Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-10-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DCdCC JuO41CC DdIduC al On lAC
10th. The pageant was reviewed by
President Mckinley and a brilliant
company of diplomatic, military and
civic dignitaries. There was a grand
] banquet in the evening.
Admiral Schley, by orders from the
navy department, has been placed in
command of the naval station at San
Juan de Porto Rico. So far the de-
partment has no knowledge of the
value of the naval property contained
in this station when it was evacuated
by the Spanish officials.
Secretary Long will probably ask
congress to increase the number of
sailors allowed for the naval estab-
lishment from $4,000 to 10000. Com
mander Hawley, in charge of the en-
listed service of the navy, has pre-
pared some fiures that show the neces-
sity of this.
A report which came from San
Francisco that Admiral Dewey had ap-
piled for leave of absence, and was
coming home to this country is not
verified at the navy department, where
it was stated that no request of this
sort had been received from Admiral
Dewey.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 10th,
showed: Available cash balance,
S303, 6O7, 42O; gold reserve, $241, SCI ,974.
Senator Redfield Proctor was re-
elected by the Vermont legislature on
the 10Th.
1t is believed that the French court
of cessation will take up the Dreyfus
case in few days, and the general
impression is that the decision will be
in favor of revision. The court has
obtained documents concerning Comte
Esterhazy, late Lieut.-Col. Henry and
Nine. Pays and their mutual relations.
The big tug L. p. Smith was sunk
in the entrance to the Cleveland CO.,
harbor, on the goth, as the result of
collision with the steamer Olympia.
The fireman went down with the tug,
and was drowned. The Olympia was
uninjured.
Gen. Otis has cabled to the war de-
partment a review of the situation in
the Philippines, showing that Agui-
naldo's influence is on the wane.
The first general order issued by
Gen. Brooke in Porto Rico is digni-
fed, fair document, and was well re-
ceived by the people.
All the Gillian ministers, except the
minister of industries, have with
drawn their designations.
DIR. VIM. r. Brooks, director of the
Smith observatory, at Geneva, n. Y,
has secured another observation of the
comet discovered by Linn. Its posi-
ton at a. m, on the 21st, was right
ascension IA hours, 46 minutes, decli-
nation north SO degrees, 80 minutes.
The comet is in Draco and moving
quite rapidly southeast.
Writs of temporary injunction were
served on 81 railroad ticket brokers in
Chicago on the 21st. The petitions up
on which the injunctions were grant
ed set forth alleged fraudulent deal
ing of the brokers in one-fare round
trip tickets. Seven of the trunk line
railroads petitioned for the inJunc-
ton.
Capt. Baratier, of Maj. Marchand's
expedition, on his arrival in Paris, on
the 21st, with a report to the French
government, said the mission had not
lost an officer or a soldier. He added
that the health of all the members of
the party was very good, and that re-
yictualling on the march was easy.
Col. Milford Hammond, a prominent
business man of Jackson, Mich, and
an uncle of Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
died on the 21st.
The membership of the United
States evacuation commission for Por-
to Rico, having completed their task,
have been directed to return home.
They will sail from San Juan on the
cruiser Newark.
The displeasure and disappointment
felt in official circles at Madrid over
the failure of the skillful strategy of
Senior Montero Rios, concerted with
the efforts of Senior Sagasta and Duke
Almodvar de Rios to minimize the con-
sequences of the war, are keen and
profound.
Jack Frost has broken the backbone
of the yellow fever epidemic of 1895
all through the states of Louisiana
and Mississippi, and guarantees were
expected to be lifted by the 25th.
Deputy Marshal w. E. Little and
posse attempted to capture the cele-
brated Creek criminal, John Watko,
and his gang at Okmulgee, 1. T., on the
21st, and the result was a hot fight, in
which John Watko was killed and two
of five of the remaining outlaws were
captured.
The American military commission
at Havana has notified the Spanish
commission that the American troops
will occupy the island of Cuba in No
vember, whether or not the evacuation
of the island by the Spaniards has
been completed by that time.
A dreadful tragedy was enacted at
Toronto, Ont. on the night of the
21st, when Eliza Burrill, wife of
well-to-do mechanic, became dement,
ed and strangled her three children,
Ethel, aged eight; Stanley, aged three,
and Harold, aged eleven years.
The big steamer Henry Chisholm,
laden with barley, while trying to en-
ter Washington harbor, at the south
west end of Isle Royale, Lake Superior,
struck the Rock of Ages and COM
menced going to pieces. The captain
and crew escaped in yawl and pro-
.ceeded to Port Arthur, Ont. Vessel
and cargo will be total less.
From information obtained OF the
general land Office it appears that
there was an increase of nearly 400
mineral entries during the fiscal year,
1898. as compared with 1897. This, 1T
is said. indicates a marked revival OF
- ;,;rrr industry which had fallen