Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-17

SPAIN has temporarily forgotten ner
other troubles in the altogether ma
tional grief over the death of Frascuelo.
the most celebrated of all the bull.
fighters of Spain. He was 65 years OF
age, and was covered from head to foot
with scars.
THE information reached the navy
department, on the 9th, just before the
closing hour, that the board of inquiry
on the loss of the Maine had completed
the investigation and would at once
prepare the report.
THE United States cruiser Mont
gomery steamed into Havana harbor,
on the 9th, without any great demon
stration being manifested. She was
moored at the place near the Maine
wreck which was formerly occupied by
the Fern.
THE new French bourse law pro-
hibits outside brokers from dealing in
securities officially listed, increases the
number of official brokers, who are
divided into groups dealing with diff
ferent securities, reduces brokerage
charges and constitutes a committee
of control for foreign securities.
SENIOR SANDOvAL, the Spanish mill
tary agent in Germany, Austria and
Scandinavia, who returned to Berlin,
on the 9th, from a trip, reported three
additional purchases of cOasting steam
ers at Fiume and two at Polo.
The monitor Miantonomah and the
sion, on the 10th, at League Island
navy yard.
SENATOR CHANDLER, on the 10th, in
troduced a bill providing for remission
of duties on war materials that may be
imported.
The American yacht Anita, with
congressional party on board, arrived
at Havana on the 10th
THE damage suit of Jacob Schaefer,
the billiard champion, against the
North Chicago Street Railway Co., for
injuries alleged to have been received
in being thrown from car three years
ago, was decided, on the 18th, in favor
of the street car company.
FAILURES throughout the country as
reported by Dun & Co., for the week
ended on the 18th, were 24S, as COM
pared with 256 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were Sc. against 81 last year.
THE railroad transfer steamer S. d.
Barlow, plying between Cairo, Ill, and
Birds Point, Mo-, was burned to the
waters edge, on the 18th, while lying
at the incline at Birds Point; loss,
$50, 900.
THE secretary of the navy, on the
18th, appointed a courtmartial for the
trial of Civil Engineer Menocal on
charges growing out of the bad work
done on the New York dry dock.
THE new Spanish minister, Senior
Polo de Bernabe, was presented to the
president on the 18th.
FURTHER reinforcements of Spanish
troops sailed from Santander for Cuba,
on the 18th.
PATRICK FORD, of Omaha, Neb., has
made application to Gov. Holcomb for
pardon for his son, Patrick Ford, Jr.,
a wounded survivor of the Maine disas-
ter. Young Ford is a fugitive from
justice, having escaped from the coun-
ty Jail at Omaha following a conviction
for burglary.
SPIEGEL GROVE, near Fremont, O.,
the home of the late ex-President r. B.
Hayes, has been advertised to be sold
at sheriff's sale April IL to satisfy a
judgment of $1,000 The judgment was
damages for injury sustained by Mrs.
Addie M. Smith in a runaway caused
by the Hayes family dog.
THREE new battleShips of the stanch-
est type afioat, one to be named the
Maine, were authorized by the house
committee on naval affairs, on the 18th,
and provision for their construction
was inserted in the naval appropriation
bill.
SPAIN is said to have prepared to dis
count the report of the Maine court of
inquiry by preparing a report of it's
own commission declaring the explo-
sion to have been internal, and demand
ing a mixed commission, hoping there
by to defer the final verdict.
AN alleged dispatch to Madrid from
Berlin, on the 18th, quotes Emperor
William as declaring that as long as he
was emperor the Yankees would not be
allowed to take possession of Cuba