Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-08-11
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

charged with poisoning her husband,
on December last, was discharged by
Justice Woodward on the Cd.
IT is reported that Mr.. George N.
Curzon, the parliamentary secretary of
the British foreign Office, has accepted
the Office of viceroy of India, in success
sion to the earl of Elgin.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY VANDERBILT is
now sending to subscribers to the war
loan about 5000 bonds day, and this
number will be increased later on.
IT is asserted in Washington, that as
the result of a cabinet conference on
the night of the Sd. it was determined
to hold Manila city, bay and surround
ing territory permanently, and that
Spain had been so notified in response
to one of her queries.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the Sd, showed:
Available cash balance, 1854, 1913, 1s9;
gold reserve, S1s9, 625, O26.
THE Cherokee legislature met in ex-
ira session at Tahlequah, 1. T., on
the Sd, to consider means for conform
ing to the Curtis bill, and to make ar
rangement for lighting the Delaware
claim.
The California state board of trade
has adopted a resolution asking Presi-
dent Mckinley to appoint citizen of
the Pacific coast on the peace commits
sion which is to decide upon the future
disposition of the Philippine islands.
UP to latest accounts Old Glory was
floating. unopposed, in nine Porto Ri
can cities, and half of the island is now
practically United States territory.
Everywhere the American soldiers are
received with open arms, the Spanish
troops scurrying away in the direction
of San Juan.
ONE of SPANS urgent requests in
connection with the evacuation of Cuba
and Porto Rico was that she be allowed
to remove all arms and movable NUM-
tions of war from territory not actual
ly occupied by the United States.
BY consent of the war department
Spain has made arrangements to send
$3.50, 900 in specie to her prisoner sol
diers at Santiago. None of the trans
ports for the removal of the prisoners
had arrived up to the Sd.
THE steamer Hiawatha, which went
out in search of bodies from the Bour-
gogne, put into Canso, Nova Scotia, on
the 4th, having found 80 bodies and
buried them. She sailed again to con-
tInue the search.
THE transport Tacoma, which will
take horses and mules for the artillery
at Manila, sailed from San Francisco
on the 4th.
No CONFIRMATION had been received
at Key West. Fla, up to the 4th, of the
report that Neuvitas, the chief port of
the province of Puerto Principe, had
been evacuated by the Spaniards after
a bonn bardment by American war ships.
JEAN LOUIS CHARLES GARNER, the
French architect, died in Paris on the
4th. He was born in 1925, and de-
signed and supervised the erection of
the grand opera house in that city at
an expense of nearly $4,000, 900 francs
THE telegraph operator at Tilt Cove,
the most northern Office of Newfound
land, wired, on the 4th, that a report
had just reached there of the loss of
large Transatlantic line steamer in the
vicinity of Belle Isle, with all hands.
THERE is a recurrence in the town of
ASHORE, Ind, of the singularly fatal
malady which caused 40 deaths there
in the summer of 1896. Up to the pres
ent time this season there have been
five deaths. This disease is something
like cholera, and has all the symptoms
of flux. 1t is thought the epidemic is
due to bad drinking water.
AeUINALDo, the Philippine insurgent
leader, is dismounting from his high
horse, and instead of acting, as he did
for time, as though he was master of
the situation, Is now adopting a far
more conciliatory course, thanks to the
firm attitude assumed by Gen. Merritt.
Asa result of urgent representations
in regard to the health of Gen. Shat
ter's army at Santiago, the war depart
ment has ordered that the men be
transported north as rapidly as trans
ports can be provided. Four regiments
of immunes will replace them as gar
rison.
THE Buenaventura, the first Spanish
prize captured in the present war, was
sold at auction at New York, on the
4th, by representatives of the govern
ment. Luckenback & Co. bought the
steamship for S12,4Oo, and said they
thought they had a bargain.
In the recent operations against
Manzanillo, Cuba, ten Spanish vessels
were burned, sunk or destroyed. No
damage was done to the American
ships engaged, and there were no casu-
alties on our side.
THE adjutant general received ca
blegram from Ponce, Porto Rico, on
the 5th, announcing the death, from
brain fever, of Capt. Edgar Hubert,
Eighth regular infantry. Capt. Hubert
was Georgian.
AT West Superior, Wis, on the 5th,
Tommy Arnold, the four-year-old son
of the janitor of the Broadway high
school, climbed out upon the fourth
story platform of the fre-escape and
fell, turning over and over in his drop
of 20 feet to the foot of the basement
stairway, but escaped with only a
broken thigh, although striking on
the asphalt pavement.
THE steamer Dirigo arrived at Seat
tie, Wash, on the 5th, from st. Mich
aels, with 100 passengers, some OF whom
went north recently, but, being unable
to get up the river, returned. About
40 were Klondikers. They brought
down $500, 900 in dust and nuggets
Two men. Chas. Moore and Geo. Brown,
of Midland, Ont, had $40, 900 between
them.
The statement of the condition of
the TREASURY. issued on the 5th, showed: