to hold Mr.. Nc
Kinley innocent of direct completely.
His fault seems to have been that of
weak unwillingness to discipline or dis
charge his unworthy subordinates.
The system of his party is chiefly re-
sponsible; system which begins with
the fundamental rule that government
is primarily for the benefit of those
who govern. Mr.. Mckinley is thus re-
sponsible, for he had personally set
notorious example when he, as chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee, openly permitted tariff schedules
to be made up by contributors to cam
paign funds. He is part of the system.
What he has always done negatively,
his bolder underlings do aggressiveIy.
They have been using war to enrich
themselves and their private allies.
There will be material in the war
record to damn the whole republican
system in the eyes Of the people. The
cold and cunning thievery that was go-
ing on while the armies were marshall
ing and the citizens absorbed in the
splendid achievement of their national
power cannot be concealed. The dem
ocratic party has but to keep it's eyes
open.
Campaign conditions are favorable
for a recovery of all the strength at
state capitals ahd at Washington lost
through the success of Hanna's slush
fund in 1s96.-St. Louis Republic.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
MILLIONS FOR ACTUAL WAR.
Not One Cent for Needless or waszefCx I'm.
Observation-Disclosures the Or
der of the Day.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-Retrench.
ment in nearly all branches of the
army is following close upon the cessa
tion of hostilities. Notably is this the
case in the ordnance, quartermaster
and engineer bureaus, where the need
for the supplies required and the men
employed for the exigencies of war no
longer exists.
The Force In the Various Arsenals To BE
Reduced.
In the ordnance bureau the force, at
the various arsenals, is to be reduced
in all cases where this can be accom-
pllShed without detriment to the serv-
ice. The Rock Island arsenal proba-
bly, will be affected more than any
other. There, before the, war about
240 men were employed When the
peace protocol was signed there were
approximately 1000 men engaged, and
orders have been issued which will re-
duce this number by two-thirds.
Contracts that Can be Terminated.
Before and during the war large
numbers of contracts were made with
ordnance firms for supplying material
In many cases these were ma1s condi-
tional so they could be Terminated
within a few days after the cessation
of hostilities, and the department has
in every case availed itself of this
privilege.
VIII Take All Contracted For this Time.
At the end of the civil war the gov
ernment had outstanding contracts for
furnishing a large number of big sea-
coast projectiles, but as these were re-
garded unnecessary when hostilities
came to an end, amicable arrange
ments were made with the companies
by which their contracts were can.
celed- AT the present time contracts
are in existence also for furnishing
seacoast projectiles, but as the govern
ment is desirous of obtaining all con-
tracted for, there will be no necessity
to resort to such action as was taken
at the close of the civil war.
Dispensing with T transports No Longer
Needed.
The quartermaster's department is
dispensing as rapidly as possible with
such of the transports that were char
tered and for which there is no neces-
sity. Considerable labor is involved in
this work, as board of survey has to
be appointed to determine the various
incidental questions that arise pending
the return of the vessels to their own
era
Being Rapidly Discharged.
In the engineers department the
services of electricians, mechanics and
Iaborers engaged in the work of har.
Dor and river mine defense, and OF
boatmen employed to patrol the ada
cent waters to warn approaching craft
of their danger also are being dis.
charged as rapidly as is consistent
with the good of the service.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

Over in Wisconsin public treas
ury is looked on by republican poll
ticians as a private snap. - st. Paul
Globe.
Perhaps Mark Hanna would like
to know whether the Philippines would
90 democratic or not before expressing
al opinion as to their future.-Chicago
Record Qnd.).
The war revenue won't have
much to do now except to take care of
the Dingley deficit. Some folks can't
be convinced that war is all curse
Binghamton On. " Leader.
a Spanish newspaper says NC
Kinley's chief adviser is an old lady by
the name of Hanna" Hanna and Nc
Kinley can fight it out, but that there
is an old woman in the presidents OFF,
cial family no one doubts.-Kansas
City Times.
Every dollar that goes into bonds
comes out of trade and puts up the in
terest rate against merchants and pro-
ducers. That is why Wall street holds
$500, 100000 idle gold in the treasury
and insists on more bonds.-Mississip-
pi Valley Democrat.
when scores of soldiers are dying
and thousands are ailing from yellow
and maiarial fevers, the secretary of
war would be more decently employed
if, instead of attempting to advance his
political schemes, he were devoting his
time to a letter of resignation.-Chic
go Journal.
Mark Hanna has opined that the
next republican campaign will be
fought out on war issues. 1t would be
agreeable to Mark to have it this way,
but the democrats are not going to per-
NIT him to send a substitute to the
front when the battle begins.-St.
Louis Republic.
Cannot President Mckinley find
some place, north or south of the
equator, to locate Secretary Alger and
renew confidence in the capacity and
integrity of the war department by the
selection of some one who has the quail
tiles needed? Alger was appointed for
pretty much the same reason Mr.. Lin
coin named Simon Cameron, to dis
charge obligations and pledges in
Cured in the nominating convention.
Pittsburgh Post.
Secretary Alger went into the
cabinet under a cloud, and evidence Of
mismanagement of his department for
political purposes has cropped out from
the beginning. Many of the grave mis-
takes that have been made have been
susceptible of the suspicion of unwor-
thy influences. Secretary Alger does
- ...1aawr. HE mistakes hv affarksun
the men who are trying for the good of
the army and the country to prevent or
correct them.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
THE ASTOk BATTERY.
Covered Themselves with Glory at Manila,
and are CompIImented In the
Midst of the Fight.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-A dispatch to
The world from Manila city, dated
August 13. via Hong Kong, says the
hardest fighting at the capture of Ma
nila was done by the Astor battery,
which led the advance. Brig.-Gen- Nc
Arthur, commanding the brigade, COM
pIimented the men in the highest terms
right in the midst of the battle for
their valor and execution.
The Astor battery led the column,
supported by the Minnesota volunteers
and the Twenty-third regulars. The
Utah batterys guns were too heavy to
move through the swamps.
Rained = Deadly Fire Upon the Americans.
The march was along the Passy
road, on the right of the River PasiS,
where the feet could give no assist.
ance. At the junction of the Cingalon
road the vanguard came without warn
ing upon a strong Spanish intrench-
ment. Suddenly the enemy rained a
deadly fire upon the Americans, kill.
ing two of the Astor battery, First Ser
geant Holmes and Second Sergeant
Cremins, and one Minnesota man, Pri-
yate Patterson, and at the same time
wounding a score of others. Sergeant
Cremins, after he was shot, started to
his gun, fired it, and the next moment
fell dead beside the piece.
Were Forced to Fall Back, but Quickly
RegaIned Their Guns.
The Astor battery was forced to fall
back from the murderous fire, tenn
porarily, leaving two guns. But the
reserves, under Col. Ov ershine, came
up promptly and with their support
the Astors charged the enemy with
only revolvers for weapons, quickly re-
gained their guns and put both into
action again with increased vigor.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
RIoToUs SCENES REPORTED.
Another Threatened Lynching by VOlun-
teers to Avenge q Com
rade.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Aug. 22.-The
riotous scenes in Newport News last
Thursday. when it was feared a negro
would be lynched for killing a MEM
Der of the One hundred and sixtieth In
diana regiment, were repeated in
Phoebus yesterday afternoon. A sa-
Ioonkeeper named Tucker shot John
j. Corcoran, a seaman from the collier
Cassius, who attempted to forcibly en-
ter his bar-room. A large crowd of
sailors and soldiers threatened to lynch
Tucker, but he was taken away by
three officers at the point of their re-
volvers and lodged in Hampton Jail.
Afterward the mob of sailors and
soldiers broke into fuckers saloon
and broke everything. A detail of reg.
ulars from Fort Monroe was sent
to quell the disturbance. Corcoran's
injury is not serious, as the ball en-
tered his ankle.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
street British Neutrality.

SAN Francisco, Aug. 2I.-A special
from Hong Kong says:
Consul-GeneraI Wildman has re-
quested Of the Hong Kong authorities
permission for the ships of the Amer,
lean fleet now at Manila to be allowed
TO dock and repair here.
The question presents such serious
complications that it had to be sub
mitted TO the British home government
for an answer. Meanwhile the harbor
police ordered the gunboss Zafiro,
which arrived here with dispatches a
from Gen. Merritt and Admiral Dewey
90 leave British waters within - hours
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
ALL HANDS WERE SAVED.
The Steamer Toledo Went Down In TWEEN
ty-Eight Fathoms of
Water.

YARMOUTH, Aug. 22.-The steamer
Toledo, Capt. Wishart, which sailed
from Galveston on July 20 for Rotter-
dam, struck ON Grim rock, Scilly ISL
ands, Saturday night, in a dense fog
and foundered almost Immediately in
2S fathoms of water. There was just
time to launch large boat and all
were saved, many clad in their night
clothes ouly
Iron County register., 1898-08-25

SYDNEY, n. S. W., Aug. % -Rt. Hon.
Sir Hugh Muir Nelson, premier of
Queensland; Rt. Hon Sir George 81.
Reid, premier of New South Wales,
and Rt. Hon. George Turner, premier
of Victoria, met in conference on
Saturday and discussed plans for q
Pacific cable. They decided to make
the definite offer that If Great Britain
and Canada collectively would guran-
tee five-ninths of the cost of laying the
new cable, they would recommend to
their respective legislatures to con-
tribute one-ninth each, asking New
Zealand to contribute the remainder.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
AdmIraIs sampson and Schley Ordered to
at Reportthe Capital.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Admiral
Sampson and Admiral Schley have
been ordered to report to Washington,
and it is expected they will reach here
the early part of next week, probably on
Monday. AS they have been appointed
to serve respectively on the Cuban and
Porto Rican commissions, their visit
here will afford an opportunity to meet
their associates on these commissions,
and to discuss with the authorities
the general policy to be maintained by
this government on Spanish evacuation
of the West Indies.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25

improvement, such as it is, be creditea
to the Dingley tariff, for it is palpa-
Bile fact that two of our most impor-
tant manufactures (cotton. and WOOL
en- goods, industries which were
guarded by that law with the most
sedulous care, are in state of ex-
treme depression to this day. with
wage reductions everywhere, and
large numbers of mills entirely closed
and paying no wages at all.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25

"Look!" exclaimed lady to her compan-
ion at the opera. There is Mrs. Oldine In
that box Her hair is jet black and m posi-
tive It was streaked with gray the last time
/ saw her" 80
NVery true, DEAR" replied the other, s'but
you know her only brother died three
months ago."
Indeed But what has that got TO co
with the color of her hair?"
ssWhy. don't you understand? She's In
mourning. Chicago Evening News.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
National Conference on the Foreign Policy
of the United states.

SARATOGA, n. Y, Aug. 2o.-The ns-
tional conference on the foreign policy
of the United States was opened
here with an address by Henry
Wade Rogers, of Chicago. chairm an
of the committee of arrangement.
Mr.. Rogers says that the conferences
was called to consider some of the mo-
mentous questions in the history of the
republic. He spoke of the war and re-
turned prayerful thanks for the peace
now at hand. While peace has ar.
rived, he said, there were many serious
zrohiazaa tn - "~-sidered.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
Touch,nr kindness.

The bronzed soldier looked at the pack
are addressed to him with moistened eyes.
"Blessed angels" he said; they do not tor
get u.s." Then he carefully took on the
wrappings and fourd: A nail brush, an or
namentaI hair receiver, a pair of tides,
small bottle of mixed pickles, tract, hand'
painted blotting pad and pants stretcner'
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
Sole Arbiter In the Dispute Betw cen the
United States and Chill.

OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 22.-Sir Henry
Strong. chief justice of Canada, will be
invested to-day with the commission
appointing him sold arbitrator in the
claims disputed between the United
States and Chill. The papers have
been here some weeks in the custody
of the United States consul general.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
Tmportant Railway Change.

Under date of August Is the President OF
the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
Company (popularly known as the Frisco
tember LIST, 1898, the Kansas City, Osceols
and Southern Railway, extending from Kan
sas City, Mo, to Bolivar, Mo-, viii be op-
Grated as part of the first-named railway
St Louis and San Francisco Railroad will,
unless otherwise limited, be honored over the
Kansas City, Osceola and Southern Railway.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
A Novel Incident.

While the fleet was passing In the
Narrows, two explosions on the sur
face of the water, near Fort Wads-
worth, presumably of loose gun-cotton
or other explosive, shot up immense
columns of water about a hundred feet
high, which added to the novelty of
the occasion.
Iron County register., 1898-08-25
Departure of Capt. Moreu of the Cristobal
Colon.

New YORK, Aug. 21.-Emile E. lie
Moreu, formerly captain of the Span
ish cruiser Cristobal Colon, who was
taken prisoner after the destruction of
the Spanish feet, was among the pas
sengers on La Normandie, which sailed
for Havre.