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

A BuMoR from Kingston, JalLaica On
| the Goth, unworthy of belief, said the cru
User Brooklyn had been blown up by a
that Commodore Schley and "a of his
men had been killed.
PACIFICos, who have slipped out of
the Spanish lines at Santiago, give the
information that n Spaniards were
killed and 80 wounded in the battle of
La Quasini, on the oath
LATE news from the front indicated
it was the intention of carrying MORO
castle from the rear before making the
final move on Santiago. This would
give Admiral Sampson better chance
to cooperate with the army.
GEN. MILES received dispatches, on
the Goth, from Tampa, announcing the
departure of 6, 900 men under command
of Brig.-Gen. Snyder for Santiago to
reinforce Skaters command. They
were expected to reach Baiquiri by the
| Sd.
UNLESS the Spanlards should yield
much more easily than anticipated, the
intention of Gen. Shafter was to take
two days for the active operations at
Santiago. The full effect of the she'll
ing was to be tried the first day, and
was expected to prove very demoraliz-
ing upon the Spaniards if the fact de-
veloped that they had no artillery to
compete with ours.
MICHAEL SCHwAB, the anarchist, died
at che Alexian Brothers hospital, Chi
cago, on the 2eth- Schwab was held
responsible, with Parsons, Spies,
Lingg. Fischer, Engel and Neebe, for
hurting the dynamite bombs on May 4,
1886, which caused the death of seven
policemen in the Haymarket riot.
The indictments against Maj. j. P.
Woolsey, ex-Indian agent for Ponca,
Otoe and Pawnee tribes, for alleged at
tempts to rob the agency safe, have
been dismissed. The prosecution, it
is said, was inspired by political enc
mics.
AS THE result of long-standing
feud, Amos Lynch and Floyd Della
fought a duel in the highway near
Corydon, Ind, on the 29th, and Della
was fatally wounded.
\ KINGSTON (Jamaica) dispatch, of
the 5Oth, said: "A newspaper dispatch
boat, the Ely, went ashore, on the
night of the Goth, on rocky point near
the eastern end of Jamaica. She will
probably go to pieces. Langdon Smith,
u correspondent, was on board of the
vessel at the time"
II is said in London that there is no
doubt the marquis of Salisbury's
speech, on the Goth, was intended as
hint to the powers that Great Britain
is in sympathy with the United States.
THE degree of Master of Arts was
conferred upon Hon. VIM. Il. Day,
secretary of state, by the University
of Michigan at it's commencement eX-
ercises on the 30th.
THE French cabinet has decided that
the full duty on wheat is to be re-
stored.
THE navy department received dis
patch, on the list, from Admiral Dew
ey. dated Cavite, June -. The admiral
made no mention of reinforcements
and said he had avoided committing
this government to any policy and had
left Gen. Merritt free.
Hon. JOHN c. TRAER, a member of
the Iowa constitutional convention of
1885, died at Vinton, Ia, on the list,
aged 73. He was one of the early pio-
neerS of that section of the state and
prominent republican politician.
A DISPATCH to the Madrid impartial
from Santiago de Cuba, Oh the LIST,
said that four American war ships
bombarded Manzanillo at a. m. and
retired with one vessel seriously in
jured-
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has appointed
George Bruce Cortelyou, Of New York,
assistant secretary to the president, to
fill the additional position of that grade
recently created by congress.
NINE negroes were drowned "ear
Plaquemine, La, on the list, by the up
setting of slziff. One white and three
colored men were saved by holding ON
to the skiff.
II is charged that the Spaniards have
adopted the dastardly trick of hosting
the Red Cross flag to protect their men
working in the intrenchments.
THE Indian and the sundry civil ap-
preparation bills became laws, on the
1st. by the president affixing his sigma
ture.