Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-05-12

On the 5th the liquidating trustees
of the Standard Oil Co. declared a
quarterly dividend of three per cent.
on the corporate stocks in their hands,
and an extra dividend of five per cent.
THE statement of the condition OF
the treasury, issued on the 5th, showed:
Available cash balance, S213, 324, 99S;
gold reserve, $1s1, 24O, 1888.
A DISPATCH boat which arrived at
Key West, Fla, on the 5th, brought ina
telligence of an engagement between
Spanish troops and insurgents in Ha-
vana province, in which Col. Juan Dell
gado, the insurgent leader, and four
men were killed, and the Spanish lost
"a men.
THE third-class German cruiser Olga
passed Peterhead, Scotland, on the 5th,
flying the plague flag.
THE senate, on the 5th, passed a bill
authorizing the president and general
officers of the army to supply the Cu-
ban insurgents with arms and NUM-
tions of war, and empowering officers
of the army serving in Cuba to supply
needy inhabitants of the island with
medicines and subsistence.
THE yacht Buccaneer brought news
to Key West, on the 5th, that Gomez
with 1900 men was by that time with
in few hours march of Matanzas.
Startling developments are expected in
that quarter.
r. A. c. SMITH, president o. the
American Mail Steamship Co., has Or
dered that the first of the four twin
screw steamships now in course of com
f.,
pany, should be christened Admiral
Dewey.
A MADRID dispatch of the 5th said
that two ironclads, two cruisers and
three transports were about to leave
Cadiz to drive Americans from Manila
and then lombard Californian ports.
SENIOR Polo DE BERNABE, formerly
Spanish minister, at Washington, has
left Canada as the results of protests
on the part of the British government,
which was placed in a questionable
attitude by harboring him.
CERTAIN powers, it is understood.
again made overtures to Great Britain.
on the 9th, looking to intervention in
the war between Spain and the United
States, but Great Britain persisted in
her refusal to take part in any such
move.
CORPORAL CLEARY, of the New Or
leans police force, was shot and killed
by a negro on the 9th. Later the same
negro shot and killed Police officer
Trump. A crowd chased the murder
err, and he was finally riddled with bull
lets.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA again APP
pealed to Emperor Francis Joseph, on
the 9th, in favor of European interven-
ton, and the Austro-Hungarian for
eign minister addressed d note to the
powers on the subject.
A ROME special, on the 9th, asserted
that the pope had sent a telegram to
the queen regent of Spain earnestly
advising an immediate appeal to the
European powers for mediation in the
war with America.
A SPECIAL from San Juan. Porto Rico,
on the 9th, said that preparations were
being made there for the reception OF
the Spanish Cape Verde island fleet,
the arrival of which was expected al
most momentarily.
SECRETARY GAGE addressed the stu
dents of Cornell university on the 18th.
A DISPATCH from Vienna says that in
the highest circles lit is regarded that
affairs in Spain are hurrying rapidly
toward a grave crisis. But no fear is
entertained for the personal safety OF
the queen"
THE United States government has
bought 100000 pounds of short clear
sides of pork from the International
Packing Co. and Swift & Co.. of Chr
cago, for use of the army and navy.
FAILURES during the week ended
May were, for the United States,
23s, against 221 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 25, against 81 last year.
FIGHTING JOE" WHEELER was the
first of the major-generals of the new
volunteer army to be mustered in. The
oath of Office was administered to him
on the 9th. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was
mustered in half an hour later.
SENATORS GORMAN and Lodge have
both declared themselves in favor OF
holding the Philippines permanently.