Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE dash of Cerveras squadron out
of Santiago was ordered from Madrid
for political effect. 1t could have had
but one result, destruction, which goes
to show that Spanish pride, as cult
waited at Madrid, is a decidedly reckless
quantity, when the lives of others are
concerned.
THE family of Gen. August has es-
capped from Macabora and rejoined the
general in Manila.
NEWS was received from Halifax, N
s., on the 9th, of the sinking, by col
lision with the British iron ship Gro
martyshire, in a dense fog off Sable
island, on the morning of the 4th, of
the French line steamer La Bourgogne,
with loss of nearly GOO souls, mostly
passengers. After ascertaining that
his own disabled ship would float, the
captain of the Cromartyshire lay to to
save life, in which he was partly sue
cessful; but the conduct of the French
crew was disgraceful in the extreme.
Not only did they appropriate all the
boats made available, but Drained with
oars or stabbed struggling wretches in
the water who attempted to get into
their boats. Only one woman out of
the many on board was rescued.
THE pope is profoundly detected at
the fresh disaster to Spain.
THE last of the vessels of Admiral
CerVera's fleet, the Reina Mercedes,
which did not attempt to run the
blockade with the other vessels, was
sunk, after a desperate cannonading,
in front of Moro castle on the night of
the 4th while an attempt was being
made to block the entrance with her.
ADMIRAL SAMPSON has been directed
to send his prisoners to the United
States
THE president issued proclamation,
on the 9th, calling upon the people,
when next they meet in their places of
worship, to offer thanksgiving to God
for the victories vouchsafed to our
arms, and prayers for our gallant SOL
diers and sailors and those bereaved
through the chances of war.
SEVEN of the Spanish guerrillas who
had been shooting from trees at ambu-
lances with wounded men. surgeons and
others protected by the Red Cross, have
been captured by some of Gen. Wheeler's
men. They killed two surgeons-Dan-
forth and TrooaL They will probably
be shot.
ADMIRAL CERvERA has reported that
among the killed in the action of the
Sd were Capt. Villamil and Capt. Lega-
"a The latter, however, who COM
manded the Almirante Oquenda, is said
to have committed suicide when he saw
that all was lost.
The newspapers throughout Europe
are urging Spain to sue for peace.
A REPORT was received at Washing
ton, on the 9th, that the Spanish gum
boat Alphonso XII, while trying to
run the blockade out of Havana, was
overhauled, near Mariel, and sunk by
ships of the blockading squadron.
THE war department received a tele-
gram from Gen. Skaters headquarters
on the 9TH, stating that the auxiliary
cruiser Osceola had captured Span
ish lighter loaded with provisions and
valued at $4,000.
THE small Spanish schooner Gallito,
loaded with lumber, hard wood, chick
ems, pigs and provisions of various
kinds, was captured by the auxiliary
gunboat Eagle and towed into Kew
West on the 7th.
A FINANCIAL panic has been occa-
stoned in Valparaiso by the with
drawal and expectation of gold, which
has caused the Gillian government to
officially close all the banks in Chill
until the 18th
On the 9Th gold was quoted in Buencs
Ayers at 1855
THE little town of Kern City. Cal.
was almost destroyed by fire on the
9Th.
PARKER PILLsBTRY, the associate of
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phil
lips and others of the great anti
slavery movement, died at his home in
Concord, y. H., on the 18th He was 90
years of age.
REV. FATHER JOHN WILLIAMS, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, who is reported among
the lost on the French steamer La
Bourpogne, was head of the order of
the Holy Childhood association in this
country.
OK the 9TH, the senate passed the bill
to give the acknowledgement OF the
army the rank of maior-genernL