Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE employees of the Ponomah cotton
mills, of Taftville, Conn, went out on
strike on the 4th. Two thousand hands
were employed. The strike was in
consequence of a ten-per-cent- reduc-
ton in wages.
REPRESENTATIVE HULL, of Iowa,
chairman of the house committee on
military affairs, introduced q bill, on
the 4th, creating military reserve 10
be liable to active duty in time of
emergency.
SIR. JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, the British
ambassador, on the 5th, drove to the
French embassy, and had long con-
ference with M. Cambon, the French
ambassador, it is believed, in regard to
the suggested concert of the powers on
the Cuban question.
The movement of the powers of Eu-
rope for a joint offer of mediation be-
TWEEN the United States and Spain has
received a severe and probably fatal
rebuff, in the form of a definite refusal
upon the part of Great Britain to par
ticipate in it.
A DISPATCH from Victoria, Il. C,
says Jack Carr, former United States
mail carrier, has arrived at Departure
Bay, from St. Michaels, via Dawson,
with advices from Andree, the balloon
list.
A TELEGRAM from Rome, on the 5th,
said: 1.-THE pope has dispatched a ca
BILE of 500 words to Archbishop Ire
land, urging increased efforts in the
interest of peace and further immedi-
ate representations to President Ne.
Klnley."
TELEGRAPHIC adviees received at
Seattle, Wash, on the 9Th, Indicated
that there was great CONSERVATION.
among the people living in the towns.
i'm proximity to Mount st. Helen's, be-!
cause the peak was showing plain evil
6ences of an eruption
.A,sPECIAL dispatch from Madrid, ON
thee6th, said the situation there was one
OF expectancy. The government and
public were anxiously awaiting Presi-
dent McKinley's message tocongress.
A DISPATCH from Paris, on the 9th,
said: THE United States government
has purchased in France "a consider
able Quantity of ammunition and a
number of quick-fring guns"
PAEHER CHADWICK, chaplain of the
Maine, received notice from. W aShing
ton, on the Goth, that he had been adj
vanced to the rank of lieutenant in the
United States navy.
GOLD was quoted at BGenos -Ayres,
on the 9Th, at 1861 10.
GEN. PANDc, next in command to
Capt.-Gen. BlaGlco in Cuba, is quoted as
saying: There remain but two roads.
We must crush the rebels by force of
| arms or prepare to abandon the island.
| They are stronger than ever in the
east, and have an inexhaustible supply
of food. Our boys, on the contrary are
disheartened and disguised at the gov
,ernment's failure TO pay them and at
our poor conmissariat."
THE work of relieving the distressed
the drowned-out people of Shawnee
tRwn, Ill, is being Systematically pur1
sued. A camp has been established for
the shelter of the homeless. 1t IS ex-
pected that from $40, 0eO to $50, 00G will
be needed to carry on the relief work
untn the necessity for il shall have dAs-
appeared
UPON receipt of dispatch from CsSl-
sul-Geaeral Lee, to the effect that he
would not be responsible for the loss of
American lives in Cuba if the terms OF
the presidents message were made
public, on the 9th, the president decided
to withhold it from congress until the
18th.
OK the 18th the Mallory line steamer
Comal arrived at Key West, Fla. from
New York, with large quantities of
provisions and ammunition for the gov
eminent.
On the 7th the bank of England in
creased its rate of discount from three
to four per cent.