Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-05-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
IF the report be true that Spain is
going to send navy and an army to
the Philippines the United States will
be as well pleased as it would be if it
should learn that the Spanish fleet on
this side of the Atlantic would quit
lodging and fight. Dewey can take
care of them.
IT is expected, owing to the strict
blockade and the famine resulting from
it, that the city of Manila, capital of
the Philippines, will be compelled to
capitulate to the American blockading
squadron under Admiral Dewey.
GEN. ENvER PAsHA and Capt. Hail
Bey, according to a dispatch from Con-
stantinople, have started for the United
States on the order of the sultan to ac-
company the American forces during
the war with Spain as military and
naval attaches respectively.
AT the request of Rear-Admiral
Sampson, the encouragement has ap-
pointed Edward X. Jones, of New York,
to act as special counsel in the trial of
prize cases.
THE volunteer army is rapidly near
ing completion. Reports received by
djt.-Gen. Corbin, up to the night of
the 18th, showed that o., $50 men had
been musteredin. Eighteen states had
completed their quota.
CAPT. LEUTz, commanding the United
States steamer Alert, now at San Diego,
Cal, reports that there are two Span
ish gunboats of about $50 tons at Quay
aquil, Ecuador, and that they have
been there much longer than neutrality
laws allow.
INSTRUCTIONS have been given to the
maritime authorities at Barcelona not
to permit the departure of large steam
ers which might be used as auxiliary"
cruisers.
THERE is some uneasinesS felt over a
dispatch from Admiral Dewey, received
at Washington, on the 18th, urging i'm
mediate action in sending not less than
10, 900 troops (and such war vessels as
were on the Pacific and could be spared)
to him at once.
Gov. HoLCoMB of Nebraska has issued
a commission to w. j. Bryan, permit
ting him to organize third regime MT
of Nebraska volunteers, whose services
will be rendered to the president.
SECRETARY LONG said on the 18th:
sit can be stated positively and Off
cially that the Oregon is safe, but it
can not be properly made known where
she is"
AS sooN as the 125, 900 volunteers
called for by the president are in the
field. thoroughly equipped and organ
lied, the president will issue call for
25. 900 colored troops.
A TORNADO that is said to have COM
pletely destroyed Wood River passed
Franklin, Neb., on the 18th. Ten houses
were totally blown to pieces and many
people hurt.
COMMODORE SCHLEY, with his flying
squadron, arrived at Key West, Fla,
on the 18th.
THE battleship Alabama was sue
cessfully launched at Cramps ship
yard, Philadelphia. on the 18th. The
Alabama is the first to be launched
of three new battleships of her type,
the other two being the Illinois and
Wisconsin.
SECRETARY ALGER has sent to con-
gress draft of bill to create, in time
of war, second assistant secretary of
war, with a salary of $4,000. The sec
rotary urges the Importance in this ex-
igency, of immediate action.
THE opinion of the leaders in con-
gress is that until they know the re-
suit of the naval battle which is to take
place whenever Sampson and Schley
catch the Spanish feet, final adjourn
ment will not be considered.
IT is declared to be the intention of
the administration to continue pouring
troops into the Philippines until there
is force sufficient to govern every ISL
and in the group
THE Studebaker Bros Manufactur-
ing Co., of South Bend, Ind, shipped
IL cars of ambulance wagons, on the
18th, to Mobile, Ala, for the use of the
government.
TEN men attempted to cross the Ale
gheny river on a raft, near Springdale,
Pa, on the 10Th. When in the middle
of the stream the raft was swamped by
the rough current and the men were
thrown into the water. Four of them
succeeded in reaching the shore, but
the others were drowned
THE Dutch cruiser Friesland arrived
at st. Thomas, d. w. l., on the 2Oth,
from the Azore islands. She reported
that five Italian warships would rem
devious at st Thomas at the end of the
present month.
FoRrY-rwo persons are known to
have lost their lives and % others are
reported dead as the result of the tor
nadoes which devastated portions of
eastern Iowa, western Illinois and
northern Wisconsin on the night of
the 18th.
REGULAR army officers, backed by
several senators and representatives,
are plying the administration with OBJ
jections to an immediate advance n
Cuba, on account of the unseasone
condition of tie volunteers