Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-21
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

lawyers in the northwest, ran in front
of a street car and was instantly killed.
THE Peruvian congress. on the 18th,
approved the protocol between Chilli
and Peru by a vote of lis against 81.
AT Portsmouth N, H., the first pris-
on camp in the United States for the
captured Spaniards has been named
Camp Long. The Spanish prisoners
are apparently making the best of the
situation, and are not grumbling over
the American method of treating cap
tiyes.
MAJ. DE GRANDPREY, French military
attache, who has just returned from
Santiago, says, in reference to our SOL
diers, that there is not such a splendid
body of fighting men in the world,
their chief characteristic being their
superb Initiative"
Two EXPLOSIONS, which killed eight
men and wounded about 20 others and
wrecked two buildings, occurred at
the plant of the Laf1in-Rand Powder
works. at Pompton, n. j., on the 18th.
LATEST reports from the Philippines
indicate that Admiral Dewey is pa
tiently Tor otherwise awaiting the ar
the attempt to occupy Manila.
GEN. j. X. BROOKE will be in COM
mand of the army that will soon in
wade Porto Rico. Gen. Miles will ex-
ercise supervision in a sense similar to
that which he now exercises before
Santiago.
The ashes of the late Capt. Gridley
arrived in Erie, Pa, on the 18th, and
were Immediately turned over to the
family without demonstration. The
funeral was held at sunset, and was
largely attended. Business houses were
closed during the afternoon, and flags
were hung at half-mast.
FOURTEEN suspicious fever cases
were reported, on the 18th, among en-
ployes of the quartermaster's depart
ment near Santiago. The men had
been isolated, and confidence was ex-
pressed in the ability of the doctors 20
stamp out the disease.
IT was reported from Washington,
on the 18th. that Gen. Shafter would
begin the bombardment of Santiago
with all the force at his command lat
noon of the l4th, and continue the battle
until the city surrendered uncon-
ditionally.
4 SPECIAL dispatch from Madrid says
Capt.-Gen. Blanco has replied to the
Spanish governments reiterated rep
reservations in regard to peace by en-
ergetically protesting against the idea
of peace.
THE French chambers were ad
journed on the 18th.
CAPT. SAWYER, signal officer at Key
West, Fla, reported to the war de-
partment, on the 18th, that the ship
San Domingo was wrecked off the
Isle of Pines, Cuba, while trying to
run the blockade. Her nationality is
unknown.
A SPECIAL from Mansfield, o., on the
14th, said: Forty-four prisoners in
the state reformatory are strung up by
their thumbs in dungeons and given
only scant meal a day, having gone
on a ''strike" because their tobacco
supply was cut off.
CHARLES G. FRENCH, secretary of the
Merchants and Traders Building and
Loan association of Chicago, was ar
rested in Tampa, Fla, on the 14th,
charged with embezzling $500, 900 from
that institution.
BY the explosion of a boiler in the
Niagara starch works, at Buffalo, n.
Y, on the 14th, the building was
wrecked, six persons killed and 26 in
jured. Two others are missing, who
are supposed to have persisted.
IT was stated in Berlin. on the 14th,
that nothing. either officially or unof-
ficially, was known by the German gov
g 81, oil
interference with the insurgents at
Subic bay.
MARQUIS ITo, the late japanese pre-
mier, intends visiting China, where he
will meet Lii Hung Chang.
A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the
14th, said: The projects report that
the Carlists are making preparations
for an outbreak in the northern prov
inces."
Nix IRVINE STEVEN BULLOCK, who
was a lieutenant on the confederate
crusier Alabama during the rebellion,
died in Liverpool, England on the 14th.
THE New York state assembly, on
the 14th, passed the 100000 war fund
bill unanimously.
THE transport Seneca left Siboney,
Cuba, on the 14th, for Fort Monroe.
She had on board s. sick and wounded
soldiers.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 18th,
showed: Available cash balance, S241,-
4s7, 664. Gold reserve, SIT, 429, 72S.
FULLY 10000 delegates and visitors
to the annual convention of the Bap-
fist Young Peoples union at Buffalo,
N. Y, registered at headquarters.
On the 18th President Mckinley,
speaking of the fall of Santiago, said:
Il hope for early peace now"
FRANK C. PARTRIDGE, the United
States consul ut Tangier, Morocco, has
started on his way home. Pending the
arrival of Mr.. Partridge's successor the
affairs of the consulate are in charge
of Mr.. Lilly, secretary of the consul
ate.
The British steamer Adula, captured
by the Marblehead in Guantanamo bay,
June 10, was brought TO Savannah,
Ga, by Lieut.. Anderson of the navy
and prize crew on the 18th.
On the 18th Gen. Harrison aud his
wife and baby, who had been stopping
at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York,
left for Old Forge, the ex-president's
cottage in the Adirondacks.
CAPT. GEN. AUGUsTI's official report
of the battle of Manila Bay says, among
other things: AT last these ships had
strained their boldness to the point of
appearing on our coasts and defylng
our batteries, which showed more cour-
age and valor, than effect, when they
opened fire on the squadron. 1t needs
more than courage to make projectiles