Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-24

THE passenger and freight steamboat
Ericsson, which plies between Phila.
delphia and Baltimore, sank in the
Delaware river, off Wilmington, Def,
on the 10th. Sixty passengers were
rescued.
A SPECIAL from Juneau, Alaska, of
the 18TH, confirms the news of the loss
of the Clara Nevada, and says: 1.-The
cause of the disaster was doubtless the
explosion of her boilers. Of the so
people on board, none are believed to
have been saved.
LONDON newspapers make sympa-
thetic references to the death of Miss
Frances E. Willard, all agreeing that
it will be a serious blow to the societies
with which she was connected.
UP to the 18th not one word of assur-
ance had been received from Madrid or
Havana that the Havana harbor is not
mined, as has been repeatedly charged
in this country and in Havana.
The Dominion government has de-
cided not to issue free miners certit1-
Gates at Lake Tagish and American
ports. The miners will have to get
them at Vancouver or Victoria.
THE Italian third-class cruiser Clio
vanni Badsani was expected, on the
18th, at Las Palmas, Canary islands,
on her way to Cuba.
THE appointment of Count Cassini as
ambassador to the United States, in
stead of minister, was gazetted in st.
Petersburg on the 18th.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY, on the 18th
received Senior Dubosc, charge d'affaires
of Spain. who had been commanded by
the queen regent to bear in person to
the president her expression of pro-
found sorrow over the calamity to the
Maine. The message was brief and
heartfelt, expressing the sorrow of TIE
queen and her people.
THE supreme court of Nebraska,
handed down an opinion, on the 18th,
reversing the decision of the trial court
in the case of ex-Auditor Eugene Moore,
and dismissing the case. Moore was
convicted of embezzlement and SEN
fenced to eight years in prison. The
supreme court declares the statute I'M
der which he was convicted unconsti-
tutiOnal.
THE following summary was given
out by the navy department on the
18th: Total officers and men on
board Maine, 355; total officers, 20;
total men, 329; total officers saved, "a;
total men saved, 76; total officers lost,
2; total men lost, 246: total officers in
jured, 0; total men injured, 81; doubt
full (men), :.
FULLY 3 500 persons listened to an in
teresting address by Gen. William
Booth, commander-in-chiefo of the Sal
walton army, at the Exposition music
hall, st. Louis, on the night of the 18th.
Citizens from all walks in life and rep
resentative clergymen from the differ
ent denominations were among the i'm
mense audience assembled to greet the
great leader of a mighty army of soul
savers.
THE president, tbs asserted, has been
assured that the members of his party
in the house and the senate have the
utmost confidence in his ability to deal
with the existing situation in the best
possible manner, and that he can rely
upon it that nothing will be done by
congress to force his hand.
THE Spanish cruiser Vizcaya was
brought into American waters by Pilot
Gillespie, said to be cousin of the late
j. G. Blaine. He boarded her far out
at sea the day before the Maine disaster
When the news of the destruction of
the Maine was received from the news
paper tugs sent to meet the cruiser, the
Spanish officers seemed dumfounded
and refused at first to believe it.
THE submarine wreclzing boat Argo-
naut was towed, on the 18th, from her
mornings to the yards, at Baltimore,
where she was built. Her boilers and
machinery are to be thoroughly over
hauled, and when pronounced absolute
ly fit she is to be towed to Key West,
and from there transported to Havana
for work on the wreck of the Maine.
THREE large business houses in Pitts
burgh, Pa, were visited by fire, on the
18th, involving a loss of 100000. The
fire started on the ninth floor of the
National Wall Paper building, and
within 20 minutes after the alarm was
beyond control. 1t required the full
force of the department to subdue the
fire.